| Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears Game Statistics |
| Date: December 13, 1959 Location: Chicago, IL |
| Venue: Wrigley Field Attendance: 40890 |
| Weather: Scattered Clouds Temp: 42 F Humidty: 57% Wind: 12 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Lions | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Chicago Bears | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 25 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | DET | CHIB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chicago Bears | Rick Casares 43 pass from Ed Brown (John Aveni kick) | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | Chicago Bears | Safety, Tobin Rote tackled in end zone by Earl Leggett | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | Chicago Bears | John Aveni 10 FG | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | Chicago Bears | John Aveni 12 FG | 0 | 15 |
| 3 | Detroit Lions | John Henry Johnson 13 run (Gerry Perry kick) | 7 | 15 |
| 3 | Chicago Bears | Jim Dooley 28 pass from Ed Brown (John Aveni kick) | 7 | 22 |
| 3 | Detroit Lions | Jim Doran 8 pass from Earl Morrall (Gerry Perry kick) | 14 | 22 |
| 4 | Chicago Bears | John Aveni 10 FG | 14 | 25 |
| RUSHING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DET | John Henry Johnson | 12 | 59 | 4.9 | 25 | 1 |
| DET | Howard Cassady | 11 | 48 | 4.4 | 14 | 0 |
| DET | Ken Webb | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | 0 |
| DET | Earl Morrall | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| DET | Danny Lewis | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| DET | Tobin Rote | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| CHIB | Rick Casares | 19 | 97 | 5.1 | 44 | 0 |
| CHIB | Johnny Morris | 7 | 30 | 4.3 | 9 | 0 |
| CHIB | Willie Galimore | 4 | 5 | 1.3 | 5 | 0 |
| CHIB | Merrill Douglas | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | 3 | 0 |
| CHIB | Ed Brown | 3 | 2 | 0.7 | 3 | 0 |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| DET | Earl Morrall | 25 | 14 | 56.0 | 0 | 178 | 7.1 | 21 | 1 | 91.8 | ||
| DET | Tobin Rote | 9 | 1 | 11.1 | 1 | 21 | 2.3 | 21 | 0 | 31 | 0.0 | |
| DET | Terry Barr | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 39.6 | |||
| CHIB | Ed Brown | 28 | 16 | 57.1 | 0 | 246 | 8.8 | 49 | 2 | 110.1 | ||
| CHIB | Rudy Bukich | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DET | Terry Barr | 5 | 55 | 11.0 | 20 | 0 |
| DET | Dave Middleton | 3 | 56 | 18.7 | 21 | 0 |
| DET | Jim Gibbons | 3 | 40 | 13.3 | 20 | 0 |
| DET | John Henry Johnson | 2 | -3 | -1.5 | 0 | 0 |
| DET | Gene Cook | 1 | 43 | 43.0 | 43 | 0 |
| DET | Jim Doran | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8t | 1 |
| CHIB | Jim Dooley | 6 | 87 | 14.5 | 28t | 1 |
| CHIB | Harlon Hill | 5 | 39 | 7.8 | 12 | 0 |
| CHIB | Rick Casares | 2 | 45 | 22.5 | 43t | 1 |
| CHIB | Willard Dewveall | 1 | 49 | 49.0 | 49 | 0 |
| CHIB | Bill McColl | 1 | 26 | 26.0 | 26 | 0 |
| CHIB | Johnny Morris | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| CHIB | Erich Barnes | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| DET | Yale Lary | 5 | 256 | 51.2 | 67 | 0 |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DET | Yale Lary | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
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