1974 Chicago Fire Statistics
World Football League (WFL)
Team Record: 7-13
Finishing 3rd in the WFL's Central Division
Coach: Jim Spavital (7-13 -)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Attendance: 286,550, Avg. 28,655 in 10 home dates
1974 Chicago Fire RosterTeam Record: 7-13
Finishing 3rd in the WFL's Central Division
Coach: Jim Spavital (7-13 -)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Attendance: 286,550, Avg. 28,655 in 10 home dates
1974 Chicago Fire Results
The Chicago Fire of the World Football League ended the 1974 season with a record of 7 wins and 13 losses, finishing third in the WFL's Central Division.
The Fire racked up 446 points, but the shaky defensive squad allowed 602, most in the circuit. Virgil Carter threw for 2,629 yards. Jack Dolbin caught 54 balls for 942 yards. James Scott contributed to the receiving game, too.
Cyril Pinder rushed for a team-leading 925 yards for Chicago, and Mark Kellar also contributed to the rushing attack.
Harry Howard picked off 7 opponent throws.
Jim Spavital coached the team.
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Passing:
| Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil Carter | 358 | 195 | 54.5 | 2629 | 7.3 | 27 | 7.5 | 16 | 4.5 | 72 | 26 | 225 | 84.6 |
| Bill Cappleman | 112 | 44 | 39.3 | 650 | 5.8 | 4 | 3.6 | 11 | 9.8 | 54 | 10 | 93 | 31.3 |
| Bubba Wyche | 73 | 36 | 49.3 | 473 | 6.5 | 1 | 1.4 | 2 | 2.7 | 43 | 6 | 42 | 63.3 |
| Leo Hart | 37 | 12 | 32.4 | 176 | 4.8 | 1 | 2.7 | 1 | 2.7 | 47 | 4 | 34 | 46.7 |
| Chuck Ramsey | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 22 | 11.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 89.6 |
| Maurie Daigneau | 10 | 4 | 40.0 | 22 | 2.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 10.0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 8.3 |
| Jimmie Calip | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 |
| Joe Womack | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 |
| Totals | 594 | 292 | 49.2 | 3972 | 6.7 | 33 | 5.6 | 31 | 5.2 | 72 | 46 | 394 |
Rushing:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyril Pinder | 179 | 925 | 5.2 | 59 | 8 |
| Mark Kellar | 189 | 778 | 4.1 | 24 | 9 |
| Leroy Kelly | 77 | 315 | 4.1 | 24 | 1 |
| Bob Wyatt | 65 | 216 | 3.3 | 21 | 1 |
| Reggie Sanderson | 43 | 202 | 4.7 | 37 | 0 |
| Virgil Carter | 27 | 81 | 3.0 | 12 | 1 |
| Lonnie Crittenden | 3 | 49 | 16.3 | 13 | 0 |
| Bill Cappleman | 8 | 45 | 5.6 | 17 | 0 |
| Jimmie Calip | 11 | 40 | 3.6 | 12 | 0 |
| Clayton Heath | 15 | 29 | 1.9 | 5 | 0 |
| Jack Dolbin | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 19 | 0 |
| Bubba Wyche | 10 | 22 | 2.2 | 9 | 3 |
| Bill Rudder | 8 | 9 | 1.1 | 3 | 0 |
| Maurie Daigneau | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Billy Taylor | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| Joe Womack | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 |
| James Scott | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | -1 | 0 |
| Mike Botts | 1 | -3 | -3.0 | -3 | 0 |
| Chuck Ramsey | 1 | -10 | -10.0 | -10 | 0 |
| Totals | 644 | 2730 | 4.2 | 59 | 24 |
Receiving:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Dolbin | 54 | 942 | 17.4 | 72 | 7 |
| James Scott | 52 | 755 | 14.5 | 69 | 8 |
| Cyril Pinder | 29 | 207 | 7.1 | 38 | 3 |
| Lonnie Crittenden | 28 | 498 | 17.8 | 54t | 2 |
| Mark Kellar | 28 | 342 | 12.2 | 50 | 6 |
| Don Burchfield | 19 | 268 | 14.1 | 43 | 1 |
| Jim Seymour | 16 | 238 | 14.9 | 40 | 4 |
| Bob Wyatt | 16 | 151 | 9.4 | 29 | 1 |
| Jimmie Kennedy | 9 | 59 | 6.6 | 14 | 0 |
| Leroy Kelly | 8 | 128 | 16.0 | 32 | 0 |
| Reggie Sanderson | 6 | 32 | 5.3 | 28 | 1 |
| Terry Phillips | 5 | 93 | 18.6 | 23 | 0 |
| Bill Rudder | 5 | 52 | 10.4 | 32 | 0 |
| Luther Palmer | 4 | 48 | 12.0 | 23 | 0 |
| Glenn Damato | 4 | 32 | 8.0 | 12 | 0 |
| Mike Reppond | 2 | 50 | 25.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Clayton Heath | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 13 | 0 |
| Ron Thomas | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | 5 | 0 |
| Dick Brewer | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 22 | 0 |
| Jimmie Calip | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 19 | 0 |
| Willie Miller | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 |
| Totals | 292 | 3972 | 13.6 | 72 | 33 |
Kicking:
| Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allan Watson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15 | ||
| Chuck Ramsey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | ||
| Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 24 |
Punting:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Ramsey | 71 | 2831 | 39.9 | 61 |
| Lonnie Crittenden | 20 | 693 | 34.6 | 55 |
| Allan Watson | 5 | 155 | 31.0 | 35 |
| Bill Cappleman | 4 | 146 | 36.5 | 0 |
| Totals | 100 | 3825 | 38.2 | 61 |
Punt Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Howard | 41 | 206 | 5.0 | 22 | 0 |
| Joe Womack | 7 | 77 | 11.0 | 50 | 0 |
| Reggie Sanderson | 14 | 63 | 4.5 | 13 | 0 |
| Ron Thomas | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
| Walter Rhone | 3 | 8 | 2.7 | 6 | 0 |
| Charlie Battle | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| Randy Richardson | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Barry Ruffner | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 69 | 372 | 5.4 | 50 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Rhone | 28 | 645 | 23.0 | 90 | 1 |
| Charlie Reamon | 15 | 332 | 22.1 | 26 | 0 |
| Joe Womack | 9 | 232 | 25.8 | 39 | 0 |
| Bob Wyatt | 7 | 129 | 18.4 | 28 | 0 |
| Reggie Sanderson | 14 | 85 | 6.1 | 30 | 0 |
| Herb Ivory | 3 | 77 | 25.7 | 33 | 0 |
| Mike Reppond | 3 | 74 | 24.7 | 27 | 0 |
| Harry Howard | 3 | 64 | 21.3 | 26 | 0 |
| Jimmie Calip | 2 | 47 | 23.5 | 23 | 0 |
| Ron Thomas | 2 | 46 | 23.0 | 25 | 0 |
| Lonnie Crittenden | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 19 | 0 |
| Billy Taylor | 1 | 26 | 26.0 | 26 | 0 |
| Terry Phillips | 2 | 25 | 12.5 | 17 | 0 |
| Jack Dolbin | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 22 | 0 |
| Willie Miller | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 |
| Kevin Kiley | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
| Dick Evey | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Totals | 95 | 1866 | 19.6 | 90 | 1 |
Interceptions:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Howard | 7 | 42 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 |
| Joe Womack | 6 | 81 | 13.5 | 0 | |
| Rudy Kuechenberg | 2 | 46 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
| Tom Roussel | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | |
| Ralph Anderson | 1 | 34 | 34.0 | 34 | 0 |
| Charlie Reamon | 1 | 33 | 33.0 | 33 | 0 |
| Ron Porter | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Terry Phillips | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Randy Richardson | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 22 | 253 | 11.5 | 34 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
| Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
| Mark Kellar | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 | |||
| Cyril Pinder | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | |||
| James Scott | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | |||
| Jack Dolbin | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | |||
| Jim Seymour | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | |||
| Bubba Wyche | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |||
| Allan Watson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||
| Bob Wyatt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||
| Lonnie Crittenden | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||
| Chuck Ramsey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||
| Joe Womack | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||
| Reggie Sanderson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||
| Walter Rhone | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||
| Leroy Kelly | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||
| Don Burchfield | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||
| Virgil Carter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||
| Jimmie Kennedy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Clayton Heath | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 24 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 446 |
