Wombats are 66 Champs

The 1966 SFL Championship goes to the "Thunder from Down Under" Melbourne Wombats. Here's a wrap of the season as reported from Commissioner Zak. The Miracles won their conference with a 9-5 record and the Deadbeats finished 2nd at 8-6.

Miracles missed two short field goals in OT

The Old Old School and Jit Bags tied at 5-8-1. The Ambassadors had the best regular season record at 11-3 with the Wombats finishing 9-5. Headbangers 5-9 and Invalids 3-11.

Super Wombat Bart Starr

In the playoffs the Wombats beat the Ambassadors 25-21 by scoring the winning TD with 8 seconds left.

Wombats edge out playoff and championship wins

The Miracles kept the Deadbeats down the whole game to win 20-10.

Championship

In the 1966 SFL final, the Miracles tie it 10-10 with 1:15 left forcing OT. In OT the Miracles have the ball three times and miss FGs from the 17 and 13 yard lines. The Wombats have the ball four times and on the last drive they finally punch it in to win, 16-10.

For more details see Box Scores, League Leaders and League Standings.

Face to Face is still Best

Thanks to Deadbeat Zak for sending through this pic of a Strat-O-Matic Classic game between himself and Miracle Matt. Their nerdish bliss is complemented with beer, meat and stat sheets :-)

Great article on ranking WR in history

This article is from Football Perspective and can be read by clicking here.

Don Hutson is listed as number one on this list.

 He is also listed as the greatest Green Bay Packer of all time.

Box Score Test

I just had a solo game of 1966 Packers vs 1966 Vikings. Below his an example of how we will be able to post results and stats on this page.

1966 Minnesota 10, 1966 Green Bay 34
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT	Total
1966 Minnesota	0	0	3	7	0	10
1966 Green Bay	3	21	0	10	0	34

Scoring Plays
Qtr	Clock	Poss	Scoring Description(Extra Point)	Score
1	11:43	1966 Green Bay	D.Chandler 31 yd. field goal	3-0 GBN
2	14:22	1966 Green Bay	J.Taylor 3 yd. run (D.Chandler kick)	10-0 GBN
2	8:45	1966 Green Bay	J.Taylor 2 yd. run (D.Chandler kick)	17-0 GBN
2	4:13	1966 Green Bay	C.Dale 52 yd. pass from B.Starr (D.Chandler kick)	24-0 GBN
3	10:18	1966 Minnesota	F.Cox 33 yd. field goal	24-3 GBN
4	11:21	1966 Minnesota	E.Sharockman 90 yd. intercept (F.Cox kick)	24-10 GBN
4	7:04	1966 Green Bay	M.Fleming 6 yd. pass from B.Starr (D.Chandler kick)	31-10 GBN
4	2:00	1966 Green Bay	D.Chandler 31 yd. field goal	34-10 GBN

Team Statistics
	1966 Minnesota	1966 Green Bay
First Downs by Rush-Pass-Pen-Total	6-2-1-9	5-19-0-24
Third Down Efficiency	5-14-36%	7-13-54%
Fourth Down Efficiency	0-1-0%	0-0-0%
Red Zone Efficiency (pts-poss-pct)	0-0-0%	21-28-75%
Total Offense-Plays-Avg Yards Per Play	131-49-2.7	445-70-6.4
Total Net Yards Rushing	108	64
Total Rushes	25	33
Average Per Rush	4.3	1.9
Passes Completed/Attempted	5/20 (25.0%)	29/36 (80.6%)
Net Yards Passing	23	381
Avg Yards Per Pass	2.3	10.7
Sacked/Yards Lost	4/23	1/3
Punts/Average	6/45.8	3/46.3
Punts Received/Return Yardage	1/2	3/-1
Kickoffs/Returns	3/52	3/66
Interceptions/Returns	1/90	0/0
Penalties/Yards	6/30	2/10
Total Fumbles/Fumbles Lost	1/0	0/0
Time of Possession	24 mins 37 secs	35 mins 45 secs
Average Drive Start	MNN 20	GBN 34

Passing Stats
	Att	Comp	Yds	Comp %	Yds/Att	TD	TD %	INT	INT %	Long	Sack	Rating
1966 Minnesota
Fran Tarkenton	20	5	46	25.0	2.3	0	0	0	0	14	4/23	39.6
1966 Green Bay
Bart Starr	25	20	312	80.0	12.5	2	8.0	0	0	62	1/3	145.3
Zeke Bratkowski	11	9	72	81.8	6.5	0	0	1	9.1	16	0/0	56.1

Rushing Stats
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	2 Pt Conv	Fumbles/Lost
1966 Minnesota
Bill Brown	12	66	5.5	31	0	0	0/0
Fran Tarkenton	5	23	4.6	8	0	0	0/0
Dave Osborn	5	7	1.4	6	0	0	0/0
Tommy Mason	2	8	4.0	13	0	0	0/0
Jim Lindsey	1	4	4.0	4	0	0	0/0
1966 Green Bay
Jim Taylor	15	26	1.7	6	2	0	0/0
Elijah Pitts	7	18	2.6	7	0	0	0/0
Paul Hornung	6	6	1.0	5	0	0	0/0
Jim Grabowski	2	3	1.5	5	0	0	0/0
Donny Anderson	2	7	3.5	7	0	0	0/0
Bart Starr	1	4	4.0	4	0	0	0/0

Receiving Stats
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	2 Pt Conv
1966 Minnesota
Bill Brown	4	42	10.5	14	0	0
Preston Carpenter	1	4	4.0	4	0	0
1966 Green Bay
Marv Fleming	9	78	8.7	16	1	0
Boyd Dowler	7	69	9.9	27	0	0
Carroll Dale	5	172	34.4	62	1	0
Elijah Pitts	3	36	12.0	13	0	0
Max McGee	2	10	5.0	6	0	0
Jim Taylor	2	15	7.5	12	0	0
Bill Anderson	1	4	4.0	4	0	0

Field Goals
	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+	Totals	% Made
1966 Minnesota
Fred Cox	0/0	0/0	1/1	0/1	0/0	1/2	50.0
1966 Green Bay
Don Chandler	0/0	0/0	2/2	0/1	0/0	2/3	66.7

Punting
	No	Avg	Net	Tb	Inside 20	Long	Blocked
1966 Minnesota
Bobby Walden	6	45.8	46.0	0	1	65	0
1966 Green Bay
Don Chandler	3	46.3	45.7	0	3	49	0

Kickoff Returns
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1966 Minnesota
Lance Rentzel	3	52	17.3	27	0
1966 Green Bay
Donny Anderson	2	39	19.5	20	0
Herb Adderley	1	27	27.0	27	0

Punt Returns
	Ret	FC	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1966 Minnesota
Ed Sharockman	1	1	2	2.0	2	0
1966 Green Bay
Donny Anderson	2	1	-2	-1.0	0	0
Willie Wood	1	0	1	1.0	1	0

Individual Defense
	Tackles	Sacks	Fum Rec
1966 Minnesota
Dale Hackbart	11	0	0
Jim Marshall	7	1	0
Lonnie Warwick	7	0	0
Earsell Mackbee	6	0	0
Don Hansen	5	0	0
Karl Kassulke	5	0	0
Ed Sharockman	5	0	0
Paul Dickson	4	0	0
Roy Winston	4	0	0
Gary Larsen	3	0	0
Carl Eller	1	0	0
George Rose	1	0	0
Paul Flatley	0	0	1
1966 Green Bay
Dave Robinson	8	1	0
Henry Jordan	6	1	0
Lee Roy Caffey	5	0	0
Willie Davis	4	1	0
Ray Nitschke	3	1	0
Doug Hart	2	0	0
Willie Wood	2	0	0
Lionel Aldridge	2	0	0
Herb Adderley	2	0	0

Interceptions
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1966 Minnesota
Ed Sharockman	1	90	90.0	90	1
1966 Green Bay

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