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| Legendary Detroit QB Bobby Layne |
Weather-31 degrees, 14 mph SSW
Bobby Layne battled the winds of Tiger Stadium and the New York Giants defense with great success as the Lions ended the Giants run of consecutive NFL titles by crushing New York, 27-3. The teams played a scoreless first quarter, but the Lions unloaded 17 points on the Giants in 5:53 of the second quarter, and New York could never recover. The Detroit defense limited New York to just 166 yards for the game, including only 53 yards on the ground. The Lions offense was led by Bobby Layne, who was excellent all afternoon. Layne completed 16 of 21 for 175 yards and 2 TD, spreading the ball to 6 different receivers.
The Lions will host either the Browns or the Rams for the 1952 NFL Championship next Sunday.
New York Giants...(8-6)-0-0-0-3-3
Detroit Lions.(10-3)-0-17-0-10-27
Det-Harder 16 FG
Det-Girard 5 pass from Layne (Harder Kick)
Det-Hoernschemeyer 6 run (Harder Kick)
Det-Box 11 pass from Layne (Harder Kick)
NY-Poole 23 FG
Det-Harder 14 FG
Rushing (season totals in parentheses)
NY-Price-16-26-0 (224-875-5), Rote-9-16-0 (124-480-2), Conerly-3-7-0 (33-125-0), McChesney-1-4-0 (3-6-0)
Det-Hoernschemeyer-18-51-1 (124-508-5), Layne-13-47-0 (107-458-1), Girard-9-13-0 (70-235-2), Harder-4-8-0 (85-252-2), Doran-1-1-0 (2-37-0)
Passing
NY-Conerly-22-9-123-0-0 (220-103-1,347-13-10)
Det-Layne-21-16-175-2-0 (308-155-2,174-21-20)
Receiving
NY-McChesney-3-62-0 (28-545-6), Stribling-2-24-0 (33-481-5), Price-2-21-0 (15-112-1), Rote-2-16-0 (26-291-2)
Det-Box-5-46-1 (47-970-16), Hart-4-53-0 (36-429-4), Swiacki-3-42-0 (20-255-1), Girard-2-8-1 (19-324-3), Doran-1-14-0 (11-161-1), Hoernschemeyer-1-12-0 (18-151-0)
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