1967 Baltimore Colts season

1967 Baltimore Colts season
1967 Baltimore Colts season
Owner	Carroll Rosenbloom
General manager	Harry Hulmes
Head coach	Don Shula
Home field	Memorial Stadium
Results
Record	11–1–2
Division place	2nd Coastal
Playoff finish	Did not qualify
	← 1966; Colts seasons; 1968 →;

The 1967 Baltimore Colts season was the fifteenth season for the team in the National Football League. They finished the regular season with a record of 11 wins, 1 loss, and 2 ties, the same record in the Western Conference's Coastal division with the Los Angeles Rams, who defeated them in the regular season finale; the two had tied in mid-October. The Colts lost the new tiebreaker (point differential in head-to-head games) and thus did not make the playoffs,^[1]^[2]^[3] which included only the four division winners.

The Colts' official winning percentage of .917 (based on the NFL's non-counting of ties for such purposes prior to 1972) is the best in North American professional sports history for a non-playoff-qualifying team. It is also remarkable that the Colts entered the final game undefeated and yet did not qualify for the playoffs.

Personnel

Staff/coaches

1967 Baltimore Colts staff

Front office

Owner/president and treasurer – Carroll Rosenbloom
General manager – Harry Hulmes

Coaching staff

Head coach – Don Shula

Offensive coaches

Receivers/offensive ends – Dick Bielski
Offensive backs – Don McCafferty
Offensive line coach – John Sandusky

Defensive coaches

Defensive coordinator/defensive line - Bill Arnsparger
Defensive backfield – Chuck Noll
Linebackers coach – Don Shula

Roster

**1967 Baltimore Colts roster**
Quarterbacks (QB) 19 Johnny Unitas 16 Jim Ward Running backs (RB) 33 Tony Lorick FB 45 Jerry Hill 41 Tom Matte 26 Preston Pearson Wide receivers (WR) 82 Raymond Berry 25 Alex Hawkins 28 Jimmy Orr 29 Don Alley 27 Ray Perkins 87 Willie Richardson Tight ends (TE) 88 John Mackey 84 Tom Mitchell 86 Butch Wilson		Offensive linemen (OL) 67 Dale Memmelaar G/T 73 Sam Ball T 77 Jim Parker G/T 50 Bill Curry C 71 Dan Sullivan G 52 Dick Szymanski C 72 Bob Vogel T 62 Glenn Ressler G 63 Norman Davis G Defensive linemen (DL) 81 Ordell Braase DE 85 Roy Hilton DE 76 Fred Miller DT 74 Billy Ray Smith DT 78 Bubba Smith DE 83 Andy Stynchula DE		Linebackers (LB) 32 Mike Curtis 53 Dennis Gaubatz 55 Ron Porter 36 Barry Brown 66 Don Shinnick Defensive backs (DB) 30 Alvin Haymond KR 40 Bobby Boyd CB 20 Jerry Logan S 42 George Harold DB 43 Lenny Lyles CB 47 Charlie Stukes CB 21 Rick Volk S Special teams 49 David Lee P 79 Lou Michaels K		Reserve None - vacant Rookies in italics

Regular season

Schedule

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Record	Venue	Attendance
1	September 17	Atlanta Falcons	W 38–31	1–0	Memorial Stadium	56,715
2	September 24	at Philadelphia Eagles	W 38–6	2–0	Franklin Field	60,755
3	October 1	San Francisco 49ers	W 41–7	3–0	Memorial Stadium	60,238
4	October 8	at Chicago Bears	W 24–3	4–0	Wrigley Field	47,190
5	October 15	Los Angeles Rams	T 24–24	4–0–1	Memorial Stadium	60,238
6	October 22	at Minnesota Vikings	T 20–20	4–0–2	Metropolitan Stadium	47,693
7	October 29	at Washington Redskins	W 17–13	5–0–2	D.C. Stadium	50,574
8	November 5	Green Bay Packers	W 13–10	6–0–2	Memorial Stadium	60,238
9	November 12	at Atlanta Falcons	W 49–7	7–0–2	Atlanta Stadium	58,850
10	November 19	Detroit Lions	W 41–7	8–0–2	Memorial Stadium	60,238
11	November 26	at San Francisco 49ers	W 26–9	9–0–2	Kezar Stadium	44,815
12	December 3	Dallas Cowboys	W 23–17	10–0–2	Memorial Stadium	60,238
13	December 10	New Orleans Saints	W 30–10	11–0–2	Memorial Stadium	60,238
14	December 17	at Los Angeles Rams	L 10–34	11–1–2	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	77,277
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

Game summaries

Week 14

	1	2	3	4	Total
Colts	7	0	0	3	10
• Rams	3	14	3	14	34

Date: December 17
Location: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Game attendance: 77,277

Source:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Standings

NFL Coastal
view talk edit	W	L	T	PCT	DIV	CONF	PF	PA	STK
Los Angeles Rams	11	1	2	.917	4–1–1	8–1–1	398	196	W8
Baltimore Colts	11	1	2	.917	4–1–1	7–1–2	394	198	L1
San Francisco 49ers	7	7	0	.500	3–3	4–6	273	337	W2
Atlanta Falcons	1	12	1	.077	0–6	1–9	175	422	L7

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

Awards and honors

Johnny Unitas, Bert Bell Award^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Unitas watches Roman carnival from turf". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). Associated Press. December 18, 1967. p. 26.
^ ^a ^b "Rams swamp Colts, gain play-off, 34-10". Milwaukee Journal. press dispatches. December 18, 1967. p. 17, part 2.
^ ^a ^b Maule, Tex (December 25, 1967). "Year of the Ram". Sports Illustrated. p. 12.
^ "Maxwell Football Club - Bert Bell Award Past Recipients". Archived from the original on June 19, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2010.

External links

"Year of Glory, Day of Defeat: 1967 Baltimore Colts," Godzillarocks via YouTube.com, Dec. 4, 2022. (Video.)

[uwrcsid-1] "Unitas watches Roman carnival from turf". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). Associated Press. December 18, 1967. p. 26.

[rswco-2] "Rams swamp Colts, gain play-off, 34-10". Milwaukee Journal. press dispatches. December 18, 1967. p. 17, part 2.

[yofthrm-3] Maule, Tex (December 25, 1967). "Year of the Ram". Sports Illustrated. p. 12.

[4] "Maxwell Football Club - Bert Bell Award Past Recipients". Archived from the original on June 19, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2010.

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