Running back, USC, 1953–56
Jon Arnett
Lettered 1954–56 (school media guide)
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Jon Arnett played running back at USC (1953–56). He finished 10th in the 1956 Heisman vote. The Los Angeles Rams took Arnett in the first round, No. 2 overall in the 1957 NFL Draft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
At a glance
Honors
- Inducted 2001College Football Hall of Fame
- 1954Second-team All-Pacific Coast
- 1955, 1956First-team All-Pacific Coast
- 195610th in the Heisman vote
All-America: NEA first team 1955; UP first team 1955; FWAA 1955; AP second team 1955; INS second team 1955 and 1956; NEA second team 1956; UP third team 1956; Central Press second team 1955
Regional honors: W. J. Voit Memorial Trophy 1955–56; Pop Warner Trophy 1956
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Season by season, from Wikipedia
| Season | Team | Games | Rushing | Receiving | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | GS | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | ||
| 1957 | LAR | 12 | 9 | 86 | 347 | 4.0 | 2 | 18 | 322 | 17.9 | 3 |
| 1958 | LAR | 12 | 12 | 133 | 683 | 5.1 | 6 | 35 | 494 | 14.1 | 1 |
| 1959 | LAR | 12 | 11 | 73 | 371 | 5.1 | 2 | 38 | 419 | 11.0 | 1 |
| 1960 | LAR | 12 | 12 | 104 | 436 | 4.2 | 2 | 29 | 226 | 7.8 | 2 |
| 1961 | LAR | 14 | 14 | 158 | 609 | 3.9 | 4 | 28 | 194 | 6.9 | 0 |
| 1962 | LAR | 10 | 7 | 76 | 238 | 3.1 | 2 | 12 | 137 | 11.4 | 0 |
| 1963 | LAR | 9 | 8 | 58 | 208 | 3.6 | 1 | 15 | 119 | 7.9 | 1 |
| 1964 | CHI | 14 | 8 | 119 | 400 | 3.1 | 1 | 25 | 223 | 8.9 | 2 |
| 1965 | CHI | 14 | 3 | 102 | 363 | 3.6 | 5 | 12 | 114 | 9.5 | 0 |
| 1966 | CHI | 14 | 1 | 55 | 178 | 3.2 | 1 | 10 | 42 | 4.2 | 0 |
| Career | 123 | 85 | 964 | 3,833 | 26 | 222 | 2,290 | 10 | |||
From the college statistics table in Arnett’s Wikipedia article (Jon Arnett, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).
The teams in those years
Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.
In the NFL
Pro Bowls: 5 (1957–61) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 1958
All-Pro teams: AP first team 1958; NEA second team 1961; New York Daily News second team 1961; UPI second team 1961.
Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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