Ken Stabler at Alabama, 2007
Photo: NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Quarterback, Alabama, 1964–⁠67

Ken Stabler

Born
Dec 25, 1945, in Foley, Alabama
Died
Jul 8, 2015, in Gulfport, Mississippi

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Ken Stabler played quarterback at Alabama (1964–⁠67). The Oakland Raiders took Stabler in round 2, No. 52 overall in the 1968 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
1967
First-team All-SEC
Drafted
No. 52
Round 2, 1968 NFL Draft (Oakland Raiders)

Honors

Team titles: National champions, 1964 and 1965; SEC champions, 1964, 1965 and 1966

All-America: Central Press second team 1967; NEA second team 1967; The Football News 1967

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonPassingRushing
CmpAttYdsPctTDIntRtgAttYdsAvgTD
19653112627.30047.1613285.41
19667411495664.995152.6933974.33
19671031781,21457.9913117.21111131.05
Career1803032,19618182658389

From the college statistics table in Stabler’s Wikipedia article (Ken Stabler, 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: 4 (1973–⁠74, 1976–⁠77) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 1974 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 1976

All-Pro teams: AP first team 1974; AP second team 1976; Pro Football Writers first team 1974; Pro Football Writers second team 1976; Pro Football Weekly first team 1974, 1976; NEA first team 1974; and 1 more.

Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other pro football

YearsLeagueTeam
1968AFLOakland Raiders

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams.

Books

  • Snakeby Ken Stabler and Berry Stainback, 1986
  • Snakeby Michael Freeman, 2016

Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

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