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1971 Minnesota Vikings
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Record: 11-3-0, Finished 1st in NFC Central Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 245 points (17.5/g), 18th of 26 in the NFL.
Allowed 139 points (9.9/g), 1st.
Differential of 106 points (7.6/g), 4th.
Expected W-L: 11.1-2.9.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +15 (1.1/g), 4th.
Simple Rating System: Total 6.5, Offense: -3.4, Defense: 9.9, SoS: -1.1, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by Bud Grant(11-3-0)
Offensive Coordinator: Jerry Burns
Training Camp: Minnesota State University, Mankato (Mankato, Minnesota)
Players[+]
- Pos · # · College
- Grady Alderman
LT · #67 · Detroit Mercy
- Bill Brown
fb · #30 · Illinois
- Robert Brown
te · #89 · Alcorn State
- Bobby Bryant
rcb · #20 · South Carolina
- Fred Cox
K · #14 · Pittsburgh
- Gary Cuozzo
QB · #15 · Virginia
- Doug Davis
rt · #71 · Kentucky
- Al Denson
fl · #86 · Florida A&M
- Carl Eller
LDE · #81 · Minnesota
- Carl Gersbach
MLB · #56 · Duke; West Chester
- Bob Grim
WR · #27 · Oregon State
- Leo Hayden
rb · #44 · Ohio State
- John Henderson
wr · #80 · Michigan
- Wally Hilgenberg
RLB · #58 · Iowa
- John Hilton
te · #85 · Richmond
- Noel Jenke
lb · #52 · Minnesota
- Clint Jones
RB · #26 · Michigan State
- Karl Kassulke
SS · #29 · Marquette; Drake
- Paul Krause
FS · #22 · Iowa
- Gary Larsen
LDT · #77 · Concordia (MN)
- Bob Lee
P · #19 · San Francisco City Coll.; Arizona State; Pacific
- Jim Lindsey
rb · #21 · Arkansas
- Bob Lurtsema
dt · #75 · Grand Rapids CC; Michigan Tech; Western Michigan
- Jim Marshall
RDE · #70 · Ohio State
- Dave Osborn
FB · #41 · North Dakota
- Alan Page
RDT · #88 · Notre Dame
- Jerry Patton
rdt · #78 · Nebraska
- Pete Perreault
g · #68 · Boston University
- Oscar Reed
rb · #32 · Colorado State
- Roy Schmidt
g · #68 · Long Beach State
- Ed Sharockman
RCB · #45 · Pittsburgh
- Norm Snead
qb · #16 · Wake Forest
- Milt Sunde
RG · #64 · Minnesota
- Doug Sutherland
ldt · #69 · Wisconsin-Superior
- Mick Tingelhoff
C · #53 · Nebraska
- Stu Voigt
TE · #83 · Wisconsin
- John Ward
g · #72 · Oklahoma State
- Lonnie Warwick
mlb · #59 · Tennessee; Tennessee Tech
- Gene Washington
WR · #84 · Michigan State
- Charlie West
PR/LCB/KR · #40 · Angelo State; Texas-El Paso
- Ed White
LG · #62 · California
- Chuck Winfrey
lb · #36 · Wisconsin
- Roy Winston
LLB · #60 · LSU
- Jeff Wright
ss · #23 · Minnesota
- Nate Wright
db · #43 · Monterey Peninsula J.C.; San Diego State
- Ron Yary
RT · #73 · Cerritos J.C.; USC
- Godfrey Zaunbrecher
c · #51 · LSU
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