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1979 Pittsburgh Steelers
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Record: 12-4-0, Finished 1st in AFC Central Division
NFL Season Summary
1979 Super Bowl Champions
Scored 416 points (26.0/g), 1st of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 262 points (16.4/g), 5th.
Differential of 154 points (9.6/g), 2nd.
Expected W-L: 12.0-4.0.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential -10 (-0.6/g), 24th.
Simple Rating System: Total 11.9, Offense: 6.8, Defense: 5.1, SoS: 2.3, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by Chuck Noll(12-4-0)
Defensive Coordinator: Woody Widenhofer
Training Camp: St. Vincent College (Latrobe, Pennsylvania)
Players[+]
- Pos · # · College
- Anthony Anderson
rb · #33 · Temple
- Larry Anderson
KR · #30 · Louisiana Tech
- Matt Bahr
K · #9 · Penn State
- John Banaszak
RDE · #76 · Eastern Michigan
- Tom Beasley
lde · #65 · Virginia Tech
- Theo Bell
PR · #83 · Arizona
- Rocky Bleier
rb · #20 · Notre Dame
- Mel Blount
RCB · #47 · Southern (LA)
- Terry Bradshaw
QB · #12 · Louisiana Tech
- Larry Brown
RT · #79 · Kansas
- Robin Cole
rlb · #56 · New Mexico
- Craig Colquitt
P · #5 · Tennessee
- Steve Courson
RG · #77 · So. Carolina
- Bennie Cunningham
TE · #89 · Clemson
- Sam Davis
LG · #57 · Allen
- Jack Deloplaine
rb · #35 · Salem
- Thom Dornbrook
g · #63 · Kentucky
- Gary Dunn
RDT · #67 · Miami (FL)
- Steve Furness
dt · #64 · Rhode Island
- Tom Graves
lb · #50 · Michigan State
- Joe Greene
LDT · #75 · North Texas
- L.C. Greenwood
LDE · #68 · Arkansas-Pine Bluff
- Randy Grossman
te · #84 · Temple
- Jack Ham
LLB · #59 · Penn State
- Franco Harris
FB · #32 · Penn State
- Greg Hawthorne
rb · #27 · Baylor
- Ron Johnson
LCB · #29 · Eastern Michigan
- Jon Kolb
LT · #55 · Oklahoma State
- Mike Kruczek
qb · #15 · Boston College
- Jack Lambert
MLB · #58 · Kent State
- Rick Moser
rb · #39 · Rhode Island
- Gerry Mullins
rg · #72 · USC
- Ted Petersen
lt · #66 · Eastern Illinois
- Donnie Shell
SS · #31 · South Carolina State
- Jim Smith
wr · #86 · Michigan
- John Stallworth
WR · #82 · Alabama A&M
- Lynn Swann
WR · #88 · USC
- J.T. Thomas
FS · #24 · San Bernardino Valley J.C.; Florida State
- Sidney Thornton
RB · #38 · Northwestern State (LA)
- Loren Toews
lb · #51 · California
- Zack Valentine
lb · #54 · East Carolina
- Mike Wagner
ss · #23 · Western Illinois
- Mike Webster
C · #52 · Wisconsin
- Dwight White
rde · #78 · Texas A&M-Commerce
- Dirt Winston
RLB · #53 · Arkansas
- Dwayne Woodruff
lcb · #49 · Louisville
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