Sacks as part of rushing average

[Todd Pence]

Never understood why they still do this for college football. You'll hear the announcer say "Plainfield Tech has negative thirty rushing yards in this game!" and I'll think to myself, "Yeah, how many of those are actually rushing yards and not sack yards?"

It also makes you wonder how many rushing yards quarterbacks like Keenan Reynolds, Pat White and Brad Smith were cheated out of from their record setting totals because sack yards were taken from them.

[Throwin_Samoan]

I don't have anything prior to 1943, and am missing the first three years of the AAFC, but this is what I have from the official league guides the following years:

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Year	Lg	Punts  Yds      Avg.	PPG
1943	NFL	506	19,391	38.3	12.65
1944	NFL	596	22,353	37.5	11.92
1945	NFL	513	19,648	38.3	10.26
1946	NFL	579	23,739	41.0	10.53
1947	NFL	649	26,960	41.5	10.82
1948	NFL	690	28,081	40.7	11.50
1949	NFL	666	26,973	40.5	11.10
        AAC  432	17,391	40.3	10.29
1950	NFL	890	35,944	40.4	11.41
1951	NFL	814	32,900	40.4	11.31