1967 Atlanta Falcons season

1967 Atlanta Falcons season
Owner	Rankin M. Smith Sr.
General manager	Frank E. Wall
Head coach	Norb Hecker
Home field	Atlanta Stadium
Results
Record	1–12–1
Division place	4th Coastal
Playoff finish	Did not qualify
Pro Bowlers	LB Tommy Nobis

The 1967 Atlanta Falcons season was the franchise's second year in the National Football League (NFL). Unable to improve on their 3-11, second-to-last place finish from their inaugural season, the Falcons finished with the worst record in the whole NFL, at 1-12-1. They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second consecutive season.

The Falcons were shifted from the Eastern Conference to the Western with the addition of the New Orleans Saints for 1967. Atlanta was farther east than three Eastern Conference teams: the Saints, Dallas Cowboys, and St. Louis Cardinals.

Offseason

NFL Draft

Main article: 1967 NFL/AFL draft

1967 Atlanta Falcons draft
Round	Pick	Player	Position	College	Notes
2	31	Leo Carroll	Defensive end	San Diego State
Made roster

Personnel

Staff

1967 Atlanta Falcons staff

Front office President – Rankin M. Smith Sr. Assistant to the president – Bud Erickson Vice president and general manager – Frank E. Wall Head coaches Head coach – Norb Hecker Offensive coaches Offensive backfield – Bill Crutchfield Receivers – Lew Carpenter Offensive line – Brad Ecklund Assistant offensive line – Bob Fry

Defensive coaches Chief defensive – Hal Herring Defensive backfield – John Symank

Roster

1967 Atlanta Falcons roster

Quarterbacks (QB) 11 Randy Johnson 14 Terry Nofsinger 12 Steve Sloan Running backs (RB) 34 Junior Coffey 37 Perry Lee Dunn 23 Ron Rector 30 Ernie Wheelwright Wide receivers (WR) 80 Gary Barnes  8 Tommy McDonald Tight ends (TE) 85 Bill Martin 87 Taz Anderson

Offensive linemen (OL) 64 Tom Harmon G 65 Lou Kirouac G 67 Dan Grimm G 73 Errol Linden T 56 Frank Marchlewski C 61 Bill Sandeman T 66 Jim Simon G Defensive linemen (DL) 77 Chuck Sieminski DT 71 Joe Szczecko DT 81 Bo Wood DE

Linebackers (LB) 51 Andy Bowling 55 Ralph Heck 60 Tommy Nobis 54 Bob Sanders Defensive backs (DB) 22 Lee Calland CB 24 Floyd Hudlow 27 Nick Rassas S 36 Ken Reaves CB 20 Bob Riggle S 40 Ron Smith CB Special teams 26 Billy Lothridge P 7 Wade Traynham K

Rookies in italics

Regular season

Schedule

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Record	Venue	Attendance
1	September 17	at Baltimore Colts	L 31–38	0–1	Memorial Stadium	56,715
2	September 24	at San Francisco 49ers	L 7–38	0–2	Kezar Stadium	30,207
3	October 1	at Green Bay Packers	L 0–23	0–3	Milwaukee County Stadium	49,467
4	October 8	Philadelphia Eagles	L 7–38	0–4	Atlanta Stadium	53,868
5	October 15	Washington Redskins	T 20–20	0–4–1	Atlanta Stadium	56,538
6	October 22	at Detroit Lions	L 3–24	0–5–1	Tiger Stadium	50,601
7	October 29	Minnesota Vikings	W 21–20	1–5–1	Atlanta Stadium	52,859
8	November 5	at Dallas Cowboys	L 7–37	1–6–1	Cotton Bowl	54,751
9	November 12	Baltimore Colts	L 7–49	1–7–1	Atlanta Stadium	58,850
10	November 19	Los Angeles Rams	L 3–31	1–8–1	Atlanta Stadium	56,871
11	November 26	at New Orleans Saints	L 24–27	1–9–1	Tulane Stadium	83,437
12	December 3	at Los Angeles Rams	L 3–20	1–10–1	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	46,395
13	December 10	San Francisco 49ers	L 28–34	1–11–1	Atlanta Stadium	51,798
14	December 17	Chicago Bears	L 14–23	1–12–1	Atlanta Stadium	54,107
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

Game summaries

Week 14

1 2 3 4 Total • Bears 7 10 3 3 23 Falcons 7 0 0 7 14 Date: December 17 Location: Atlanta Stadium

Standings

NFL Coastal
	W	L	T	PCT	DIV	CONF	PF	PA	STK
Los Angeles Rams	11	1	2	.917	4–1–1	8–1–1	398	196	W8
Baltimore Colts	11	1	2	.917	4–1–1	7–1–2	394	198	L1
San Francisco 49ers	7	7	0	.500	3–3	4–6	273	337	W2
Atlanta Falcons	1	12	1	.077	0–6	1–9	175	422	L7

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

External links

• 1967 Atlanta Falcons at Pro-Football-Reference.com