1966 Pittsburgh Steelers season explained

Team:	Pittsburgh Steelers
Year:	1966
Record:	5–8–1
Division Place:	6th NFL Eastern
Coach:	Bill Austin
Owner:	Art Rooney
Stadium:	Pitt Stadium
Radio:	KDKA
Playoffs:	Did not qualify
Shortnavlink:	Steelers seasons
Pro Bowlers:	K Mike Clark, RCB Brady Keys, RDE Ben McGee

The 1966 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the team's 34th in the National Football League.

Regular season

Schedule

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Record	Venue
1	September 11	New York Giants	T 34–34	0–0–1	Pitt Stadium
2	September 18	Detroit Lions	W 17–3	1–0–1	Pitt Stadium
3	September 25	Washington Redskins	L 27–33	1–1–1	Pitt Stadium
4	October 2	at Washington Redskins	L 10–24	1–2–1	D.C. Stadium
5	October 8	at Cleveland Browns	L 10–41	1–3–1	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
6	October 16	Philadelphia Eagles	L 14–31	1–4–1	Pitt Stadium
7	Bye
8	October 30	at Dallas Cowboys	L 21–52	1–5–1	Cotton Bowl
9	November 6	Cleveland Browns	W 16–6	2–5–1	Pitt Stadium
10	November 13	St. Louis Cardinals	W 30–9	3–5–1	Pitt Stadium
11	November 20	Dallas Cowboys	L 7–20	3–6–1	Pitt Stadium
12	November 27	at St. Louis Cardinals	L 3–6	3–7–1	Busch Stadium
13	December 4	at Philadelphia Eagles	L 23–27	3–8–1	Franklin Field
14	December 11	at New York Giants	W 47–28	4–8–1	Yankee Stadium
15	December 18	at Atlanta Falcons	W 57–33	5–8–1	Atlanta Stadium

A bye week was necessary in 1966, as the league expanded to an odd-number (15) of teams (Atlanta); one team was idle each week.

Game summaries

Week 1 vs New York Giants

at Pitt Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Game time:
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Game attendance: 35,473
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Scoring Drives:

Pittsburgh – FG Clark 13 3–0
Pittsburgh – Hilton 32 pass from R. Smith (Clark kick)10–0
Detroit – FG Walker 42 10–3
Pittsburgh – Jefferson 84 pass from R. Smith (Clark kick)17–3

at Pitt Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Game time:
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Game attendance: 37,505
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Washington – FG Gogolak 41 0–3
Washington – FG Gogolak 47 0–6
Washington – FG Gogolak 29 0–9
Pittsburgh – Ballman 49 pass from R. Smith (Clark kick)7–9
Pittsburgh – J. Bradshaw 27 interception return (Clark kick)14–9
Pittsburgh – Ballman 79 pass from R. Smith (Clark kick)21–9
Washington – Taylor 4 pass from Jurgensen (Gogolak kick)21–16
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 47 24–16
Washington – Mitchell 35 pass from Jurgensen (Gogolak kick)24–23
Washington – Taylor 2 run (Gogolak kick)24–30
Washington – FG Gogolak 15 24–33
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 42 27–33

at D.C. Stadium, Washington, DC

Game time:
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Game attendance: 47,360
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Scoring Drives:

Washington – Taylor 60 pass from Jurgensen (Gogolak kick)0–7
Washington – FG Gogolak 12 0–10
Pittsburgh – Hoak 2 run (Clark kick)7–10
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 25 10–10
Washington – Mitchell 51 pass from Jurgensen (Gogolak kick)10–17
Washington – Mitchell 70 pass from Jurgensen (Gogolak kick)10–24

at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio

Game time:
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Game attendance: 82,687
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Scoring Drives:

Cleveland – Collins 23 pass from Ryan (Groza kick)0–7
Cleveland – Collins 14 pass from Ryan (Groza kick)0–14
Cleveland – Kelly 2 run (Groza kick)0–21
Pittsburgh – Jefferson 23 pass from Izo (Clark kick)7–21
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 16 10–21
Cleveland – Kelly 10 run (kick failed)10–27
Cleveland – Warfield 3 fumble return (Groza kick)10–34
Cleveland – R. Smith 24 pass from Ninowski (Groza kick)10–41

at Pitt Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Game time:
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Game attendance: 28,233
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Scoring Drives:

Pittsburgh – Asbury 37 pass from Izo (Clark kick)7–0
Philadelphia – Gros 11 run (Baker kick)7–7
Pittsburgh – Asbury 11 run (Clark kick)14–7
Philadelphia – Gros 1 run (Baker kick)14–14
Philadelphia – Brown 9 pass from Snead (Baker kick)14–21
Philadelphia – Goodwin 11 pass from Snead (Baker kick)14–28
Philadelphia – FG Baker 51 14–31

Week 8 at Cowboys

Week 9 vs Browns

at Pitt Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Game time:
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Game attendance: 28,552
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Scoring Drives:

St. Louis – FG Bakken 37 0–3
St. Louis – FG Bakken 17 0–6
St. Louis – FG Bakken 12 0–9
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 40 3–9
Pittsburgh – Russell 14 blocked punt return (Clark kick)10–9
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 33 13–9
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 22 16–9
Pittsburgh – Hilton 11 pass from R. Smith (Clark kick)23–9
Pittsburgh – Jefferson 42 pass from Hoak30–9

at Pitt Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Game time:
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Game attendance: 42,185
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Scoring Drives:

Dallas – Meredith 3 run (Villanueva kick)0–7
Dallas – FG Villandueva 27 0–10
Pittsburgh – Asbury 11 pass from R. Smith (Clark kick)7–10
Dallas – FG Villanueva 37 7–13
Dallas – Hayes 38 pass from Meredith (Villanueva kick)7–20

at Busch Memorial Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri

Game time:
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Game attendance: 46,099
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Scoring Drives:

Pittsburgh – FG Clark 47 3–0
St. Louis – FG Bakken 26 3–3
St. Louis – FG Bakken 15 3–6

at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Game time:
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Game attendance: 54,275
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Scoring Drives:

Philadelphia – FG Baker 35 0–3
Pittsburgh – Asbury 7 run (Clark kick)7–3
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 37 10–3
Philadelphia – Woodeshick 3 run (Baker kick)10–10
Philadelphia – FG Baker 22 10–13
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 32 13–13
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 35 16–13
Philadelphia – Woodeshick 1 run (Baker kick)16–20
Philadelphia – Concannon 1 run (Baker kick)16–27
Pittsburgh – Asbury 2 run (Clark kick)23–27

Week 14 at New York Giants

at Atlanta Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia

Game time:
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Game attendance: 56,229
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Scoring Drives:

Pittsburgh – FG Clark 22 3–0
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 19 6–0
Pittsburgh – Ballman 12 pass from Nelsen (Clark kick)13–0
Pittsburgh – Bullocks 13 run (Clark kick)20–0
Atlanta – Coffey 1 run (Kirouac kick)20–7
Pittsburgh – Butler 1 run (run failed)26–7
Pittsburgh – FG Clark 21 29–7
Atlanta – Ridlehuber 53 pass from Johnson (Kirouac kick)29–14
Pittsburgh – Butler 1 run (Clark kick)36–14
Pittsburgh – Jefferson 68 pass from Nelsen (Clark kick)43–14
Pittsburgh – Thomas 23 fumble return (Clark kick)50–14
Atlanta – Ridlehuber 19 pass form Johnson (Kirouac kick)50–21
Pittsburgh – Asbury 2 run (Clark kick)57–21
Atlanta – Anderson 62 pass from Claridge (kick failed)57–27
Atlanta – Anderson 12 pass from Claridge (kick failed)57–33

External links

1966 Pittsburgh Steelers season at Profootballreference.com
1966 Pittsburgh Steelers season statistics at jt-sw.com