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Brooklyn Tigers Rushing Yards Leaders

Career totals with the Brooklyn Tigers and the best single seasons in club history. Includes the 2026 season through October 19: these records are rebuilt every night, so a mark set yesterday is here this morning. Figures before 1932 are reconstructions; the NFL kept no official statistics. Merged into the Boston Yanks for 1945; that season is the Yanks'.

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Pug Manders holds the Brooklyn Tigers career record with 2,291 rushing yards. The single-season record is 647, by Merl Condit in 1942.

YDS TD Y/A ATT Y/G 1D FL

All-time Brooklyn Tigers leaders

Career totals with the club
# Player With the club YDS G
1 Pug Manders Pug Manders 1939–1944 2,291 64
2 Merl Condit 1941–1943 1,194 30
3 Ace Parker Ace Parker 1937–1941 1,157 48
4 Ralph Kercheval 1934–1940 766 74
5 Bull Karcis 1932–1935 690 42
6 Jack Grossman 1932–1935 646 34
7 Joe Maniaci Joe Maniaci 1936–1938 560 24
8 Bobby Wilson 1936 505 12
9 Stumpy Thomason 1930–1935 486 47
10 Benny Friedman Benny Friedman 1932–1934 458 19
11 Banks McFadden 1940 411 11
12 Shipwreck Kelly 1933–1937 399 21
13 Dean McAdams 1941–1943 375 30
14 Red Franklin 1935–1937 366 15
15 Dick Crayne 1936–1937 338 22
16 Sam Francis Sam Francis 1939–1940 276 16
17 Ollie Sansen 1932–1935 259 41
18 Bill Leckonby 1939–1941 254 27
19 Boyd Brumbaugh 1938–1939 252 12
20 Scrapper Farrell 1938–1939 249 9
20 Stan Kostka 1935 249 9
22 Ace Gutowsky Ace Gutowsky 1939 202 9
23 Ray Hare 1944 196 10
24 Chris Cagle Chris Cagle 1933–1934 186 20
25 George Kracum 1941 169 11

Single-season Brooklyn Tigers records

Best seasons in club history
# Player Season YDS G
1 Merl Condit 1942 647 11
2 Bobby Wilson 1936 505 12
3 Pug Manders Pug Manders 1941 486 11
4 Pug Manders Pug Manders 1939 482 11
5 Joe Maniaci Joe Maniaci 1937 433 11
6 Pug Manders Pug Manders 1944 430 10
7 Banks McFadden 1940 411 11
8 Merl Condit 1941 357 11
9 Jack Grossman 1932 323 12
10 Pug Manders Pug Manders 1942 316 11
11 Dean McAdams 1942 314 11
12 Pug Manders Pug Manders 1940 311 11
13 Ace Parker Ace Parker 1940 306 11
14 Ace Parker Ace Parker 1941 301 11
15 Red Franklin 1935 284 12
16 Shipwreck Kelly 1933 274 10
17 Ace Parker Ace Parker 1939 271 11
18 Pug Manders Pug Manders 1943 266 10
19 Ralph Kercheval 1936 261 12
20 Ace Parker Ace Parker 1938 253 11
21 Benny Friedman Benny Friedman 1932 250 11
22 Scrapper Farrell 1938 249 7
22 Stan Kostka 1935 249 9
24 Bull Karcis 1933 232 10
25 Sam Francis Sam Francis 1940 217 11