Do I have to pass 85 variables to function?

[ferdnyc]

            'dist_yards1' : line[315],
            'dist_yards2' : line[316],
            'dist_yards3' : line[317],
            'dist_yards4' : line[318],
            'dist_yards5' : line[319],
            'dist_yards6' : line[320],
            'dist_yards7' : line[321],
            'dist_yards8' : line[322],
            'dist_yards9' : line[323],
            'dist_yards10' : line[324],

One thing you might consider, for runs like this that always have the same number of data points, is to keep the dictionary element as a single list of N values. So,

h["dist_yards"] = [ line[315], line[316], .... line[324] ]

# Which, if they're all adjacent in the source data,
# you can even assign using a list slice:

h["dist_yards"] = line[315:324]

And so on for the other multi-value parameters. Then you'd just access them as,
h["dist_yards"][0] through h["dist_yards"][9]. (Or in any combinations, again using slices if appropriate:

first_three_dist_yards = h["dist_yards"][0:2]

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Correction: I screwed up my slice syntax, as usual.

# Make that
h["dist_yards"] = line[315:325]  # Yes, one higher than the last element

# And
first_three_dist_yards = h["dist_yards"][0:3]