1956 British Columbia Lions (WIFU)

4th place 6-10-0 .375

Head Coach: Clem Crowe

Vic Lindskog	Backfield
Wally Ziemba	Line

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Sat	8/4/1956	H	Edmonton Eskimos	21-35	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	23566
Wed	8/8/1956	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	26-34	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium
Mon	8/13/1956	H	Toronto Argonauts	20-15	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium
Sat	8/18/1956	A	Calgary Stampeders	17-14	W	Calgary, AB	Mewata Stadium	12889
Mon	8/20/1956	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	20-9	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	28825
Mon	8/27/1956	H	Edmonton Eskimos	0-18	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	30374
Fri	8/31/1956	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	1-3	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	15727
Mon	9/3/1956	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	10-24	L	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	13000
Sat	9/8/1956	H	Calgary Stampeders	45-15	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	28737
Sat	9/15/1956	A	Edmonton Eskimos	8-34	L	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	21737
Mon	9/17/1956	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	15-16	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	27502
Mon	9/24/1956	H	Edmonton Eskimos	11-1	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	23066
Sat	9/29/1956	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	28-46	L	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	14000
Mon	10/1/1956	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	7-34	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	16467
Sat	10/6/1956	H	Calgary Stampeders	24-7	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	25663
Sat	10/13/1956	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	8-40	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	26300
Mon	10/15/1956	A	Calgary Stampeders	22-21	W	Calgary, AB	Mewata Stadium	10000
Sat	10/20/1956	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	22-25	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	18239
Mon	10/22/1956	A	Edmonton Eskimos	13-54	L	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium

Exhibition game. Playoff game. A=Away game. H=Home game. N=Neutral site game. W=Win. L=Loss. T=Tie. OT=Overtime.

ROSTER
No	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
65	Ken Arkell	DT	6-4	233	26	Western Ontario	13
88	By Bailey	FB	5-10	192	26	Washington State	16
41	Ron Baker	C	6-2	238	24	none	16
55	Bob Brady	OG	6-0	220	24	British Columbia	16
91	Paul Cameron	S-OHB	6-0	190	24	UCLA	15
74	Vic Chapman	OE	6-0	200	26	British Columbia	16
84	Glen Christian	OHB	5-9	185	27	Idaho	12
93	Ron Clinkscale	QB-HB	6-0	185	23	Texas Christian	1
98	Chuck Dubuque	HB	5-11	178	24	none	2
94	Ted Duncan	DB-K	5-11	180	25	British Columbia	7
71	Danny Edwards	OE	6-1	197	30	Georgia	16
75	Norm Fieldgate	DE	6-2	210	24	British Columbia	15
95	Arnie Galiffa	QB	6-2	193	29	Army	1
65	Don George	T	6-3	220	22	Notre Dame	1
64	Tom Gunnari	T	6-2	220	23	Lower Columbia JC; Washington State	8
95	Jerry Gustafson	QB	6-1	210	22	Stanford	10
52	Bob Hantla	OG-DE-LB	6-1	220	25	Kansas	7
97	Ken Higgs	FB	5-11	192	25		8
86/51	Laurie Hodgson	LB	6-0	210	24	none	8
90	Bill Hortie	G	6-0	200	25	British Columbia	2
57	John Jankans	OG-LB	6-2	220	24	Arizona State	10
54	Roy Jenson	OG	6-2	210	29	UCLA	13
82	Ivan Livingstone	HB	5-11	182	26	McGill; Dubuque	1
72	Don Lord	DE	6-2	192	28	British Columbia	14
77	Rommie Loudd	E	6-2	227	23	Los Angeles Valley JC; UCLA	9
67	Norm Masters	OT-DT	6-2	249	23	Michigan State	15
62	Gordie Mitchell	OT-DT	6-3	230	23	none	15
81/61	Jim Mitchener	LB	6-1	200	27	McGill	13
61	George Mrkonic	T	6-2	225	27	Kansas	1
99	Brian Mulhern	LB	5-10	182	26	Portland	13
85	Cal Murphy	DB	5-10	180	24	British Columbia	8
47	Steve Palmer	C-LB	6-3	220	22	UCLA	13
86	Doug Peters	B	6-1	205	22	Contra Costa JC; UCLA	5
92	Al Pollard	FB	6-0	196	28	Loyola Marymount; Army	13
52	Chuck Quilter	T-G	6-0	240	32	Stephen F. Austin State; Tyler JC	6
61	Lorne Reid	DG	6-2	247	27	none	16
64	Fred Robinson	OT-DT	6-1	242	26	Washington	7
90	Don Ross	DE	6-3	190	23	British Columbia	1
80	Rae Ross	QB-DB	6-1	185	25	British Columbia	14
51	Frank Smith	G	6-2	200	25	Olympic JC	3
82	Bill Stuart	OHB-DB	5-10	170	24	none	13
77	Ken Swalwell	DB	6-3	195	26	Western Washington	3
96	Tony Teresa	QB-LB	5-9	185	23	Hartnell JC; San Jose State	11
89	Ed Vereb	OHB-DB	6-0	190	22	Maryland	15
87	Primo Villanueva	QB-DB	5-10	175	25	UCLA	10
45	Ron Watton	LB	6-1	219	24	none	16

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	4	Al Kocman	HB	Queen's
2	13	Don Johnson	G	Toronto
3	22	John Milliken	E	Queen's

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Team Totals	38	81	99	19
Opponents Totals	78	105	83	95

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rushing	Passing	Penalty	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		255	141	102	12	81	618
Opponents Totals		359

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Ed Vereb	14	0	0		0	0		0	0	84
By Bailey	4	0	0		0	0		0	0	24
Al Pollard	2	5	11	45.5	1	2	50.0	3	0	23
Paul Cameron	3	0	0		0	0		2	0	20
Ron Baker	0	13	16	81.3	2	4	50.0	1	0	20
Danny Edwards	3	0	0		0	0		0	0	18
Jerry Gustafson	3	0	0		0	0		0	0	18
Rommie Loudd	2	0	0		0	0		0	0	12
Rae Ross	2	0	0		0	0		0	0	12
Tony Teresa	0	4	6	66.7	1	2	50.0	0	0	7
Glen Christian	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Vic Chapman	0	0	0		0	0		6	0	6
Primo Villanueva	0	1	1	100.0	0	0		0	0	1
Team Totals	34	23	34	67.6	4	8	50.0	12	0	251
Opponents Totals	48	37	48	77.1	6	16	37.5	16	1	361

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
By Bailey	134	620	4.6	19	1
Ed Vereb	95	514	5.4	52	6
Al Pollard	102	468	4.6	35	2
Paul Cameron	82	430	5.2	47	0
Primo Villanueva	25	97	3.9	20	0
Glen Christian	10	86	8.6	52	1
Doug Peters	20	78	3.9	15	0
Tony Teresa	28	70	2.5	15	0
Jerry Gustafson	56	43	0.8	16	3
Ken Higgs	7	31	4.4	8	0
Ron Clinkscale	3	26	8.7		0
Bill Stuart	4	12	3.0	7	0
Cal Murphy	5	12	2.4	5	0
Vic Chapman	2	-24	-12.0	-10	0
Team Totals	573	2463	4.3		13
Opponents Totals	651	3645	5.6		28

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	RTG
Jerry Gustafson	178	79	44.4	82	1214	6.8	15.4	72	11	6.2	17	9.6	48.5
Tony Teresa	61	23	37.7	30	354	5.8	15.4	54	3	4.9	8	13.1	34.5
Primo Villanueva	29	16	55.2	10	297	10.2	18.6	46	2	6.9	3	10.3	74.1
Paul Cameron	35	16	45.7	15	199	5.7	12.4	28	1	2.9	4	11.4	33.8
Ed Vereb	11	5	45.5	5	125	11.4	25.0	46	0	0.0	1	9.1	49.4
Arnie Galiffa	3	1	33.3	1	13	4.3	13.0	13	0	0.0	1	33.3	8.3
Team Totals	317	140	44.2	143	2202	6.9	15.7		17	5.4	34	10.7	46.1
Opponents Totals	384	180	46.9	179	2984	7.8	16.6		17	4.4	25	6.5	61.2

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Danny Edwards	41	672	16.4	41	3
Paul Cameron	24	428	17.8	68	3
Ed Vereb	17	178	10.5	41	7
By Bailey	14	294	21.0	72	2
Rommie Loudd	13	231	17.8	35	2
Vic Chapman	12	188	15.7	29	0
Al Pollard	9	86	9.6	23	0
Tony Teresa	3	41	13.7	14	0
Norm Masters	1	17	17.0	17	0
Ron Clinkscale	1	16	16.0	16	0
Bill Stuart	1	15	15.0	15	0
Bob Hantla	1	12	12.0	12	0
Primo Villanueva	1	12	12.0	12	0
Cal Murphy	1	5	5.0	5	0
Glen Christian	1	2	2.0	2	0
Team Totals	140	2202	15.7		17
Opponents Totals	180	2984	16.6		17

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Rae Ross	6	165	27.5	102	1
Paul Cameron	4	142	35.5	87	0
Ed Vereb	4	60	15.0	19	0
Jim Mitchener	3	23	7.7	23	0
John Jankans	2	26	13.0	18	0
Glen Christian	1	41	41.0	41	0
Steve Palmer	1	27	27.0	27	0
Ron Watton	1	24	24.0	24	0
Primo Villanueva	1	13	13.0	13	0
Laurie Hodgson	1	7	7.0	7	0
Don George	1	0	0.0	0	0
Tony Teresa	0	9		9L	0
Team Totals	25	537	21.5		1
Opponents Totals	34	283	8.3		1

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	S
Vic Chapman	112	4766	42.6	64	1	-
Paul Cameron	20	926	46.3	64	0	-
Team Totals	132	5692	43.1		1	-	798	4894	36.8
Opponents Totals						-	577

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Bill Stuart	40	152	3.8	12
Glen Christian	29	143	4.9	34
Ed Vereb	12	90	7.5	16
Paul Cameron	10	62	6.2	11
Rae Ross	12	48	4.0	15
Ted Duncan	5	28	5.6	16
Cal Murphy	11	25	2.3	6
Ron Clinkscale	2	12	6.0	12
Don Lord	1	5	5.0	5
Tony Teresa	3	4	1.3	4
Al Pollard	1	2	2.0	2
Laurie Hodgson	1	1	1.0	1
Primo Villanueva	2	0	0.0	0
Team Totals	129	577	4.5
Opponents Totals	126	798	6.3

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Al Pollard	43	2430	56.5	85	1
Ron Baker	5	269	53.8	59	0
Doug Peters	4	195	48.8	56	0
Team Totals	52	2894	55.7
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
By Bailey	24	680	28.3	96	1
Ed Vereb	15	281	18.7	44	0
Paul Cameron	14	264	18.9	46	0
Primo Villanueva	3	72	24.0	40	0
Ron Clinkscale	1	39	39.0	39	0
Glen Christian	1	20	20.0	20	0
Danny Edwards	2	6	3.0	6	0
Jim Mitchener	1	1	1.0	1	0
Team Totals	61	1363	22.3		1
Opponents Totals	53	1118	21.1		0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
By Bailey	8			1	1	0	0
Paul Cameron	4	0		3	3	6	0
Vic Chapman	2			0	0	0	0
Glen Christian	2			0	0	0	0
Ted Duncan	1			0	0	0	0
Danny Edwards	1			0	0	0	0
Norm Fieldgate	0	0		3	3	0	0
Jerry Gustafson	9			0	0	0	0
Laurie Hodgson	1			0	0	0	0
John Jankans	0	0	1	2	3	0	0
Roy Jenson	2			1	1	12	0
Don Lord	1			0	0	0	0
Rommie Loudd	0	0	1	1	2	0	0
Norm Masters	0	0	1	1	2	0	0
Gordie Mitchell	0	0		2	2	0	0
Jim Mitchener	0	0		2	2	0	0
Al Pollard	1		2	1	3	0	0
Lorne Reid	0	0	1	2	3	0	0
Fred Robinson	0	0		1	1	0	0
Rae Ross	0	0		4	4	27	1
Bill Stuart	3			1	1	0	0
Tony Teresa	4			1	1	0	0
Ed Vereb	6			2	2	0	1
Primo Villanueva	2			0	1	0	0
Ron Watton	0	0		1	1	0	0
Team Totals	47	36	11	29	40	45	2
Opponents Totals		29		36	36		2