1959 Ottawa Rough Riders (IRFU)

2nd place 8-6-0 .571

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Thu	7/30/1959	H	British Columbia Lions	24-22	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	10000
Mon	8/3/1959	A	Edmonton Eskimos	7-20	L	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	10000
Thu	8/6/1959	A	British Columbia Lions	35-14	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	18147
Tue	8/18/1959	H	Toronto Argonauts	20-21	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	20675
Fri	8/21/1959	A	Montreal Alouettes	8-23	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	22813
Sat	8/29/1959	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	10-34	L	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	17266
Sat	9/5/1959	H	Montreal Alouettes	7-22	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	16698
Sun	9/13/1959	A	Toronto Argonauts	6-19	L	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	25849
Wed	9/16/1959	H	Toronto Argonauts	28-1	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	13097
Sat	9/19/1959	A	Montreal Alouettes	43-6	W	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	23811
Sat	9/26/1959	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	14-23	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	19837
Sat	10/3/1959	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	9-7	W	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	20012
Sat	10/10/1959	H	Montreal Alouettes	36-8	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	17203
Mon	10/12/1959	A	Montreal Alouettes	28-12	W	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	21817
Sat	10/17/1959	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	17-16	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	16000
Sat	10/24/1959	H	Toronto Argonauts	18-4	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	14698
Sat	10/31/1959	A	Toronto Argonauts	31-21	W	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	19465
IRFU Semi-Final
Sat	11/7/1959	H	Montreal Alouettes	43-0	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	19060
IRFU Final #1
Sat	11/14/1959	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	17-5	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	18926
IRFU Final #2
Sat	11/21/1959	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	7-21	L	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	20000

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
64	Gilles Archambault	T	6-2	245	25	Ottawa	14
40	Bruno Bitkowski	C	6-2	220	30	Ottawa	14
68	John Bove	T	6-0	225	35	West Virginia	13
87	George Brancato	HB	5-9	177	28	Santa Ana JC; Louisiana State	14
73	Lou Bruce	DE	6-0	205	25	Queen's	11
89	Don Clark	HB	6-0	190	23	Ohio State	8
54	Merv Collins	OG-K	6-1	220	26	none	14
53	Hardiman Cureton	G	5-11	235	26	Los Angeles Valley JC; UCLA	14
60	Dick Emerich	G	6-2	240	23	West Chester	1
65	Milt Graham	OT-DE	6-6	235	25	Colgate	14
52	Larry Hayes	LB	6-3	230	25	Vanderbilt	14
72	Gerry Hughes	E	6-0	190	24	none	1
93	Dick Hunter	HB	5-7	167	24	North Carolina State	1
82	Russ Jackson	QB	6-1	190	23	McMaster	14
69	Jon Jelacic	DE	6-3	250	23	Minnesota	10
61	Tom Jones	T	6-5	250	28	Kentucky State; Miami (Ohio)	14
86	Pete Joyce	FB	6-1	220		Royal Military College; Toronto	3
15	Joe Kelly	HB	5-11	203	22	New Mexico State	6
84	Harry Lunn	DB	6-0	185	26		12
81	Gerry Nesbitt	FB-P	5-10	200	27	Tyler JC; Arkansas	14
26	Babe Parilli	QB	6-1	190	30	Kentucky	6
78/95	Bob Pepe	E	6-2	230	22	North Carolina State	3
91	Joe Poirier	DB	6-1	190	22	Loyola (Quebec); McGill	14
62	Moe Racine	T	6-4	232	22	none	4
78	Al Romine	HB	6-2	191	27	North Alabama	10
92	Gary Schreider	DB-K	5-11	187	25	Queen's	14
50	Sam Scoccia	G	5-10	242	29	none	14
70	Bob Simpson	OE	6-0	200	29	Western Ontario	14
71	Ted Smale	DE	6-2	210	27	Toronto	14
75	Bill Sowalski	LB	5-11	200	29	none	14
80	Ron Stewart	HB	5-7	175	25	Queen's	13
41	Joe Stracina	C	5-11	225	29		14
88	Dave Thelen	OHB	6-0	205	23	Miami (Ohio)	14
83	Frank Tripucka	QB	6-2	192	32	Notre Dame	8
55	Kaye Vaughan	OG-DT	6-2	225	28	Tulsa	14
90	Davey West	HB	5-9	175	31	none	14
77	Mack Yoho	K-DE	6-2	239	23	Miami (Ohio)	4

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Team Totals	74	31	79	91
Opponents Totals	31	88	62	36

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rushing	Passing	Penalty	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		286	155	111	20	85	711
Opponents Totals		229	90	122	17	87	737

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Dave Thelen	11	0	0		0	0		0	0	66
Bob Simpson	8	0	0		0	0		0	0	48
Gary Schreider	2	22	30	73.3	3	5	60.0	0	0	43
Joe Kelly	5	0	0		0	0		0	0	30
Russ Jackson	3	0	0		0	0		0	0	18
Ron Stewart	3	0	0		0	0		0	0	18
Don Clark	2	0	0		0	0		0	0	12
Ted Smale	2	0	0		0	0		0	0	12
Mack Yoho	0	5	6	83.3	1	3	33.3	0	0	8
Gerry Nesbitt	1	0	0		0	0		1	0	7
Babe Parilli	0	0	0		0	0		7	0	7
Frank Tripucka	0	0	0		0	0		1	0	1
Davey West	0	1	1	100.0	0	0		0	0	1
(Team)	0	0	0		0	0		0	2	4
Team Totals	37	28	37	75.7	4	8	50.0	9	2	275
Opponents Totals	27	19	27	70.4	7	16	43.8	13	1	217

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Dave Thelen	228	1339	5.9	59	10
Ron Stewart	82	425	5.2	31	2
Russ Jackson	69	385	5.6	30	3
Don Clark	75	343	4.6	55	2
Joe Kelly	53	213	4.0	17	2
Gerry Nesbitt	14	83	5.9	18	0
Babe Parilli	4	20	5.0	15	0
Pete Joyce	4	16	4.0	7	0
Harry Lunn	2	11	5.5	10	0
George Brancato	1	8	8.0	8	0
Gary Schreider	1	1	1.0	1t	1
Frank Tripucka	3	-3	-1.0		0
Team Totals	537	2841	5.3		20
Opponents Totals	406	1787	4.4		11

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Frank Tripucka	145	79	54.5	52	1119	7.7	14.2	57	4	2.8	14	9.7	12	104	1015	49.3
Russ Jackson	89	45	50.6	37	1009	11.3	22.4	59	7	7.9	7	7.9	21	172	837	84.9
Babe Parilli	52	23	44.2	25	373	7.2	16.2	55	4	7.7	4	7.7	1	10	363	62.4
Ron Stewart	3	2	66.7	1	62	20.7	31.0	40	1	33.3	0	0.0	0	0	62	149.3
Team Totals	289	149	51.6	115	2563	8.9	17.2		16	5.5	25	8.7		286	2277	64.4
Opponents Totals	340	187	55.0	142	2690	7.9	14.4		14	4.1	11	3.2		356	2334	81.1

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bob Simpson	36	787	21.9	59	8
Ted Smale	24	490	20.4	49	2
Davey West	19	355	18.7	31	0
Don Clark	16	229	14.3	57	0
Ron Stewart	15	150	10.0	28	1
Joe Kelly	14	336	24.0	55	3
Dave Thelen	9	95	10.6	40	1
Gerry Nesbitt	5	21	4.2	13	0
Gary Schreider	3	20	6.7	11	1
Harry Lunn	3	18	6.0	8	0
Milt Graham	2	28	14.0	19	0
Al Romine	2	26	13.0	16	0
Russ Jackson	1	8	8.0	8	0
Team Totals	149	2563	17.2		16
Opponents Totals	187	2690	14.4		14

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Al Romine	4	71	17.8	50	0
Gerry Nesbitt	3	32	10.7	21	1
George Brancato	1	32	32.0	32	0
Gary Schreider	1	18	18.0	18	0
Hardiman Cureton	1	7	7.0	7	0
Larry Hayes	1	7	7.0	7	0
Team Totals	11	167	15.2		1
Opponents Totals	25	277	11.1		1

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	S
Frank Tripucka	52	2057	39.6	58	0	-
Babe Parilli	65	2497	38.4	58	1	-
Gerry Nesbitt	24	923	38.5	48	1	-
Ron Stewart	1	33	33.0	33	0	-
Team Totals	142	5510	38.8			-	812	4698	33.1
Opponents Totals	150	6276	41.8			-	883	5393	36.0

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Davey West	58	315	5.4	20
Ron Stewart	40	271	6.8	28
Harry Lunn	30	198	6.6	15
Gary Schreider	5	24	4.8	19
Bob Simpson	5	24	4.8	10
Russ Jackson	2	22	11.0	11
Don Clark	1	15	15.0	15
Joe Poirier	2	10	5.0	10
Al Romine	1	4	4.0	4
Team Totals	144	883	6.1
Opponents Totals	131	812	6.2

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Merv Collins	36	1794	49.8	69	0
Mack Yoho	10	554	55.4	66	0
Gary Schreider	4	179	44.8	58	0
Team Totals	50	2458	49.2
Opponents Totals	43	2240	52.1

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Don Clark	13	289	22.2	46
Ron Stewart	13	265	20.4	38
Joe Kelly	8	141	17.6	23
Dave Thelen	3	63	21.0	28
Bob Simpson	2	41	20.5	31
Gary Schreider	1	20	20.0	20
Gerry Nesbitt	1	15	15.0	15
Ted Smale	1	11	11.0	11
Kaye Vaughan	1	0	0.0	0
Team Totals	43	845	19.7
Opponents Totals	50	826	16.5

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Team Totals	26	18	8	18	26		0
Opponents Totals		18		18	18		1