1961 British Columbia Lions (CFL) - Pro Football Archives

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Thu	7/20/1961	A	Toronto Argonauts	17-28	L	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	22415
Mon	7/24/1961	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	38-27	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	18769
Sat	7/29/1961	N	Saskatchewan Roughriders	13-3	W	Seattle, WA	Husky Stadium	28000
Tue	8/1/1961	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	14-22	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	17988
Mon	8/7/1961	H	Edmonton Eskimos	19-29	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	28617
Sat	8/12/1961	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	7-41	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	17329
Tue	8/15/1961	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	21-30	L	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	17103
Mon	8/21/1961	H	Montreal Alouettes	7-7	T	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	26863
Thu	8/24/1961	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	6-25	L	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	12341
Mon	8/28/1961	A	Edmonton Eskimos	20-21	L	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	13000
Sat	9/9/1961	H	Calgary Stampeders	17-35	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	32066
Thu	9/14/1961	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	15-36	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	16016
Mon	9/18/1961	H	Toronto Argonauts	7-15	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	24428
Sat	9/23/1961	A	Calgary Stampeders	9-28	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	16000
Sat	9/30/1961	H	Edmonton Eskimos	21-9	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	20210
Sat	10/7/1961	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	20-24	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	13050
Mon	10/9/1961	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	7-17	L	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	11529
Mon	10/16/1961	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	15-16	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	20778
Sat	10/28/1961	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	17-17	T	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	19836
Sun	11/5/1961	H	Calgary Stampeders	7-43	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	19564

ROSTER
No	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
38	By Bailey	FB	5-10	192	31	Washington State	14
68	Jerry Beabout	DE-OT	6-3	240	21	Purdue	2
35	Nub Beamer	FB	5-11	210	25	Oregon State	16
27	Neal Beaumont	OHB-S	6-1	225	20	none	16
20	Bob Belak	OHB	6-0	185	22	none	16
44	Walt Bilicki	LB-C	5-10	205	25	Manitoba	14
	Dave Bosson	T	6-1	245	22	Duke	1
	Billy Brewer	HB	6-0	190	27	Mississippi	1
30	Bill Britton	LB	5-11	190	27	Western Ontario	16
69	Tom Brown	DT	6-0	251	25	Minnesota	13
67	Mike Cacic	MG	6-5	265	24	none	16
72	Jim Carphin	OE	6-3	210	22	Olympic JC; Washington	13
78	Pat Claridge	OE	6-2	212	23	Washington	14
58	Steve Cotter	OG	6-3	225	20	Wenatchee Valley JC	16
56	Lonnie Dennis	OT	6-1	230	24	Brigham Young	14
75	Norm Fieldgate	E	6-2	210	29	British Columbia	16
15	Willie Fleming	OHB	5-10	182	22	Iowa	15
60	George Grant	K	6-4	235	29	Colorado College	7	0
66	Russ Haines	G	6-1	237	27	none	6
54	Tom Hinton	OG	6-0	225	25	Louisiana Tech	9
21	Sonny Homer	CB	6-0	185	25	Grays Harbor JC	15
11	Bob Jeter	HB	6-1	203	24	Iowa	9
70	Dick Johnson	OE	6-4	220	22	Minnesota	15
32	Jim Jones	OHB	6-1	205	26	Washington	2
22	Joe Kapp	QB	6-2	214	22	California	11
12	Earl Keeley	QB	6-0	180	25	Wenatchee Valley JC; Montana	8
57	Vic Kristopaitis	LB	6-2	205	26	Dayton	9
37	Vern Lofstrom	FB	5-8	185	24	none	13
51	Bill MacDougall	G	6-1	220	23	none	5
62	Gordie Mitchell	OT	6-3	230	28	none	16
26	Baz Nagle	HB	5-11	188	28	none	2
77	Ed O'Bradovich	DE	6-3	255	21	Illinois	3
66	Ken Reid	T	6-3	230	23	Western Washington	2
74	Rae Ross	E	6-1	185	30	British Columbia	16
17	Bob Schloredt	DB-QB	6-0	195	22	Washington	11
64	Mel Semenko	DE	6-2	235	24	Wyoming; Colorado	15
40	Ed Sullivan	C-LB	6-1	200	26	Notre Dame	16
50	Barney Therrien	DT	6-2	235	21	Washington	16
24	Clyde Thomas	HB	5-10	187	21	Ohio University	2
25	Ed Vereb	HB	6-0	190	27	Maryland	4
36	Don Vicic	LB-FB	6-1	215	26	Ohio State	9
10	Jimmy Walden	QB	6-2	185	23	Itawamba CC; Wyoming	3
42	Ron Watton	C	6-1	219	29	none	16
55	Joe Wendryhoski	DE	6-2	245	23	Illinois	13

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Team Totals	60	60	62	33
Opponents Totals	95	93	97	108

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rushing	Passing	Penalty	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		233	120	97	16	115	716
Opponents Totals		330	201	114	15	79	729

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Nub Beamer	9	0	0		0	0		0	0	54
Willie Fleming	9	0	0		0	0		0	0	54
Vic Kristopaitis	0	14	14	100.0	5	12	41.7	4	0	33
Dick Johnson	4	0	0		0	0		0	0	24
George Grant	0	8	13	61.5	3	9	33.3	0	0	17
By Bailey	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Sonny Homer	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Bob Jeter	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Vern Lofstrom	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Don Vicic	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Neal Beaumont	0	0	0		0	0		2	0	2
Bob Schloredt	0	0	0		0	0		1	0	1
Team Totals	27	22	27	81.5	8	21	38.1	7	0	215
Opponents Totals	51	41	51	80.4	9	23	39.1	15	2	393

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Nub Beamer	169	878	5.2	53	9
Willie Fleming	96	468	4.9	64	2
By Bailey	76	386	5.1	36	1
Bob Jeter	28	127	4.5	17	0
Joe Kapp	37	127	3.4	20	0
Ed Vereb	16	72	4.5	15	0
Jimmy Walden	12	69	5.8		0
Bob Schloredt	26	48	1.8	42	0
Clyde Thomas	11	45	4.1	13	0
Vern Lofstrom	9	35	3.9	10	0
Jim Jones	8	30	3.8	5	0
Neal Beaumont	7	19	2.7	7	0
Sonny Homer	3	16	5.3	14	0
Earl Keeley	2	6	3.0	8	0
Vic Kristopaitis	1	-11	-11.0	-11	0
Team Totals	504	2315	4.6		12
Opponents Totals	622	3580	5.8		26

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Joe Kapp	209	85	40.7	109	1580	7.6	18.6	100	9	4.3	15	7.2		52	1528	51.9
Jimmy Walden	61	33	54.1	26	514	8.4	15.6	40	3	4.9	2	3.3	0	0	514	85.0
Earl Keeley	21	11	52.4	7	118	5.6	10.7	19	1	4.8	3	14.3		0	118	45.4
Bob Schloredt	21	8	38.1	12	117	5.6	14.6	46	1	4.8	1	4.8		49	68	53.1
Bob Jeter	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6
Ed Vereb	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0	39.6
Willie Fleming	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0			0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0	0	0.0
Team Totals	315	137	43.5	156	2329	7.4	17.0		14	4.4	22	7.0				54.8
Opponents Totals	283	148	52.3	114	2539	9.0	17.2		21	7.4	21	7.4				76.9

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Dick Johnson	33	645	19.5	68	4
Willie Fleming	28	680	24.3	100	6
Pat Claridge	28	327	11.7	19	0
By Bailey	12	125	10.4	24	0
Nub Beamer	7	108	15.4	39	0
Bob Jeter	7	101	14.4	33	1
Ed Vereb	4	74	18.5	29	0
Vern Lofstrom	4	66	16.5	22	1
Jim Carphin	4	53	13.3	13	0
Neal Beaumont	3	47	15.7	21	0
Clyde Thomas	2	43	21.5	31	0
Bob Belak	2	29	14.5	20	0
Jim Jones	1	15	15.0	15	0
Sonny Homer	1	9	9.0	9t	1
Don Vicic	1	7	7.0	7t	1
Team Totals	137	2329	17.0		14
Opponents Totals	148	2539	17.2		21

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Norm Fieldgate	5	70	14.0	23	0
Rae Ross	4	8	2.0	5	0
Bob Schloredt	3	42	14.0	27	0
Sonny Homer	3	36	12.0	23	0
Neal Beaumont	2	40	20.0	40	0
Team Totals	21	223	10.6		0
Opponents Totals	22	407	18.5		1

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	S
Neal Beaumont	62	2686	43.3	57	0	-
Bob Schloredt	42	1720	41.0	58	0	-
Vic Kristopaitis	22	907	41.2	76	0	-
Earl Keeley	9	334	37.1	44	0	-
Team Totals	135	5647	41.8		0	-	719	4928	36.5
Opponents Totals	125	5392	43.1			-	587	4805	38.4

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Bob Belak	40	191	4.8	17
Neal Beaumont	37	157	4.2	16
Bill Britton	35	147	4.2	10
Sonny Homer	5	54	10.8	18
Bob Jeter	4	20	5.0	18
Willie Fleming	2	18	9.0	13
Baz Nagle	1	5	5.0	5
Team Totals	123	587	4.8
Opponents Totals	135	719	5.3

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Vic Kristopaitis	24	1253	52.2	71	0
George Grant	21	1060	50.5	70	0
Team Totals	45	2313	51.4
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
By Bailey	16	312	19.5	32	0
Willie Fleming	13	301	23.2	92	1
Bob Jeter	3	170	56.7	35	0
Nub Beamer	8	114	14.3	24	0
Jim Jones	4	74	18.5	25	0
Dick Johnson	4	64	16.0	38	0
Neal Beaumont	3	54	18.0	27	0
Vern Lofstrom	3	25	8.3	17	0
Don Vicic	2	24	12.0	16	0
Joe Wendryhoski	1	2	2.0	2	0
Team Totals	62	1140	18.4		1
Opponents Totals	46	906	19.7		0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Nub Beamer	2			0	0	0	0
Neal Beaumont	2			1	1	3	0
Bob Belak	2			0	0	0	0
Bill Britton	4		1	1	2	3	0
Tom Brown				0	2	0	0
Mike Cacic				1	1	0	0
Lonnie Dennis				1	1	0	0
Sonny Homer	2			0	0	0	0
Bob Jeter	2			0	0	0	0
Dick Johnson				2	2	0	0
Vic Kristopaitis				2	2	0	0
Gordie Mitchell				2	2	0	0
Ed O'Bradovich				1	1	0	0
Bob Schloredt	3			1	1	0	0
Mel Semenko				2	2	7	0
Ed Sullivan				1	1	0	0
Barney Therrien				2	2	0	0
Team Totals	24	18	6	17	23	13	0
Opponents Totals		17		18	18		3

Don Branby	Line
Dave Skrien	Backfield
Ed Vereb	Backfield