1963 Ottawa Rough Riders (CFL)

2nd place Eastern Conference 9-5-0 .643

Don Branby	Assistant Coach
Bill Smyth	Assistant Coach

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Mon	7/15/1963	H	Calgary Stampeders	7-24	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	12806
Tue	7/23/1963	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	31-29	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	5442
Mon	7/29/1963	A	Edmonton Eskimos	26-24	W	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	8500
Thu	8/1/1963	A	British Columbia Lions	8-18	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	20000
Fri	8/9/1963	A	Toronto Argonauts	5-8	L	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	27557
Thu	8/15/1963	H	Montreal Alouettes	31-14	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	20662
Sat	8/24/1963	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	16-20	L	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	24271
Mon	9/2/1963	A	Montreal Alouettes	15-37	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	24499
Sat	9/7/1963	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	28-27	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	19124
Sat	9/14/1963	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	32-26	W	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	17645
Mon	9/23/1963	H	British Columbia Lions	23-17	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	20191
Sat	9/28/1963	H	Toronto Argonauts	30-12	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	18022
Sat	10/5/1963	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	28-13	W	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	14551
Mon	10/7/1963	A	Calgary Stampeders	17-47	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	15125
Sat	10/12/1963	H	Edmonton Eskimos	34-10	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	15682
Sat	10/19/1963	H	Montreal Alouettes	27-21	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	22763
Sat	10/26/1963	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	10-11	L	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	28007
Sat	11/2/1963	H	Toronto Argonauts	30-21	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	13089
Eastern Semi-Final
Sat	11/9/1963	H	Montreal Alouettes	17-5	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	20358
Eastern Final #1
Sat	11/16/1963	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	0-45	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	20406
Eastern Final #2
Sun	11/24/1963	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	35-18	W	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	23972

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
	Gilles Archambault	DT	6-2	245	29	Ottawa	1
73	George Belu	OE	6-1	200	24	Ohio University	14
51	Marv Bevan	G	6-0	225	28	none	13
30	Rick Black	FB	6-0	210	20	Mount Allison	14
65	Billy Joe Booth	DE-OT	6-0	230	23	Louisiana State	14
52	Jim Cain	T	6-4	240	24	Detroit Mercy	14
54	Merv Collins	OG	6-1	220	30	none	14
25	Jim Conroy	LB	6-0	190	26	Southern California	14
23	Doug Daigneault	HB	6-2	192	27	Clemson	4
15	Larry DeGraw	DB	5-11	180	22	Mount San Antonio JC; Utah	13
23	Don Derrick	HB				Oklahoma; Northwestern Oklahoma State; Oklahoma State	7
	Don Estes	OG	6-2	250	25	Louisiana State	2
22	Gene Gaines	LB	5-11	185	25	UCLA	14
12	Russ Jackson	QB	6-1	190	27	McMaster	14
40	Bill Johnson	C	6-4	240	27	Coalinga JC; Northern Arizona; Northeastern State	14
76	John Kenerson	DE	6-3	255	25	Kentucky State	9
64	Roger Kramer	OT	6-5	280	24	Kalamazoo	13
16	Tommy Lee	QB	6-0	185	21	Willamette	4
20	John Nichols	FB-LB	5-11	190	25	Syracuse	10
10	Bob O'Billovich	HB	5-10	182	23	Montana	13
17	Joe Poirier	DB	6-1	190	26	Loyola (Quebec); McGill	14
24	Peter Quinn	HB	5-11	192	20	Queen's	14
74	Bill Quinter	LB	6-1	215	24	Indiana	14
62	Moe Racine	T-K	6-4	232	26	none	13
14	Gary Schreider	HB	5-11	187	29	Queen's	3
50	Sam Scoccia	MG	5-10	242	33	none	14
42	Jerry Selinger	C	6-0	215	28	St. Joseph's (Indiana)	14
66	Mel Semenko	E	6-2	235	26	Wyoming; Colorado	4
60	Bill Siekierski	DT	6-1	250	21	Missouri	14
	Len Sparks	DB	6-2	207	23	Wyoming	9
11	Ron Stewart	OHB	5-7	175	29	Queen's	14
21	Dave Thelen	OHB	6-0	205	27	Miami (Ohio)	14
71	Oscar Thorsland	DE	6-4	220	23	Clemson	4
26	Whit Tucker	OHB	5-11	175	22	Western Ontario	14
23	Ed Ulmer	HB	6-2	184	23	Ohio State	2
55	Kaye Vaughan	DT	6-2	225	32	Tulsa	13
75	Ted Watkins	OE	6-3	200	22	Pacific; Stockton JC; Pacific	14
27	Ernie White	HB	5-8	180	25	Dayton	12
	Joe Williams	HB	5-10	205	22	Iowa	2
53	Chuck Wood	G	6-0	217	23	McGill	3

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	3	Rick Black	HB	Mount Allison
1	4	Bill Miklas	G	Queen's
1	8	Peter Quinn	HB	Queen's
2	13	Paul Benoit	HB	Carleton
3	22	Len Robinson	T	Ottawa
4	30	Bob Bourgalt	G	Loyola (Quebec)
4	31	Ted Moore	C	St. Mary's (Nova Scotia)
5	39	John Sevigny	Hb	Carleton
6	45	John Nash	HB	Western Ontario
7	51	John Greben	T	McMaster

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Team Totals	66	94	90	76
Opponents Totals	36	97	53	98

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rushing	Passing	Penalty	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		267	123	126	18	81	795
Opponents Totals		273	105	142	26	91	733

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Dave Thelen	11	0	0		0	0		0	0	66
Moe Racine	0	24	33	72.7	9	19	47.4	6	0	57
Ron Stewart	8	0	0		0	0		0	0	48
Ernie White	7	0	0		0	0		0	0	42
Whit Tucker	6	0	0		0	0		0	0	36
Russ Jackson	5	0	0		0	0		0	0	30
Rick Black	1	5	5	100.0	1	2	50.0	6	0	20
Gene Gaines	2	0	0		0	0		0	0	12
George Belu	1	3	4	75.0	0	0		0	0	9
Bob O'Billovich	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Team Totals	42	32	42	76.2	10	21	47.6	12	0	326
Opponents Totals	36	28	36	77.8	10	16	62.5	8	1	284

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Dave Thelen	151	907	6.0	62	9
Ron Stewart	103	523	5.1	35	3
Ernie White	62	395	6.4	47	4
Russ Jackson	64	384	6.0	42	5
Gene Gaines	8	51	6.4	24	0
Bob O'Billovich	8	35	4.4	11	1
Joe Williams	13	32	2.5	8	0
Rick Black	7	17	2.4	5	0
Don Derrick	1	9	9.0	9	0
Whit Tucker	1	8	8.0	8	0
Doug Daigneault	1	4	4.0	4	0
Tommy Lee	3	4	1.3	6	0
Team Totals	422	2369	5.6		22
Opponents Totals	389	2049	5.3		13

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Russ Jackson	259	152	58.7	99	2910	11.2	19.1	73	19	7.3	8	3.1	28	260	2650	109.4
Bob O'Billovich	10	5	50.0	4	69	6.9	13.8	17	0	0.0	1	10.0	2	16	53	32.9
Ron Stewart	1	1	100.0	0	16	16.0	16.0	16	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	16	118.8
Tommy Lee	2	1	50.0	0	7	3.5	7.0	7	0	0.0	1	50.0	0	0	7	18.8
Rick Black	0	0			0				0		0		2	14	-14
Team Totals	272	159	58.5	103	3002	11.0	18.9		19	7.0	10	3.7		290	2712	104.7
Opponents Totals	356	191	53.7	146	2958	8.3	15.5		22	6.2	19	5.3		206	2752	79.8

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Whit Tucker	41	967	23.6	73	6
Ted Watkins	32	569	17.8	44	0
Ron Stewart	23	340	14.8	45	5
Ernie White	20	468	23.4	68	3
George Belu	15	228	15.2	50	1
Dave Thelen	12	213	17.8	47	2
Joe Williams	7	99	14.1	19	0
Gene Gaines	4	46	11.5	32	1
Joe Poirier	3	55	18.3	22	0
Rick Black	1	10	10.0	10t	1
Bill Quinter	1	7	7.0	7	0
Team Totals	159	3002	18.9		19
Opponents Totals	191	2958	15.5		22

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Larry DeGraw	5	53	10.6	19	0
Gene Gaines	3	90	30.0	37	1
Don Derrick	2	38	19.0	25	0
Ed Ulmer	2	26	13.0	26	0
Bob O'Billovich	2	25	12.5	22	0
Peter Quinn	1	23	23.0	23	0
Joe Poirier	1	18	18.0	18	0
John Nichols	1	8	8.0	8	0
Bill Quinter	1	6	6.0	6	0
Jim Conroy	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	19	287	15.1		1
Opponents Totals	10	34	3.4		0

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Rick Black	79	2920	37.0	60	-
Ed Ulmer	7	289	41.3	52	-
Team Totals	86	3209	37.3		-	341	2868	33.3
Opponents Totals	91	3873	42.6		-	382	3491	38.4

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Peter Quinn	36	148	4.1	13
Rick Black	14	84	6.0	11
Bob O'Billovich	16	83	5.2	9
Gary Schreider	9	54	6.0	13
Gene Gaines	2	5	2.5	3
Doug Daigneault	1	4	4.0	4
Ron Stewart	1	4	4.0	4
Joe Poirier	1	0	0.0	0
Team Totals	80	382	4.8
Opponents Totals	79	341	4.3

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Moe Racine	44	2416	54.9	85	1
Rick Black	1	55	55.0	55	0
George Belu	5	245	49.0	59	0
Merv Collins	5	204	40.8	52	0
Team Totals	55	2920	53.1
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Ernie White	19	665	35.0	85
Ron Stewart	14	405	28.9	93
Jim Conroy	7	68	9.7	18
Ed Ulmer	2	57	28.5	32
Gene Gaines	3	42	14.0	19
Whit Tucker	1	22	22.0	22
Joe Williams	0	20		20L
George Belu	1	1	1.0	1
Roger Kramer	1	0	0.0	0
Team Totals	48	1280	26.7
Opponents Totals	55	996	18.1

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Team Totals	18	14	4	11	15		0
Opponents Totals		11		14	14		1