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1951 Winnipeg Blue Bombers (WIFU)

3rd place • 8-6-0 .571

1951 CFL • Previous Season • Next Season

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Head Coach: George Trafton

Assistant Coach

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Result			Location	Venue	Attendance
Mon	8/20/1951	H	Toronto Argonauts	13-1	W		Winnipeg, MB	Osborne Stadium	9500
Sat	8/25/1951	H	Edmonton Eskimos	24-30	L		Winnipeg, MB	Osborne Stadium	9600
Mon	8/27/1951	H	Calgary Stampeders	34-24	W		Winnipeg, MB	Osborne Stadium	9600
Thu	8/30/1951	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	1-33	L		Winnipeg, MB	Osborne Stadium	9000
Mon	9/3/1951	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	24-22	W		Regina, SK	Taylor Field	10000
Sat	9/8/1951	A	Edmonton Eskimos	19-35	L		Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	11000
Mon	9/10/1951	A	Calgary Stampeders	12-18	L		Calgary, AB	Mewata Stadium	9000
Sat	9/15/1951	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	21-12	W		Regina, SK	Taylor Field	10000
Sat	9/22/1951	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	17-30	L		Winnipeg, MB	Osborne Stadium	9600
Sat	9/29/1951	A	Calgary Stampeders	33-18	W		Calgary, AB	Mewata Stadium	8000
Mon	10/1/1951	A	Edmonton Eskimos	15-8	W		Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	11000
Sat	10/6/1951	H	Calgary Stampeders	16-18	L		Winnipeg, MB	Osborne Stadium	9500
Mon	10/8/1951	H	Edmonton Eskimos	38-27	W		Winnipeg, MB	Osborne Stadium	9500
Sat	10/13/1951	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	30-23	W		Regina, SK	Taylor Field	7500
Sat	10/20/1951	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	19-13	W		Winnipeg, MB	Osborne Stadium	9000
WIFU Semi-Final
Sat	10/27/1951	A	Edmonton Eskimos	1-4	L		Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	13000

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

ROSTER
Player	No	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
Joe Aguirre	59	E	6-3	225	33	St. Mary's (California)	7
Neill Armstrong	80	E	6-2	189	25	Oklahoma State	14
Dean Bandiera	71	G-FB	5-11	201	25	Queen's	13
Gar Baxter	48	T	6-2	212	21	none	9
Lorne Benson	99	B	6-0	188	21	none	1
Billy Campbell	32	C	6-0	195	31	Oklahoma	10
Tom Casey	30	E	5-11	175	27	Hampton	13
Gerry DeLeeuw	43	T-G	5-11	207	25	none	9
Gerry Duguid	82	HB	5-10	160	23	none	4
Biff Fliss	64	HB	6-2	235	23		13
Tommy Ford	35	HB	5-10	175	24	none	3
Ian Gibb	39	HB	5-9	156	26		14
Norm Hill	29	E	6-2	192	23	Manitoba	13
Dick Huffman	20	OT-DT	6-1	255	28	Tennessee	8
Jack Jacobs	27	QB	6-1	186	32	Oklahoma	14
Don Knowles	33	HB	5-11	155	24	none	10
Walt Konarski	62	T	6-2	212	22	none	13
Bud Korchak	34	FW	5-9	190	24	none	14
Tommy Lumsden	75	T	6-3	223	21	none	13
Don Mattingley	36	C	6-1	233	20	none	14
Hal Mauthe	31	HB	5-7	160	22	none	13
George McPhail	78	HB	5-9	165	22	none	12
Jim McPherson	46	C-G	6-2	207	20	none	14
Ed Norvack	65	T	6-1	225	27		12
Al Passman	45	G	6-3	232	27	Manitoba	9
Keith Pearce	52	E	6-2	185	22	none	12
Pete Petrow	37	QB	5-9	165	25		14
Dick Pinkston		T			27	Detroit Tech	2
Roger Savoie	62	T	6-0	240	20	none	1
Andy Sokol	44	HB	5-11	200	23	none	14
Jim Spavital	77	FB	6-1	210	25	Oklahoma State	9
Johnny Stroppa	41	HB	5-11	175	25		7
Buddy Tinsley	66	T	6-2	245	27	Baylor	14
Bill Todd	50	QB	6-2	185	21	none	12
Ron Vaccher	40	E	6-2	195	23	none	14
Kas Vidruk	58	C	5-9	216	26	none	13
Al Wiley	55	G	5-10	208	23	Western Ontario	14

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	PTS
Team Totals	74	68	62	99	303
Opponents Totals	36	86	127	62	311

TEAM STATS	TOP	First Downs	Rush	Pass	Pen	2nd Down Efficiency	3rd Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals		214	72	123	19	73	543
Opponents Totals		222

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Neill Armstrong	11	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	55
Jack Jacobs	1	20	23	87.0	-	-	-	2	3	66.7	12	0	43
Tom Casey	7	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		1	0	36
Bud Korchak	7	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	35
Andy Sokol	7	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	35
Ron Vaccher	5	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	25
Joe Aguirre	0	19	23	82.6	-	-	-	1	7	14.3	1	0	23
George McPhail	2	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	10
Gerry Duguid	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	5
Biff Fliss	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	5
Ian Gibb	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	5
Keith Pearce	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	5
Johnny Stroppa	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	5
Dick Huffman	0	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		1	0	1
Buddy Tinsley	0	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		1	0	1
Jim Spavital	2	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	10
(Team)	0	0	0				-	0	0		0	2	4
Team Totals	47	39	47	83.0	3	10	30.0	16	2	303
Opponents Totals	49	44	49	89.8	3	10	30.0	11	1	311

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Tom Casey	80	645	8.1		3
Andy Sokol	69	290	4.2		2
Jim Spavital	50	285	5.7		2
Biff Fliss	61	181	3.0		1
George McPhail	28	146	5.2		0
Hal Mauthe	9	26	2.9		0
Lorne Benson	3	9	3.0		0
Johnny Stroppa	2	4	2.0		0
Neill Armstrong	1	2	2.0	2	0
Bud Korchak	2	-4	-2.0		0
Bill Todd	3	-18	-6.0		0
Pete Petrow	11	-61	-5.5		0
Jack Jacobs	28	-97	-3.5		1
Team Totals	347	1408	4.1		9
Opponents Totals	467	1865	4.0		24

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Jack Jacobs	355	204	57.5	141	3248	9.1	15.9	100t	33	9.3	10	2.8				107.3
Pete Petrow	51	17	33.3	30	272	5.3	16.0		3	5.9	4	7.8				39.0
Tom Casey	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
Bill Todd	8	0	0.0	5	0	0.0			0	0.0	3	37.5				0.0
Team Totals	415	221	53.3	177	3520	8.5	15.9		36	8.7	17	4.1				93.6
Opponents Totals	311	161	51.8	138	2774	8.9	17.2		24	7.7	12	3.9				92.0

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Neill Armstrong	56	1024	18.3	100t	10
Bud Korchak	34	491	14.4		7
Ron Vaccher	33	547	16.6		5
Andy Sokol	31	435	14.0		4
Tom Casey	30	601	20.0		4
Norm Hill	8	77	9.6		0
George McPhail	6	69	11.5		2
Johnny Stroppa	5	48	9.6		1
Biff Fliss	2	32	16.0		0
Hal Mauthe	2	25	12.5		0
Keith Pearce	2	21	10.5		1
Buddy Tinsley	2	19	9.5		0
Ian Gibb	2	17	8.5		1
Joe Aguirre	2	12	6.0		0
Gerry Duguid	1	19	19.0	19t	1
Don Knowles	1	15	15.0	15	0
Jim Spavital	4	68	17.0		0
Team Totals	221	3520	15.9		36
Opponents Totals	161	2774	17.2		24

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Neill Armstrong					1
Andy Sokol					1
Team Totals					2
Opponents Totals	17				0

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	S
Jack Jacobs	95	3900	41.1		0	10
Tom Casey	23	814	35.4		1	1
Buddy Tinsley	13	387	29.8		0	1
Team Totals	131	5101	38.9		1
Opponents Totals

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Tom Casey	36	293	8.1		0
Hal Mauthe	18	179	9.9		0
George McPhail	21	127	6.0		0
Tommy Ford	10	100	10.0		0
Gerry Duguid	6	54	9.0		0
Andy Sokol	4	42	10.5		0
Don Knowles	2	23	11.5		0
Norm Hill	1	15	15.0	15	0
Dick Huffman	1	15	15.0	15	0
Buddy Tinsley	1	15	15.0	15	0
Bud Korchak	1	8	8.0	8	0
Ian Gibb	2	3	1.5		0
Team Totals	103	874	8.5		0
Opponents Totals	102	899	8.8		0

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
George McPhail	28	454	16.2		0
Tom Casey	12	202	16.8		0
Gerry Duguid	7	84	12.0		0
Tommy Ford	5	61	12.2		0
Hal Mauthe	3	49	16.3		0
Andy Sokol	2	10	5.0		0
Biff Fliss	1	10	10.0	10	0
Don Knowles	1	10	10.0	10	0
Team Totals	59	880	14.9		0
Opponents Totals	60	1008	16.8		0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Team Totals	32	25	7	16	23		0
Opponents Totals		16		25	25		1

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