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1958 Ottawa Rough Riders (IRFU)

3rd place • 6-8-0 .429

1958 CFL • Previous Season • Next Season

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Head Coach: Frank Clair

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SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Result			Location	Venue	Attendance
Fri	8/1/1958	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	29-28	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	10000
Thu	8/7/1958	H	British Columbia Lions	33-27	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	7000
Mon	8/11/1958	H	Edmonton Eskimos	26-6	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	9000
Tue	8/19/1958	H	Toronto Argonauts	44-7	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	18470
Sat	8/23/1958	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	7-13	L		Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	21297
Sat	8/30/1958	A	Montreal Alouettes	9-11	L		Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	22943
Sat	9/6/1958	H	Montreal Alouettes	17-1	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	17056
Sun	9/14/1958	N	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	18-24	L		Philadelphia, PA	Municipal Stadium	15110
Sat	9/20/1958	A	Toronto Argonauts	17-14	W		Toronto, ON	Varsity Stadium	20166
Sat	9/27/1958	H	Toronto Argonauts	28-4	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	18500
Sat	10/4/1958	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	1-14	L		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	18000
Sat	10/11/1958	H	Montreal Alouettes	41-7	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	15000
Mon	10/13/1958	A	Montreal Alouettes	13-34	L		Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	24133
Sat	10/18/1958	H	Toronto Argonauts	0-41	L		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	14313
Sat	10/25/1958	A	Toronto Argonauts	24-42	L		Toronto, ON	Varsity Stadium	23334
Sat	11/1/1958	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	14-8	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	13603
Sat	11/8/1958	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	0-23	L		Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	14874
IRFU Semi-Final
Wed	11/12/1958	A	Montreal Alouettes	26-12	W		Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	18048
IRFU Final #1
Sat	11/15/1958	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	7-35	L		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	10490
IRFU Final #2
Sat	11/22/1958	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	7-19	L		Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	15671

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
Gilles Archambault	64	T	6-2	245	24	Ottawa	14
George Arnett	66	T	6-2	240	30	McMaster	14
Marv Bevan	57	T	6-0	225	23	none	8
Bruno Bitkowski	40	C	6-2	220	29	Ottawa	14
George Brancato	87	HB	5-9	177	27	Santa Ana JC; Louisiana State	14
Lou Bruce	73	E	6-0	205	24	Queen's	14
Merv Collins	54	G	6-1	220	25	none	14
Hardiman Cureton	53	OG	5-11	235	25	Los Angeles Valley JC; UCLA	13
Tom Dimitroff	86	QB-DB	5-11	200	23	Miami (Ohio)	5
Frank Fraser	84	HB	6-0	185	23	Tennessee State	14
Milt Graham	65	DT-OT	6-6	235	24	Colgate	14
Karl Hilzinger	93	FB	5-10	190	26	none	12
Russ Jackson	82	HB	6-1	190	22	McMaster	14
Tom Jones	61	T	6-5	250	27	Kentucky State; Miami (Ohio)	14
Bobby Judd	90	HB	5-9	185	26	Xavier (Ohio)	14
Hal Ledyard	85	QB	6-0	185	27	Tennessee-Chattanooga	9
Gerry Nesbitt	81	LB-FB-P	5-10	200	26	Arkansas	13
Buddy Payne	78	OE	6-3	210	22	North Carolina	2
Don Pinhey	89	OHB-DB	5-10	177	27	Muskingum	14
Ronnie Quillian	93	FB	6-2	210	24	Tulane	12
Leo Russavage	57	T	6-4	249	21	North Carolina	1
Gary Schreider	92	FB-K	5-11	187	24	Queen's	14
Sam Scoccia	50	G	5-10	242	28	none	13
Jerry Selinger	42	C	6-0	215	23	St. Joseph's (Indiana)	2
Bob Simpson	70	S	6-0	200	28	Western Ontario	14
Ted Smale	71	DE	6-2	210	26	Toronto	14
Bill Sowalski	75	LB	5-11	200	28	none	14
Ron Stewart	80	HB	5-7	175	24	Queen's	8
Joe Stracina	41	C	5-11	225	28		11
Frank Sweeney		G	5-11	215	24	Xavier (Ohio)	1
Dave Thelen	88	FB	6-0	205	22	Miami (Ohio)	14
Ken Vargo	41	C	6-1	200	26	Ohio State	14
Kaye Vaughan	55	T	6-2	225	27	Tulsa	14
Mack Yoho	77	K-OE	6-2	239	22	Miami (Ohio)	14

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	6	Russ Jackson	HB	McMaster
2	15	John Bennett	E	McGill
3	23	Brian Aston	QB	Toronto
4	28	John Chisholm	C	Toronto
5	32	Dan Nelson	E	Toronto
6	34	Burt Kelloch	E	Toronto

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	PTS
Team Totals	59	80	46	48	233
Opponents Totals	57	28	89	69	243

TEAM STATS	TOP	First Downs	Rush	Pass	Pen	2nd Down Efficiency	3rd Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals		270	164	93	13	72	697
Opponents Totals		252	121	120	11	90	685

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Mack Yoho	1	11	19	57.9	-	-	-	4	13	30.8	5	0	34
Bobby Judd	5	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	30
George Brancato	4	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	24
Don Pinhey	3	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	18
Bob Simpson	3	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	18
Gary Schreider	1	7	13	53.8	-	-	-	0	3	0.0	2	0	15
Tom Dimitroff	2	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	12
Bill Sowalski	2	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	12
Ronnie Quillian	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		3	0	9
Frank Fraser	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	6
Milt Graham	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	6
Hal Ledyard	0	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		1	0	1
Russ Jackson	5	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	30
Dave Thelen	2	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	12
Buddy Payne	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	6
Team Totals	32	18	32	56.3	4	16	25.0	11	0	233
Opponents Totals	31	23	31	74.2	5	16	31.3	19	0	243

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Dave Thelen	100	696	7.0	77	2
Bobby Judd	125	596	4.8	40	5
Ronnie Quillian	95	547	5.8	23	1
Russ Jackson	54	434	8.0	51	5
Gerry Nesbitt	48	264	5.5	22	0
Frank Fraser	29	170	5.9	17	1
Gary Schreider	33	156	4.7	15	0
Tom Dimitroff	23	124	5.4	15	2
Hal Ledyard	10	95	9.5	33	0
Don Pinhey	23	89	3.9	21	2
Ron Stewart	3	1	0.3	3	0
Team Totals	543	3133	5.8		18
Opponents Totals	473	2398	5.1		10

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Hal Ledyard	107	48	44.9	46	868	8.1	18.1	77	5	4.7	13	12.1	20	141	727	49.3
Russ Jackson	112	61	54.5	45	858	7.7	14.1	69	3	2.7	6	5.4	12	77	781	66.0
Tom Dimitroff	47	25	53.2	21	391	8.3	15.6	45	2	4.3	1	2.1	22	155	236	86.4
Frank Fraser	2	1	50.0	1	43	21.5	43.0	43	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	43	95.8
Bobby Judd	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0	39.6
Team Totals	269	135	50.2	111	2160	8.0	16.0		10	3.7	23	8.6				54.1
Opponents Totals	344	188	54.7	133	2709	7.9	14.4		19	5.5	23	6.7				71.0

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bobby Judd	25	272	10.9	30	0
Bob Simpson	23	583	25.3	77	3
George Brancato	21	405	19.3	46	4
Frank Fraser	15	94	6.3	16	0
Don Pinhey	9	187	20.8	69	1
Ronnie Quillian	9	79	8.8	25	0
Mack Yoho	6	112	18.7	33	1
Bill Sowalski	4	76	19.0	26	0
Gerry Nesbitt	2	33	16.5	23	0
Ron Stewart	2	32	16.0	20	0
Gary Schreider	2	24	12.0	17	0
Ted Smale	1	22	22.0	22	0
Milt Graham	1	8	8.0	8	0
Dave Thelen	12	175	14.6	41	0
Buddy Payne	3	58	19.3	23	1
Team Totals	135	2160	16.0		10
Opponents Totals	188	2709	14.4		19

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
George Brancato	7	58	8.3	41	0
Bill Sowalski	4	80	20.0	66	1
Bob Simpson	3	31	10.3	31	0
Hardiman Cureton	3	2	0.7	2	0
Dave Thelen	2	14	7.0	10	0
Lou Bruce	1	58	58.0	58	0
Gary Schreider	1	41	41.0	27	1
Frank Fraser	1	16	16.0	16	0
Milt Graham	1	6	6.0	6	0
Team Totals	23	306	13.3		2
Opponents Totals	23	270	11.7		1

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	S
Ronnie Quillian	86	3255	37.8	62		3
Gerry Nesbitt	51	1811	35.5	57		0
Bobby Judd	13	482	37.1	45		0
Team Totals	150	5548	37.0
Opponents Totals	146	6241	42.7

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Don Pinhey	78	563	7.2	23	0
Gary Schreider	36	240	6.7	16	0
Ron Stewart	22	117	5.3	12	0
Frank Fraser	3	24	8.0	15	0
Bob Simpson	3	23	7.7	20	0
Bobby Judd	1	11	11.0	11	0
Team Totals	143	978	6.8		0
Opponents Totals	133	721	5.4		1

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Mack Yoho	44	2420	55.0	64	0
Marv Bevan	1	48	48.0	48	0
Team Totals	45	2468	54.8
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bobby Judd	20	439	22.0	35	0
Frank Fraser	12	246	20.5	38	0
Dave Thelen	6	140	23.3	28	0
Ted Smale	3	38	12.7	17	0
Mack Yoho	3	32	10.7	14	0
Joe Stracina	1	13	13.0	13	0
Gilles Archambault	1	9	9.0	9	0
Team Totals	46	917	19.9		0
Opponents Totals	45	925	20.6		0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Milt Graham							1
Bill Sowalski							1
Team Totals	34	25	9	28	37		2
Opponents Totals		28		25	25		0

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