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1959 Toronto Argonauts (IRFU)

4th place • 4-10-0 .286

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Head Coach: Hamp Pool (2-5-0); Steve Owen (2-5-0)

Steve Owen	Assistant Coach
Joe Thomas	Line

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Result			Location	Venue	Attendance
Wed	8/5/1959	H	Chicago Cardinals	26-55	L		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	27152
Wed	8/12/1959	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	53-13	W		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	8000
Tue	8/18/1959	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	21-20	W		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	20675
Fri	8/21/1959	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	7-16	L		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	22813
Fri	8/28/1959	A	Montreal Alouettes	6-24	L		Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	23927
Mon	9/7/1959	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	3-37	L		Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	24425
Sun	9/13/1959	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	19-6	W		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	25849
Wed	9/16/1959	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	1-28	L		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	13097
Sun	9/20/1959	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	17-34	L		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	27883
Sat	9/26/1959	H	Montreal Alouettes	39-9	W		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	20035
Sat	10/3/1959	A	Montreal Alouettes	37-14	W		Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	22152
Sat	10/10/1959	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	7-13	L		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	26223
Mon	10/12/1959	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	7-20	L		Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	22068
Sat	10/17/1959	H	Montreal Alouettes	3-4	L		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	19041
Sat	10/24/1959	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	4-18	L		Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	14698
Sat	10/31/1959	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	21-31	L		Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	19465

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
Brian Aston	98	HB	5-11	186	23	Toronto	5
Pete Bennett	64	T	6-3	240	32	Toronto	14
Fred Black	53	C	6-0	220	29	none	14
Ron Brewer	87	LB	6-1	230	22	none	13
Arvyd Buntins	77	E	6-5	217	22	none	2
Donnie Caraway	50	LB	6-1	230	25	Hinds CC; Houston	9
Wray Carlton	98	HB	6-2	218	22	Duke	1
Boyd Carter	82	OHB	6-0	192	24	Santa Monica JC	13
John Casey	65	T	6-1	210	24	Toronto	13
Dick Clark	81	HB	6-2	205	22	Baylor	3
Morgan Clark	78	DE	6-0	230	23	Western Ontario	7
Larry Cowart	41	C	6-4	235	23	Baylor	8
Ross Coyle	72	E-DB	6-2	195	22	Oklahoma	13
Bob Day	68	E	6-2	218	22	none	10
Bob Dehlinger	94	DB	6-0	185	22	Idaho	12
Al Dorow	97	QB	6-0	193	30	Michigan State	7
Gerry Doucette	86	QB	6-0	187	25	none	14
Clare Exelby	93	HB	5-11	185	21	none	2
Dick Fouts	69	E	6-6	233	25	Missouri	14
Cookie Gilchrist	85	HB-LB	6-3	249	24	none	14
Bill Graham	58	MG-OG	6-0	224	22	none	5
Johnny Green	91	QB	6-3	203	22	Tennessee-Chattanooga	2
Charley Horton	57	MG-OG	6-2	232	23	Baylor	6
Ronnie Kissel	61	T	6-2	235	23	Pittsburgh	1
Ronnie Knox	92	QB	6-1	198	24	California; UCLA	5
Bobby Kuntz	95	OHB	5-11	178	27	McMaster	14
Santo Martini	63	T-E	6-3	225	24	Toronto	11
Phil Muntz	99	HB-LB	5-9	190	25	Toronto	13
Hal Newton	78	DE	6-2	212	26	none	2
Danny Nykoluk	60	T	6-3	248	25	none	14
Ed Ochiena	70	OE-DB	6-2	186	21	Waterloo Lutheran	10
Pete O'Garro	73	E	6-4	210	28	Riverside CC; UCLA	1
Bobby Jack Oliver	62	DT	6-2	242	23	Baylor	14
Gerry Philp	89	HB	6-0	195	27	Fullerton JC; Florida State	14
Alex Ponton	80	HB	6-1	205	28	McMaster	13
Butch Rogers	96	HB-LB	6-1	202	26	McMaster	13
Jim Rountree	84	CB	5-10	193	23	Florida	13
Art Schlosser	71	E-HB	6-3	215	21	none	5
Dick Shatto	88	OHB	6-2	196	26	Kentucky	14
Eddie Simms	90	HB	5-11	190	25	none	1
Ron Stover	79	OE	6-3	205	22	Oregon	14
Corky Tharp	83	OHB	5-10	180	28	Alabama	4
Cleve Wester	67	G	6-2	230	23	Auburn	13

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	1	Larry Stacey	DE	Toronto
2	10	Doug Lougheed	E	Toronto

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	PTS
Team Totals	24	58	50	60	192
Opponents Totals	63	87	52	72	274

TEAM STATS	TOP	First Downs	Rush	Pass	Pen	2nd Down Efficiency	3rd Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals		250	119	118	13	91	802
Opponents Totals		308	148	142	18	85	760

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Cookie Gilchrist	5	16	24	66.7	-	-	-	9	14	64.3	2	0	75
Dick Shatto	5	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	30
Boyd Carter	4	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	24
Art Schlosser	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	6
Corky Tharp	1	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	6
Gerry Doucette	0	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		1	0	1
Ronnie Knox	0	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		1	0	1
Ross Coyle	4	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	24
Al Dorow	2	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	12
Ron Stover	2	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		0	0	12
Wray Carlton	0	0	0		-	-	-	0	0		1	0	1
Team Totals	24	16	24	66.7	9	14	64.3	5	0	192
Opponents Totals	34	29	34	85.3	8	19	42.1	12	2	274

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Dick Shatto	174	950	5.5	45	3
Cookie Gilchrist	87	496	5.7	69	4
Bobby Kuntz	47	260	5.5	32	0
Corky Tharp	41	241	5.9	29	0
Al Dorow	27	173	6.4	24	2
Phil Muntz	28	99	3.5	15	0
Ronnie Knox	14	49	3.5	15	0
Jim Rountree	4	17	4.3	11	0
Wray Carlton	9	5	0.6	9	0
Gerry Doucette	4	3	0.8	2	0
Johnny Green	4	-2	-0.5	3	0
Boyd Carter	0	-3		-3L	0
Team Totals	439	2288	5.2		9
Opponents Totals	531	2704	5.1		18

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Al Dorow	151	74	49.0	60	1093	7.2	14.8	72	8	5.3	17	11.3	9	79	1014	51.2
Ronnie Knox	110	58	52.7	41	753	6.8	13.0	47	4	3.6	11	10.0	7	88	665	47.1
Gerry Doucette	54	27	50.0	24	371	6.9	13.7	32	2	3.7	3	5.6	1	9	362	61.6
Dick Shatto	18	8	44.4	10	127	7.1	15.9	38	1	5.6	0	0.0	0	0	127	87.0
Johnny Green	20	8	40.0	9	62	3.1	7.8	27	0	0.0	3	15.0	3	31	31	8.8
Team Totals	353	175	49.6	144	2406	6.8	13.7		15	4.2	34	9.6		207	2199	46.4
Opponents Totals	345	200	58.0	116	2943	8.5	14.7		12	3.5	29	8.4		81	2862	62.5

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Dick Shatto	46	518	11.3	72	2
Boyd Carter	31	510	16.5	38	4
Bobby Kuntz	20	236	11.8	21	0
Gerry Philp	8	127	15.9	47	0
Dick Fouts	7	90	12.9	19	0
Corky Tharp	6	76	12.7	35	1
Art Schlosser	5	94	18.8	40	1
Cookie Gilchrist	5	70	14.0	38	1
Ed Ochiena	4	49	12.3	18	0
Phil Muntz	3	26	8.7	20	0
Ron Brewer	2	20	10.0	12	0
Jim Rountree	1	7	7.0	7	0
Ron Stover	23	388	16.9	51	2
Ross Coyle	12	176	14.7	63	4
Wray Carlton	2	19	9.5	11	0
Team Totals	175	2406	13.7		15
Opponents Totals	200	2943	14.7		12

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bob Dehlinger	6	81	13.5	27	0
Ross Coyle	5	8	1.6	6	0
Cookie Gilchrist	4	66	16.5	32	0
Jim Rountree	4	8	2.0	8	0
Donnie Caraway	3	18	6.0	14	0
Gerry Philp	3	18	6.0	18	0
Eddie Simms	1	17	17.0	17	0
Butch Rogers	1	9	9.0	9	0
Dick Fouts	1	0	0.0	0	0
Alex Ponton	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	29	225	7.8		0
Opponents Totals	34	395	11.6		0

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	S
Ronnie Knox	45	1826	40.6	58	1	1
Al Dorow	59	2181	37.0	51	0	0
Dick Shatto	1	43	43.0	43	0	0
Johnny Green	12	460	38.3	43	0	0
Gerry Doucette	9	343	38.1	49	0	1
Team Totals	126	4853	38.5
Opponents Totals	116	4780	41.2

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Gerry Philp	36	282	7.8	17	0
Phil Muntz	34	188	5.5	22	0
Jim Rountree	13	159	12.2	26	0
Brian Aston	18	130	7.2	15	0
Bob Dehlinger	9	67	7.4	36	0
Eddie Simms	2	15	7.5	13	0
Dick Clark	1	14	14.0	14	0
Dick Shatto	1	8	8.0	8	0
Ross Coyle	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	115	863	7.5		0
Opponents Totals	120	851	7.1		2

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Cookie Gilchrist	40	2105	52.6	69	0
Team Totals	40	2105	52.6
Opponents Totals	46	2259	49.1

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Jim Rountree	16	433	27.1	40	0
Bob Dehlinger	15	327	21.8	46	0
Cleve Wester	7	74	10.6	23	0
Corky Tharp	3	64	21.3	27	0
Dick Shatto	3	40	13.3	20	0
Alex Ponton	1	4	4.0	4	0
Charley Horton	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	46	942	20.5		0
Opponents Totals	40	618	15.5		0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Team Totals	26	18	8	19	27		0
Opponents Totals		19		18	18		2

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