1979 Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL) Scores, Roster, Stats, Coaches, Draft

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Result		Location	Venue	Attendance
Wed	6/13/1979	H	Toronto Argonauts	11-14	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	19700
Tue	6/19/1979	A	British Columbia Lions	11-16	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	17839
Tue	6/26/1979	H	Calgary Stampeders	8-23	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	17205
Tue	7/3/1979	A	Montreal Alouettes	8-21	L	Montreal, QC	Olympic Stadium	27637
Wed	7/11/1979	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	19-30	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	21674
Wed	7/18/1979	H	Toronto Argonauts	11-18	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	25104
Wed	7/25/1979	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	24-20	W	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	19759
Wed	8/1/1979	H	Montreal Alouettes	8-21	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	41232
Wed	8/8/1979	A	Toronto Argonauts	0-25	L	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	41282
Tue	8/14/1979	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	21-27	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	24660
Tue	8/21/1979	H	British Columbia Lions	16-22	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	18420
Mon	9/3/1979	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	16-9	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	19246
Sat	9/8/1979	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	4-44	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	23589
Sun	9/16/1979	H	Montreal Alouettes	14-21	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	18511
Sun	9/23/1979	H	Edmonton Eskimos	21-22	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	18186
Sat	9/29/1979	A	Toronto Argonauts	17-16	W	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	37023
Mon	10/8/1979	H	Toronto Argonauts	42-3	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	27293
Sun	10/14/1979	A	Calgary Stampeders	26-16	W	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	30925
Sun	10/21/1979	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	21-3	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	27211
Sun	11/4/1979	A	Montreal Alouettes	20-41	L	Montreal, QC	Olympic Stadium	41382
Eastern Semi-Final
Sun	11/11/1979	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	26-29	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	25540

ROSTER
Player	No	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
Steve Ackroyd	27	WR	6-1	175	23	Sheridan	5
Zenon Andrusyshyn	4	P-K	6-2	210	31	UCLA	8	0
Brock Aynsley	19	RB	6-2	190	29	Washington State	12
Bill Banks	47	LB	6-1	225	24	Penn State	9
Danny Bass	55	OT	6-2	265	25	Elon	8
Jack Blair	41	LB	6-1	192	23	none	16
Reg Boudreau	16	WB	5-10	180	23	none	3
Larry Butler	68	OG	6-3	250	27	Appalachian State	16
Lou Clare	39	LB	6-1	225	29	Minnesota	8
Ray Clark	13	DB	5-11	183	34	Simon Fraser	16
Tom Clements	2	QB	5-10	185	26	Notre Dame	8
Mark Coflin	40	C	6-0	242	23	Alberta	9
Rufus Crawford	21	RB	5-10	180	24	Virginia State	1
Linden Davidson	64	DT	6-4	253	24	Ottawa	6
Rocky DiPietro	23	TE	6-3	210	23	Ottawa	4
George Doehla		LB	6-3	227	23	Indiana	2
Larry Dorsey	20	DB	6-0	180	25	Hawaii	7
Al Dosant	33	CB	5-11	182	23	Windsor	6
Bart Evans	54	OG	6-2	240	27	Manitoba	10
Ed George	65	OT	6-4	270	33	Ferrum JC; Wake Forest	16
Randy Graham	14	DB	6-0	180	25	Simon Fraser	16
Dexter Green	24	RB	5-9	172	22	Iowa State	2
Randy Halsall	67	DT	6-3	255	30	Wake Forest	5
Bill Harrison	36	RB	6-0	198	26	Ottawa	16
Bill Hatanaka	10	WR	5-11	172	25	York	4
Jim Heighton	58	DE	6-3	252	35	none	16
Zac Henderson	34	DB	6-1	190	24	Oklahoma	16
John Holland	73	SE	6-1	190	27	Tennessee State	9
Eary Jones	62	DT	6-4	260	24	Memphis	6
Rick Kuchma		WR	6-4	197	23		2
Craig Labbett	76	TE	6-3	215	23	Western Ontario	12
Neil Lumsden	32	RB	6-1	225	27	Ottawa	16
Mark Manges		QB	6-2	210	23	Maryland	1
Dave Marler	8	QB	6-1	195	24	Mississippi College; Mississippi State	5
Willie Martin	66	OT	6-5	260	28	Northeastern State	13
John Martini	42	LB	6-2	220	25	Toronto	9
Alan Moffat	56	OT	6-4	265	27	Ottawa	16
Calvin O'Neal		LB	6-1	235	25	Michigan	1
Jesse O'Neal	79	DE	6-4	255	27	Grambling State	8
Gord Paterson	22	WR	5-11	185	29	Manitoba	4
Leif Pettersen	71	WR	6-2	183	29	Otterbein	16
Tom Poe		LB	6-0	215	27	Washington State	1
Jim Reid	21	RB	6-3	230	22	Wilfrid Laurier	8
Mike Riley	69	DT	6-4	255	25	Dalhousie	10
Glenn Robinson	60	DE	6-6	245	28	Navarro JC; Oklahoma State	11
Ronnie Rowland	26	RB	6-1	205	24	San Jose CC; Washington	13	13
Danny Sanders	16	QB	6-4	203	24	Carson-Newman	1
David Shaw	37	DB	6-0	180	26	Prairie View A&M	15
Lawrie Skolrood	77	OE	6-4	240	27	North Dakota	8
Eddie Smith	7	QB	6-0	170	23	Michigan State	16
Kerry Smith	70	WR	5-10	168	25	none	11
Mark Sullivan		DE	6-4	235	22	Ohio State	1
Ike Thomas	3	DB	6-2	193	32	Bishop	10
Harry Walters	52	LB	6-1	220	27	Maryland	4
Henry Waszczuk	50	C	6-0	230	29	Kent State	16
Charlie Weatherbie		QB	6-2	192	24	Oklahoma State	1
Angelo Wells	62	DE	6-3	265	25	Morgan State	7
Harold Woods	6	DB	5-10	177	24	Potomac State; West Virginia	16
Ben Zambiasi	31	OLB	6-1	206	23	Georgia	16

DRAFT LIST - TERRITORIAL
Player	Pos	College
John Priestner	LB	Western Ontario
Jim Reid	RB	Wilfrid Laurier

DRAFT LIST - OPEN
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
2	13	Jim O'Keefe	DB	Wilfrid Laurier
2	17	Walt Payerl	WR	Western Ontario
5	40	Mark Heidebrecht	DT	Springfield
6	49	Jack Davis	DT	Wilfrid Laurier
7	58	Pete Hepburn	DT	Wilfrid Laurier

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	PTS
Team Totals	57	93	44	86	280
Opponents Totals	115	113	52	58	338

TEAM STATS	TOP	First Downs	Rush	Pass	Pen	2nd Down Efficiency	3rd Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals		288	93	171	24	150	1221
Opponents Totals		276	113	142	21	143	1284

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	X2	X2A	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Neil Lumsden	8	7	7	100.0	0		-	8	12	66.7	5	0	84
Leif Pettersen	4	0	0		1		-	0	0		0	0	26
Brock Aynsley	4	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	24
Jack Blair	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Kerry Smith	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Zac Henderson	0	0	0		0		-	0	0		2	0	2
Zenon Andrusyshyn	0	15	16	93.8	0		-	10	20	50.0	10	0	55
Dave Marler	1	3	3	100.0	0		-	0	4	0.0	4	0	13
Rufus Crawford	2	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	12
John Holland	2	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	12
Ronnie Rowland	2	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	12
Tom Clements	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Jesse O'Neal	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Gord Paterson	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Craig Labbett	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
(Team)	0	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	2	4
Team Totals	29	25	26	96.2	1	3	18	36	50.0	21	2	280
Opponents Totals	37	34			0		22	39	56.4	14	1	338

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Ronnie Rowland	179	814	4.5	45	2
Neil Lumsden	99	438	4.4	16	5
Tom Clements	22	145	6.6	21	1
Jim Reid	26	133	5.1	15	0
Dave Marler	12	85	7.1	27	1
Rufus Crawford	8	65	8.1	21	1
Dexter Green	23	64	2.8	15	0
Eddie Smith	13	58	4.5	19	0
Bill Harrison	5	19	3.8	7	0
Mark Manges	2	16	8.0	9	0
Charlie Weatherbie	3	9	3.0	13	0
Zac Henderson	1	8	8.0	8	0
Brock Aynsley	1	-3	-3.0	-3	0
Team Totals	394	1851	4.7		10
Opponents Totals	447	2186	4.9

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	RTG
Tom Clements	211	130	61.6	74	1809	8.6	13.9	52	10	4.7	7	3.3	91.1
Eddie Smith	140	61	43.6	65	794	5.7	13.0	53	4	2.9	14	10.0	32.0
Dave Marler	89	39	43.8	41	549	6.2	14.1	32	2	2.2	9	10.1	32.2
Charlie Weatherbie	13	6	46.2	6	175	13.5	29.2	59	1	7.7	1	7.7	86.2
Zenon Andrusyshyn	1	1	100.0	0	19	19.0	19.0	19	0	0.0	0	0.0	118.8
Mark Manges	11	2	18.2	9	6	0.5	3.0	9	0	0.0	0	0.0	39.6
John Holland	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	39.6
Team Totals	466	239	51.3	196	3352	7.2	14.0		17	3.6	31	6.7	59.2
Opponents Totals	409	245	59.9	146	3131	7.7	12.8				18	4.4

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Leif Pettersen	56	838	15.0	52	4
Brock Aynsley	22	382	17.4	59	4
Neil Lumsden	21	142	6.8	21	3
Lawrie Skolrood	17	275	16.2	32	0
Kerry Smith	12	171	14.3	32	1
Bill Harrison	2	31	15.5	24	0
Steve Ackroyd	1	9	9.0	9	0
John Holland	37	582	15.7	53	2
Ronnie Rowland	35	420	12.0	56	0
Gord Paterson	13	238	18.3	37	1
Jim Reid	6	57	9.5	18	0
Rufus Crawford	5	54	10.8	31	1
Dexter Green	3	25	8.3	17	0
Harold Woods	1	19	19.0	19	0
Craig Labbett	8	109	13.6	17	1
Team Totals	239	3352	14.0		17
Opponents Totals	245	3131	12.8

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Harold Woods	5	39	7.8	35	0
Ike Thomas	3	62	20.7	51	0
David Shaw	3	61	20.3	33	0
Zac Henderson	3	3	1.0	3	0
Larry Dorsey	1	42	42.0	42	0
Ben Zambiasi	1	42	42.0	42	0
Jesse O'Neal	1	27	27.0	27t	1
Randy Graham	1	9	9.0	9	0
Team Totals	18	285	15.8		1
Opponents Totals	31	317	10.2

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Zenon Andrusyshyn	51	2205	43.2	66	4
Zac Henderson	58	2259	38.9	80	2
Dave Marler	19	812	42.7	65	1
Team Totals	128	5267	41.1
Opponents Totals	138	5718	41.4

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
David Shaw	44	421	9.6	81	0
Bill Hatanaka	16	69	4.3	17	0
John Holland	17	61	3.6	12	0
Harold Woods	9	54	6.0	12	0
Dexter Green	7	51	7.3	19	0
Leif Pettersen	4	48	12.0	18	0
Rufus Crawford	4	40	10.0	13	0
Kerry Smith	6	36	6.0	13	0
Larry Dorsey	1	10	10.0	10	0
Bill Harrison	1	8	8.0	8	0
Jack Blair	1	0	0.0	0	0
Al Dosant	1	-4	-4.0	-4	0
Team Totals	111	794	7.2		0
Opponents Totals	109	948	8.7

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Zenon Andrusyshyn	27	1686	62.4	90	0
Neil Lumsden	15	846	56.4	75	1
Dave Marler	5	268	53.6	73	0
Team Totals	47	2800	59.6
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Harold Woods	18	416	23.1	50	0
Bill Hatanaka	9	224	24.9	31	0
Ronnie Rowland	9	188	20.9	35	0
Al Dosant	6	101	16.8	23	0
John Holland	6	89	14.8	27	0
Rufus Crawford	3	69	23.0	24	0
Dexter Green	3	62	20.7	24	0
Bill Harrison	2	35	17.5	20	0
Larry Butler	2	34	17.0	18	0
Leif Pettersen	1	13	13.0	13	0
Ray Clark	1	6	6.0	6	0
Team Totals	60	1237	20.6		0
Opponents Totals	40	816	20.4

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Zenon Andrusyshyn	3	2	0	0	0	0	0
Brock Aynsley	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Banks	0	0	0	1	1	27	0
Jack Blair	0	0	0	2	2	0	1
Larry Butler	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Lou Clare	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Tom Clements	1	0	2	0	2	0	0
Rufus Crawford	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Dorsey	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Al Dosant	0	0	0	1	1	6	0
Randy Graham	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Dexter Green	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Harrison	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Jim Heighton	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Zac Henderson	1	1	0	1	1	8	0
John Holland	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Eary Jones	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Neil Lumsden	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Dave Marler	3	2	1	1	2	0	0
Jesse O'Neal	0	0	0	1	1	2	0
Leif Pettersen	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Jim Reid	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ronnie Rowland	5	5	2	0	2	0	0
David Shaw	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
Eddie Smith	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Henry Waszczuk	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Charlie Weatherbie	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Harold Woods	1	0	0	1	1	0	0
Ben Zambiasi	0	0	0	4	4	4	0
Team Totals	28	19	9	20	29	47	1
Opponents Totals		20		19	19

Jim Eddy	Defensive Coordinator/Secondary
Leland Kendall	Defensive Line
Herb Paterra	Linebackers