1997 Edmonton Eskimos (CFL) Scores, Roster, Stats, Coaches, Draft

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Sun	6/8/1997	A	British Columbia Lions	15-32	L	Vancouver, BC	B.C. Place Stadium	10284
Thu	6/19/1997	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	18-17	W	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	32291
Wed	6/25/1997	A	Calgary Stampeders	23-22	W	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	24868
Fri	7/4/1997	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	24-18	W	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	25751
Thu	7/10/1997	H	British Columbia Lions	31-41	L	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	26010
Thu	7/17/1997	H	Montreal Alouettes	32-0	W	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	27811
Thu	7/24/1997	A	Montreal Alouettes	34-24	W	Montreal, QC	Olympic Stadium	10025
Thu	7/31/1997	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	37-34	W	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	30917
Thu	8/7/1997	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	45-11	W	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	29293
Thu	8/14/1997	A	Toronto Argonauts	14-38	L	Toronto, ON	SkyDome	18301
Thu	8/21/1997	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	28-24	W	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	27960
Mon	9/1/1997	A	Calgary Stampeders	14-27	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	37611
Fri	9/5/1997	H	Calgary Stampeders	24-20	W	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	43913
Sat	9/13/1997	A	British Columbia Lions	1-27	L	Vancouver, BC	B.C. Place Stadium	25088
Sat	9/20/1997	H	Toronto Argonauts	24-25	L	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	38619
Sun	9/28/1997	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	15-29	L	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	29361
Sun	10/5/1997	H	Calgary Stampeders	42-32	W	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	31572
Sun	10/12/1997	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	20-2	W	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	18524
Sun	10/19/1997	H	British Columbia Lions	41-7	W	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	31958
Sat	10/25/1997	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	30-19	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	16110
Western Final
Sun	11/9/1997	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	30-31	L	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	38258

ROSTER
Player	No	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
Derrick Beatty	17	DB	5-8	175	24	Weber State	16
Don Blair	20	SB	6-0	195	25	Calgary	17
Eric Blount	35	RB	5-9	192	27	North Carolina	17
Leroy Blugh	89	LB	6-2	230	31	Bishop's	18
Andre Bolduc	12	SB	6-0	200	26	Concordia (Quebec)	9
Eddie Brown	4	WR	5-11	175	31	Dodge City CC; Iowa State	13
Trent Brown	28	DB	5-11	190	31	Alberta	17
Tony Burse	34	FB	6-0	220	32	Middle Tennessee State	13
Rod Connop	67	C	6-6	245	38	Wilfrid Laurier	18
Marcus Crandell	9	QB	5-11	200	23	East Carolina	4
Patrice Denis	37	LB	6-2	230	25	Western Ontario	18
Bruce Dickson	36	LB	6-2	225	30	Simon Fraser	18
Sean Fleming	11	K-P	6-3	190	27	Wyoming	18	0
Darren Flutie	82	SB	5-10	184	31	Boston College	17
Malcolm Frank	10	CB	5-8	182	29	Baylor	16
Ian Franklin	7	CB	6-4	200	27	Weber State	10
Bennie Goods	40	DT	6-3	255	29	Alcorn State	14
Bob Gordon	84	WR	5-10	185	29	Nebraska-Omaha	18
Leo Groenewegen	59	OG	6-5	265	32	British Columbia	18
Jay Hamilton	29	RB	6-0	200	24	Alberta	11
Chris Hardy	8	S	5-11	180	25	Manitoba	8
Tommy Henry	13	DB	6-1	175	28	Florida State	18
Malvin Hunter	46	DE	6-3	230	28	Wisconsin	18
Jimmy Kemp	15	QB	6-1	194	26	Wake Forest	18
Derek MacCready	79	DT	6-5	265	30	Waldorf JC; Ohio State	18
Errol Martin	38	LB	6-2	210	29	Utah	18
Danny McManus	14	QB	6-0	200	32	Florida State	15
Maurice Miller	45	LB	6-3	230	28	Wake Forest	11
Chris Morris	60	OT	6-5	285	29	Toronto	18
Shannon Myers	88	WR	6-0	171	24	Lenoir-Rhyne	5
Reggie Pleasant	6	CB	5-10	175	35	Clemson	7
Willie Pless	39	LB	5-10	215	33	Kansas	18
Tom Rayam	55	OL	6-7	290	29	Alabama	17
Kavis Reed	24	CB	6-0	175	24	Furman	18
Jed Roberts	43	LB	6-2	230	30	Northern Colorado	18
Glenn Rogers	26	DH	6-0	185	28	Memphis	18
Mike Sellers	33	LB-FB	6-3	270	22	Walla Walla CC	16
Derek Sholdice	62	OL	6-4	290	25	Northern Illinois	15
Vic Stevenson	63	OT	6-4	255	37	Calgary	18	5
Marc Tobert	31	SB	5-11	190	26	Alberta	17
Mark Verbeek	51	OL	6-5	258	25	St. Francis Xavier	18
Henry Williams	2	WR	5-6	181	35	Northwest Mississippi CC; East Carolina	18

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	3	Ian Franklin	CB	Weber State
1	8	Mark Verbeek	OL	St. Francis Xavier
2	16	Patrice Denis	LB	Western Ontario
4	32	David Heasman	OL	Northern Arizona
5	40	O.J. Santiago	TE	Kent State
6	47	Chris Hardy	QB	Manitoba

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT	PTS
Team Totals	98	126	95	159	10	479
Opponents Totals	90	139	92	79	400

TEAM STATS	TOP	First Downs	Rush	Pass	Pen	2nd Down Efficiency	3rd Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals		365	88	241	36	142	1170
Opponents Totals		368	134	209	25

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	X2	X2A	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Sean Fleming	0	41	41	100.0	0		0	41	56	73.2	23	0	187
Tony Burse	13	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	0	78
Darren Flutie	9	0	0		2		0	0	0		0	0	58
Bob Gordon	7	0	0		1		0	0	0		0	0	44
Eddie Brown	4	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	0	24
Don Blair	3	0	0		1		0	0	0		0	0	20
Shannon Myers	2	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	0	12
Willie Pless	2	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	0	12
Kavis Reed	2	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	0	12
Henry Williams	2	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	0	12
Danny McManus	1	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	0	6
Mike Sellers	1	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	0	6
(Team)	0	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	4	8
Team Totals	46	41	41	100.0	4	5	41	56	73.2	23	4	479
Opponents Totals	39	35	35	100.0	3	4	36			13	2	400

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Eric Blount	177	672	3.8	24	0
Tony Burse	80	254	3.2	26	13
Jimmy Kemp	20	147	7.4	17	0
Mike Sellers	40	133	3.3	11	1
Darren Flutie	1	35	35.0	35	0
Danny McManus	12	24	2.0	12	1
Sean Fleming	1	22	22.0	22	0
Marcus Crandell	2	18	9.0	25	0
Andre Bolduc	6	17	2.8	9	0
Henry Williams	5	10	2.0	5	0
Bob Gordon	4	7	1.8	8	0
Willie Pless	4	2	0.5	1t	1
Team Totals	352	1341	3.8		16
Opponents Totals	413	2178	5.3		12

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	RTG
Danny McManus	488	293	293	176	4099	8.4	14.0	71	22	4.5	19	3.9	13	85.9
Jimmy Kemp	150	80	80	61	1175	7.8	14.7	69	3	2.0	9	6.0		60.8
Marcus Crandell	13	5	5	7	71	5.5	14.2	33	1	7.7	1	7.7	1	50.5
Sean Fleming	3	2	2	1	59	19.7	29.5	32	1	33.3	0	0.0		149.3
Eric Blount	1	1	1	0	10	10.0	10.0	10	0	0.0	0	0.0		108.3
Team Totals	655	381	58.2	245	5414	8.3	14.2		27	4.1	29	4.4	34	80.3
Opponents Totals	590	345	58.5	218	4494	7.6	13.0		25	4.2	27	4.6	47	77.6

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Darren Flutie	90	1313	14.6	51	9
Bob Gordon	71	1073	15.1	39	7
Eddie Brown	54	822	15.2	71	4
Eric Blount	44	365	8.3	31	0
Don Blair	36	623	17.3	47	3
Tony Burse	29	309	10.7	27	0
Marc Tobert	22	276	12.5	38	0
Shannon Myers	15	298	19.9	69	2
Henry Williams	8	126	15.8	38	1
Mike Sellers	5	57	11.4	21	0
Andre Bolduc	2	52	26.0	41	0
Kavis Reed	1	32	32.0	32	0
Chris Hardy	1	27	27.0	27	0
Sean Fleming	1	25	25.0	25	0
Willie Pless	1	12	12.0	12t	1
Team Totals	381	5383	14.1		27
Opponents Totals	345	4494	13.0		25

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Kavis Reed	7	183	26.1	59	2
Glenn Rogers	6	94	15.7	34	0
Tommy Henry	5	100	20.0	45	0
Willie Pless	3	55	18.3	28	0
Trent Brown	1	31	31.0	31	0
Malcolm Frank	1	17	17.0	17	0
Mike Sellers	1	8	8.0	8	0
Derrick Beatty	1	4	4.0	4	0
Ian Franklin	1	4	4.0	4	0
Malvin Hunter	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	27	496	18.4		2
Opponents Totals	29

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	RYDS	NYDS	NET
Sean Fleming	115	4667	40.6	91	0	-		504
Team Totals	115	4667	40.6			-
Opponents Totals						-	1064

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Henry Williams	84	821	9.8	72	1
Don Blair	18	221	12.3	56	0
Bob Gordon	2	13	6.5	11	0
Eric Blount	1	9	9.0	9	0
Team Totals	105	1064	10.1		1
Opponents Totals

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Sean Fleming	78	4751	60.9	87	3
Team Totals	78	4751	60.9
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Henry Williams	52	1105	21.3	42	0
Eric Blount	13	200	15.4	36	0
Jed Roberts	2	20	10.0	12	0
Bob Gordon	1	18	18.0	18	0
Bennie Goods	1	14	14.0	14	0
Mike Sellers	1	14	14.0	14	0
Malvin Hunter	1	3	3.0	3	0
Team Totals	72	1374	19.1		0
Opponents Totals

SACKS	NO	YDS
Malvin Hunter	9.0	49.0
Leroy Blugh	7.0	64.0
Willie Pless	7.0	20.0
Derek MacCready	5.0	32.0
Bennie Goods	4.0	38.0
Errol Martin	4.0	35.0
Jed Roberts	3.0	9.0
Bruce Dickson	3.0	7.0
Maurice Miller	2.0	19.0
Tommy Henry	2.0	4.0
Derrick Beatty	1.0	3.0
Mike Sellers	1.0	1.0
Team Totals	47.0
Opponents Totals	34.0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Derrick Beatty	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Don Blair	2	2	2	1	1	0	0
Eric Blount	3	2	1	0	1	0	0
Leroy Blugh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andre Bolduc	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
Eddie Brown	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Trent Brown	0	0	0	2	2	11	0
Tony Burse	5	3	1	1	2	0	0
Marcus Crandell	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bruce Dickson	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Sean Fleming	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Darren Flutie	4	3	0	0	0	0	0
Malcolm Frank	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Bennie Goods	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Bob Gordon	1	1	1	0	1	0	0
Tommy Henry	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malvin Hunter	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Jimmy Kemp	4	2	1	0	1	0	0
Derek MacCready	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Errol Martin	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Danny McManus	2	0	2	0	2	0	0
Maurice Miller	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Morris	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Shannon Myers	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Willie Pless	1	1	1	1	2	3	0
Mike Sellers	1	1	0	1	1	43	0
Mark Verbeek	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Henry Williams	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team Totals	32	20	12	14	26	77	0
Opponents Totals		14		20	20

DEFENSE	TKL	DT	STT	FF	TFL	BL
Willie Pless	116	116	-	116	0	-	1	5	3
Bruce Dickson	68	68	-	65	3	-	0	3	1
Derrick Beatty	61	61	-	55	6	-	5	0	1
Tommy Henry	55	55	-	52	3	-	8	1	2
Kavis Reed	55	55	-	52	3	-	10	1
Malcolm Frank	47	47	-	45	2	-	0	0	1
Trent Brown	47	47	-	42	5	-	2	0	1
Glenn Rogers tfl=bc	46	46	-	44	2	-	4	2
Malvin Hunter	41	41	-	41	0	-	0	2	2
Derek MacCready	39	39	-	39	0	-	0	3	1
Bennie Goods	29	29	-	29	0	-	0	5	0
Maurice Miller	28	28	-	11	17	-	0	1	1
Mike Sellers	27	27	-	10	17	-	1	0	1
Leroy Blugh	26	26	-	26	0	-	0	2	1
Jed Roberts	25	25	-	11	14	-	0	1
Errol Martin	23	23	-	13	10	-	0	0	1
Mark Verbeek	21	21	-	2	19	-	0	0	0
Patrice Denis	20	20	-	7	13	-	0	0
Reggie Pleasant	17	17	-	17	0	-	0	0
Tony Burse	10	10	-	1	9	-	0	0	0
Marc Tobert	9	9	-	2	7	-	0	0
Andre Bolduc	7	7	-	1	6	-	0	0	0
Jay Hamilton	7	7	-	1	6	-	0	0
Darren Flutie	4	4	-	4	0	-	0	0	0
Bob Gordon	4	4	-	4	0	-	0	0	0
Ian Franklin	4	4	-	3	1	-	0	0
Don Blair	4	4	-	2	2	-	0	0	0
Chris Hardy	3	3	-	2	1	-	0	0
Sean Fleming	3	3	-	0	3	-	0	0	0
Eric Blount	2	2	-	2	0	-	0	0	0
Eddie Brown	2	2	-	2	0	-	0	0	0
Leo Groenewegen	2	2	-	2	0	-	0	0
Derek Sholdice	2	2	-	2	0	-	0	0
Tom Rayam	2	2	-	1	1	-	0	0
Danny McManus	1	1	-	1	0	-	0	0	0
Shannon Myers	1	1	-	1	0	-	0	0	0
Henry Williams	1	1	-	1	0	-	0	0	0
Rod Connop	1	1	-	1	0	-	0	0
Marcus Crandell	0	0	-	0	0	-	0	0	0
Jimmy Kemp	0	0	-	0	0	-	0	0	0
Chris Morris	0	0	-	0	0	-	0	0	0
Vic Stevenson	0	0	-	0	0	-	0	0
Team Totals
Opponents Totals

Gary Durchik	Offensive Line
Scott Fawcett	Special Teams
Jim Hilles	Defensive Front
R.D. Lancaster	Offensive Coordinator
Brad Miller	Defensive Coordinator