1961 Montreal Alouettes (CFL) - Pro Football Archives

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Tue	7/25/1961	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	19-28	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	15397
Mon	7/31/1961	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	16-25	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	17635
Sat	8/5/1961	H	Chicago Bears	16-34	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	16293
Fri	8/11/1961	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	15-21	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	18059
Sat	8/19/1961	A	Edmonton Eskimos	0-33	L	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	17000
Mon	8/21/1961	A	British Columbia Lions	7-7	T	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	26863
Fri	8/25/1961	H	Toronto Argonauts	10-15	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	18522
Sat	9/2/1961	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	24-25	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	16009
Fri	9/8/1961	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	15-16	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	18943
Sat	9/16/1961	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	26-12	W	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	19190
Sat	9/23/1961	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	28-7	W	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	25291
Mon	10/2/1961	H	Calgary Stampeders	2-6	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	19028
Sat	10/7/1961	H	Toronto Argonauts	27-33	L	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	19075
Sat	10/14/1961	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	24-14	W	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	18589
Sun	10/22/1961	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	5-15	L	Hamilton, ON	Civic Stadium	22723
Sun	10/29/1961	A	Toronto Argonauts	9-15	L	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	23316
Sat	11/4/1961	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	21-6	W	Montreal, QC	McGill Stadium	16199

ROSTER
No	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
	Don Allard	QB	6-0	189	25	Boston College	2
	Charlie Baillie	HB	6-0	208	26		3
69	Ray Baillie	DT-MG	6-0	275	26	none	5
79	Gino Berretta	P	6-1	208	19	none	8	0
13	Bill Bewley	OHB-K	5-11	190	30	Toronto	14
10	Ron Brewer	LB	6-1	230	24	none	13
53	Ron Brooks	OG	5-11	230	24	Miami (Ohio)	7
71	Ross Buckle	OE	6-0	200	25	none	10
32	Howie Cissell	FB	6-1	185	25	Arkansas State	12
21	Don Clark	OHB	6-0	190	25	Ohio State	14
16	Dick Cohee	OHB	6-1	190	22	New Mexico State; Reedley JC	8
37	John Conroy	LB	6-1	190	22	Mount San Antonio JC	14
47	Milt Crain	OT-C	6-5	245	24	Mississippi	12
	George Deiderich	G	6-1	213	25	Vanderbilt	3
28	George Dixon	OHB	6-1	195	28	Arnold; Bridgeport	11
33	Gerry Doucette	QB	6-0	187	27	none	11
67	Ted Elsby	DT	5-11	225	29	none	4
15	Jack Espenship	LB-OHB	6-1	200	22	Florida State	13
77	Paul Fedor	E	6-2	196	27	Queen's	5
26	Joe Francis	QB	6-1	195	25	Oregon State	3
25	Gene Gaines	HB	5-11	185	23	East Los Angeles JC; UCLA	10
	Jock Hannabach	DB	5-10	165	23	Wyoming	1
19	Barrie Hansen	DB	5-10	180	20	Los Angeles Pierce JC	14
57	Mike Kovac	OG	5-10	195	31	Western Ontario	13
52	Hal Krebs	G	6-0	225	24	none	14
17	Ed Learn	DB	6-0	175	26	none	12
65	Bob LeBlanc	T	6-1	225	25	Boston College	10
68	Billy Ray Locklin	DE-MG	6-2	222	24	New Mexico State	11
72	Marv Luster	OE-DE	6-1	195	24	Los Angeles CC; UCLA	14
70	Ed Meadows	DE	6-2	221	29	Duke	3
77	Tom Moran	E	6-1	193	29		4
64	Ron Murphy	OT	6-2	215	29	McGill	9
61	Ed Nickla	T	6-3	240	28	Tennessee; Maryland	13
63	Bobby Jack Oliver	DT	6-2	242	25	Baylor	14
51	Don Paquette	DE-OG	5-11	225	22	none	14
12	Meco Poliziani	OHB-LB	6-0	187	24	Western Ontario	11
62	John Raulick	T	6-0	230	25	none	14
	Bob Sawyer	HB	6-1	208	24	Wake Forest; Wyoming	1
54	Dick Schnell	DE-DT-OT-LB	6-3	225	22	Wyoming	11
54	Jacki Simpson	G	6-0	225	25	Mississippi	1
41	Joe Stracina	C	5-11	225	31		14
25	Jerry Thompkins	QB	6-2	207	24	Del Mar JC; Texas A&M-Kingsville	8
39	Billy Wayte	DB	5-10	185	23	Fresno State	13
37	Nelson Yarbrough	QB	6-2	190	25	Virginia	4

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
2	8	Wayne Neal	G	Western Ontario
3	13	Milt Jewell	G	Toronto
4	17	Bob McAleese	HB	Queen's
5	21	Al Braekvelt	G	McGill
6	24	Ed Rush	HB	Toronto

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT
Team Totals	57	59	39	58
Opponents Totals	38	82	46	59

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rush	Pass	Pen	3RD DOWN	Att	Pct	4TH DOWN	Att	Pct	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		230	142	73	15	79	502
Opponents Totals		252	140	98	14	72	592

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
George Dixon	8	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	48
Don Clark	7	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	42
Bill Bewley	0	18	23	78.3			-	5	12	41.7	3	0	36
Bobby Jack Oliver	0	2	3	66.7			-	4	4	100.0	0	0	14
Ross Buckle	2	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	12
Marv Luster	2	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	12
Jerry Thompkins	2	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	12
Nelson Yarbrough	2	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	12
Jack Espenship	1	0	0				-	0	0		4	0	10
Billy Ray Locklin	1	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	6
Meco Poliziani	1	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	6
Gino Berretta	0	0	0				-	0	0		3	0	3
Team Totals	26	20	26	76.9	9	16	56.3	10	0	213
Opponents Totals	26	20	26	76.9	12	21	57.1	13	0	225

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Don Clark	200	1143	5.7	106	5
George Dixon	138	806	5.8	50	7
Jerry Thompkins	72	361	5.0	19	2
Dick Cohee	29	203	7.0	39	0
Nelson Yarbrough	26	107	4.1	17	2
Don Allard	8	46	5.8	19	0
Bill Bewley	11	33	3.0	7	0
Meco Poliziani	4	23	5.8	18	1
Jack Espenship	8	20	2.5	6	0
Howie Cissell	3	17	5.7	11	0
Joe Francis	1	1	1.0	1	0
Marv Luster	4	-11	-2.8	5	0
Team Totals	504	2749	5.5		17
Opponents Totals	479	2738	5.7		11

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Jerry Thompkins	113	55	55	43	1163	10.3	21.1	94	6	5.3	15	13.3	8	62	1101	63.6
Nelson Yarbrough	64	37	37	23	371	5.8	10.0	28	0	0.0	4	6.3	4	40	331	48.4
Don Allard	42	16	16	23	196	4.7	12.3	36	2	4.8	3	7.1	2	21	175	39.4
Joe Francis	11	3	3	8	28	2.5	9.3	13	0	0.0	0	0.0	3	24	4	39.6
Jack Espenship	1	1	1	0	20	20.0	20.0	20	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	20	118.8
Gerry Doucette	7	3	3	4	7	1.0	2.3	8	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	10	-3	50.3
Howie Cissell	1	0	0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0	39.6
Don Clark	2	0	0	0	0	0.0			0	0.0	2	100.0	0	0	0	0.0
Team Totals	241	115	47.7	102	1785	7.4	15.5		8	3.3	24	10.0		157	1628	44.2
Opponents Totals	277	135	48.7	127	2023	7.3	15.0		12	4.3	15	5.4		252	1771	65.0

Leo Cahill	Assistant Coach
Jack Jacobs	Assistant Coach

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Marv Luster	31	539	17.4	84	2
Don Clark	22	378	17.2	85	2
George Dixon	15	211	14.1	49	1
Meco Poliziani	15	122	8.1	15	0
Bill Bewley	12	112	9.3	17	0
Jack Espenship	10	181	18.1	51	1
Ross Buckle	5	197	39.4	94	2
Dick Cohee	3	25	8.3	13	0
Howie Cissell	2	20	10.0	11	0
Team Totals	115	1785	15.5		8
Opponents Totals	135	2023	15.0		12

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
John Conroy	3	7	2.3	7	0
Billy Wayte	2	48	24.0	48	0
Barrie Hansen	2	41	20.5	24	0
Howie Cissell	2	30	15.0	30	0
Ed Learn	2	27	13.5	26	0
Gene Gaines	2	8	4.0	8	0
Marv Luster	1	10	10.0	10	0
Ed Nickla	1	5	5.0	5	0
Team Totals	15	176	11.7		0
Opponents Totals	24	323	13.5		1

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	S
Gino Berretta	74	2982	40.3	60	1	-
Jack Espenship	54	2160	40.0	70	0	-
Gene Gaines	1	47	47.0	47	0	-
Gerry Doucette	2	45	22.5	29	0	-
Team Totals	131	5234	40.0		1	-	524	4710	35.7
Opponents Totals	127	5616	44.2			-	783	4833	38.1

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Bobby Jack Oliver	39	2061	52.8	66	0
Bill Bewley	2	108	54.0	57	0
Team Totals	41	2169	52.9
Opponents Totals	39	2034	52.2

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
George Dixon	9	243	27.0	36
Marv Luster	12	221	18.4	36
Don Clark	8	181	22.6	38
Dick Cohee	5	64	12.8	22
Meco Poliziani	4	54	13.5	23
Jack Espenship	1	13	13.0	13
Team Totals	39	776	19.9
Opponents Totals	40	820	20.5