1957 Winnipeg Blue Bombers (WIFU) - Pro Football Archives

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score			Location	Venue	Attendance
Thu	8/1/1957	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	0-21	L		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium
Sat	8/10/1957	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	36-6	W		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	10000
Thu	8/15/1957	H	Edmonton Eskimos	14-21	L		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	18029
Sat	8/24/1957	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	7-3	W		Regina, SK	Taylor Field	12500
Fri	8/30/1957	H	British Columbia Lions	20-14	W		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	16442
Mon	9/2/1957	A	Edmonton Eskimos	8-41	L		Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	17000
Sat	9/7/1957	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	35-29	W		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	15975
Sat	9/14/1957	A	Calgary Stampeders	40-13	W		Calgary, AB	Mewata Stadium	16000
Mon	9/16/1957	A	British Columbia Lions	41-21	W		Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	22218
Sat	9/21/1957	H	Calgary Stampeders	30-7	W		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	18322
Mon	9/30/1957	H	Edmonton Eskimos	28-27	W		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	20253
Sat	10/5/1957	A	Edmonton Eskimos	0-41	L		Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	16000
Mon	10/7/1957	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	37-3	W		Regina, SK	Taylor Field	8500
Sat	10/12/1957	H	British Columbia Lions	16-22	L		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	14700
Sat	10/19/1957	A	Calgary Stampeders	31-7	W		Calgary, AB	Mewata Stadium	10000
Mon	10/21/1957	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	27-19	W		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	14186
Mon	10/28/1957	H	Calgary Stampeders	30-13	W		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	12855
Sat	11/2/1957	A	British Columbia Lions	42-19	W		Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	17695
Western Semi-Final #1
Sat	11/9/1957	H	Calgary Stampeders	13-13	T		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	12392
Western Semi-Final #2
Mon	11/11/1957	A	Calgary Stampeders	15-3	W		Calgary, AB	Mewata Stadium	14000
Western Final #1
Sat	11/16/1957	H	Edmonton Eskimos	19-7	W		Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	13849
Western Final #2
Wed	11/20/1957	A	Edmonton Eskimos	4-5	L		Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	18000
Western Final #3
Sat	11/23/1957	A	Edmonton Eskimos	17-2	W	OT	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	20000
Grey Cup
Sat	11/30/1957	N	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	7-32	L		Toronto, ON	Varsity Stadium	27051

ROSTER
No	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
47	Walt Bilicki	C	5-10	205	21	Manitoba	13
68	Stav Canakes	OT	6-0	225	27	Minnesota	9
83	Chuck Curtis	QB	6-4	205	22	Texas Christian	2
88	Bob Davenport	FB	6-0	210	24	UCLA	2
74	Dick Donlin	E-P	6-5	210	23	Hamline	1
43	George Druxman	C	6-1	220	28	Portland	16
74	Frank Gilliam	OE-DB-LB	6-2	190	23	Iowa	10
53	Herb Gray	DE-OG	6-1	218	23	Texas	14
65	Bob Hobert	OT-LB	6-0	240	22	Minnesota	16
96	Jack Hutchinson	FB	5-11	189	25	British Columbia	14
98	Gerry James	OHB	5-10	187	23	none	16
61	Ivan Kaminski	OT	6-5	265	28	Nebraska-Kearney	10
56	Ed Kotowich	OG	5-9	225	23	none	16
87	Ron Latourelle	OHB-LB	5-8	175	23	none	16
80	Buddy Leake	OHB-S	6-0	195	24	Oklahoma	8
99	Leo Lewis	OHB	5-10	195	24	Lincoln (Missouri)	16
73	Cec Luining	C-OE	6-1	210	26	none	16
45	Pete Mangum	OB-LB	6-0	219	26	Mississippi	11
92	Bob McNamara	OHB-S	6-0	189	26	Minnesota	6
78	Ron Meadmore	OE	6-2	200	24	none	4
85	Dennis Mendyk	OHB-DB	6-0	190	22	Michigan State	4
50	John Michels	OG-LB	5-11	200	26	Tennessee	13
93	Nick Miller	OHB-DB-LB	6-1	192	26	none	12
63	Steve Patrick	OT	6-0	230	25	none	16
79	Keith Pearce	OE-DB-S	6-2	185	28	none	16
58	Cornel Piper	OG	6-1	235	20	none	16
77	Ernie Pitts	OE	6-1	192	22	Denver	16
89	Kenny Ploen	QB-S	6-1	185	22	Iowa	16
70	Norm Rauhaus	OE-DB	6-1	195	22	none	16
85	Barry Roseborough	QB	6-0	205	25	North Dakota	13
97	Gord Rowland	LB-OHB	5-9	172	27		16
62	Roger Savoie	OT	6-0	240	26	none	13
76	Dennis Shaw	OE	6-3	220	23	Trinity Valley CC; North Texas	6
91	Charlie Shepard	FB	6-2	215	24	North Texas	9
55	Bill Smitiuch	G	5-9	210	23	none	1
94	Elton Taylor	OHB-DB-LB	5-11	187	25	none	9
67	Buddy Terry	T	6-1	215	23	Houston	1
64	Buddy Tinsley	OT	6-2	245	33	Baylor	16
54	Vern Uecker	G	5-11	215	23	Texas Christian	4
71	Gerry Vincent	OE-DB-S	6-1	205	23	none	16
45	Hall Whitley	C-LB	6-2	225	22	Texas A&M-Kingsville	16
95	Gene Wlasiuk	OHB-DB	5-9	165	21	none	4

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	6	Murdy Armstrong	HB	McGill
2	15	Russ Thomas	T	Queen's
3	24	Don Killinger	E	Western Ontario
4	30	Paul Dingle	E	McGill

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Team Totals	87	105	94	120
Opponents Totals	45	99	76	80

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rushing	Passing	Penalty	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		306	216	82	8	108	932
Opponents Totals		282

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	PTS
Gerry James	19	3	4	75.0	4	5	80.0	2	131
Kenny Ploen	5	25	32	78.1	0	0		0	55
Leo Lewis	8	0	0		0	0		0	48
Ernie Pitts	5	1	1	100.0	0	0		0	31
Charlie Shepard	4	0	0		0	0		4	28
Ron Latourelle	3	0	0		0	0		0	18
Buddy Leake	0	14	18	77.8	0	2	0.0	0	14
Jack Hutchinson	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Bob McNamara	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Dennis Mendyk	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Gerry Vincent	0	0	0		0	0		9	9
Frank Gilliam	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Cec Luining	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Steve Patrick	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Norm Rauhaus	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Gord Rowland	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Dennis Shaw	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Team Totals	56	43	56	76.8	4	8	50.0	15	406
Opponents Totals	43	32	43	74.4	2	5	40.0	4	300

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Gerry James	197	1192	6.1	74	18
Leo Lewis	119	817	6.9	69	5
Charlie Shepard	60	411	6.9	29	4
Kenny Ploen	100	319	3.2	30	4
Jack Hutchinson	50	300	6.0	22	2
Buddy Leake	31	174	5.6	16	0
Nick Miller	23	146	6.3	36	0
Ron Latourelle	37	120	3.2	19	2
Dennis Mendyk	19	109	5.7	20	2
Bob Davenport	20	91	4.6	14	0
Bob McNamara	18	90	5.0	19	1
Gene Wlasiuk	2	5	2.5	4	0
Gord Rowland	1	3	3.0	3	0
Chuck Curtis	3	-14	-4.7	0	0
Barry Roseborough	5	-19	-3.8	1	0
Team Totals	685	3744	5.5		38
Opponents Totals	566	2643	4.7		28

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	RTG
Kenny Ploen	140	74	52.9	58	1284	9.2	17.4	71	10	7.1	8	5.7	84.3
Barry Roseborough	31	17	54.8	10	236	7.6	13.9	36	2	6.5	4	12.9	61.4
Chuck Curtis	18	8	44.4	8	99	5.5	12.4	22	0	0.0	2	11.1	22.5
Buddy Leake	10	5	50.0	4	89	8.9	17.8	27	1	10.0	1	10.0	74.6
Leo Lewis	3	2	66.7	1	60	20.0	30.0	38	0	0.0	0	0.0	109.7
Dennis Mendyk	1	1	100.0	0	34	34.0	34.0	34t	1	100.0	0	0.0	158.3
Gerry Vincent	1	1	100.0	0	12	12.0	12.0	12	0	0.0	0	0.0	116.7
Team Totals	204	108	52.9	81	1814	8.9	16.8		14	6.9	15	7.4	75.5
Opponents Totals	306	148	48.4	138	2332	7.6	15.8		14	4.6	20	6.5	62.2

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Ernie Pitts	38	683	18.0	51	5
Leo Lewis	13	261	20.1	54	3
Frank Gilliam	13	220	16.9	31	1
Gerry James	12	190	15.8	32	1
Ron Latourelle	6	115	19.2	32	1
Dennis Shaw	5	68	13.6	29	1
Jack Hutchinson	5	55	11.0	20	0
Norm Rauhaus	4	7	1.8	22	0
Kenny Ploen	3	58	19.3	27	1
Bob McNamara	3	19	6.3	15	0
Dennis Mendyk	2	47	23.5	38	0
Gord Rowland	1	15	15.0	15t	1
Buddy Leake	1	11	11.0	11	0
Keith Pearce	1	11	11.0	11	0
Bob Davenport	1	-9	-9.0	-9	0
Team Totals	108	1814	16.8		14
Opponents Totals	148	2332	15.8		14

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Kenny Ploen	3	39	13.0	25	0
Bob Hobert	3	24	8.0	10	0
Gord Rowland	3	15	5.0	9	0
Norm Rauhaus	3	7	2.3	7	0
Keith Pearce	2	5	2.5	5	0
Bob McNamara	1	74	74.0	74t	1
Elton Taylor	1	19	19.0	19	0
Hall Whitley	1	15	15.0	15	0
Gerry Vincent	1	14	14.0	14	0
Pete Mangum	1	0	0.0	0	0
Ernie Pitts	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	20	212	10.6		1
Opponents Totals	15	172	11.5		1

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	S
Gerry Vincent	101	4025	39.9	65	1	-
Charlie Shepard	28	1152	41.1	92	2	-
Gerry James	1	40	40.0	40	0	-
Barry Roseborough	1	35	35.0	35	0	-
Team Totals	131	5232	39.9		3	-	789	4443	33.2
Opponents Totals						-	858

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Gord Rowland	54	428	7.9	52
Ron Latourelle	58	367	6.3	16
Kenny Ploen	2	28	14.0	17
Gene Wlasiuk	2	13	6.5	11
Cec Luining	1	12	12.0	12
Gerry Vincent	1	10	10.0	6
Nick Miller	1	0	0.0	0
Team Totals	119	858	7.2
Opponents Totals	119	789	6.6

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Gerry James	69	3719	53.9	77	1
Kenny Ploen	2	45	22.5	35	0
Team Totals	71	3764	53.0
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Leo Lewis	26	854	32.8	76
Gerry James	12	279	23.3	40
Ron Latourelle	5	102	20.4	24
Nick Miller	3	55	18.3	20
Kenny Ploen	1	43	43.0	43
Ernie Pitts	2	40	20.0	27
Dennis Mendyk	2	37	18.5	19
Bob McNamara	1	29	29.0	29
Keith Pearce	1	17	17.0	17
Jack Hutchinson	1	15	15.0	15
John Michels	1	15	15.0	15
Vern Uecker	1	15	15.0	15
Team Totals	56	1501	26.8
Opponents Totals	70	1525	21.8

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Chuck Curtis	2			0	0	0	0
George Druxman	1			0	0	0	0
Herb Gray	0	0	1	2	3	0	0
Bob Hobert	0	0		2	2	0	0
Jack Hutchinson	4			1	1	0	0
Gerry James	2			1	1	0	0
Ron Latourelle	2			2	2	0	0
Cec Luining	1			2	2	0	1
Pete Mangum	0	0		2	2	0	0
Dennis Mendyk	1			0	0	0	0
John Michels	0	0		1	1	0	0
Nick Miller	3			1	1	0	0
Steve Patrick	0	0		1	1	0	1
Keith Pearce	0	0		1	1	0	0
Kenny Ploen	5			2	2	30	0
Norm Rauhaus	1			1	1	30	1
Charlie Shepard	1			0	0	0	0
Gerry Vincent	0	0		1	1	0	0
Hall Whitley	0	0		1	1	0	0
Team Totals	23	18	5	21	26	33	3
Opponents Totals		21		18	18		0