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1959 Toronto Argonauts (IRFU)

4th place 4-10-0 .286

1959 CFL • Previous Season • Next Season • Roster Key • Stat Key

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

Steve Owen	Assistant Coach
Joe Thomas	Line

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score			Location	Venue	Attendance	Notes
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	Landsdowne 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	Landsdowne 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	Landsdowne 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
No	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
98	Brian Aston	HB	5-11	186	23	Toronto	5
64	Pete Bennett	T	6-3	240	32	Toronto	14
53	Fred Black	C	6-0	220	29	none	14
87	Ron Brewer	LB	6-1	230	22	none	13
77	Arvyd Buntins	E	6-5	217	22	none	2
50	Donnie Caraway	LB	6-1	230	25	Hinds CC; Houston	9
98	Wray Carlton	HB	6-2	218	22	Duke	1
82	Boyd Carter	OHB	6-0	192	24	Santa Monica JC	13
65	John Casey	T	6-1	210	24	Toronto	13
81	Dick Clark	HB	6-2	205	22	Baylor	3
78	Morgan Clark	DE	6-0	230	23	Western Ontario	7
41	Larry Cowart	C	6-4	235	23	Baylor	8
72	Ross Coyle	E-DB	6-2	195	22	Oklahoma	13
68	Bob Day	E	6-2	218	22	none	10
94	Bob Dehlinger	DB	6-0	185	22	Idaho	12
97	Al Dorow	QB	6-0	193	30	Michigan State	7
86	Gerry Doucette	QB	6-0	187	25	none	14
93	Clare Exelby	HB	5-11	185	21	none	2
69	Dick Fouts	E	6-6	233	25	Missouri	14
85	Cookie Gilchrist	HB-LB	6-3	249	24	none	14
58	Bill Graham	MG-OG	6-0	224	22	none	5
91	Johnny Green	QB	6-3	203	22	Tennessee-Chattanooga	2
57	Charley Horton	MG-OG	6-2	232	23	Baylor	6
61	Ronnie Kissel	T	6-2	235	23	Pittsburgh	1
92	Ronnie Knox	QB	6-1	198	24	California; UCLA	5
95	Bobby Kuntz	OHB	5-11	178	27	McMaster	14
63	Santo Martini	T-E	6-3	225	24	Toronto	11
99	Phil Muntz	HB-LB	5-9	190	25	Toronto	13
78	Hal Newton	DE	6-2	212	26	none	2
60	Danny Nykoluk	T	6-3	248	25	none	14
70	Ed Ochiena	OE-DB	6-2	186	21	Waterloo Lutheran	10
73	Pete O'Garro	E	6-4	210	28	Riverside CC; UCLA	1
62	Bobby Jack Oliver	DT	6-2	242	23	Baylor	14
89	Gerry Philp	HB	6-0	195	27	Fullerton JC; Florida State	14
80	Alex Ponton	HB	6-1	205	28	McMaster	13
96	Butch Rogers	HB-LB	6-1	202	22	McMaster	13
84	Jim Rountree	CB	5-10	193	23	Florida	13
71	Al Schlosser	E-HB	6-3	215	21	none	5
88	Dick Shatto	OHB	6-2	196	26	Kentucky	14
90	Eddie Simms	HB	5-11	190	25	none	1
79	Ron Stover	OE	6-3	205	22	Oregon	14
83	Corky Tharp	OHB	5-10	180	28	Alabama	4
67	Cleve Wester	G	6-2	230	23	Auburn	13

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

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

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rushing	Passing	Penalty	PEN	YDS
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
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
Al Schlosser	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Corky Tharp	1	0	0		0	0		0	0	6
Wray Carlton	0	0	0		0	0		1	0	1
Gerry Doucette	0	0	0		0	0		1	0	1
Ronnie Knox	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
Ron Stover	23	388	16.9	51	2
Bobby Kuntz	20	236	11.8	21	0
Ross Coyle	12	176	14.7	63	4
Gerry Philp	8	127	15.9	47	0
Dick Fouts	7	90	12.9	19	0
Corky Tharp	6	76	12.7	35	1
Al 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
Wray Carlton	2	19	9.5	11	0
Jim Rountree	1	7	7.0	7	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	-
Al Dorow	59	2181	37.0	51	0	-
Dick Shatto	1	43	43.0	43	0	-
Johnny Green	12	460	38.3	43	0	-
Gerry Doucette	9	343	38.1	49	0	-
Team Totals	126	4853	38.5			-	851	4002	31.8
Opponents Totals	116	4780	41.2			-	863	3917	33.8

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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