1972 British Columbia Lions (CFL) Scores, Roster, Stats, Coaches, Draft

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Wed	7/5/1972	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	31-23	W	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	12264
Thu	7/13/1972	H	Calgary Stampeders	14-9	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	23969
Mon	7/17/1972	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	15-14	W	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	22055
Tue	7/25/1972	H	Edmonton Eskimos	0-34	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	23411
Tue	8/1/1972	A	Edmonton Eskimos	22-34	L	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	19844
Tue	8/8/1972	H	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	19-17	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	26488
Mon	8/14/1972	A	Calgary Stampeders	14-19	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	22615
Thu	8/17/1972	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	7-39	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium
Fri	8/25/1972	A	Edmonton Eskimos	7-29	L	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	22641
Thu	9/7/1972	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	7-42	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	25210
Tue	9/12/1972	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	13-24	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	21937
Sun	9/17/1972	A	Montreal Alouettes	17-22	L	Montreal, QC	Molson Stadium	11872
Wed	9/20/1972	A	Toronto Argonauts	23-9	W	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	33135
Tue	9/26/1972	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	17-20	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	22108
Tue	10/3/1972	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	26-24	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	20579
Sun	10/8/1972	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	14-24	L	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	16500
Sat	10/14/1972	H	Edmonton Eskimos	22-16	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	22124
Sat	10/21/1972	H	Calgary Stampeders	17-19	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	21284
Sat	10/28/1972	A	Calgary Stampeders	3-28	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	17190
Sat	11/4/1972	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	26-14	W	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	22597

ROSTER
No	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
77	George Anderson	LB	6-3	230	24	Simon Fraser	16
60	Hank Barton	DE	6-7	230	24	Boise JC; Portland State	1
62	Ross Boice	DT	6-2	245	23	Pacific Lutheran	3
10	Don Bunce	QB	6-1	196	23	Stanford	15
41	Bob Currie	DT	6-3	250	24	Hawaii	3
72	Dave Denny	TE	6-3	225	23	Missouri Southern State	16
11	Brian Donnelly	DB	5-11	179	24	Simon Fraser	16
20	Dave Easley	DB	5-10	185	25	none	16
66	Trev Ekdahl	ROG	6-2	240	30	Utah State	16
26	Monroe Eley	RB	6-2	210	23	Palo Verde JC; Arizona State	16
36	Larry Ely	LB	6-1	230	25	Iowa	1
78	Ronnie Estay	DE	6-1	240	24	Louisiana State	16
28	Jim Evenson	FB	6-2	220	25	Boise JC; Treasure Valley JC; Oregon	16
79	Greg Findlay	DE	6-3	240	30	Wenatchee Valley JC	16
25	Bob Friend	DB	5-11	185	22	Simon Fraser	16
35	Ted Gerela	FB	5-10	205	28	Washington State	16
54	Dave Golinsky	LOT	6-4	249	24	Washington State	16
14	Eric Guthrie	QB	6-1	200	25	Boise State	16
36	Larry Highbaugh	FL	5-9	179	22	Indiana	10
12	Wayne Holm	DB	6-1	195	23	Simon Fraser	16
64	Garrett Hunsperger	DT	6-3	255	26	Central Missouri	11
61	Lynn Larson	OG	6-4	254	24	Phoenix JC; Kansas State	5
44	Ken Lehmann	LB	5-11	222	30	Marquette; Xavier (Ohio)	2
34	Mike Leveille	FL	5-10	170	24	Ottawa	11
17	Rocky Long	RB	5-10	175	22	New Mexico	15
15	Wayne Matherne	DB	6-1	190	23	Louisiana-Monroe	16
62	Layne McDowell	LOG	6-3	255	23	Iowa	4
27	Don Moorhead	QB	6-3	210	24	Michigan	16
22	Johnny Musso	RB	5-11	201	22	Alabama	15
51	Ray Nettles	LB	6-2	220	23	Tennessee	16
70	Pete Palmer	LB	6-0	212	26	Lenoir-Rhyne	16
65	Paul Patterson	DT	6-5	255	25	Wilfrid Laurier	14
22	Ken Phillips	P	6-0	210	24	none	1	0
45	Willie Postler	C	6-5	255	23	Montana	16
76	Al Rankin	FL	6-0	202	25	none	4
67	Gary Robinson	DE	6-4	255	26	Simon Fraser	16
69	Ken Sugarman	ROT	6-3	250	30	Whitworth	16
69	Mike Walker	DE	6-4	235	23	Tulane	10
55	Carl Weathers	LB	6-2	220	24	Long Beach CC; San Diego State	7
58	Ted Wheeler	LOG	6-3	240	27	West Texas A&M	7
52	Al Wilson	C	6-1	240	22	Montana State	16
24	Mike Wilson	DB	5-11	200	26	Western Illinois	5
30	Jim Young	SE	6-0	205	29	Queen's	16

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	3	Steve Szapka	G	Simon Fraser
3	21	Bob Friend	DB	Simon Fraser
4	30	Art Lestins	T	Wilfrid Laurier
5	39	Bill MacDonald	QB	Bishop's
6	47	Jean Gouin	T	Ottawa
7	56	Wayne Terry	DB	Ottawa
8	64	Ron Warner	G	British Columbia

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT
Team Totals	41	81	48	84
Opponents Totals	76	122	50	132

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rush	Pass	Pen	3RD DOWN	Att	Pct	4TH DOWN	Att	Pct	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		298	135	146	17	96	670
Opponents Totals		315	141	155	19	92	646

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Ted Gerela	0	25	27	92.6			-	19	33	57.6	7	0	89
Jim Young	11	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	66
Jim Evenson	9	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	54
Johnny Musso	3	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	18
Larry Highbaugh	2	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	12
Monroe Eley	1	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	6
Don Moorhead	1	0	0				-	0	0		0	0	6
Eric Guthrie	0	0	0				-	0	0		1	0	1
(Team)	0	0	0				-	0	0		0	1	2
Team Totals	27	25	27	92.6	19	33	57.6	8	1	254
Opponents Totals	46	40			19	37	51.4	5	1	380

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Jim Evenson	184	961	5.2	44	8
Monroe Eley	105	517	4.9	75	1
Johnny Musso	88	405	4.6	21	1
Don Moorhead	70	330	4.7	17	1
Don Bunce	8	58	7.3	16	0
Larry Highbaugh	4	13	3.3	20	0
Rocky Long	5	12	2.4	8	0
Eric Guthrie	1	5	5.0	5	0
Team Totals	465	2301	4.9		11
Opponents Totals	464	2626	5.7

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	RTG
Don Moorhead	326	159	159	150	2606	8.0	16.4	73	10	3.1	17	5.2	64.5
Don Bunce	92	40	40	41	740	8.0	18.5	54	6	6.5	11	12.0	54.0
Eric Guthrie	13	6	6	5	100	7.7	16.7	33	0	0.0	2	15.4	33.0
Rocky Long	1	0	0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	39.6
Team Totals	432	205	47.5	197	3446	8.0	16.8		16	3.7	30	6.9	58.3
Opponents Totals	405	230	56.8	149	3748	9.3	16.3				26	6.4

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Jim Young	63	1362	21.6	73	11
Johnny Musso	39	556	14.3	41	2
Monroe Eley	27	507	18.8	53	0
Jim Evenson	26	329	12.7	53	1
Larry Highbaugh	18	278	15.4	54	2
Dave Denny	15	202	13.5	28	0
Mike Leveille	13	177	13.6	38	0
Rocky Long	2	3	1.5	5	0
Pete Palmer	1	21	21.0	21	0
Ted Gerela	1	11	11.0	11	0
Team Totals	205	3446	16.8		16
Opponents Totals	230	3748	16.3

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Brian Donnelly	5	62	12.4	24	0
Dave Easley	4	58	14.5	27	0
Rocky Long	3	79	26.3	43	0
Ray Nettles	3	23	7.7	16	0
Pete Palmer	3	14	4.7	11	0
Wayne Matherne	2	64	32.0	37	0
Mike Wilson	2	21	10.5	16	0
Wayne Holm	2	16	8.0	16	0
Larry Highbaugh	2	0	0.0		0
Team Totals	26	336	12.9		0
Opponents Totals	30	480	16.0

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Eric Guthrie	119	5017	42.2	64	-
Ken Phillips	6	215	35.8	43	-
Ronnie Estay	3	91	30.3	33	-
Team Totals	128	4906	38.3		-
Opponents Totals	131	5414	41.3		-

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bob Friend	51	327	6.4	26	0
Mike Leveille	37	184	5.0	23	0
Mike Wilson	9	58	6.4	17	0
Al Rankin	13	55	4.2	11	0
Rocky Long	5	48	9.6	21	0
Brian Donnelly	4	20	5.0	9	0
Dave Easley	2	5	2.5	3	0
Team Totals	121	697	5.8
Opponents Totals	129	757	5.9

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Ted Gerela	40	2291	57.3	80	0
Team Totals	40	2291	57.3
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Monroe Eley	37	1033	27.9	56	0
Larry Highbaugh	14	445	31.8		0
Rocky Long	5	146	29.2	38	0
Ted Gerela	6	50	8.3	16	0
Mike Wilson	1	12	12.0	12	0
Dave Denny	1	3	3.0	3	0
Johnny Musso	1	0	0.0	0	0
Pete Palmer	1	-1	-1.0	-1	0
Team Totals	66	1688	25.6		0
Opponents Totals	40	942	23.6

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
George Anderson	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Don Bunce	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Denny	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Donnelly	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Dave Easley	0	0	1	1	2	0	0
Monroe Eley	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ronnie Estay	0	0	0	3	3	8	0
Jim Evenson	8	6	2	0	2	0	0
Greg Findlay	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Bob Friend	3	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ted Gerela	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Wayne Holm	0	0	0	1	1	12	0
Lynn Larson	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Mike Leveille	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Rocky Long	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Wayne Matherne	0	0	0	2	2	3	0
Don Moorhead	8	6	2	0	2	0	0
Johnny Musso	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Nettles	0	0	0	1	1	12	0
Pete Palmer	0	0	0	1	1		0
Paul Patterson	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Ken Sugarman	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Mike Walker	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Al Wilson	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Team Totals	29	20	9	16	25	33	0
Opponents Totals		16		20	20

Owen DeJanovich	Assistant Coach
Ken McCullough	Assistant Coach
Bud Tynes	Assistant Coach