1976 Calgary Stampeders (CFL)

5th place Western Conference 2-12-2 .188

Head Coach: Bob Baker (0-9-1); Joe Tiller (2-3-1)

Tom Goode	Assistant Coach
Bill Quinter	Assistant Coach
Vic Rapp	Assistant Coach
Gene Stauber	Assistant Coach

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Tue	6/29/1976	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	27-39	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	21398
Sat	7/3/1976	A	Toronto Argonauts	25-25	T	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	37244
Thu	7/8/1976	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	39-37	W	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	22289
Tue	7/13/1976	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	22-21	W	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	16546
Tue	7/20/1976	A	Edmonton Eskimos	22-24	L	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	25269
Thu	7/29/1976	H	Montreal Alouettes	20-20	T	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	22977
Tue	8/3/1976	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	3-49	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	20438
Wed	8/11/1976	H	British Columbia Lions	9-13	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	23606
Fri	8/20/1976	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	13-38	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	26972
Wed	8/25/1976	A	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	11-18	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	21332
Wed	9/1/1976	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	20-29	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	22345
Mon	9/6/1976	H	Edmonton Eskimos	17-19	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	25282
Sun	9/12/1976	A	British Columbia Lions	15-30	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	18103
Sat	9/18/1976	H	Toronto Argonauts	20-28	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	22961
Sun	9/26/1976	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	10-35	L	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	20534
Sat	10/9/1976	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	22-10	W	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium
Sat	10/16/1976	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	36-37	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	21467
Sun	10/24/1976	H	British Columbia Lions	31-31	T	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	22717
Sun	10/31/1976	A	Edmonton Eskimos	36-28	W	Edmonton, AB	Joseph A. Clarke Memorial Stadium	25783
Sun	11/7/1976	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	31-33	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	26925

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
18	Willie Armstead	WR	6-2	215	24	Utah	4
76	Jim Baker	LB	5-11	225	26	Arizona State	1
50	Ollie Bakken	LB	6-2	224	23	Minnesota	13
45	Basil Bark	C	6-2	235	31	none	16
68	Chuck Brislin	DE	6-3	238	22	Mississippi State	1
10	Willie Burden	RB	5-11	205	25	North Carolina State	13
27	Al Burleson	DB	6-2	185	22	Washington	7
51	Gary Campbell	LB	6-1	205	24	Colorado	3
52	Jerry Campbell	LB	5-11	210	32	Idaho	2
26	Larry Cates	DB	5-11	185	26	Western Michigan	16
52	Wayne Cuncic	OG	6-0	235	26	Utah State	16
14	John Dilworth	DB	6-0	170	23	Northwestern State (Louisiana)	7
66	Lloyd Fairbanks	OT	6-4	240	23	Ricks JC; Brigham Young	16
68	Mike Fanucci	DE	6-4	236	27	Arizona State	5
54	John Forzani	OG	6-2	245	29	Utah State	16
22	Tom Forzani	WR	5-11	178	26	Utah State	16
21	Rick Galbos	RB	6-1	205	25	Ohio State	16
29	Larry Giles	WR	6-0	180	26	Saskatchewan	8
77	John Helton	DT	6-3	255	29	Arizona State	16
75	Tom Higgins	DT	6-1	235	22	North Carolina State	10
57	Harry Holton	OG	6-2	240	24	Texas-El Paso	16
25	Bob Hornes	DB	5-10	180	27	Idaho State	16
64	Max Huber	OT	6-3	252	31	Brigham Young	16
16	John Hufnagel	QB	6-1	194	25	Penn State	7
50	Evan Jolitz	LB	6-2	225	25	Xavier (Ohio); Cincinnati	2
47	Andy Jonassen	C	6-4	240	25	Calgary	16
11	J.J. Jones	QB	6-1	180	24	Fisk	4
71	Rick Konopka	LB	6-2	218	26	Wilfrid Laurier	4
51	Tom Kudaba	OG	6-0	252	23	Simon Fraser	2
17	Rudy Linterman	RB-K	5-11	205	29	Idaho	16
19	Mike Logan	DB	6-2	198	26	Eastern Michigan	14
60	Bob Martin	DE	6-5	242	23	Washington	8
27	Rudy McClinon	DB	6-2	192	24	Xavier (Ohio)	6
20	Cyril McFall	P-K	5-11	185	23	none	16	0
23	Dennis Meyer	DB	5-11	186	26	Arkansas State	16
67	Larry Moore	DE	6-3	235	25	Angelo State	4
41/30	Gary Mueller	LB	6-1	231	25	Wilfrid Laurier	13
51	Bill Norton	OG	6-2	244	22	Weber State	1
76	Johnny Owens	DE	6-5	255	23	Tennessee State	4
34	Bill Palmer	LB-P	6-3	217	24	Bowling Green State	16
7	Joe Pisarcik	QB	6-4	220	24	New Mexico State	11
18	Vern Roberson	DB	6-2	195	24	Grambling State	9
67	Andre Roundtree	DE	6-3	205	23	Santa Ana JC; Iowa State	1
63	Lorne Sherbina	DT	6-4	256	24	Idaho	16
11	Tom Sherman	QB	6-0	190	31	Penn State	7
67	Ramsey Simmons	DE	6-2	230	25	Arizona Western JC; Hawaii	1
28	Chris Skopelianos	DB	5-10	185	27	Western Ontario	2
74	Henry Sovio	TE	6-3	234	27	Hawaii	12
46	Larry Tittley	C	6-2	230	23	Concordia (Quebec)	16
70	Bob Viccars	TE-LB	6-3	228	23	none	16
16	Dick Wesolowski	FB	6-1	205	31	North Carolina	5
9	Dave Williams	QB	6-2	200	22	Colorado	3
24	Melvin Wilson	DB	6-1	193	24	Northridge State	5
31	Bill Ziegler	RB	6-1	215	23	Missouri	5

DRAFT LIST - OPEN
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
2	12	Jay Parry	WR	Western Ontario
3	21	Dave McMillan	WR	Concordia (Quebec)
4	30	Richard Haswell	FB	Wilfrid Laurier
5	39	Larry Tittley	LB	Concordia (Quebec)
6	48	Nick Grittani	DT	Toronto
7	57	Mike Walukavich	DT	Concordia (Quebec)
8	66	Bill Lockhart	C	Guelph
8	72	Norm Hagarty	WR	Wilfrid Laurier
9	75	Mike Weller	WR	Wilfrid Laurier
9	80	Gordon Penn	RB	British Columbia
10	83	Doug Ramsome	WR	Dalhousie

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Team Totals	60	97	609	99
Opponents Totals	80	147	73	152

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rushing	Passing	Penalty	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		275	98	158	19	154	1143
Opponents Totals		322	121	177	24	143	1127

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	X2	X2A	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Cyril McFall	0	26	26	100.0	0		29	46	63.0	11	0	124
Tom Forzani	9	0	0		1		0	0		0	0	56
Willie Burden	9	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	54
Larry Cates	3	0	0		1		0	0		0	0	20
Rick Galbos	3	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	18
Willie Armstead	2	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	12
Rudy Linterman	2	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	12
Bob Martin	1	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	6
Joe Pisarcik	1	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	6
Bob Viccars	1	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	6
John Hufnagel	0	0	0		1		0	0		0	0	2
Team Totals	31	26	26	100.0	3	5	29	46	63.0	11	0	316
Opponents Totals	46	44			1		35	51	68.6	13	1	442

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Willie Burden	181	962	5.3	35	7
Larry Cates	81	458	5.7	38	3
Rick Galbos	57	264	4.6	14	0
Bill Ziegler	16	67	4.2	20	0
Joe Pisarcik	22	56	2.5	11	1
John Hufnagel	17	47	2.8	15	0
Tom Sherman	7	38	5.4	14	0
Willie Armstead	1	21	21.0	21	0
Rudy Linterman	3	12	4.0	7	0
Dave Williams	3	9	3.0	9	0
J.J. Jones	1	-1	-1.0	-1	0
Bob Viccars	1	-4	-4.0	-4	0
Team Totals	390	1929	4.9		11
Opponents Totals	410	2134	5.2

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	RTG
John Hufnagel	156	86	55.1	61	1327	8.5	15.4	78	13	8.3	9	5.8	87.2
Joe Pisarcik	163	96	58.9	58	1128	6.9	11.8	36	2	1.2	9	5.5	61.1
Tom Sherman	116	59	50.9	53	596	5.1	10.1	58	3	2.6	4	3.4	60.1
Dave Williams	20	7	35.0	12	119	6.0	17.0	28	1	5.0	1	5.0	51.9
Tom Forzani	1	1	100.0	0	45	45.0	45.0	45	0	0.0	0	0.0	118.8
Larry Cates	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	39.6
Team Totals	457	249	54.5	185	3215	7.0	12.9		19	4.2	23	5.0	69.7
Opponents Totals	487	280	57.5	193	3877	8.0	13.8				14	2.9

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Tom Forzani	57	901	15.8	56	9
Rick Galbos	47	445	9.5	38	3
Willie Burden	43	363	8.4	51	2
Rudy Linterman	37	574	15.5	45	2
Larry Cates	18	141	7.8	15	0
Bob Viccars	15	250	16.7	78	1
Henry Sovio	11	151	13.7	22	0
Willie Armstead	6	172	28.7	78	2
Larry Giles	5	103	20.6	58	0
Dick Wesolowski	5	78	15.6	32	0
Bill Ziegler	5	37	7.4	14	0
Team Totals	249	3215	12.9		19
Opponents Totals	280	3877	13.8

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Vern Roberson	3	51	17.0	29	0
Mike Logan	3	38	12.7	26	0
Ollie Bakken	2	31	15.5	20	0
Rudy McClinon	2	29	14.5	15	0
Larry Cates	1	35	35.0	35	0
Dennis Meyer	1	5	5.0	5	0
Bob Hornes	1	3	3.0	3	0
Bill Palmer	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	14	192	13.7		0
Opponents Totals	23	293	12.7

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Cyril McFall	89	3687	41.4	65	-
Bill Palmer	46	1904	41.4	63	-
Team Totals	135	5591	41.4		-
Opponents Totals	134	5858	43.7		-

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Dennis Meyer	65	639	9.8	61	0
Larry Cates	42	489	11.6	53	0
Rudy McClinon	0	3		3L	0
Team Totals	107	1131	10.6		0
Opponents Totals	126	1170	9.3

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Cyril McFall	62	3356	54.1	78	2
Rudy Linterman	10	565	56.5	75	0
Team Totals	72	3921	54.5
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Larry Cates	32	901	28.2	73	0
Dennis Meyer	17	452	26.6	48	0
Bill Ziegler	6	179	29.8	38	0
Rick Galbos	9	162	18.0	31	0
Al Burleson	7	150	21.4	46	0
Vern Roberson	3	77	25.7	34	0
Rudy Linterman	3	72	24.0	29	0
John Dilworth	4	69	17.3	25	0
Bill Palmer	2	46	23.0	24	0
Ollie Bakken	4	34	8.5	14	0
Willie Armstead	1	21	21.0	21	0
Team Totals	88	2163	24.6		0
Opponents Totals	71	1711	24.1

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Willie Burden	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
Larry Cates	4	3	0	1	1	15	0
Wayne Cuncic	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Tom Forzani	1	1	2	0	2	0	0
Rick Galbos	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
Tom Higgins	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Bob Hornes	0	0	0	3	3	0	0
John Hufnagel	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Evan Jolitz	0	0	0	1	1	-2	0
Bob Martin	0	0	0	1	1	35	1
Rudy McClinon	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Dennis Meyer	1	0	0	4	4	2	0
Bill Palmer	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Joe Pisarcik	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Vern Roberson	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Tom Sherman	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Tittley	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Bob Viccars	1	1	0	1	1	0	0
Bill Ziegler	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team Totals	17	11	6	16	22	50	1
Opponents Totals		16		11	11