1979 Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL) Scores, Roster, Stats, Coaches, Draft

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Wed	6/13/1979	H	Toronto Argonauts	11-14	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	19700
Tue	6/19/1979	A	British Columbia Lions	11-16	L	Vancouver, BC	Empire Stadium	17839
Tue	6/26/1979	H	Calgary Stampeders	8-23	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	17205
Tue	7/3/1979	A	Montreal Alouettes	8-21	L	Montreal, QC	Olympic Stadium	27637
Wed	7/11/1979	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	19-30	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	21674
Wed	7/18/1979	H	Toronto Argonauts	11-18	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	25104
Wed	7/25/1979	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	24-20	W	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	19759
Wed	8/1/1979	H	Montreal Alouettes	8-21	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	41232
Wed	8/8/1979	A	Toronto Argonauts	0-25	L	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	41282
Tue	8/14/1979	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	21-27	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	24660
Tue	8/21/1979	H	British Columbia Lions	16-22	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	18420
Mon	9/3/1979	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	16-9	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	19246
Sat	9/8/1979	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	4-44	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	23589
Sun	9/16/1979	H	Montreal Alouettes	14-21	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	18511
Sun	9/23/1979	H	Edmonton Eskimos	21-22	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	18186
Sat	9/29/1979	A	Toronto Argonauts	17-16	W	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	37023
Mon	10/8/1979	H	Toronto Argonauts	42-3	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	27293
Sun	10/14/1979	A	Calgary Stampeders	26-16	W	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	30925
Sun	10/21/1979	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	21-3	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	27211
Sun	11/4/1979	A	Montreal Alouettes	20-41	L	Montreal, QC	Olympic Stadium	41382
Eastern Semi-Final
Sun	11/11/1979	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	26-29	L	Ottawa, ON	Lansdowne Park	25540

ROSTER
No	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
27	Steve Ackroyd	WR	6-1	175	23	Sheridan	5
4	Zenon Andrusyshyn	P-K	6-2	210	31	UCLA	8	0
19	Brock Aynsley	RB	6-2	190	29	Washington State	12
47	Bill Banks	LB	6-1	225	24	Penn State	9
55	Danny Bass	OT	6-2	265	25	Elon	8
41	Jack Blair	LB	6-1	192	23	none	16
16	Reg Boudreau	WB	5-10	180	23	none	3
68	Larry Butler	OG	6-3	250	27	Appalachian State	16
39	Lou Clare	LB	6-1	225	29	Minnesota	8
13	Ray Clark	DB	5-11	183	34	Simon Fraser	16
2	Tom Clements	QB	5-10	185	26	Notre Dame	8
40	Mark Coflin	C	6-0	242	23	Alberta	9
21	Rufus Crawford	RB	5-10	180	24	Virginia State	1
64	Linden Davidson	DT	6-4	253	24	Ottawa	6
23	Rocky DiPietro	TE	6-3	210	23	Ottawa	4
	George Doehla	LB	6-3	227	23	Indiana	2
20	Larry Dorsey	DB	6-0	180	25	Hawaii	7
33	Al Dosant	CB	5-11	182	23	Windsor	6
54	Bart Evans	OG	6-2	240	27	Manitoba	10
65	Ed George	OT	6-4	270	33	Ferrum JC; Wake Forest	16
14	Randy Graham	DB	6-0	180	25	Simon Fraser	16
24	Dexter Green	RB	5-9	172	22	Iowa State	2
67	Randy Halsall	DT	6-3	255	30	Wake Forest	5
36	Bill Harrison	RB	6-0	198	26	Ottawa	16
10	Bill Hatanaka	WR	5-11	172	25	York	4
58	Jim Heighton	DE	6-3	252	35	none	16
34	Zac Henderson	DB	6-1	190	24	Oklahoma	16
73	John Holland	SE	6-1	190	27	Tennessee State	9
62	Eary Jones	DT	6-4	260	24	Memphis	6
	Rick Kuchma	WR	6-4	197	23		2
76	Craig Labbett	TE	6-3	215	23	Western Ontario	12
32	Neil Lumsden	RB	6-1	225	27	Ottawa	16
	Mark Manges	QB	6-2	210	23	Maryland	1
8	Dave Marler	QB	6-1	195	24	Mississippi College; Mississippi State	5
66	Willie Martin	OT	6-5	260	28	Northeastern State	13
42	John Martini	LB	6-2	220	25	Toronto	9
56	Alan Moffat	OT	6-4	265	27	Ottawa	16
	Calvin O'Neal	LB	6-1	235	25	Michigan	1
79	Jesse O'Neal	DE	6-4	255	27	Grambling State	8
22	Gord Paterson	WR	5-11	185	29	Manitoba	4
71	Leif Pettersen	WR	6-2	183	29	Otterbein	16
	Tom Poe	LB	6-0	215	27	Washington State	1
21	Jim Reid	RB	6-3	230	22	Wilfrid Laurier	8
69	Mike Riley	DT	6-4	255	25	Dalhousie	10
60	Glenn Robinson	DE	6-6	245	28	Navarro JC; Oklahoma State	11
26	Ronnie Rowland	RB	6-1	205	24	San Jose CC; Washington	13	13
16	Danny Sanders	QB	6-4	203	24	Carson-Newman	1
37	David Shaw	DB	6-0	180	26	Prairie View A&M	15
77	Lawrie Skolrood	OE	6-4	240	27	North Dakota	8
7	Eddie Smith	QB	6-0	170	23	Michigan State	16
70	Kerry Smith	WR	5-10	168	25	none	11
	Mark Sullivan	DE	6-4	235	22	Ohio State	1
3	Ike Thomas	DB	6-2	193	32	Bishop	10
52	Harry Walters	LB	6-1	220	27	Maryland	4
50	Henry Waszczuk	C	6-0	230	29	Kent State	16
	Charlie Weatherbie	QB	6-2	192	24	Oklahoma State	1
62	Angelo Wells	DE	6-3	265	25	Morgan State	7
6	Harold Woods	DB	5-10	177	24	Potomac State; West Virginia	16
31	Ben Zambiasi	OLB	6-1	206	23	Georgia	16

DRAFT LIST - TERRITORIAL
Player	Pos	College
John Priestner	LB	Western Ontario
Jim Reid	RB	Wilfrid Laurier

DRAFT LIST - OPEN
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
2	13	Jim O'Keefe	DB	Wilfrid Laurier
2	17	Walt Payerl	WR	Western Ontario
5	40	Mark Heidebrecht	DT	Springfield
6	49	Jack Davis	DT	Wilfrid Laurier
7	58	Pete Hepburn	DT	Wilfrid Laurier

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT
Team Totals	57	93	44	86
Opponents Totals	115	113	52	58

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rush	Pass	Pen	3RD DOWN	Att	Pct	4TH DOWN	Att	Pct	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		288	93	171	24	150	1221
Opponents Totals		276	113	142	21	143	1284

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	X2	X2A	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Neil Lumsden	8	7	7	100.0	0		-	8	12	66.7	5	0	84
Zenon Andrusyshyn	0	15	16	93.8	0		-	10	20	50.0	10	0	55
Leif Pettersen	4	0	0		1		-	0	0		0	0	26
Brock Aynsley	4	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	24
Dave Marler	1	3	3	100.0	0		-	0	4	0.0	4	0	13
Rufus Crawford	2	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	12
John Holland	2	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	12
Ronnie Rowland	2	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	12
Jack Blair	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Tom Clements	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Craig Labbett	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Jesse O'Neal	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Gord Paterson	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Kerry Smith	1	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	0	6
Zac Henderson	0	0	0		0		-	0	0		2	0	2
(Team)	0	0	0		0		-	0	0		0	2	4
Team Totals	29	25	26	96.2	1	3	18	36	50.0	21	2	280
Opponents Totals	37	34			0		22	39	56.4	14	1	338

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Ronnie Rowland	179	814	4.5	45	2
Neil Lumsden	99	438	4.4	16	5
Tom Clements	22	145	6.6	21	1
Jim Reid	26	133	5.1	15	0
Dave Marler	12	85	7.1	27	1
Rufus Crawford	8	65	8.1	21	1
Dexter Green	23	64	2.8	15	0
Eddie Smith	13	58	4.5	19	0
Bill Harrison	5	19	3.8	7	0
Mark Manges	2	16	8.0	9	0
Charlie Weatherbie	3	9	3.0	13	0
Zac Henderson	1	8	8.0	8	0
Brock Aynsley	1	-3	-3.0	-3	0
Team Totals	394	1851	4.7		10
Opponents Totals	447	2186	4.9

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	RTG
Tom Clements	211	130	130	74	1809	8.6	13.9	52	10	4.7	7	3.3	91.1
Eddie Smith	140	61	61	65	794	5.7	13.0	53	4	2.9	14	10.0	32.0
Dave Marler	89	39	39	41	549	6.2	14.1	32	2	2.2	9	10.1	32.2
Charlie Weatherbie	13	6	6	6	175	13.5	29.2	59	1	7.7	1	7.7	86.2
Zenon Andrusyshyn	1	1	1	0	19	19.0	19.0	19	0	0.0	0	0.0	118.8
Mark Manges	11	2	2	9	6	0.5	3.0	9	0	0.0	0	0.0	39.6
John Holland	1	0	0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	39.6
Team Totals	466	239	51.3	196	3352	7.2	14.0		17	3.6	31	6.7	59.2
Opponents Totals	409	245	59.9	146	3131	7.7	12.8				18	4.4

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Leif Pettersen	56	838	15.0	52	4
John Holland	37	582	15.7	53	2
Ronnie Rowland	35	420	12.0	56	0
Brock Aynsley	22	382	17.4	59	4
Neil Lumsden	21	142	6.8	21	3
Lawrie Skolrood	17	275	16.2	32	0
Gord Paterson	13	238	18.3	37	1
Kerry Smith	12	171	14.3	32	1
Craig Labbett	8	109	13.6	17	1
Jim Reid	6	57	9.5	18	0
Rufus Crawford	5	54	10.8	31	1
Dexter Green	3	25	8.3	17	0
Bill Harrison	2	31	15.5	24	0
Harold Woods	1	19	19.0	19	0
Steve Ackroyd	1	9	9.0	9	0
Team Totals	239	3352	14.0		17
Opponents Totals	245	3131	12.8

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Harold Woods	5	39	7.8	35	0
Ike Thomas	3	62	20.7	51	0
David Shaw	3	61	20.3	33	0
Zac Henderson	3	3	1.0	3	0
Larry Dorsey	1	42	42.0	42	0
Ben Zambiasi	1	42	42.0	42	0
Jesse O'Neal	1	27	27.0	27t	1
Randy Graham	1	9	9.0	9	0
Team Totals	18	285	15.8		1
Opponents Totals	31	317	10.2

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Zenon Andrusyshyn	51	2205	43.2	66	-
Zac Henderson	58	2259	38.9	80	-
Dave Marler	19	812	42.7	65	-
Team Totals	128	5267	41.1		-
Opponents Totals	138	5718	41.4		-

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
David Shaw	44	421	9.6	81	0
Bill Hatanaka	16	69	4.3	17	0
John Holland	17	61	3.6	12	0
Harold Woods	9	54	6.0	12	0
Dexter Green	7	51	7.3	19	0
Leif Pettersen	4	48	12.0	18	0
Rufus Crawford	4	40	10.0	13	0
Kerry Smith	6	36	6.0	13	0
Larry Dorsey	1	10	10.0	10	0
Bill Harrison	1	8	8.0	8	0
Jack Blair	1	0	0.0	0	0
Al Dosant	1	-4	-4.0	-4	0
Team Totals	111	794	7.2		0
Opponents Totals	109	948	8.7

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Zenon Andrusyshyn	27	1686	62.4	90	0
Neil Lumsden	15	846	56.4	75	1
Dave Marler	5	268	53.6	73	0
Team Totals	47	2800	59.6
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Harold Woods	18	416	23.1	50	0
Bill Hatanaka	9	224	24.9	31	0
Ronnie Rowland	9	188	20.9	35	0
Al Dosant	6	101	16.8	23	0
John Holland	6	89	14.8	27	0
Rufus Crawford	3	69	23.0	24	0
Dexter Green	3	62	20.7	24	0
Bill Harrison	2	35	17.5	20	0
Larry Butler	2	34	17.0	18	0
Leif Pettersen	1	13	13.0	13	0
Ray Clark	1	6	6.0	6	0
Team Totals	60	1237	20.6		0
Opponents Totals	40	816	20.4

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Zenon Andrusyshyn	3	2	0	0	0	0	0
Brock Aynsley	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Banks	0	0	0	1	1	27	0
Jack Blair	0	0	0	2	2	0	1
Larry Butler	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Lou Clare	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Tom Clements	1	0	2	0	2	0	0
Rufus Crawford	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Dorsey	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Al Dosant	0	0	0	1	1	6	0
Randy Graham	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Dexter Green	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Harrison	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Jim Heighton	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Zac Henderson	1	1	0	1	1	8	0
John Holland	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Eary Jones	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Neil Lumsden	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Dave Marler	3	2	1	1	2	0	0
Jesse O'Neal	0	0	0	1	1	2	0
Leif Pettersen	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Jim Reid	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ronnie Rowland	5	5	2	0	2	0	0
David Shaw	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
Eddie Smith	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Henry Waszczuk	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Charlie Weatherbie	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Harold Woods	1	0	0	1	1	0	0
Ben Zambiasi	0	0	0	4	4	4	0
Team Totals	28	19	9	20	29	47	1
Opponents Totals		20		19	19

Jim Eddy	Defensive Coordinator/Secondary
Leland Kendall	Defensive Line
Herb Paterra	Linebackers