1983 Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL)

3rd place Eastern Division 5-10-1 .344

Head Coach: Bud Riley (4-8-0); Al Bruno (1-2-1)

Steve Goldman	Assistant Coach
John Lowry	Assistant Coach
Ted Schmitz	Assistant Coach
Rich Stubler	Assistant Coach

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Fri	6/10/1983	A	Toronto Argonauts	6-24	L	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	28520
Wed	6/15/1983	H	Toronto Argonauts	35-24	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	11302
Wed	6/22/1983	H	Montreal Concordes	25-18	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	11250
Wed	6/29/1983	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	40-47	L	Ottawa, ON	Landsdowne Park	13331
Sat	7/9/1983	H	Edmonton Eskimos	32-35	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	17211
Sat	7/16/1983	A	Saskatchewan Roughriders	50-19	W	Regina, SK	Taylor Field	25569
Fri	7/22/1983	A	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	18-29	L	Winnipeg, MB	Winnipeg Stadium	24052
Sat	7/30/1983	H	British Columbia Lions	20-34	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	16101
Sat	8/6/1983	A	Toronto Argonauts	31-18	W	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	43568
Sat	8/13/1983	H	Ottawa Rough Riders	24-22	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	14729
Sun	8/21/1983	A	Calgary Stampeders	15-29	L	Calgary, AB	McMahon Stadium	24565
Mon	9/5/1983	H	Montreal Concordes	35-30	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	18547
Sun	9/11/1983	A	Edmonton Eskimos	21-50	L	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	51428
Sun	9/18/1983	H	Toronto Argonauts	16-50	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	25128
Sun	9/25/1983	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	25-29	L	Ottawa, ON	Landsdowne Park	26014
Sat	10/1/1983	H	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	19-34	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	19266
Sat	10/15/1983	H	Saskatchewan Roughriders	34-22	W	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	11000
Sat	10/22/1983	A	British Columbia Lions	16-41	L	Vancouver, BC	B.C. Place Stadium	43513
Sun	10/30/1983	H	Calgary Stampeders	12-35	L	Hamilton, ON	Ivor Wynne Stadium	14010
Sun	11/6/1983	A	Montreal Concordes	21-21	T	Montreal, QC	Olympic Stadium	41157
Sun	11/13/1983	A	Ottawa Rough Riders	33-31	W	Ottawa, ON	Landsdowne Park	28524	Eastern Semi-Final
Sun	11/20/1983	A	Toronto Argonauts	36-41	L	Toronto, ON	Exhibition Stadium	54530	Eastern Final

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
63	Marv Allemang	OT	6-3	255	30	Acadia	16
53	Jeff Arp	OG	6-3	225	24	Western Ontario	16
1	Keith Baker	WR	5-10	185	26	Texas A&M; Texas Southern	15
66	Mike Barker	DT	6-4	280	24	Grambling State	9
14	Gerald Bess	CB	6-0	188	25	Tuskegee	15
51	Pat Brady	OG	6-1	240	23	Western Ontario	16
22	Mark Bragagnolo	FB	6-1	215	28	Toronto	15
5	Dieter Brock	QB	6-0	195	32	Auburn; Jacksonville State	6
2	Tom Clements	QB	5-10	185	30	Notre Dame	10
25	Scott Collie	SB	6-1	190	23	Brigham Young	5
77	Grover Covington	DE	6-2	235	27	Johnson C. Smith	16
21	Rufus Crawford	RB	5-10	180	28	Virginia State	12
23	Rocky DiPietro	SB	6-3	210	27	Ottawa	16
	Neil Evans	DB	6-0	205	25	Toronto	6
72	Leo Ezerins	LB	6-4	225	27	Whitworth	15
	Derek Faggiani	OL	6-4	267	24	Simon Fraser	3
16	Howard Fields	DB	5-10	190	25	Baylor	16
54	Ross Francis	OG	6-3	255	26	Queen's	16
	Pete Gales	QB	6-3	170	24	Iowa	6
41	Greg Gary	LB	6-1	221	25	Fullerton State	5
39	Ed Gataveckas	LB	6-0	215	26	Acadia	16
62	Paul Gohier	OT	6-4	280	26	McGill	7
32	Dave Graffi	FB	6-0	220	24	Wilfrid Laurier	16
	Kelly Hamilton	LB	6-2	215	24	Sequoias JC	1
60	Bill Howard	C	6-2	270	24	Western Ontario	9
73	Ron Johnson	WR	6-3	188	25	Monterey Peninsula JC; Long Beach State	16
34	Steve Kearns	SB	6-1	214	27	Liberty	5
17	Wayne Lee	SB	6-1	195	24	Ottawa	14
	Terry Lehne	DB	5-11	185	24	Saskatchewan	6
79	Claude Mathews	DT	6-2	254	25	Auburn	6
26	Mike McIntyre	DB	5-11	185	25	New Brunswick	16
	Alfonzo McMillian	DB	6-3	200	27	Southwestern Oklahoma State	2
	Ryan Moore	WR	5-9	170	24	none	4
79	Jim Muller	DE	6-3	215	26	Queen's	1
69	Paul Palma	OT	6-3	273	23	Concordia (Quebec)	16
65	Mitchell Price	DE	6-3	260	22	West Alabama	16
36	John Priestner	MLB	6-2	230	25	Western Ontario	16
10	Bernie Ruoff	P-K	6-0	185	32	Syracuse	16	0
58	Dave Sauve	DT	6-4	260	24	Harvard	16
19	Johnny Shepherd	RB	5-10	185	26	Liberty; West Alabama	16
20	Mark Streeter	CB	6-0	190	26	Youngstown State; North Iowa Area CC; Arizona	15
	Mickey Sutton	DB	5-8	168	23	Montana	1
9	Jeff Tedford	QB	6-0	187	22	Cerritos JC; Fresno State	11
27	Dom Vetro	WR	5-10	180	25	Wilfrid Laurier	8
29	Merv Walker	DB	6-0	180	31	none	5
61	Mike Walker	DT	6-2	250	24	Washington State	14
50	Henry Waszczuk	C	6-0	230	33	Kent State	13
28	Felix Wright	DB	6-2	294	24	Drake	12
18	Mark Young	DB	5-11	180	23	Morgan State	4
31	Ben Zambiasi	OLB	6-1	206	27	Georgia	11

DRAFT LIST - TERRITORIAL
Player	Pos	College	Notes
Jim Pendergast	WR	Queen's

DRAFT LIST - OPEN

Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
2	13	Paul Palma	OT	Concordia (Quebec)
3	22	Casey Lapa	LB	British Columbia
4	31	Rory Radford	LB	Guelph
5	40	George Piva	OT	British Columbia
6	49	David Brace	TE	Western Connecticut State
7	58	Mike Zivolak	C	Western Ontario
8	67	Jack Kalthof	LB	Saskatchewan

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Team Totals	56	156	78	99
Opponents Totals	102	146	86	164

TEAM STATS	TOP	1ST DOWNS	Rushing	Passing	Penalty	PEN	YDS
Team Totals		286	82	181	23	119	952
Opponents Totals		349	110	219	20	135	1059

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	X2	X2A	FG	FGA	PCT	S	SAF	PTS
Bernie Ruoff	0	35	35	100.0	0		31	42	73.8	21	0	149
Keith Baker	10	0	0		1		0	0		0	0	62
Rufus Crawford	6	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	36
Ron Johnson	6	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	36
Johnny Shepherd	5	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	30
Gerald Bess	2	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	12
Mark Bragagnolo	2	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	12
Dieter Brock	2	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	12
Scott Collie	2	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	12
Rocky DiPietro	2	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	12
Mark Streeter	1	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	6
Felix Wright	1	0	0		0		0	0		0	0	6
Steve Kearns	0	0	0		1		0	0		0	0	2
(Team)	0	0	0		0		0	0		0	1	2
Team Totals	39	35	35	100.0	2	4	31	42	73.8	21	1	389
Opponents Totals	54	45			5		31	46	67.4	22	2	498

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Johnny Shepherd	197	1069	5.4	62	1
Mark Bragagnolo	40	197	4.9	12	0
Rufus Crawford	35	114	3.3	17	5
Rocky DiPietro	0	25		25L	0
Dieter Brock	14	24	1.7	6	2
Tom Clements	12	18	1.5	8	0
Pete Gales	6	16	2.7	14	0
Dave Graffi	5	11	2.2	4	0
Keith Baker	2	10	5.0	16	0
Jeff Tedford	6	9	1.5	10	0
Bernie Ruoff	1	5	5.0	5	0
Team Totals	318	1498	4.7		8
Opponents Totals	360	1810	5.0

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	RTG
Tom Clements	323	190	58.8	118	2416	7.5	12.7	86	19	5.9	15	4.6		82.5
Dieter Brock	197	114	57.9	77	1241	6.3	10.9	49	8	4.1	6	3.0		77.4
Jeff Tedford	34	17	50.0	13	214	6.3	12.6	67	0	0.0	4	11.8		30.4
Pete Gales	13	6	46.2	6	43	3.3	7.2	19	0	0.0	1	7.7		22.3
Bernie Ruoff	1	1	100.0	0	36	36.0	36.0	36	0	0.0	0	0.0		118.8
Keith Baker	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0			0	0.0	1	100.0		0.0
Team Totals	569	328	57.6	214	3950	6.9	12.0		27	4.7	27	4.7		75.1
Opponents Totals	578	320	55.4	233	5040	8.7	15.8				25	4.3	49

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Keith Baker	66	911	13.8	52	10
Johnny Shepherd	58	583	10.1	66	4
Rocky DiPietro	56	693	12.4	36	2
Ron Johnson	53	914	17.2	86	6
Rufus Crawford	44	350	8.0	46	1
Mark Bragagnolo	33	257	7.8	20	2
Scott Collie	11	152	13.8	30	2
Steve Kearns	3	25	8.3	16	0
Dom Vetro	2	47	23.5	39	0
Wayne Lee	1	12	12.0	12	0
Dave Graffi	1	6	6.0	6	0
Team Totals	328	3950	12.0		27
Opponents Totals	320	5040	15.8

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Felix Wright	6	140	23.3	62	1
Gerald Bess	4	145	36.3	102	2
Mark Streeter	3	45	15.0	38	1
Howard Fields	3	34	11.3	33	0
Mark Young	2	51	25.5	34	0
Ben Zambiasi	2	42	21.0	28	0
Mike McIntyre	2	36	18.0	29	0
Mitchell Price	1	8	8.0	8	0
John Priestner	1	8	8.0	8	0
Jeff Tedford	1	3	3.0	3	0
Team Totals	25	512	20.5		4
Opponents Totals	27	475	17.6

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Bernie Ruoff	150	7108	47.4	96	-
Team Totals	150	7108	47.4		-	1227	6390	39.7
Opponents Totals	147	6582	44.8		-	1053	5529	37.6

PUNT RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Rufus Crawford	51	478	9.4	32	0
Howard Fields	47	465	9.9	60	0
Felix Wright	7	36	5.1	11	0
Mark Streeter	4	25	6.3	9	0
Keith Baker	5	21	4.2	11	0
Dom Vetro	1	14	14.0	14	0
John Priestner	2	11	5.5	9	0
Mark Young	1	3	3.0	3	0
Team Totals	118	1053	8.9		0
Opponents Totals	125	1227	9.8

KICKOFFS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	S
Bernie Ruoff	64	3687	57.6	90	3
Team Totals	64	3687	57.6
Opponents Totals

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Johnny Shepherd	28	738	26.4	61	0
Rufus Crawford	21	493	23.5	46	0
Howard Fields	4	73	18.3	32	0
Dave Graffi	4	35	8.8	15	0
Mark Young	1	15	15.0	15	0
John Priestner	2	14	7.0	8	0
Kelly Hamilton	1	14	14.0	14	0
Mark Streeter	1	14	14.0	14	0
Rocky DiPietro	1	11	11.0	11	0
Pat Brady	1	8	8.0	8	0
Ed Gataveckas	1	8	8.0	8	0
Leo Ezerins	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	66	1423	21.6		0
Opponents Totals	57	1295	22.7

SACKS	NO	YDS
Grover Covington	10.0
Mike Walker	8.0
Mitchell Price	6.5
John Priestner	4.0
Dave Sauve	3.5
Claude Mathews	3.5
Mike Barker	3.5
Leo Ezerins	3.0
Greg Gary	2.5
Ben Zambiasi	2.0
Felix Wright	1.5
Mickey Sutton	1.0
Team Totals	49.0
Opponents Totals

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Mike Barker	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Pat Brady	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Bragagnolo	3	2	0	0	0	0	0
Dieter Brock	5	4	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Clements	2	1	2	0	2	0	0
Rufus Crawford	4	2	1	0	1	0	0
Rocky DiPietro	1	1	1	0	1	0	0
Leo Ezerins	0	0	1	2	3	0	0
Howard Fields	1	0	0	5	5	17	0
Greg Gary	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Ed Gataveckas	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Dave Graffi	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Bill Howard	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Ron Johnson	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mike McIntyre	0	0	0	1	1	7	0
Alfonzo McMillian	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Mitchell Price	0	0	0	2	2	8	0
John Priestner	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Bernie Ruoff	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
Dave Sauve	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Johnny Shepherd	5	4	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Streeter	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Mickey Sutton	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Felix Wright	2	2	0	3	3	10	0
Ben Zambiasi	0	0	0	2	2	27	0
Team Totals	27	19	8	23	31	69	0
Opponents Totals		23		19	19