1956 Calgary Stampeders Statistics
Team Record: 4-12 8
Finishing 5th in the CFL's Western Interprovincial Football Union
Coach: Otis Douglas (2-5)
Coach: Jack Hennemeier (2-7)
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1956 Calgary Stampeders Results
The Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League ended the 1956 season with a record of 4 wins and 12 losses for 8 points, finishing fifth in the CFL's Western Interprovincial Football Union.
The Stampeders struggled to score 229 points, worst in the circuit, and the leaky defense allowed 410. Earl Lunsford carried the ball for a team-high 1,283 yards for Calgary.
Don Klosterman threw for 1,398 yards. Johnny Pyeatt grabbed 25 receptions, while Douglas Nagle contributed 345 receiving yards.
Harvey Wylie picked off 5 opponent throws.
Otis Douglas and Jack Hennemeier coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Don Klosterman | 177 | 97 | 54.8 | 1398 | 7.9 | 5 | 2.8 | 15 | 8.5 | 62 | 54.8 |
Ronnie Knox | 130 | 61 | 46.9 | 782 | 6.0 | 2 | 1.5 | 5 | 3.8 | 32 | 55.4 |
Duke Bailey | 12 | 3 | 25.0 | 49 | 4.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 8.3 | 28 | 9.4 |
Ron Clinkscale | 10 | 4 | 40.0 | 41 | 4.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 10.0 | 19 | 12.9 |
Bill Stevenson | 7 | 2 | 28.6 | 13 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 42.9 | 12 | 0.0 |
Douglas Nagle | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 39.6 |
Harvey Wylie | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 39.6 |
Totals | 339 | 167 | 49.3 | 2283 | 6.7 | 7 | 2.1 | 25 | 7.4 | 62 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Earl Lunsford | 216 | 1283 | 5.9 | 57 | 7 |
Lynn Bottoms | 61 | 332 | 5.4 | 23 | 5 |
Joe Pagliei | 57 | 324 | 5.7 | 60 | 3 |
Ron Clinkscale | 52 | 210 | 4.0 | 23 | 0 |
Douglas Nagle | 27 | 188 | 7.0 | 23 | 1 |
Ronnie Knox | 36 | 80 | 2.2 | 20 | 3 |
Harvey Wylie | 24 | 76 | 3.2 | 12 | 0 |
Dean Renfro | 5 | 72 | 14.4 | 57 | 1 |
Al Valdes | 17 | 54 | 3.2 | 19 | 1 |
Don Klosterman | 50 | 39 | 0.8 | 23 | 2 |
Jim Sides | 6 | 35 | 5.8 | 20 | 0 |
Bill Stevenson | 5 | 31 | 6.2 | 47 | 0 |
Joe Yamauchi | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | 7 | 0 |
Bryan Engram | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 0 |
Duke Bailey | 9 | -12 | -1.3 | 11 | 0 |
Totals | 570 | 2733 | 4.8 | 60 | 23 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Johnny Pyeatt | 25 | 307 | 12.3 | 28 | 0 |
Douglas Nagle | 22 | 345 | 15.7 | 51 | 0 |
Jack Gotta | 17 | 290 | 17.1 | 62 | 1 |
Joe Pagliei | 15 | 252 | 16.8 | 54 | 2 |
Ron Clinkscale | 15 | 182 | 12.1 | 44 | 1 |
Bryan Engram | 13 | 214 | 16.5 | 30 | 1 |
Earl Lunsford | 13 | 108 | 8.3 | 19 | 0 |
Dean Renfro | 11 | 205 | 18.6 | 45 | 2 |
Lynn Bottoms | 9 | 100 | 11.1 | 24 | 0 |
Harvey Wylie | 6 | 77 | 12.8 | 48 | 0 |
Eddie Simms | 5 | 52 | 10.4 | 21 | 0 |
Eddie West | 4 | 59 | 14.8 | 37 | 0 |
Al Valdes | 4 | 29 | 7.2 | 16 | 0 |
John Alderton | 3 | 33 | 11.0 | 14 | 0 |
Jim Sides | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | 9 | 0 |
Joe Yamauchi | 2 | 14 | 7.0 | 18 | 0 |
Totals | 167 | 2283 | 13.7 | 62 | 7 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | FGS | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Don Klosterman | 20 | 17 | 85.0 | 4 | 1 | 25.0 | 1 | 21 |
Ronnie Knox | 8 | 3 | 37.5 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 4 |
Lynn Bottoms | 3 | 2 | 66.7 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 3 |
Jim Sides | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
Totals | 32 | 23 | 71.9 | 10 | 1 | 10.0 | 3 | 29 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | PS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joe Pagliei | 64 | 2415 | 37.7 | 58 | 4 |
Ronnie Knox | 30 | 1152 | 38.4 | 66 | 3 |
Bill Stevenson | 22 | 818 | 37.2 | 57 | 1 |
Earl Lunsford | 7 | 324 | 46.3 | 60 | 0 |
Eddie West | 4 | 151 | 37.8 | 42 | 0 |
Totals | 127 | 4860 | 38.3 | 66 | 8 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Douglas Nagle | 25 | 210 | 8.4 | 17 | 0 |
Harvey Wylie | 27 | 175 | 6.5 | 20 | 0 |
Lynn Bottoms | 19 | 113 | 5.9 | 18 | 0 |
Eddie Simms | 13 | 55 | 4.2 | 10 | 0 |
Phil Muntz | 8 | 43 | 5.4 | 9 | 0 |
Peter Muir | 6 | 31 | 5.2 | 10 | 0 |
Bill Stevenson | 3 | 23 | 7.7 | 9 | 0 |
Ron Clinkscale | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 0 |
Earl Lunsford | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 103 | 675 | 6.6 | 20 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Douglas Nagle | 17 | 400 | 23.5 | 37 | 0 |
Harvey Wylie | 12 | 262 | 21.8 | 38 | 0 |
Lynn Bottoms | 11 | 248 | 22.5 | 40 | 0 |
Phil Muntz | 9 | 131 | 14.6 | 26 | 0 |
Dean Renfro | 6 | 110 | 18.3 | 27 | 0 |
Ron Clinkscale | 4 | 88 | 22.0 | 0 | 0 |
Joe Pagliei | 4 | 62 | 15.5 | 23 | 0 |
Joe Yamauchi | 3 | 25 | 8.3 | 12 | 0 |
Bob Geary | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
Alex Macklin | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 |
Bill Pullar | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Peter Muir | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 70 | 1355 | 19.4 | 40 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Harvey Wylie | 5 | 41 | 8.2 | 20 | 0 |
Earl Lunsford | 4 | 59 | 14.8 | 32 | 1 |
Lynn Bottoms | 3 | 25 | 8.3 | 25 | 0 |
Ron Clinkscale | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 15 | 0 |
Peter Muir | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 13 | 0 |
Lamar Leachman | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 |
Bill Stevenson | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Eddie West | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
Joe Pagliei | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Bill Pullar | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 0 |
Ron Allbright | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 22 | 176 | 8.0 | 32 | 1 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Harvey Wylie | 4 | 50 | 1 | ||||
Gord Brown | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Dick Huffman | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Jack Gotta | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Bob Geary | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Lamar Leachman | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Joe Yamauchi | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
John Alderton | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Harry Langford | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Eddie Simms | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Burdette Hess | 1 | 11 | 0 | ||||
Eddie West | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Bob Morgan | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Erik Christensen | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Lynn Bottoms | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Ron Clinkscale | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Ron Allbright | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 61 | 1 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
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Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Earl Lunsford | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | ||||||
Joe Pagliei | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 34 | ||||||
Don Klosterman | 2 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 33 | |||||||||
Lynn Bottoms | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 33 | ||||
Ronnie Knox | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 25 | |||||||||
Dean Renfro | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Douglas Nagle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
Bryan Engram | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Ron Clinkscale | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Jack Gotta | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Al Valdes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Harvey Wylie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Bill Stevenson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Jim Sides | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
Totals | 23 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 229 |