These season details are courtesy of Aaron Kramer and his Green
Bay Packers Web Site and Wes
Cross for finding and formatting them.
1951
WEEK
ONE
SATURDAY
AUGUST 25
W-Edmonton
30, WINNIPEG 24 (9600) - Edmonton,
which rushed for 306 yards, won in the last three minutes on a TD by HB
Ray Enright after a thrilling game in which neither team held more than
a six-point lead.
W-SASKATCHEWAN
8, Calgary 1 - A 20-yard FG in
the first quarter by K
Don Ettinger and
five last-quarter kicks to the endline by QB Glenn Dobbs gave the
Riders the win.
MONDAY
AUGUST 27
W-SASKATCHEWAN
23, Edmonton 0 (6000) - Jack Russell led
the Riders with two TDs, both on passes from Glenn Dobbs. Don Ettinger
booted a FG
and three
converts and Ken Charlton added the third major.
W-WINNIPEG
34, Calgary 24 (9600) - After opening the
scoring with an 18-yard TD run, Jack Jacobs tossed TDs to Andy Sokol,
Armstrong, Johnny
Stroppa. He also
kicked a single.
Saskatch
2 0 0 31
1 4 Edmonton 1 1 0
30 47 2
Winnipeg
1 1 0 58
54 2 Calgary 0 2 0
25 42 0
WEEK
TWO
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 29
I-HAMILTON
37, Montreal 6 (14000) - George Ratterman,
the Alouettes' $20,000 beauty, was forced to rush most of his 44
passes, of which
one went for a
touchdown, four were intercepted and 19 completed.
THURSDAY
AUGUST 30
W-Saskatchewan
33, WINNIPEG 1 (9000) - Glenn
Dobbs completed 13 of 22 pass attempts for 234 yards compared with
Winnipeg's record of 166 yards. Don Ettinger intercepted three Bomber
passes.
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 1
W-Edmonton
18, CALGARY 17 (8000) - Howard
Hansen, Ray Knight and line-coach George Brown scored Edmonton
touchdowns. Coach Annis Stukus went in and kicked two converts.
I-Toronto
36, OTTAWA 17 (15000) - Ulysses
Curtis, Ron Smylie, Marvin Whaley, Billy Bass, Don Scott and
Dons
Smylie scored TDs for the Argos, with mos Argo touchdowns coming on
pass plays.
O-TORONTO
16, Windsor 0 (2000) - Ed Fisher and
Andy Gilmour scored touchdowns for Beaches, while Howie French and
Bruce Gillan each got a pair of singles.
MONDAY
SEPTEMBER 3
I-HAMILTON
27, Toronto 6 (15000) - Joe
Shinn got two TDs for Hamilton. Tip Logan and Russ Newman each got one.
Bernie Custis tossed two TD passes, to Shinn and Logan. Logan converted
all four TDs.
scored
all of Edmonton's points with an unconverted touchdown in the second
quarter as Calgary absorbed its fourth straight defeat this season.
W-Winnipeg
24, SASKATCHEWAN 22 (10000) - Jack
Jacobs fired TD passes to Bud Korchak, Ron Vaccher and Andy Sokol in
the final eight minutes to hand the Riders their first loss.
O-SARNIA
15, Toronto 5 (4000) - John Duchene and
Jack Glendinning
scored TDs for
the Imperials, while Johnny Chorestecki converted both and added a
single in the opener for Sarnia.