Ken Ploen

Ken Ploen is probably best remembered for being a good passing QB, and indeed his pass completion percentage normally was in the high 50's, but he was a very good all around athlete. Ploen joined the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1957 and played all 11 seasons for the Blue and Gold, before retiring in 1967. Ploen saw signficant action at QB in his rookies seson in 1957, but In his next two seasons with the Bombers, Ploen was the back-up QB and a starting defensive back. In fact, in 1959, he led the West in pass interceptions with 10 and was named a West All-Sar at DB. In an interesting statistical anomoly, Ploen was actually the West All-Star at QB in his rookie season while throwing only 140 passes which is less than even his teamate Duncan who threw 236 passes and had a higher completion percentage.* Ploen took over as the Winnipeg #1 QB in 1960, and held that positin until his retirement. His best year passing was easily in 1962 when he completed 65.6% of his 208 attempts for 2097 yards and an excellent 17TD passes to only 4 interceptions. Ploen won All-Canadian honours in 1965 for his 58.2% completion percentage, 1789 yards and 15 toudhdowns. As mentioned previously, Ploen was a good all around athlete. He ranked high in rushing through much of his career, and keep in mind losses while passing wree included in rushing stats in his early years. Even so,Ploen racked up 2997 yards career rushing to go with 16,470 career yards passing. Ploen was not used often as a pass receiver with 6 career pass receptions, but three of them went for touchdowns. In additon, Ploen was used to kick converts in his rookie season. Ken Ploen was named to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1975.

* The source for the All-Star selection is the 2007 CFL Facts & Figures book which has been known to be wrong sometimes!

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**Games Played and Passing**
Year	Team	GP	PA	PC	%	Yds	TD	Int	Sacked	Yds
1957	WPG		140	74	52.8	1284	10	8
1958	WPG		77	33	42.8	626	4	5
1959	WPG		56	30	53.5	467	3	4		5
1960	WPG		201	103	51.2	1693	12	17	12	65
1961	WPG		96	50	52	905	5	4
1962	WPG		208	137	65.8	2097	17	4
1963	WPG		226	132	58.4	2026	14	15	26	169
1964	WPG	15	239	132	55.2	1878	12	13	30	213
1965	WPG	13	213	124	58.2	1789	15	14		74
1966	WPG	15	257	153	59.5	2323	16	11	29	207
1967	WPG	11	203	116	57.1	1382	11	11	0	0

Games played stats were not kept until 1964 in the West.

**Rushing**
Year	Team	TC	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
1957	WPG	100	319	3.2	5	30
1958	WPG	69	366	5.5	1	35
1959	WPG	14	83	5.9	0	15
1960	WPG	60	541	7.9	4	24
1961	WPG	43	192	4.4	2	20
1962	WPG	40	241	6.5	0	29
1963	WPG	64	316	4.9	2	31
1964	WPG	65	397	6.1	0	40
1965	WPG	59	230	3.9	2	16
1966	WPG	35	163	4.6	0	20
1967	WPG	33	149	4.5	1	42

**Fumbles**
Year	Team	F	FL
1957	WPG	5
1958	WPG	3
1959	WPG	0
1960	WPG	3
1961	WPG	4
1962	WPG	2
1963	WPG	4
1964	WPG	2
1965	WPG	4
1966	WPG	0
1967	WPG	2	2

**Pass Receiving**
Year	Team	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
1957	WPG	0	0	0	0	0
1958	WPG	0	0	0	0	0
1959	WPG	0	0	0	0	0
1960	WPG	2	44	22	1	25
1961	WPG	1	29	29	0	29
1962	WPG	0	0	0	0	0
1963	WPG	0	0	0	0	0
1964	WPG	0	0	0	0	0
1965	WPG	2	30	15	1	19
1966	WPG	1	13	13	1	13
1967	WPG	0	0	0	0	0

**Interceptions**
Year	Team	Int	Yds	Avg	Long
1957	WPG	3	39	13
1958	WPG	1	20	20	20
1959	WPG	10	104	10.4
1960	WPG	3	53	17.7
1961	WPG	0	0	0	0
1962	WPG	0	0	0	0
1963	WPG	0	0	0	0
1964	WPG	0	0	0	0
1965	WPG	0	0	0	0
1966	WPG	0	0	0	0
1967	WPG	0	0	0	0

Ploen was good on 25 of 32 conver attempts in 1957.

Ploent had 2 fumble recoveries in 1957 (no yards for fumble recoveries were kept then).