Don Sutherin

Don Sutherin was a Hall of Fame defensive back and kicker, who played mainly with Hamilton.  Sutherin began his CFL career in 1958 with Hamilton, and he saw action on both offense and defense, as well as doing kickoffs.  He had 23 carries for 62 yards and had his first CFL interception in his rookie season.  Sutherin went to the NFL in 1959, playing 2 games with Pittsburgh and 6 with the New York Giants.  Sutherin played 4 games with Pittsburgh in 1960, before being released and returning to the CFL.  Sutherin only played on game in 1960 with Hamilton, but added another interception hitting on 2 of 4 fieldgoal attempts.  Sutherin's career in the CFL took off in 1961 when he won the East scoring title with 69 points, led the East in interceptions with 11 and was named an East All-Star (CFL All-Stars didn't start until 1962).  In 1962, Suthering added 8 interceptions and captuered his second East All-Star honour as well as being named to the first All-Canadian team.  Sutherin was limited to only 8 games in 1963, the only year he failed to record at least one interception in his CFL career.  Sutherin bounced back in 1964,with 6 interceptions and capturing his second East scoring title on route to his thired East All-Star honour and his second All-Canadian.  Sutherin was an East All-Star again in 1965 and won his third scoring title.  Sutherin finished second in the East in scoring in 1966, losing out to Ottawa's Moe (The Toe) Racine.  Ironically, Sutherin ended up in Ottawa the following season and split the placekicking with Racine.  Sutherin's move to Ottawa took a detour through Edmonton.  After the 1966 season, Sutherin was traded in a major deal with Edmonton.  Hamilton traded Sutherin, along with QB Frank Cosentino, RB Gerry McDougall and Billy Wayte to Edmonton for Tommy Joe Coffey, Bill Redell, Marshal Starks and Ed Turek.  Suthering refused to report to Edmonton as he had a business in Hamilton.  Just before the 67 season  started, Edmonton traded him to Ottawa for receiver Ian MacDonald.  Sutherin took over the sole kicking duties in 1968 and won his fourth East scoring title with a new career high of 112 points.  Sutherin also added 5 interceptions in 1968 to pick up his fifth East All-Star honour at defensive back.  Sutherin upped his point total in 1969 to 116, but finished second in the East in scoring, losing to Tommy Joe Coffey who added 12 touchdowns to his kicking points to run away with the scoring title at 148 points.  Sutherin had his second best year in terms of numbers of interceptions with 10 and won both East and CFL All-Star honours to bring his career total to 6 East All-Star awards and 3 All-Canadians.  Sutherin played his final season in 1970 with Toronto.  He played only 5 games, but added another 4 interceptions to his belt to boost his career total to 158.

Games Played, Placekicking and Points
Year Team GP ConvA ConvG % Att Good FG% Long S MFG YdsMFG Avg PTS
1958 HAM
13 7 53.8 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 13
1960 HAM 1 1 1 100 4 2 50
0 1 34 34 7
1961 HAM 14 43 35 81.4 25 10 40
4 14 514 36.7 69
1962 HAM 14 44 37 84.1 27 12 44.4
5


78
1963 HAM 8 22 15 66.2 14 7 50
4


40
1964 HAM 14 37 34 91.9 35 20 57.1
15


94
1965 HAM 14 25 19 76 36 19 52.8
6


82
1966 HAM 14 31 25 80.6 25 10 40 44 11 15 681 45.4 67
1967 OTT 14 16 16 100 7 3 42.9 25 0 12 421 35.1 30
1968 OTT 14 51 44 86.3 37 17 45.9 46 8 19 805 42.4 112
1969 OTT 14 47 43 91.5 42 18 42.9 42 12 24 975 40.6 116
1970 TOR 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 45 45 6
Kickoffs
Year Team KO Yds Avg Long S
1958 HAM 22 1223 55.6 83 0
1960 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1961 HAM 58 3414 58.9 79 0
1962 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1963 HAM 35 2067 59.1 75 0
1964 HAM 57 2722 57.9 80 0
1965 HAM 39 2242 57.5 85 0
1966 HAM 43 2574 59.9 77 0
1967 OTT 41 2343 57.1 90 1
1968 OTT 63 3749 59.5 85 3
1969 OTT 63 3686 56.7 80 1
1970 TOR 7 341 48.7 65 0
Punting
Year Team P Yds Avg Long S
1958 HAM 4 142 35.5 47 2
1960 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1961 HAM 15 639 42.6 84 0
1962 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1963 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1964 HAM 2 81 40.5 44 0
1965 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1966 HAM 13 502 38.6 50 1
1967 OTT 0 0 0 0 4
1968 OTT 0 0 0 0 0
1969 OTT 0 0 0 0 0
1970 TOR 0 0 0 0 0

Note:  There appears to be an error in the official 1967 stats.  Sutherin made 3 of 7 fieldgoals, but is credited with 12 missed fieldgoals in the stats..  LIkely, Sutherin did the punting in the final game of the season when Bill Cline was injured and his punting stats were lumped in with his missed fieldgoal stats.

Fumbles
Year Team F FL OFR
1958 HAM

0
1960 HAM

0
1961 HAM

0
1962 HAM

0
1963 HAM

0
1964 HAM 3
0
1965 HAM 0
0
1966 HAM 0
0
1967 OTT 1 1 0
1968 OTT 0 0 0
1969 OTT 0 0 0
1970 TOR 0 0
 0
Kickoff Returns
Year Team KOR Yds Avg TD Long
1958 HAM 2 9 4.5 0 8
1960 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1961 HAM 1 22 22 0 22
1962 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1963 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1964 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1965 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1966 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1967 OTT 0 0 0 0 0
1968 OTT 0 0 0 0 0
1969 OTT 0 0 0 0 0
1970 TOR 0 0 0 0 0
Punt Returns
Year Team PR Yds Avg TD Long
1958 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1960 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1961 HAM 14 81 5.8 0 30
1962 HAM 44 203 4.6 0 29
1963 HAM 18 18 3.8 0 11
1964 HAM 57 274 4.8 0 29
1965 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1966 HAM 15 58 3.7 0 24
1967 OTT 6 41 6.8 0 22
1968 OTT 2 2 1 0 2
1969 OTT 3 12 4 0 12
1970 TOR 0 0 0 0 0
Interceptions
Year Team Int Yds Avg TDInt Long
1958 HAM 1 3 3 0 3
1960 HAM 1 0 0 0 0
1961 HAM 11 150 13.6 0 56
1962 HAM 8 95 11.9 0 45
1963 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1964 HAM 6 62 10.3 0 36
1965 HAM 2 24 12 0 24
1966 HAM 6 35 5.8 0 32
1967 OTT 4 37 9.3 0 22
1968 OTT 5 64 12.8 1 35
1969 OTT 10 98 9.8 1 50
1970 TOR 4 31 7.8 1 13
Fumble Returns
Year Team FR Yds Avg TD Long OFR FF
1958 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1962 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1964 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1965 HAM 1 0 0 0 0 0
1966 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1967 OTT 2 31 15.5 0 20 0
1968 OTT 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 OTT 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 TOR 0 0 0 0 0 0
1965 OPC