The Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 Season on CFLdb Statistics

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 Season

Season Summary

Finished 2nd in the Eastern Conference
Eastern Conference Semi-final
- Nov. 6, 1966 Won 24 – 14 vs Montreal
Lost Eastern Conference Final Total Point Series 72 – 17
- Nov. 13, 1966 Lost 1 – 30 vs Ottawa
- Nov. 19, 1966 Lost 16 – 42 @ Ottawa

Team Roster and Stats

1966 Team Roster and Player Participation (CFLdb)

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Summary
Lead/Trailed Record by Qtr

Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 Record

	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PF	PA	Streak	L6
Pre-season	4	2	2	0	4	83	87	W1	2-2-0
Regular Season	14	9	5	0	18	264	160	L1	3-3-0
Home	7	6	1	0	12	135	51	L1	5-1-0
Visitor	7	3	4	0	6	129	109	W1	2-4-0
Divisional opponent	9	5	4	0	10	168	119	L1	3-3-0
Non-divisional opponent	5	4	1	0	8	96	41	W1	4-1-0

Full 1966 League Standings

Lead/Trailed Record by Quarter

	Home			Visitor			Total
Quarter	Lead (Record)	Tied (Record)	Trailed (Record)	Lead (Record)	Tied (Record)	Trailed (Record)	Lead (Record)	Tied (Record)	Trailed (Record)
After 1st	3 (3-0-0)	1 (0-1-0)	3 (3-0-0)	4 (2-2-0)	0 (0-0-0)	3 (1-2-0)	7 (5-2-0)	1 (0-1-0)	6 (4-2-0)
After 2nd	6 (6-0-0)	0 (0-0-0)	1 (0-1-0)	5 (2-3-0)	1 (1-0-0)	1 (0-1-0)	11 (8-3-0)	1 (1-0-0)	2 (0-2-0)
After 3rd	4 (4-0-0)	1 (1-0-0)	2 (1-1-0)	5 (3-2-0)	0 (0-0-0)	2 (0-2-0)	9 (7-2-0)	1 (1-0-0)	4 (1-3-0)
After 4th	6 (6-0-0)	0 (0-0-0)	1 (0-1-0)	3 (3-0-0)	0 (0-0-0)	4 (0-4-0)	9 (9-0-0)	0 (0-0-0)	5 (0-5-0)

Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 Schedule

Week	Date/Time (EDT	Result		Attendance	TV
A	Thu Jul 14	HAM 27 @ TOR 41	L	20,617
B	Wed Jul 20	BC 2 @ HAM 13	W	14,000
C	Mon Jul 25	HAM 14 @ WPG 20	L	14,495
C	Wed Jul 27	HAM 29 @ CGY 24	W	16,103

Week	Date/Time (EDT	Result		Attendance	TV
1	Fri Aug 5	HAM 18 @ TOR 8	W	28,594
2	Sat Aug 13	CGY 3 @ HAM 21	W	24,765	CBC
3	Sat Aug 20	TOR 10 @ HAM 23	W	22,261
4	Wed Aug 24	HAM 8 @ MTL 16	L	20,000
6	Mon Sep 5	OTT 12 @ HAM 16	W	29,903
7	Sat Sep 10	HAM 16 @ OTT 27	L	23,664
8	Sat Sep 17	MTL 4 @ HAM 33	W	22,512
9	Sat Sep 24	SSK 7 @ HAM 29	W	26,057	CBC
10	Sat Oct 1	HAM 28 @ EDM 7	W	18,000
11	Mon Oct 3	HAM 10 @ BC 17	L	24,107	CTV
11	Mon Oct 10	WPG 7 @ HAM 8	W	23,662
12	Sun Oct 16	HAM 18 @ OTT 20	L	24,002
13	Sat Oct 22	HAM 31 @ MTL 14	W	17,000
14	Sat Oct 29 2:00 PM	TOR 8 @ HAM 5	L	15,072	CBCE

Week	Date/Time (EST	Result		Attendance	TV
P1	Sun Nov 6	MTL 14 @ HAM 24	W	20,342
P2	Sun Nov 13	OTT 30 @ HAM 1	L	22,387
P2	Sat Nov 19	HAM 16 vs OTT 42	L	20,000

Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 Opponent Appearances

Opponent	Opp. Win %	@ HAM	HAM @
Divisional	0.548	3-1-0 (4)	2-3-0 (5)
Non-Divisional	0.450	3-0-0 (3)	1-1-0 (2)
Montreal Alouettes (3)	0.500	1-0-0 (1)	1-1-0 (2)
Ottawa Rough Riders (3)	0.786	1-0-0 (1)	0-2-0 (2)
Toronto Argonauts (3)	0.357	1-1-0 (2)	1-0-0 (1)
BC Lions (1)	0.313	--	0-1-0 (1)
Calgary Stampeders (1)	0.406	1-0-0 (1)	--
Edmonton Eskimos (1)	0.406	--	1-0-0 (1)
Saskatchewan Roughriders (1)	0.594	1-0-0 (1)	--
Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1)	0.531	1-0-0 (1)	--

Summary
By Quarter

Team Scoring

	1966	1965 +/-
Average Combined Score	30.29	-0.71
Average Winning Score	23.00	-0.30
Average Losing Score	11.40	-0.60
Average Home Score	19.29	-2.14
Average Visitor Score	18.43	-0.29
Average Margin of Victory	15.00	-0.50
Average Margin of Loss	6.20	-0.55

Regular Season Scoring Summary by Quarter

	1st			2nd			3rd			4th			Final
	H	V	T	H	V	T	H	V	T	H	V	T	H (PPG)	V (PPG)	T (PPG)
Hamilton	33	29	62	36	52	88	35	30	65	31	18	49	135 (19.3)	129 (18.4)	264 (18.9)
Opponent	7	8	15	18	41	59	19	20	39	7	40	47	109 (15.6)	51 (7.3)	160 (11.4)

Coaches

Head Coach

Ralph Sazio (Feb. 20, 1963 – Dec. 31, 1967)

Player Awards
All Stars

Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 Player Awards and Nominations

1966 Most Outstanding

Player — Garney Henley (Team Nominee)
Lineman — Billy Ray Locklin (Team Nominee)
Canadian Player — Bobby Kuntz (Team Nominee)

Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 All-Star Selections

No Hamilton Tiger-Cats Canadian or Division All-Star selections in 1966.

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 Draft Picks

Round–Pick (Overall)	[Via]	Player (Position)	College/Program
1–9 (9)		Steve Ostapchuk (HB)	McMaster
2–9 (18)		Wayne O'Brien (C)	Saint Mary's
3–9 (27)		Gary Jobe (T)	McMaster
4–9 (36)		Gordon White (HB)	Toronto
5–9 (44)		Tom Richardson (E)	Waterloo Lutheran
6–9 (50)		Doug Mitchell (OL)	Western Ontario
7–9 (56)		Bob Johnston (E)	Saint Mary's
8–9 (59)		Jack Tynedale (LB)	Waterloo
9–9		Pass
10–9		Pass