The Ottawa Rough Riders 1971 Season on CFLdb Statistics

The Ottawa Rough Riders’ 1971 Season

Season Summary

Finished 3rd in the Eastern Conference
Eastern Conference Semi-final
- Nov. 7, 1971 Lost 4 – 23 @ Hamilton

Ottawa Rough Riders 1971 Full Schedule/Results

Team Roster and Stats

Roster Turnover from 1970: 15 players
1971 Team Roster and Player Participation (CFLdb)

Ottawa Rough Riders 1971 Record
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PF	PA	Streak	L6
Pre-season	4	2	2	0	4	83	56	L1	2-2-0
Regular Season	14	6	8	0	12	291	277	W3	3-3-0
Home	7	4	3	0	8	153	114	W2	3-3-0
Visitor	7	2	5	0	4	138	163	W1	1-5-0
Divisional opponent	9	3	6	0	6	167	172	W2	2-4-0
Non-divisional opponent	5	3	2	0	6	124	105	W1	3-2-0

Full 1971 League Standings

Ottawa Rough Riders 1971 Opponent Appearances

Opponent	Opp. Win %	@ OTT	OTT @
Divisional	0.548	2-3-0 (5)	1-3-0 (4)
Non-Divisional	0.488	2-0-0 (2)	1-2-0 (3)
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (3)	0.500	0-1-0 (1)	1-1-0 (2)
Montreal Alouettes (3)	0.429	2-0-0 (2)	0-1-0 (1)
Toronto Argonauts (3)	0.714	0-2-0 (2)	0-1-0 (1)
BC Lions (1)	0.406	1-0-0 (1)	--
Calgary Stampeders (1)	0.594	--	0-1-0 (1)
Edmonton Eskimos (1)	0.375	1-0-0 (1)	--
Saskatchewan Roughriders (1)	0.594	--	0-1-0 (1)
Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1)	0.469	--	1-0-0 (1)

Coaches

Head Coach

Jack Gotta (Dec. 10, 1969 – Feb. 4, 1974)

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1971 Ottawa Rough Riders Attendance

Capacity: 27,172
Total: 160,565
High: 27,137
Avg: 22,937 (7 out of 7 games)
Diff from 1970 Avg: -1,205
Low: 14,758
Sellouts: 0
% of Capacity: 84.42
Diff from League Avg: -1,074

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Team Scoring

	1971	1970 +/-
Average Combined Score	40.57	2.43
Average Winning Score	30.67	5.92
Average Losing Score	13.38	2.23
Average Home Score	21.86	8.71
Average Visitor Score	19.71	3.57
Average Margin of Victory	15.00	1.00
Average Margin of Loss	9.50	1.50

Stadium

1971 home stadium: Lansdowne Park
Capacity: 27,172
Playing surface: Natural Grass
Previous stadium change: 1967 – Expansion

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)
Ottawa	43	34	77	34	23	57	23	17	40	53	64	117	153 (21.9)	138 (19.7)	291 (20.8)
Opponent	28	43	71	57	46	103	11	20	31	18	54	72	163 (23.3)	114 (16.3)	277 (19.8)

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	4 (4-0-0)	2 (0-2-0)	1 (0-1-0)	2 (0-2-0)	1 (1-0-0)	4 (1-3-0)	6 (4-2-0)	3 (1-2-0)	5 (1-4-0)
After 2nd	4 (4-0-0)	0 (0-0-0)	3 (0-3-0)	2 (0-2-0)	0 (0-0-0)	5 (2-3-0)	6 (4-2-0)	0 (0-0-0)	8 (2-6-0)
After 3rd	3 (3-0-0)	2 (1-1-0)	2 (0-2-0)	1 (0-1-0)	1 (0-1-0)	5 (2-3-0)	4 (3-1-0)	3 (1-2-0)	7 (2-5-0)
After 4th	4 (4-0-0)	0 (0-0-0)	3 (0-3-0)	2 (2-0-0)	0 (0-0-0)	5 (0-5-0)	6 (6-0-0)	0 (0-0-0)	8 (0-8-0)

Ottawa Rough Riders 1971 Player Awards and Nominations

1971 Most Outstanding

Player — Marshall Shirk (Team Nominee)
Lineman — Marshall Shirk (Team Nominee)
Canadian Player — Wayne Giardino (Team Nominee)

Ottawa Rough Riders 1971 Draft Picks

Round–Pick (Overall)	[Via]	Player (Position)	College/Program
1–2 (2)		Bob Eccles (LB)	Carleton
2–2 (11)		Bob Folusewych (FB)	Guelph
3–2 (20)		Bob Hapfield (T)	Waterloo
4–2 (29)		Art Lord (DB)	Saskatchewan
5–2 (38)		Steve Derbyshire (T)	Western Ontario
6–2 (47)		Steve Hoffman (T)	Windsor
7–2 (56)		George Hill (LB)	Western Ontario
8–2 (64)		Marshall Caplan (LB)	McMaster
9–2		Pass

Ottawa Rough Riders 1971 All-Star Selections

1 All-Canadian Selections

OLB	Jerry “Soupy” Campbell

3 All-Division Selections

RB	Dennis Duncan
DT	Rudy Sims
DE	Tom Laputka

^* – indicates unanimous selection

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Ottawa Rough Riders 1971 Schedule

Week	Game	Details (EDT Date Time (EDT )	Result		Attendance	TV
A	3	Mon. July 5	WPG 19 @ OTT 17	L	13,513
	7	Fri. July 9	OTT 5 @ EDM 1	W	14,768
B	8	Mon. July 12	OTT 41 @ BC 14	W	23,088
C	15	Mon. July 19	BC 22 @ OTT 20	L	15,554
1	21	Tue. July 27	EDM 11 @ OTT 22	W	19,959
2	25	Mon. Aug. 2	OTT 28 @ WPG 22	W	21,851
	27	Wed. Aug. 4	OTT 8 @ CGY 9	L	22,251
3	32	Wed. Aug. 11	HAM 20 @ OTT 17	L	26,385
4	37	Thu. Aug. 19	OTT 28 @ TOR 30	L	33,135
5	42	Fri. Aug. 27 10:00 PM	OTT 21 @ SSK 42	L	16,980	CTV
7	49	Mon. Sept. 6	MTL 17 @ OTT 40	W	24,395
8	51	Sat. Sept. 11	OTT 6 @ MTL 25	L	24,374
9	58	Sun. Sept. 19	TOR 26 @ OTT 17	L	26,063
10	63	Sun. Sept. 26	OTT 7 @ HAM 19	L	26,953
11	69	Sun. Oct. 3 2:00 PM	TOR 12 @ OTT 3	L	21,868	CTV
12	71	Sat. Oct. 9	BC 21 @ OTT 45	W	14,758
14	81	Sat. Oct. 23	OTT 40 @ HAM 16	W	21,700
15	85	Sat. Oct. 30	MTL 7 @ OTT 9	W	27,137
P1	89	Sun. Nov. 7	OTT 4 @ HAM 23	L	26,471