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Moe "The Toe" Racine was an offensive tackle and as you might expect from his nickname, a kicker for the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1958 to 1974. Actually, despite the nickname, Racine had a fairly short career as a kicker. Racine didn't do any kicking in his first three seasons (1958-60) as that was being done by vets like Mac Yoho and Gary Schreider. In 1961, Racine took over doing the kickoffs, and then added placekicking in 1962. Racine finished second in scoring in the East in 1962, 1964 and 1965, losing out each year to Don Sutherin of Hamilton. Racine finally bested Sutherin and won the East scoring crown in 1966. Ironically, Sutherin joined Ottawa in 1967 and split the placekicking duties with Racine before taking them over entirely in 1968 with Racine playing only tackle for the rest of his career. Racine was a pretty good offensive tackle as well and was a three time East All-Star at that position (1962, 1965 and 1966). Racine's kicking stats might not seem impressive by today's standards, but at a fieldgoal success rate around 50%, he was one of the best in the league in the early 1960s. It was not just the success rate, but also the number of attempts, though again that is low by today'standards. Consider the last couple of years before Racine took over the place kicking. In 1960, the most fieldgoals kicked in the East was 5, by Cookie Gilchrist of Toronto and Racine's predessessor, Gary Schrieder of Ottawa. Gilchrist missed 13 for only a 27.8% success rate while Schreider hit on 5 of 10. In 1961, Don Sutherin led the East with 10 fieldgoals, Cookie Gilchrist came second with 5. Gary Schreider hit on 4 of just 10 attempts for Ottawa. In his first year of placekicking, in 1962, Racine hit on 12 of 24 attempts which is more fieldgoals and more attempts that Ottawa had in the two previous years combined. And before you sneer at the 50% succcess rate, consider that Dave Cutler hit only 34% of his attempts in 1971, almost ten years later at the start of the kicking specialist era.
In 1973, Racine had one carry for 3 yards. In 1973, Racine had one fumble return for zero yards. In 1967, Racine was credited with one team lost for 2 yards. |
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