Ian Sunter

Sunter was one of the first generation of kicking specialists in the CFL.  In the East in the early 1970, he was part of a quartet of new plackickers that include Don Sweet in Montreal, Gerry Organ in Ottawa and Zenon Andrusyshyn in Toronto.  Sunter finished second in scoring in his first two seasons (1972 and 1973) with Hamilton before capturing the East scoring title with 141 points in 1974.  Sunter fell to third in scoring in the East in 1976, but still had a pretty good year with 109 points and 65.1% success rate on his fieldgolas which was just a shade behind the 66.0% success rate of the year before.  Sunter then sat out the 1976 and 1977 seasons before getting the call from Toronto to resume his career in 1978 as Zenon Andrusyshyn was off to try his luck in the NFL.  1978 was a bit rocky for Sunter as his fieldgoal percentage dropped to 48.5%, but he bounced back in 1979 with a 98 point season and a 65.6% success rate.  That, however was Sunter's last yar in the CFL as Zenon Andrusyshyn had returned to the CFL in 1979 with Sunter's old team in Hamilton, and in 1980, the Big Z returned to Toronto and displaced Sunter.  Sunter won an East All-Star in 1979 as a punter.

Games Played, Placekicking and Points
Year Team GP ConvA ConvG % Att Good FG% Long S MFG YdsMFG Avg PTS
1972 HAM 14 45 44 97.7 38 14 36.8 46 7 24 833 34.7 93
1973 HAM 14 33 32 96.7 35 21 60 47 1 14 538 38.4 102
1974 HAM 16 23 22 95.6 53 35 66 48 8 18 801 44.5 141
1975 HAM 16 17 17 100 43 28 65.1 52 7 14 627 44.8 109
1978 TOR 16 22 22 100 33 16 48.5 47 11 16 725 45.3 83
1979 TOR 16 18 18 100 32 21 65.6 45 10 11 480 43.6 98
Kickoffs
Year Team KO Yds Avg Long S
1972 HAM 49 2573 52.5 80 0
1973 HAM 8 414 51.8 57 0
1974 HAM 38 2084 54.8 80 0
1975 HAM 61 3476 57 87 1
1978 TOR 43 2316 53.9 90 1
1979 TOR 44 2530 57.5 83 1
Punting
Year Team P Yds Avg Long S
1972 HAM 20 676 33.8 47 0
1973 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1974 HAM 151 5840 38.7 74 6
1975 HAM 0 0 0 0 0
1978 TOR 41 1599 39 89 1
1979 TOR 141 6123 41.7 66 6
Fumbles
Year Team F FL OFR
1972 HAM 0 0 2
1973 HAM 1 1 0
1974 HAM 1 1 0
1975 HAM 1 1 0
1978 TOR 0 0
 0
1979 TOR 0 0
 0
Passing
Year Team PA PC % Yds TD Int
1972 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 HAM 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 TOR 1 0 0 0 0 0
1979 TOR 1 0 0 0 0 0