Dave Thelen

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Dave Thelen
Career information
Date of birth	(1936-09-02) September 2, 1936 (age 88)
Place of birth	East Canton, Ohio, U.S.
Status	Retired
CFL status	International
Position(s)	RB
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg)
US college	Miami (Ohio)
NFL draft	1958 / round: 27 / pick: 324
Drafted by	Cleveland Browns
Career history
As player
1958–1964	Ottawa Rough Riders
1965–1966	Toronto Argonauts

CFL East All-Star	1959, 1960, 1963–1966
Career stats
Canadian Football Hall of Fame, 1989

David Thelen (born September 2, 1936)^[1] is a former Canadian Football League (CFL) running back for the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Toronto Argonauts. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1989.

Dave Thelen played semi-pro baseball and was drafted by the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball and by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League before joining the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League in 1958.^[2]^[3] ^[4]

During his 9-year career, Thelen rushed for 8,463 yards on 1,530 carries and scored 47 touchdowns. His best years were 1959 to 1961, when he rushed for over 1,000 yards for 3 straight years. He was the CFL’s leading rusher in 1960 with 1407 yards (5.7 yards/rush) and the eastern conference leader in 1959 and 1965. In one game in 1960, he carried 33 times for 209 yards against the Toronto Argonauts. That year, he was part of the 48th Grey Cup winning team. In 1965, Thelen was replaced by Bo Scott and traded to the Toronto Argonauts, playing his final two years with them.

References

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^ "David 'Dave' Thelen".
^ "Dave Thelen". Canadian Football Hall of Fame & Museum. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
^ "Ottawa Rough Riders Gallery - The Trading Card Database". www.tradingcarddb.com. Archived from the original on September 21, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
^ "Dave Thelen Statistics on JustSportsStats.com". justsportsstats.com. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2018.

Ottawa Rough Riders 48th Grey Cup champions

Head coach: Frank Clair

CFL annual rushing yards leaders

1950: Casey
1951: Kwong
1952: Bright
1953: Vessels
1954: Waugh
1955: Kwong
1956: Kwong
1957: Bright
1958: Bright
1959: Bright
1960: Thelen
1961: Lunsford
1962: Dixon
1963: Coleman
1964: Coleman
1965: Reed
1966: Reed
1967: Reed
1968: Reed
1969: Reed
1970: McKinnis
1971: Evenson
1972: Herron
1973: Bell
1974: Reed
1975: Burden
1976: Washington
1977: Edwards
1978: Strickland
1979: Green
1980: Sykes
1981: Sykes
1982: Walker
1983: Walker
1984: Reaves
1985: Reaves
1986: Allen
1987: Reaves
1988: Lee
1989: Taylor
1990: Mimbs
1991: Mimbs
1992: Richardson
1993: Richardson
1994: Pringle
1995: Pringle
1996: Mimbs
1997: Pringle
1998: Pringle
1999: Pringle
2000: Pringle
2001: Jenkins
2002: Avery
2003: Roberts
2004: Davis
2005: Roberts
2006: Roberts
2007: Smith
2008: Reynolds
2009: Reynolds
2010: Reid
2011: Whitaker
2012: Cornish
2013: Cornish
2014: Cornish
2015: Sutton
2016: Messam
2017: Harris
2018: Harris
2019: Harris
2021: Stanback
2022: Carey
2023: Oliveira
2024: Oliveira

v t e Members of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
Players	Abendschan Ah You Aldag D. Allen Anderson Atchison B. Bailey Baker Barrow Bass Batstone Battle Beach Benecick Bennett Bonk Bourke Bowman Box Breen Bright C. Brock D. Brock Do. Brown T. Brown Browne Brule Burden Burris Cahoon Calvillo Cameron J. Campbell Casey Charlton Childress Clarke Clements Clemons Coffey Conacher Connop Copeland Cornish Corrigall Covington C. Cox E. Cox R. Craig Crawford Cronin D. Cutler W. Cutler Dalla Riva DiPietro Dixon Dunigan Elgaard Elimimian Eliowitz Emerson Estay Etcheverry Evanshen Fairbanks Faloney Fear Fennell Fernandez Ferraro Ferrone Fieldgate Fleming Flory Da. Flutie Do. Flutie Flynn Frank Fryer Gabriel Gaines Gall George Golab Gorrell Grant Gray Griffing Ham Hanson Harding D. Harris W. Harris Harrison Helton Henley Highbaugh Hinton Holloway Huffman Hufnagel Hugo Ilesic Isbister Jackson Jacobs E. James G. James A. Johnson B. Johnson W. Johnson Ty. Jones Jurasin Kabat Kapp Keeling B. Kelly E. Kelly Kepley Krol Kwong Lapointe Lancaster Lawson Leadlay Lear Lehmann L. Lewis N. Lewis Lumsden Lunsford Luster Luzzi Makowsky McCallum McCance McGill McGowan McManus McQuarters B. Miles R. Miles Mills Mitchell Molson Montford Moon F. Morris T. Morris Mosca J. Murphy Narcisse Nelson Nettles Neumann O'Quinn Okeke O'Shea Pajaczkowski Jac. Parker Jam. Parker Passaglia Patterson Payton G. Perry N. Perry Phillips A. Pitts E. Pitts Pless Ploen Poplawski Pringle Quilty Racine Raimey Ray Rebholz Reed Reeve Ridgway Rigney Roberts Robinson Romano Rowe Ruby Russel T. Scott V. Scott Shatto Simon Be. Simpson Bo. Simpson Sprague Stegall Steinauer Stevenson Stewart Stirling Sutherin Symons Thelen Thornton Timmis Tindale Tinsley Tommy Trawick Tubman Tucker Urness Uteck Vaughan Vaughn Vavra Vercheval Wagner Walby Walker Weir Welch West Wilkinson G. Williams A. Wilson D. Wilson Winfield Wylie Yochum Young Zambiasi Zock
Builders	Ackles Anselmo Back R. Bailey Ballard Barker Berger Braley Brook D. W. Brown Buono H. Campbell Chipman Clair Connellan Cooper Cosentino Coulter Crighton A. Currie G. Currie Custis Davies DeGruchy Dojack Duggan DuMoulin Dussault Evans Forster Foulds Fracas Fulton Gaudaur Gibson Grant Grey Griffith Halter Hannibal Haylor Hayman Henick Hopson Hufnagel Bi. Hughes Ireland Keys Kimball Knight Kramer Levy Lieberman Loney Matthews McBrien McCaffrey D. McCann McDonald McNaughton McPherson Mitchell Metras Montgomery T. Morris C. Murphy Newton O'Billovich Pistilli Preston Reda A. Ritchie D. Ritchie Rodden Ryan Sazio Schwartz Shaughnessy Shepherd Shivers Shouldice J. Simpson F. Smith L. Smith Slocomb Spencer Spring Stukus P. Taylor Tindall Towriss Uteck Warner Warwick Wetenhall S. Wilson
Media	Afaganis A. Allen P. Allen R. Allen Avery Badham Beamish Bishop Bratina Brisebois Brunt Calcutt Carroll Tom Casey Chevrier Cluff Cole Coleman J. Cox G. Craig Cuthbert Davis DeGeer Dryburgh Dufault Dunnell Esaw Frayne Frewin Gilchrist Good B. Hall V. Hall Hanley Hooper Bo. Hughes Hunt Hunter Hynes Irving D. Isaac M. Isaac Te. Jones Kearney G. Kelly Kent Kielty MacCabe Maki Marsden Marshall Martin Matheson Matsumoto A. McCann McConnell McKnight McLean Melville Miller Milton Moir Naylor Newans O'Brien O'Meara Pascall Pascucci Pawson Picken J. Proudfoot T. Proudfoot Proulx Purcell Ralph Reeve Ruckaber Saunders Schultz Selnes Sgambati Sigurdson Simmons D. Smith M. Smith Stephen Stephenson Stukus Suitor Sullivan Swangard Tait J. Taylor Tucker Ullrich Viney G. Walker H. Walker Ja. Wells Jo. Wells Westwick Willes B. Williams Wittman Zurkowsky

Cleveland Browns 1958 NFL draft selections

Jim Shofner
Charley Mitchell
Buzz Guy
Jim Ninowski
Farrell Funston
Jim Gibbons
Jim Wulff
Bobby Mitchell
Bert Lattimore
Bernie Parrish
Leo Russavage
Russ Bowmaster
Bob Brodhead
Hal Williams
Ken Miller
Howard Hoelscher
Jerry Cornelison
Roddy Osborne
Alvin Johnson
Ed Brown
Ed Serieka
Bill Martin
Bob Renn
Dan Verhey
Jim O'Connor
Bobby Peters
Frank Thompson
Dave Thelen
Bill Boykin
Frank Czapla
Bern Svendsen

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