The 1977 CFL Draft composed of 10 rounds where 106 Canadian football

Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

 players were chosen from eligible Canadian universities and Canadian players playing in the NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

. A total of 18 players were selected as territorial exemptions, with the Montreal Alouettes

Montreal Alouettes

The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...

 being the only team to make no picks during this stage of the draft. Through a trade with the Calgary Stampeders

Calgary Stampeders

The Calgary Stampeders are a Canadian Football League team based in Calgary, Alberta and named in reference to the Calgary Stampede. The Stampeders play their home games at McMahon Stadium...

, the Ottawa Rough Riders

Ottawa Rough Riders

The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. One of the oldest and longest lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine times. Their most dominant era was the 1960s and 1970s, a...

 selected first overall in the draft.

Territorial exemptions

Calgary Stampeders

Calgary Stampeders

The Calgary Stampeders are a Canadian Football League team based in Calgary, Alberta and named in reference to the Calgary Stampede. The Stampeders play their home games at McMahon Stadium...

  Lawrence Harrison  G University of Calgary

University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1966 the U of C is composed of 14 faculties and more than 85 research institutes and centres.More than 25,000 undergraduate and 5,500 graduate students are currently...

Calgary Stampeders Larry Leathem  WR Calgary

Calgary Stampeders John Malinosky

John Malinosky

John Malinosky is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played ten seasons in the Canadian Football League for four different teams.-High school and college years:...

  OT Michigan State

Toronto Argonauts

Toronto Argonauts

The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...

  Paul Bennett  DT Wilfrid Laurier

Wilfrid Laurier

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911....

Toronto Argonauts Mark Bragagnolo  TB University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

British Columbia Lions

British Columbia Lions

The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of Canadian Football League . Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Lions play their home games at BC Place Stadium in Downtown Vancouver, having previously played at Empire Stadium in East Vancouver from 1954...

  John Blain

John Blain (Canadian football)

John Blain is a former professional Canadian football player with the Canadian Football League's the BC Lions. He attended Carson Graham Secondary School, where he joined the rugby and football team. After playing college football at San Jose State University, Blain spent his entire 11-year CFL...

  OT San Jose State

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League . They play their home games at Canad Inns Stadium, and plan to move to a new stadium for the 2012 season.The Blue Bombers were founded...

  Gary Rosolowich  DB Boise State

Winnipeg Blue Bombers Lyall Woznesensky

Lyall Woznesensky

Lyall Woznesensky is a former Canadian football defensive lineman who played eight seasons in the Canadian Football League for six different teams...

  DE Simon Fraser

Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...

Edmonton Eskimos

Edmonton Eskimos

The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...

  Leon Lyszkiewicz

Leon Lyszkiewicz

Leon Lyszkiewicz is a former Canadian football defensive lineman who played ten seasons in the Canadian Football League for five different teams....

  DT University of Alberta

University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...

Edmonton Eskimos Dave Salloum  OT Alberta

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...

  John Kinch  TB Youngstown State

Hamilton Tiger-Cats Daniel Bovair  DB Wilfrid Laurier

Saskatchewan Roughriders

Saskatchewan Roughriders

The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. They were founded in 1910. They play their home games at 2940 10th Avenue in Regina, which has been the team's home base for its entire history, even prior to the construction of Mosaic Stadium at Taylor...

  Lorne Hubick  TB Eastern Illinois

Saskatchewan Roughriders Preston Young

Preston Young

Preston Young was a football player in the CFL for eight years years. Irvin played defensive back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Concordes from 1978-1985. He played college football at Simon Fraser University.-References:...

  DB Simon Fraser

Ottawa Rough Riders

Ottawa Rough Riders

The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. One of the oldest and longest lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine times. Their most dominant era was the 1960s and 1970s, a...

  Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy (Canadian football)

Mike Murphy is a former award winning Canadian Football League fullback.A graduate of University of Ottawa, Murphy was a member of the famed 1975 Vanier Cup champion Ottawa Gee-Gees team. The Ottawa Rough Riders claimed him as a territorial exemption in the 1977 CFL Draft. In his first CFL season...

  TB University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...

Ottawa Rough Riders Doug McGee  G Richmond

University of Richmond

The University of Richmond is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate...

Ottawa Rough Riders Dan Fournier  WR Princeton

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

Ottawa Rough Riders Brian McLaughlin  OT Simon Fraser

1st Round

1. Ottawa Rough Riders Mike Riley

Mike Riley

Michael Joseph "Mike" Riley is an American football coach, currently the head coach of the Oregon State Beavers of the Pacific-12 Conference...

  DT Dalhousie

Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...

2. Toronto Argonauts Rick Sowieta

Rick Sowieta

Rick Sowieta is a former CFL linebacker who played ten seasons in the Canadian Football League, mainly for the Ottawa Rough Riders, for whom he played eight years...

  LB Richmond

3. Saskatchewan Roughriders Emil Neilson  DB Simon Fraser

4, Winnipeg Blue Bombers Ray Honey  OT Drake

Drake University

Drake University is a private, co-educational university located in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The institution offers a number of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and pharmacy. Today, Drake is one of the twenty-five oldest law schools in the country....

5. Montreal Alouettes

Montreal Alouettes

The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...

  Craig Thomson  LB Ottawa

6. Edmonton Eskimos Bob Cameron  QB Acadia

Acadia

Acadia was the name given to lands in a portion of the French colonial empire of New France, in northeastern North America that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine. At the end of the 16th century, France claimed territory stretching as far south as...

7. Edmonton Eskimos Tom Chad  DB Saskatchewan

8. Hamilton Tiger-Cats John Martini  LB Toronto

9. Ottawa Rough Riders Kirk DeFazio  DB Waterloo

University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...

2nd Round

10. British Columbia Lions Robin Adair  WR Saskatchewan

11. Toronto Argonauts Cliff Pelham  DB Dalhousie

12. British Columbia Lions Doug Seymour  DT Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

13. Saskatchewan Roughriders John Nelson  FB University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba , in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest university in the province of Manitoba. It is Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university. It placed...

14. Montreal Alouettes Hector Pothier

Hector Pothier

Hector Pothier is a former professional Canadian football player with the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos. After playing college football at McGill University and at St. Mary's University , Pothier spent his entire 12 year CFL career as an offensive lineman...

  DT University of Saint Mary's

15. Edmonton Eskimos J.P. Brescacin  TE University of North Dakota

University of North Dakota

The University of North Dakota is a public university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14,000 students. ...

16. Hamilton Tiger-Cats John Rothwell  DB Waterloo

17. Saskatchewan Roughriders Roger Adams  TE University of Windsor

University of Windsor

The University of Windsor is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students...

18. Ottawa Rough Riders Jim Lynn  T Windsor

3rd Round

19. Calgary Stampeders Robin Harber  DB Ottawa

20. Toronto Argonauts Al MacLean  G Bishop's University

Bishop's University

Bishop's University is a predominantly undergraduate university in Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Bishop's is one of three universities in the province of Quebec that teach primarily in the English language...

21. British Columbia Lions Mike Moore  DE University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

22. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Duncan MacKinlay  LB University of Western Ontario

University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...

23. Calgary Stampeders Jim Cotta  WR Guelph

Guelph

Guelph is a city in Ontario, Canada.Guelph may also refer to:* Guelph , consisting of the City of Guelph, Ontario* Guelph , as the above* University of Guelph, in the same city...

24. Edmonton Eskimos Dave Beaton  DT Simon Fraser

25. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Paul Sheridan  DE York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

26. Saskatchewan Roughriders Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy (Canadian football)

Mike Murphy is a former award winning Canadian Football League fullback.A graduate of University of Ottawa, Murphy was a member of the famed 1975 Vanier Cup champion Ottawa Gee-Gees team. The Ottawa Rough Riders claimed him as a territorial exemption in the 1977 CFL Draft. In his first CFL season...

  LB Wilfrid Laurier

27. Ottawa Rough Riders Jim McCaffrey  DB Richmond

4th Round

28. Calgary Stampeders Cam Thompson  LB Ottawa

29. Toronto Argonauts Brian Anderson  C Guelph

30. British Columbia Lions Glen Leonhard  DT Manitoba

31. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Jamie Bone  QB Western Ontario

32. Montreal Alouettes Chris Kotsopoulus  WR Toronto

33. Edmonton Eskimos Ray Clark  DB Simon Fraser

34. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Julio Giordani  LB Toronto

35. Saskatchewan Roughriders Gary Gaska  DB Manitoba

36. Ottawa Rough Riders Rod Bell  TE University of New Brunswick

University of New Brunswick

The University of New Brunswick is a Canadian university located in the province of New Brunswick. UNB is the oldest English language university in Canada and among the first public universities in North America. The university has two main campuses: the original campus founded in 1785 in...

5th Round

37. Calgary Stampeders Colin Ogilvy  DB Simon Fraser

38. Toronto Argonauts David Bossey  LB Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...

39. British Columbia Lions Bob Hogan  TB Windsor

University of Windsor

The University of Windsor is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students...

40. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Jon McCorquindale  TB Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

41. Montreal Alouettes Rocky Treleaven  K Minot State

42. Edmonton Eskimos Larry Sandre  WR Windsor

43. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Glen Dawson  K Marshall

Marshall University

Marshall University is a coeducational public research university in Huntington, West Virginia, United States founded in 1837, and named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States....

44. Saskatchewan Roughriders Harry Kruger  DB Calgary

45. Ottawa Rough Riders Roger Wheller  WR Acadia

6th Round

46. Calgary Stampeders Tom Reimer  WR British Columbia

47. Toronto Argonauts Hugh Fraser  WR Ottawa

48. British Columbia Lions Nigel Wilson  WR Western Ontario

49. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Al Bowness  TB Manitoba

50. Montreal Alouettes Grant Hagerty  G Wilfrid Laurier

51. Edmonton Eskimos James Duncan  TB Queen's

52. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Andre Morin  DT Ottawa

53. Saskatchewan Roughriders Mike Steele  G Toronto

54. Ottawa Rough Riders Dan Sartor  C Ottawa

7th Round

55. Calgary Stampeders Rick Stinton  LB Calgary

56. Toronto Argonauts Greg Mosher  DB Dalhousie

57. British Columbia Lions Terris Davis  G Western Ontario

58. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Doyle Matheson  DB Calgary

59. Montreal Alouettes Brian Johnston  DT Mount Allison University

Mount Allison University

Mount Allison University is a primarily undergraduate Canadian liberal arts and science university situated in Sackville, New Brunswick. It is located about a half hour from the regional city of Moncton and 20 minutes from the Greater Moncton International Airport...

60. Edmonton Eskimos Mike Warbick  WR Wilfrid Laurier

61. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Bill Rozalowsky  TB Western Ontario

62. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Terry Tapak  DE Acadia

63. Ottawa Rough Riders Ross Tripp  TB McMaster

8th Round

64. Calgary Stampeders Dave Langley  QB Toronto

65. Toronto Argonauts Tom Arnott  DT Guelph

66. British Columbia Lions Dennis Shaw  G Ottawa

67. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Peter Capobianco  LB Livingston

68. Montreal Alouettes Bruce Wilkins  TB Bishop's

69. Edmonton Eskimos Dale Gullekson  TB Alberta

70. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Mark Dumont  LB St. Francis Xavier University

St. Francis Xavier University

St. Francis Xavier University is a post-secondary institution located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The school was founded in 1853, but did not offer degrees until 1868. The university has approximately 5000 students.-History:...

71. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Pat Chemeris  T Waterloo

72. Ottawa Rough Riders John Harrison  DB McMaster

9th Round

73. Calgary Stampeders Vince Zvonkin  TB Waterloo

74. Toronto Argonauts Sam Sinopoli  TE Toronto

75. British Columbia Lions Paul Sheenan  WR Western Kentucky

76. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Gary Krahn  LB North Dakota

77. Montreal Alouettes Dave Brescacin  C Windsor

78. Edmonton Eskimos Lubomir Alexov  DE Toronto

79. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Jim D'Andrea  DB Queen's

80. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Dean Lees  LB Saint Mary's

81. Ottawa Rough Riders Phil Ridley  FB St. Francis Xavier

10th Round

82. Calgary Stampeders Roger Pederson  DT Calgary

83. Toronto Argonauts John Vernon  LB Toronto

84. British Columbia Lions Dan Dupuis  TB Windsor

85. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Wayne Parizeau  QB Wilfrid Laurier

86. Montreal Alouettes Mark Bohan  WR Mount Allison

87. Hamilton Tiger-Cats Peter Logan  WR Western Ontario

88. Hamilton Tiger-Cats James Howard T McMaster