Roger Scales

{{Short description|Canadian gridiron football player (born 1944)}}

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{{confused|Roger Scales, 4th Baron Scales}}

{{Infobox CFL player

|name=Roger Scales

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|birth_date={{birth date and age|1944|11|25}}

|birth_place=Vernon, British Columbia

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|Height_ft=6

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|Weight_lbs=240

|college=BYU

|position1=Guard

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• Grey Cup champion ({{CFL Year|1975}})

| playing_years1 = {{CFL Year|1969}}–{{CFL Year|1972}}

| playing_team1 =Toronto Argonauts

| playing_years2 ={{CFL Year|1972}}–{{CFL Year|1977}}

| playing_team2 =Edmonton Eskimos

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Roger Scales (born November 25, 1944) is a retired Canadian football player who played for the Edmonton Eskimos and Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL).{{cite web| url = http://www.justsportsstats.com/footballstatsindex.php?player_id=scalerog001| title = Roger Scales football statistics on StatsCrew.com}} He played college football at Brigham Young University.

Scales is famous in Argonaut lore for scoring their only touchdown in the 1971 Grey Cup. On a fumbled punt by Calgary's Jim Silye, he received a lateral from Joe Vijuk and rumbled 33 yards into the end zone. The Argos eventually lost the game, the final score was 14-11.