Dick Suderman
No. 67 (CGY), 52 (EDM) | |
Date of birth | October 18, 1940 |
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Place of birth | Edmonton Eskimos |
CFL West All-Star | 1967, 1968, 1971 |
Richard Suderman (October 18, 1940 – October 16, 1972) was a Canadian Football League defensive end.
College football
Dick Suderman played college football at the University of Western Ontario, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Calgary
Suderman played defensive end for the Calgary Stampeders from 1964 to 1972. He participated in three Grey Cup games, losing the first to the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1968, the second to the Montreal Alouettes in 1970, but defeating the Toronto Argonauts the following year in 1971 by a score of 14–11. Suderman was named the first ever Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian in that 59th Grey Cup,[1] and awarded a trophy which was renamed the Dick Suderman Trophy in his honour, after his death the following year, just six weeks before the 1972 Grey Cup Championship. The trophy is awarded annually to each Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.
Edmonton
Suderman was traded to the
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