Ron Lancaster

Ron Lancaster

  • Class Year:
    1960
  • Induction Year:
    1985

From Hall of Honor press release dated June 1, 1985:

Ron Lancaster is best remembered as a standout football quarterback on the 1956-59 squads, which posted a 25-8-1 record and won the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) championship in 1958. He was named first-team All-OAC in 1957, and he was captain and most valuable player his senior year. After graduation, Lancaster went on to play professionally in the Canadian Football League and holds nearly every career passing record there. He passed for more career yardage than Johnny Unitas with 50,535 total yards. Lancaster played for the Saskatchewan Rough Riders for 16 years, winning five Grey Cup Championships and earning Canadian "Player of the Year" in 1970 and 1976. He will be inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame this summer, becoming the first Wittenberg graduate to be selected for a major professional Hall of Fame.

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