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Bob Sandberg

April 13, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Quarterback, halfback: 1947-51 Division All-Star: 1947 Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy (Most Outstanding Player, West Division): 1940 Bob Sandberg had one of the most spectacular ...

Cliff Roseborough

April 13, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Halfback, flying wing, quarterback, guard: 1934-42 A Winnipeg product, Roseborough played his high school and then junior ball in Saskatoon at Bedford Road Collegiate and then ...

Frank Rigney

April 13, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Member of Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Inducted 1984) Tackle, defensive tackle: 1958-67 CFL All-Star: 1962, 1965, 1966 Divisional All-Star: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, ...

Steve Patrick

April 13, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Guard, middle guard: 1952-64 Divisional All-Star: 1958, 1959 Bombers Most Outstanding Canadian: 1959 Bombers Most Outstanding Lineman: 1958 Steve Patrick was a fixture in this ...

Bill Nairn

April 13, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Guard, tackle: 1934, 1936-40 Bill Nairn was born and raised in Winnipeg and joined the Winnipeg Football Club in 1936 – one year after his Winnipeg Victorias lost to them in the ...

Dick Huffman

April 13, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Member of Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Inducted 1987) Tackle, defensive tackle: 1951-55 Divisional All-Star: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 Bombers Most Outstanding Player: 1953 Dick ...

Bill Ceretti

April 13, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Guard, tackle: 1931-41, 1945-49 Bill Ceretti started playing football in 1929 as a junior and joined the Bombers in 1931 where he played on both sides of the ball. Winnipeg ...

Andy Bieber

April 13, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Halfback, fullback: 1938-41 Andy Bieber was a two-time Grey Cup champion (1939 and 1941) when he left the club after the ’41 season to enlist with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. A ...

Martin Gainor

April 12, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1985 Tackle: 1937-39, 1946 Martin Gainor is a member of the University of North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame and came to Winnipeg after his college days as an already accomplished ...

Nick Bastaja

April 12, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1992 Guard: 1980-88 CFL All-Star: 1984, 1985 Divisional All-Star: 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 CFL Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman: 1985 DeMarco Beckett Trophy (Most ...

Butch Norman

April 12, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1994 Offensive lineman: 1974-80 CFL All-Star: 1976, 1980 Bombers Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman: 1976, 1978, 1980 Haywood Eugene ‘Butch’ Norman came to the Bombers in 1974, one ...

Bob Irving

April 12, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 2016 The man affectionately known as ‘Knuckles’ has been the voice of the Bombers for eons, beginning at CJOB in 1973 and describing the action more or less since 1974. A distinguished ...

John Helton

April 12, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 2016 Member of Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Inducted 1985) Defensive line: 1979-82 with the Bombers; 1969-78 with Calgary CFL All-Star: (Wpg): 1979, 1982; (Cal): 1971, 1972, 1973, ...

Bob Molle

April 12, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 2016 Guard, defensive line: 1986-92 A first-round draft pick of the Blue Bombers in 1985 (9th overall), Molle arrived in Winnipeg having already won a silver medal in wrestling in the ...

A. H. (Bert) Warwick

April 10, 2017 | Staff
  Inducted: 1984 Member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Inducted 1964) A.H. (Bert) Warwick’s involvement in football in this province went from the huddle to the sidelines to ...

Karl Slocomb

April 10, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1984 Member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Inducted 1989) Karl Slocomb spent years serving the Blue Bombers and Canadian football as an executive. He began as a ...

Joseph B. (Joe) Ryan

April 10, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1984 Member of Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Inducted 1968) Ryan was one of the great movers and shakers in Canadian football and was part of three different pro teams in ...

Les Isard

April 10, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1984 Les Isard was one of the first executives with the Winnipeg Football Club dating back to its inception in 1930. A local businessman, Isard was a vice president in the early ...

G. Sydney Halter

April 10, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1984 Member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Inducted 1966) A Winnipegger, G. Sydney Halter was one of the great executives and leaders in Canadian sport. His career ...

Frank J. Hannibal

April 10, 2017 | Staff
Inducted: 1984 Member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Inducted 1963) Originally from England, Hannibal moved to Canada at the age of nine. He served in World War I, rising to ...
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