By Stampeders.com Staff

The Calgary Stampeders congratulate Dave Dickenson, Eddie Davis and Bob O’Billovich for being part of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015.

Dickenson, a quarterback for the Stamps from 1997-2000 and in 2008 who is now the team’s offensive coordinator and assistant head coach, is being inducted in the players’ category along with defensive back Davis, who wore the Red and White from 1996-2000.

O’Billovich, who was Calgary’s assistant general manager and player-personnel director from 2000-02, goes into the builders’ category.

The trio is part of a group of honourees that also includes offensive lineman Gene Makowsky in the players’ category, Bob Wetenhall and Larry Reda in the builders’ category and former University of Bishop’s Gaiters star Leroy Blugh in the amateur player category.

Dickenson spent 11 seasons in the CFL including six with the Stampeders. A potent combination of intelligence, athletic ability and courage, Dickenson set a number of CFL passing records and was named the league’s Most Outstanding Player in 2000 after throwing for 4,636 yards, 36 touchdowns and only six interceptions while guiding the Stampeders to a 12-5-1 record.

After spending two seasons in the National Football League — with San Diego in 2001 and with Seattle, Miami and Detroit in 2002 — Dickenson returned to Canada and signed with the BC Lions. After five seasons with the Leos, including a 2005 campaign in which he established league records for highest completion percentage and quarterback rating in a single season, and an MVP performance in the 2006 Grey Cup, Dickenson returned to Calgary in 2008 for what proved to be his final season as a player. He joined the Stampeders coaching staff in 2009.

“I’m very excited and very happy to be going into the Hall with such a great class,” said Dickenson. “It’s very humbling to be associated with the great people who are part of this group and I’m particularly pleased to be going in with a former teammate in Eddie Davis and a fellow Montanan in Bob O’Billovich.

“I’m deeply appreciative of the honour because the voters chose to reward the quality of my play instead of focusing on the quantity of games played.”

Davis joined the CFL in 1995 as a member of the Birmingham Barracudas during the league’s foray into American markets and became a member of the Stamps in 1996 after being picked up in a dispersal draft.

He remained with the Red and White through the 2000 campaign and was part of the Stamps’ Grey Cup-championship squad in 1998 and was a CFL all-star in 2000.

Davis played a total of 74 games for the Stamps, recording 243 tackles, 14 interceptions and six sacks. The Northern Illinois alumnus joined the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2001 and won a second Grey Cup ring in 2007.

He was a five-time division all-star and played 18 playoff games and three Grey Cup contests during his career.

O’Billovich retired in 2013 after a 50-year career in the CFL. His three years with the Stamps included a Grey Cup title in 2001. He also won a championship as an assistant coach with the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1976, as a head coach with the Toronto Argonauts in 1983 and as BC’s player-personnel director in 2006.

The Butte, Mont., native compiled a 107-104-3 record in 14 seasons as a head coach with Toronto and BC. He served as general manager of the Lions from 1990-92, of the Argos from 1993-95 and the Tiger-Cats from 2008-12.

O’Billovich also spent two seasons as Saskatchewan’s player-personnel director.