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Legendary CFL coach and player Ron Lancaster dead at the age of 69
To many, he'll forever be remembered as the Little General, a diminutive quarterback with a tenacious resolve who led the Saskatchewan Roughriders to their first-ever Grey Cup title and became one of the most prolific passers in CFL history.
But it was Ron Lancaster's gift of the gab, approachable nature and willingness to always swap stories that made him immensely popular with fans and an unofficial CFL goodwill ambassador, sometimes at the expense of his teammates.
"We'd always have to grab him by the neck and put him on the bus,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], otherwise we would've been sitting there for three years (talking to people)," said George Reed, the Riders' legendary fullback. "He had that way of really mingling with the people and giving them his time and talking to them.
"He just had a way with people and people loved to talk to him. He always had time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]."
Lancaster died Thursday at the age of 69,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. His death came just over a month after he announced he was being treated for lung cancer.
"The key note is he had time for everybody and everybody had equal importance in his mind," said Hugh Campbell, a teammate of Lancaster's in Regina who served as Edmonton's president when Lancaster coached the Eskimos in the 1990s. "He had time to stop and talk to a stranger at the airport or hockey arena as much as he had time to talk to fans and be genuinely interested in their story.
"He had a great feel for putting himself in a person's shoes and realizing they had an equal reason to be on this earth as the rest of us,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]."
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will honour Lancaster on Friday night when they face the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Hall of Fame game. Lions president Bob Ackles, commentator Leif Peterson and Hall of Famer Earl (Earthquake) Lunsford.
"Our league has lost its 'Little General,' and our country has lost a giant of a man,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," CFL commissioner Mark Cohon said in a statement. "Ron Lancaster is deeply loved across Canada,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as a CFL player, coach,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], broadcaster and mentor, but most of all as a true friend.
"His career spanned eras, bridged west and east,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and delighted our fans."
Lancaster first came to Canada in 1960 as a quarterback and defensive back with the Ottawa Rough Riders. Over the next 48 years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Canadian Football Hall of Famer would establish himself as one of the league's top passers, head coaches and executives.
"Ron and I first crossed paths in 1960 in Ottawa," said Russ Jackson, the legendary former Riders quarterback. "We sat beside each other in the locker-room but it was never a situation where `I hate you, I don't want you to do well.' I think that was because of our personalities and that we both appreciated each other's ability and understanding of the game."
Despite being rivals, Jackson said he and Lancaster always wanted to help each other out.
"If the team did well, then we all did well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," said Jackson. "In those days, you played with many of the same players for years and developed relationships with them. Later on, Ron and I became very close friends when he was coaching the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and I was working on the radio broadcasts because we'd spend a lot of time talking about football."
Campbell said as a player Lancaster was a stickler for detail and demanded that his team practise hard because it would carry over to the football field. It's those qualities,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Campbell added, that made Lancaster a great coach.
"It was just the smoothest and greatest of situations because he had a good idea of what to do and what he wanted to do and had a way of demanding it," he said. "At the same time all the players knew that he loved them and was on their side.
"As a player he was the toughest mentally. He made sure in practice you hustled as hard as you did in a game so that he could get the feel for what it would be like in the game. As a coach, his players had a great feel for him, the fans had a great feel for him because they had confidence he knew what he was doing."
On the sidelines,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Lancaster earned a reputation of being a player's coach. He'd often give his troops the freedom to have fun, but demanded discipline and dedication on the field.
"Ron was a person people gravitated to,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," said former punter Sean Flemming, who played for Lancaster in Edmonton. "Loyal to his players almost to a fault,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], genuine to those he didn't know.
"Ron always said that the biggest compliment you could give a football player was to call him just that, a player. Someone who went out and did their job without any other reason but for the love of the game and for those around him. Ron was all that and more: He was a player, he was a coach, but most of all he was a great man."
And he always encouraged his players to have fun, even during Grey Cup week. Former Ticats safety Rob Hitchock said in '98 and '99 when Hamilton faced Calgary in consecutive CFL title games, Lancaster allowed his players to go out and experience the nightlife and enjoy the fruits of their labours.
"From the first day he came to Hamilton he stressed to us (players) that if you're not having fun then you're not playing the game right," said Hitchcock. "In 1998 when we faced Calgary in the Grey Cup they (Stampeders) were in lockdown with a curfew.
"For the first four days (Lancaster) let us to out and have fun and enjoy ourselves. We ended up losing to Calgary (in '9 but we made it back to the Grey Cup against them the next year and Ron did the exact same thing and we ended up winning."
Lancaster was famous for holding court with reporters, players and fans alike and telling great stories of his playing days.
He began his career with Ottawa in 1960 but was dealt to Saskatchewan prior to the 1963 season.
Lancaster spent the next 16 seasons with the Riders, leading them to five Grey Cup appearances and their first-ever CFL championship in 1966 when Saskatchewan upset Jackson and the Rough Riders 29-14.
Lancaster is survived by his wife Bev,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], three children Lana, Ron and Bob and his four grandchildren. There were no immediate details regarding funeral arrangements.相关的主题文章：


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