George Dixon (Canadian football)

George Dixon
1964 Topps CFL Card of Montreal Alouettes running back George Dixon
Born:(1933-10-19)October 19, 1933
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Died:August 6, 1990(1990-08-06) (aged 56)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Career information
CFL statusAmerican
Position(s)RB
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight195 lb (88 kg)
CollegeArnold[1]
NFL draft1959, round: 9, pick: 97
Drafted byGreen Bay Packers
Career history
As player
19591965Montreal Alouettes
Career highlights and awards
CFL All-Star1962, 1963
CFL East All-Star1962, 1963
Awards1962 CFL MOP
Career stats

George Washington Dixon (October 19, 1933 – August 6, 1990) was a professional Canadian football player and a Canadian Interuniversity Sport football coach.

Dixon starred as a running back for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL), from 1959 to 1965.[2] While Dixon played in only 76 games during his injury-shortened, seven-year career, all with the Alouettes, he is remembered as one of their finest players. Dixon's jersey #28 is one of seven retired by the Alouettes, and he was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1974. In 2006, Dixon was voted to the Honour Roll of the CFL's Top 50 players of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.[3] After his playing career ended, Dixon was the head coach of the Loyola College Warriors (now Concordia Stingers) Canadian college football team in the late 1960s-early 1970s.

  1. ^ "(2)Arnold College".
  2. ^ "George Dixon football statistics on StatsCrew.com".
  3. ^ "TSN Top 50 Honour Roll". TSN.ca. November 28, 2006. Retrieved May 5, 2007.