Stampeders The Years of the Horse signed & donated by author Daryl Slade

Daryl Slade has provided a complete statistical and factual history of the Calgary Stampeders Football Team, season by season, in his book Stampeders…the Years of the Horse, selfpublished.

CFRS member Joe Cronin of Sacramento, California has said, “It’s difficult to find the early statistics on the Canadian Football League, but Daryl Slade has done it. They are all there.”

In addition, for every season, Daryl has provided photographs for notable players. Frequently, there are team pictures. As a result, the reader can discover numerous surprising pieces of information in the “Did you know?” category. Such as:

1. Minnesota Vikings General Manager Jim Finks was the Calgary quarterback for the 1957 season and became Calgary’s General Manager that year.
2. U.S. Presidential candidate Jack Kemp was on the Calgary Stampeders pre-season team in 1959, before he went on to his AFL Buffalo Bills quarterback career.
3. UCLA quarterback Ronnie Knox, the “Golden Boy,” who is better known as the Toronto Argonauts quarterback in the late 1950s, actually played six games with Calgary in 1956, with 782 yards passing.
4. Earl Lunsford put up huge rushing yardage numbers over several seasons for teams with losing records.