PLAYING CAREER
SASKATOON JUNIOR HILLTOPS   1947 – 1949
SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS   1952 – 1968

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-WESTERN MIDDLE GUARD   1956, 1960 – 1963
ALL-WESTERN DEFENSIVE TACKLE   1964
STACK TIBBITS AWARD (MOST VALUABLE CANADIAN) 1963 – 1964

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION    1966, 1967
GREY CUP WINS     1966

THROUGHOUT HIS ENTIRE CAREER, RON ATCHISON WAS KNOWN FOR HIS TOUGHNESS AND DURABILITY.  DURING HIS 17 CONSECUTIVE YEARS WITH THE ROUGHRIDERS, HE PLAYED OFFENSIVE CENTRE, DEFENSIVE MIDDLE GUARD, AND DEFENSIVE TACKLE.  IN 1963 HE AND TWO OTHER VETERAN PLAYERS WERE TREATED TO A SPECIAL HONOUR NIGHT DURING A GAME IN REGINA.

RON “ATCH” ATCHISON WAS DESCRIBED BY A WESTERN REPORTER WHO WROTE, “IN COMBAT HE IS FIERCE, AGGRESSIVE, AND RUTHLESS.  WHEN THE HEAT OF BATTLE HAS DIED AWAY HE IS A WARM, FRIENDLY, ARTICULATE COMPANION.”

RON ATCHISON IS A MEMBER OF THE SASKATCHEWAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

INDUCTED 1978 – PLAYER

Class of 1978 Paul Dojack, Harry McBrien, Kaye Vaughan