PLAYING CAREER
BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS     1954 – 1964

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-WESTERN RUNNING BACK    1957
BOBBY BOURNE MEMORIAL TROPHY (MOST POPULAR BC LION) 1957

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION 1963, 1964
GREY CUP WINNING TEAM 1964

BYRON L. (BY) BAILEY WAS ONE OF THE CHARTER TEAM MEMBERS OF THE NEW BC LIONS FRANCHISE AND SCORED THEIR FIRST TOUCHDOWN OPENING NIGHT. 

BAILEY PLAYED FULLBACK FOR EIGHT SEASONS AND DEFENSIVE BACK FOR HIS FINAL THREE YEARS.  HE RUSHED 783 TIMES FOR 3,643 YARDS AND 26 TOUCHDOWNS, AND CAUGHT 101 PASSES FOR 1,161 YARDS.  IN 1963 HE WAS CLASSED AS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S TOP DEFENSIVE BACKS AND WAS THE LIONS LEADING PASS INTERCEPTOR.

ON OCTOBER 29, 1960 HE WAS HONOURED AT “BY BAILEY NIGHT”; THE FIRST BC PLAYER TO BE RECOGNIZED IN THIS MANNER.  BYRON L. BAILEY IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE BC SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

INDUCTED 1975 – PLAYER

Class of 1975 Tom Brook, Lew Hayman, Ken Ploen, Dick Shatto, Herb Trawick