PLAYING CAREER
SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS            1968 – 1973, 1977 – 1978
BC LIONS                    1974 – 1976

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-WESTERN DEFENSIVE END            1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976
ALL-CANADIAN DEFENSIVE END            1972, 1973, 1975, 1976
DR. BEATTIE MARTIN TROPHY            1976
NORM FIELDGATE TROPHY                1975, 1976
SCHENLEY OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYER AWARD    1976

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION                1969, 1972

BILL BAKER PLAYED JUNIOR FOOTBALL WITH THE RAMS WHILE STILL ELIGIBLE FOR HIGH SCHOOL COMPETITION.  FOR FOUR YEARS HE WAS A FIRST TEAM, ALL-STAR PLAYER AT OTTERBEIN COLLEGE IN OHIO.

BAKER’S CREDO WAS: “YOUR OPPONENTS ARE ONLY AS TOUGH AS YOU LET THEM BE”. THROUGHOUT HIS 174 GAME CAREER “THE UNDERTAKER” WAS KNOWN FOR HIS FEROCIOUS PASS RUSH.  A BAKER FOREARM TO THE HEAD WAS GREATLY RESPECTED BY OPPOSING QUARTERBACKS WHO CAME WITHIN RANGE.  BILL BAKER WAS INDUCTED INTO THE SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS’ PLAZA OF HONOUR IN 1990.

INDUCTED 1994 – PLAYER

Class of 1994 Tom Clements, Gene Gaines, Don McNaughton