PLAYING CAREER
CALGARY STAMPEDERS 1974-1981

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-CANADIAN RUNNING BACK 1975
ALL-WESTERN RUNNING BACK 1975, 1977
SCHENLEY MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER 1975
EDDIE JAMES MEMORIAL TROPHY 1975
JEFF NICKLIN MEMORIAL AWARD 1975

WILLIE BURDEN ATTENDED NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY BEFORE BEGINNING HIS CFL CAREER WITH THE CALGARY STAMPEDERS MIDWAY THROUGH THE 1974 SEASON.

WILLIE BURDEN WOULD SPEND HIS ENTIRE CFL PLAYING CAREER WITH THE STAMPEDERS AS A RUNNING BACK FROM 1974 TO 1981, WHERE HE SET AND BROKE CFL AND STAMPEDER RUSHING RECORDS. HIS BEST SEASON WAS IN 1975, WHEN HE FINISHED WITH 1,896 YARDS ON 332 CARRIES, BREAKING A 14-YEAR-OLD CFL RECORD. HE WOULD ALSO, IN THE FINAL GAME OF THE 1975 SEASON, TIE LOVELL COLEMAN FOR YARDS IN A SINGLE GAME WHEN HE RUSHED FOR 238 YARDS ON 34 CARRIES. AT THE END OF THE 1975 SEASON, HE WAS NAMED TO THE WESTERN DIVISION AND CFL ALL-STAR TEAMS AND RECEIVED THE SCHENLEY AWARD AS THE MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER IN THE CFL.

AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS DEDICATION TO THE GAME AND HIS ABILITY AS A PLAYER, THE CALGARY STAMPEDERS NAMED WILLIE BURNDEN TO THE STAMPEDERS’ WALL OF HONOUR AND RETIRED HIS NUMBER (#10) IN 1992.

INDUCTED 2001 – PLAYER

Class of 2001 James"Quick" Parker, Warren Moon, Bill Frank, Sidney Forster