PLAYING CAREER
SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS 1983 – 1996

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-CANADIAN TIGHT END 1985
ALL-CANADIAN SLOTBACK 1988, 1992, 1993
ALL-WESTERN TIGHT END 1985
ALL-WESTERN SLOTBACK 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993
SCHENLEY MOST OUTSTANDING CANADIAN PLAYER 1988, 1990, 1992
DR. BEATTIE MARTIN TROPHY 1988, 1990, 1992

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION 1989
GREY CUP WINNING TEAM 1989

RAY ELGAARD PLAYED UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH AND WAS THE LEADING RECEIVER IN HIS SENIOR YEAR.  HE WAS SELECTED IN THE SECOND ROUND (12TH OVERALL) BY THE SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS IN THE 1983 COLLEGE DRAFT.  HE PLAYED HIS ENTIRE FOURTEEN-YEAR CFL CAREER WITH THE SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS AT THE SLOTBACK POSITION.  HE WON MANY AWARDS AND HONOURS THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER INCLUDING BEING NAMED ALL-CANADIAN FOUR TIMES, ALL-WESTERN SIX TIMES, SELECTED THE SCHENLEY MOST OUTSTANDING CANADIAN PLAYER THREE TIMES, AND WAS THE DR. BEATTIE MARTIN TROPHY WINNER THREE TIMES.

AT THE TIME OF HIS RETIREMENT IN 1996, ELGAARD WAS SECOND IN LEAGUE HISTORY TO OBTAIN THE MOST PASS RECEIVING YARDS IN HIS CAREER WITH 830 RECEPTIONS FOR 13,198 YARDS, AND 78 TOUCHDOWNS.  HE WAS ONLY THE SECOND PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE’S HISTORY TO SURPSS THE 1000 – YARD MARK IN EIGHT INDIVIDUAL SEASONS. 

RAY ELGAARD WAS NAMED TO THE SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS’ PLAZA OF HONOUR IN 1999. 

INDUCTED 2002 - PLAYER

Class of 2002 Bob Ackles, Roger Aldag, Paul Bennett, Less Browne