PLAYING CAREER
WINNIPEG "PEGS"/BLUE BOMBERS 1935 - 1946
CALGARY STAMPEDERS  1947 - 1948

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-WESTERN RUNNING BACK 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941
DAVE DRYBURGH MEMORIAL TROPHY 1938

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948
GREY CUP WINNING TEAMS 1935, 1939, 1941, 1948

MELVIN "FRITZ" HANSON WAS LURED FROM NORTH DAKOTA BY JOE RYAN AND BECAME ONE OF THE PREMIER RUNNING BACKS IN CANADIAN FOOTBALL.

IN THE 1935 GREY CUP GAME, THE FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY A WESTERN TEAM, FRITZ HANSON RETURNED PUNTS FOR MORE THAN 300 YARDS. AFTER THE GAME A HAMILTON PLAYER SAID, "SURE, WINNIPEG WON THE GREY CUP. BUT THEY HAD A GREYHOUND TO FETCH IT."

FRITZ HANSON, WHO EARNED THE NICKNAME "TWINKLE TOES", IS ALSO HONOURED AT THE MANITOBA SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

INDUCTED 1963 - PLAYER

CHARTER MEMBER

Class of 1963 Earl Grey, D. Wes Brown, John DeGruchy, "Seppi" DuMoulin, William C. Foulds, Frank J. Hannibal, Alvin Ritchie, Harry L. Batstone, Ormond Beach, Joseph M. Breen, Lionel P. Conacher, Ernest Cox, Jake Jacobs, Eddie "Dynamite" James, Smirle Lawson, Frank R. "Pep" Leadlay, Norman Perry, Teddy Reeve, Jeff Russel, David S. Sprague, Brian M. Timmis, Dr. Harry Crawford Griffith, N.J. "Piffles" Taylor, Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy, Benjamin L. Simpson, Hugh Gall, Percy Molson, Eddie Emerson, Joe Krol, Russ Rebholz