PLAYING CAREER
EDMONTON ESKIMOS       1980-1983
B.C. LIONS                     1984-1989
TORONTO ARGONAUTS    1990-1991

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-CANADIAN LINEBACKER      1981, 1982
ALL-CANADIAN DEFENSIVE END  1984, 1985, 1986
ALL-WESTERN LINEBACKER       1981, 1982,
ALL-WESTERN DEFENSIVE END   1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
SCHENLEY MOST OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYER 1984, 1986
GREY CUP DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE GAME           1985
NORM FIELDGATE TROPHY                                   1982, 1984, 1986

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION    1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1988
GREY CUP  WINNNING TEAMS   1980, 1981, 1982, 1985

JAMES (QUICK) PARKER ATTENDED WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BEFORE BEGINNING HIS CFL CAREER IN 1980 WITH THE EDMONTON ESKIMOS.

IN 1980 JAMES PARKER WOULD GO TO AND WIN THE GREY CUP IN HIS FIRST YEAR WITH THE LEAGUE. IN 1981 AND 1982, HE LED THE LEAGUE IN SACKS AND WAS NAMED TO THE WESTERN AND CFL ALL-STAR TEAMS BOTH YEARS.

HE REMAINED WITH THE ESKIMOS UNTIL 1984 WHEN HE JOINED THE B.C. LIONS. IN 1984, HE SET THE LEAGUE RECORD FOR SACKS IN A SEASON WITH 26.5, WHICH IS STILL AN ALL-TIME RECORD IN THE CFL. FOR THREE STRAIGHT YEARS, 1984 TO 1986, HE WOULD BE NAMED TO BOTH THE CFL AND WESTERN ALL-STAR TEAMS. HE WOULD FINISH HIS CFL CAREER WITH THE TORONTO ARGONAUTS, WHERE HE PLAYED FROM 1990 TO 1991.

JAMES PARKER REMAINS THIRD IN THE LEAGUE FOR MOST QUARTERBACK SACKS ALL-TIME REGULAR SEASON WITH 139.5 DURING HIS FIFTEEN-YEAR CAREER.

INDUCTED 2001 - PLAYER

Class of 2001 Warren Moon, Willie Burden, Bill Frank, Sidney Forster