Dave Dickenson

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Dave Dickenson
Date of birth January 11, 1973
Place of birth Great Falls, MT
Position(s) Quarterback
College University of Montana
Awards 1995 Walter Payton Award
2000 CFL MOP
2006 Grey Cup MVP
Team(s)
1997–2000
2001–2002
2003–Present		 Calgary Stampeders (CFL)
San Diego Chargers (NFL)
BC Lions (CFL)

David Dickenson (born January 11, 1973 in Great Falls, Montana) is a professional Canadian football player. He is the current starting quarterback for the Canadian Football League British Columbia Lions and wears number 12. Dickenson also played quarterback collegiately at the University of Montana, where he led the Montana Grizzlies to the 1995 NCAA I-AA college football championship.

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[edit] High School Years

Dickenson attended C.M. Russell High School in Great Falls, Montana, was an excellent student, and lettered in football, basketball, and golf. In football, he led his teams to two State Championships. Dickenson graduated from C.M Russell High School in 1991 with a 4.0 grade-point average.

[edit] College Career

Dickenson is considered by many to be the greatest quarterback ever to play for the University of Montana. He owns numerous Big Sky Conference and Montana records. By the time he graduated in 1995, Dickenson had the highest completion percentage, highest percentage of passes for a touchdown, and fewest interceptions per pass in NCAA Division I-AA history. In his college career (including playoff games) he completed 1,015 of 1,477 passes (68.7%) for 13,486 yards, with 116 touchdowns and only 26 interceptions, and was responsible for 137 total touchdowns (116 passing and 21 rushing).

In 1995, Dickenson's senior season, he threw for 5,676 yards in fifteen games, including 1,500 in four playoff games. After leading the Grizzlies to the I-AA national championship in 1995, Dickenson won the 1995 Walter Payton Award as the outstanding offensive player in Division I-AA.

In Montana, he is known as "Super Dave" and "The Legend of the Fall." His college jersey number, #15, was retired by the University of Montana. He is one of only two players so honored. In 2004, he was voted the most popular athlete from Montana in a Sports Illustrated poll.[1]

[edit] Professional Career

[edit] Calgary Stampeders

Dickenson began his professional career with the CFL Calgary Stampeders in 1997. His best year with the Stampeders was 2000, when Dickenson led the CFL in passing efficiency (114.1) and completion percentage (64.3%). During the 2000 season, Dickenson earned Player of the Week honors once, was named a CFL All-Star, and won the CFL Most Outstanding Player Award. He won a Grey Cup championship with Calgary in 1998.

[edit] San Diego Chargers

After generating interest from the NFL following his outstanding 2000 CFL season, Dickenson spent two seasons (2001-2002) with the NFL San Diego Chargers. Following a disappointing 2002 NFL season with the Chargers, where he did not play a game, Dickenson returned to the CFL.

[edit] British Columbia Lions

Dickenson signed as a free agent with his current team, the British Columbia Lions in 2003. During the 2003 season, in which he led the Lions to an 11-7, fourth place finish in the CFL West Division, Dickenson's 36 touchdown passes and 5,496 yards were the second-highest single season marks in Lions' history behind Doug Flutie. Dickenson was named Offensive Player of the Month for August 2003, was the CFL Player of the Week in Week 5, and was awarded the Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy as the CFL West Division's Most Outstanding Player.

In 2004, Dickenson began the season as the Lions' starting quarterback, but gave way to backup Casey Printers after suffering a knee injury. Printers put on a dominating performance for the rest of the season, but in the West Division Final against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, was forced to leave the game with a shoulder injury in the fourth quarter, with the score tied 14-14. Dickenson, having recovered from knee surgery and shared quarterbacking duties with Printers late in the season, played the rest of the game and threw a touchdown pass in the Lions' 27-24 overtime victory.[2] Dickenson would start and play the entire Grey Cup game against the Toronto Argonauts, which the Lions lost by a score of 27-19.

Dickenson began the 2005 season embroiled in a quarterback controversy with Printers, who was named the 2004 CFL Most Outstanding Player. Dickenson emerged as the starter, and was instrumental in leading the Lions to an 11-0 start (where he played in 9 of the 11 games), en route to a 12-6 season finish. Dickenson set an all-time CFL record with a passing efficiency mark of 118.8. He fell just short of the attempts required to set a further mark with a 74.0% completion rate, due to 4 games missed because of a concussion. Dickenson was named CFL Player of the Month for both July and September, and was Player of the Week twice.

He was the winning quarterback in the 94th Grey Cup on November 19, 2006, and was named Grey Cup MVP.

[edit] CFL Statistics

[edit] Passing

GP  Year  Team  Att  Comp  %     Yards  Long  TD  %    Int  %    Rating
6   1997  CAL    49   36   73.5   407    31    2  4.1   1   2.0  103.0
9   1998  CAL   113   79   69.9  1170    89   10  8.8   4   3.5  118.2
13  1999  CAL   343  219   63.8  3048    76   16  4.7  10   2.9   95.7
16  2000  CAL   493  317   64.3  4636    71   36  7.3   6   1.2  114.1
17  2003  BC    549  370   67.4  5496   103   36  6.6  12   2.2  112.7
6   2004  BC     98   62   63.3   967    68    8  8.2   2   2.0  114.6
12  2005  BC    342  253   74.0  3338    83   21  6.1   5   1.5  118.8
13  2006  BC    338  238   70.4  3032    92   22  6.5   7   2.1  111.2
97             2325 1574   67.7 22094   103  151  6.5  47   2.0  111.3

[edit] Rushing

GP  Year  Team  Att  Yards  Avg  Long  TD  Fum
6   1997  CAL    4    11    2.8   5    0   2
9   1998  CAL   15    66    4.4  24    3   1
13  1999  CAL   30   236    7.9  25    1   5
16  2000  CAL   56   309    5.5  36    5   8
17  2003  BC    44   311    7.1  21    2   7
6   2004  BC    12    78    6.5  16    0   1
12  2005  BC    49   299    6.1  24    3   1
13  2006  BC    32   195    6.1   0    0   1
97             242  1505    6.2  36   14  26

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Eric Francis (2004-11-22). T.O. in sorry state. SLAM! Sports. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
  2. ^ Canadian Press (2004-11-14). O'Mahony kicks Lions into Grey Cup. TSN.ca. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.

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Preceded by
Steve McNair		 Walter Payton Award
1995		 Succeeded by
Archie Amerson
Preceded by
Danny McManus		 CFL MOP
2000		 Succeeded by
Khari Jones
Preceded by
Ricky Ray		 Grey Cup MVP
2006		 Succeeded by
incumbent
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