Darrell Wallace
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Darrell Wallace was an award winning football player in the Canadian Football League.
A graduate of the University of Missouri, where he played between 1984 and 1987, he rushed for 2607 career yards, with 1120 coming in 1985 and 872 in 1986. He was inducted into the University of Missouri Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997.
He signed with the B.C. Lions of the CFL in 1989 and had a fantastic rookie season, being second in the league in total offensive yardage. He led the team (and set a club record) with 1225 kickoff return yards, added a team high 780 punt return yards, and had a season high 189 yards rushing versus the Saskatchewan Roughriders on August 24, 1989. All of this won him the Jackie Parker Trophy as western division rookie of the year (and CFL runner up.)
Wallace played parts of the 1990 season with the Lions and the Calgary Stampeders.
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