Rufus Crawford
- Actor
Rufus is a former professional football player, who played for the
Seattle Seahawks of the National Football league. He also played seven
years for the Hamilton Tigercats of the Canadian Football League where
he broke a record that had stood for 28 years. Rufus set a new all time
CFL total yardage record of 2,896 for the 1984 Season. He was honored
as the 1980's Hamilton Tigercat player of the decade and the plaque
that bears that honor in his name now resides in Hamilton Ontario out
side the Tigercats stadium. Rufus was also voted as one the 75 greatest
Tigercats player of all times. Upon retirement from the professional
football in 1986, he began to pursue another passion of his, acting.
After taking a year of acting lessons he decided to take his acting
more seriously In 2008 Rufus was inducted into Virginia State
University Sports Hall of Fame, the university in which he attended. On
May 19th 2014 in his home town of Gastonia North Carolina, he was
inducted into The Gastonia County Sports Hall of Fame.
