Hal Patterson
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Hal Patterson (born 1931) is former star American College basketball player, Canadian football player, and a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Patterson was a football, baseball and basketball star at the University of Kansas. He was the second-leading rebounder for Kansas' 1953 national runner-up team that lost the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game by a single point to Indiana University. An end with the Jayhawks football team, he also lettered in baseball.
Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, Hal Patterson signed with the Montreal Alouettes in 1953. Known as "Prince" Hal, in 1956 he won the Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy then the Schenley Award as the CFL's Outstanding Player. That year he set a record that has yet to be matched when he caught passes for 338 yards in a single game and set the record of 88 catches that stood up for 11 years before Terry Evanshen broke it in 1967.
Patterson was a member of the Alouettes until being part of a controversial trade to the last-place Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1960 involving Montreal star quarterback Sam Etcheverry. Patterson's impact was immediate, helping to lead the Tiger-Cats to the 1961 Grey Cup finals.
Hal Patterson still holds the record of 580 yards for Most Pass Receiving Yards in Grey Cup history. Patterson scored 54 touchdowns in his 14-year CFL career and had 34 games with at least 100 yards in pass receptions. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
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