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Remembrance Month!
Athletes for Christ...
November 2021
Tracy Ham
Tracy is now actively involved in athletic ministy
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Tracy Ham with the Montreal Alouettes in 1996-1999
racy Ham was born on January 5, 1964 in Gainsville, Florida. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame; he was also a specialist on the running of the option offence while he played in college at Georgia Southern. Tracy's skills and athletic strength had led him to be drafted by the Los Angeles Rams during the 1987 draft, which he was picked in the 9th round. The Rams had seen Tracy as a running back but he still wanted to continue playing quarterback. Tracy then decided to head north to the CFL where he signed a contract with the Edmonton Eskimos, who are now the (Elk) in 1987. Later that year, Edmonton would go on to be eliminated by the eventual Grey Cup Champions, Saskatchewan Rough Riders, with an upset win in the Western Final during the 1989 season. But Tracy would be named CFL's Most Outstanding Player. During the season, he passed for 4,360 yards and 30 touchdowns,
and incredibly he also added 1,005 yards rushing with 10 rushing touchdowns. Tracy with his athletics and speed would go on to help redefine the position of Quarterback in the CFL during the 1990's. Tracy brought the position of Quarterback with the rushing threat to a whole new level, with other great CFL quarterbacks like Dough Flutie and Damon Allen. During the season of 1993, Tracy was moved to the Toronto Argonauts in a 10 player trade. Now under a new coach, the run & shoot offense was a disaster and the team struggled terribly that year. By the end of that season, it looked like the interest of Tracy had stumbled alot around the league, except the late coach Don Matthews saw something still there in Tracy and brought him to Baltimore, as the CFL had expanded to the United States in 1993. Tracy was a veteran with lots of experience in the CFL, and their success would bring a championship that year as the Baltimore Colts became the 1995 Grey Cup Champions by beating the Calgary Stampeders. After the ending of the American franchises in 1995, the Baltimore Colts were moved to Montreal where Tracy was the face of the Alouettes. Tracy would play until he retired at the end of the 1999 season. Throughout his career, he
