Last week, former Stampeders running back Lovell Coleman passed away at a hospice at the age of 78.

Coleman, a native of Hamtramck, Mich., who remained in Canada after his CFL career, was one of the Stamps’ all-time greats.

Coleman won a pair of league rushing titles during his eight-year career with the Red and White and was selected as the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player in 1964.

The 1,629 yards he amassed in 1964 stand as the fourth best single-season total in franchise history and he still owns the Stamps’ single-game rushing record with 238 yards against Hamilton on Sept. 14, 1964.

For good measure, Coleman also owns the third-best single-game total with 224 yards in a 1965 contest against Edmonton.

Over a three-year period (1963-65) after he took over from Earl Lunsford as the feature back at McMahon Stadium, Coleman ran for a remarkable 4,481 yards and 31 touchdowns. He also had 992 receiving yards and six scores and even threw three TD passes.

Coleman finished his career with a couple of seasons as a backup on two different teams, with Ottawa in 1968 and, after a one-year hiatus, with BC in 1970.

More than a half-century after arriving in Calgary, Coleman’s name is plastered all over the team’s record books as he remains among the team’s all-time leaders in numerous categories including rushing yards (6,395), rushing touchdowns (41) and 100-yard games (26).

Coleman was added to the Stampeders’ Wall of Fame in 1999.