Career
Dick Suderman played college football at the University of Western Ontario. Suderman played defensive end for the Stampeders from 1964 to 1972. The Dick Suderman Trophy has been awarded each Grey Cup to the Most Valuable Canadian since 1971.
Suderman was traded to the Eskimos during the course of the 1972 Canadian Football League season.
The day after his first game as an Eskimo against the British Columbia Lions, Suderman collapsed while having breakfast in a downtown restaurant with teammates, following their return from Vancouver, and died without regaining consciousness a few hours later of a brain hemorrhage, only two days shy of his 33rd birthday. Despite the close proximity to the game, the doctors" opinion was that the hemorrhage was not related to football play, but caused by a congenital malformation of blood vessels.
