Background
Bachelor of Journalism "Bernie" Faloney was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, where he played high school football before attending the University of Maryland, College Park.
Bachelor of Journalism "Bernie" Faloney was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, where he played high school football before attending the University of Maryland, College Park.
Faloney"s jersey #10 was retired by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1999. In 2005, Faloney was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. In 2006, Faloney was voted to the Honour Roll of the Canadian Football League"s Top 50 Players of the league"s modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.
There, he played college football as a quarterback, helping the Terrapins make it to the Sugar Bowl in 1952.
In his senior season of 1953, Faloney quarterbacked Maryland to be National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A national football champions and into the 1954 Orange Bowl.
Faloney was drafted in the first round of the 1954 National Football League draft by the San Francisco 49ers. San Francisco offered Faloney $9000 to play defensive back and back-up quarterback.
At the time the Canadian dollar was worth 10 per cent more than its American counterpart so the choice to head north was easy, Faloney later recalled. Traded from Hamilton in 1965, he played for the Montreal Alouettes and the British Columbia Lions before retiring in 1967.
Faloney was the Eastern Conference"s All-Star quarterback on five occasions, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1964 and 1965.
His career Canadian Football League stats include 1,493 pass completions of 2,876 attempts for 153 touchdowns and 24,264 yards. He still holds the Grey Cup record for most passes completed and most touchdowns. Bernie Faloney was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1974, the Western Pennsylvania Hall of Fame in 1983, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988, and Canada"s Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
In November 2006, Faloney was voted to the Honour Roll of the Canadian Football League"s top 50 players of the league"s modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.
In retirement, Faloney made his home in Hamilton, Ontario where he became a part owner of a construction company.
An avid horseman, he remained active in community and business affairs until being stricken with colorectal cancer. Faloney died on June 14, 1999, in Hamilton, Ontario.
Cannon Street in Hamilton, Ontario, in the Brian Timmis Stadium and Ivor Wynne Stadium area is also known as Bernie Faloney Way. Canadian Football Hall of Fame member
Graham Kelly, The Grey Cup (1999).
Born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, Faloney is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, Canada"s Sports Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, the Western Pennsylvania Hall of Fame, and the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame.