Willie Burden
Football
Inducted: 2009
- High school star at Raleigh Enloe
- Signed with NC State and ranks in the top 10 in most rushing categories
- Named ACC Player of the Year in 1973
- Turning down draft opportunities in the NFL and elsewhere, took his talents to the Canadian Football League, where he became one of its all-time greats
- Carried the ball for 6,234 yards in his career with the Calgary Stampeders
- Selected as one of the CFL’s 50 greatest stars
- Elected to the CFL Hall of Fame
