Ron Lancaster

HAMILTON, Ontario - Ron Lancaster, a star quarterback who led the Saskatchewan Roughriders to their first Grey Cup title and was the Canadian Football League's outstanding player in 1970 and 1976, died Thursday. He was 69. Also a Grey Cup winner as a coach with the Edmonton Eskimos and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the former Wittenburg University star died just over a month after he announced he was being treated for lung cancer. He was undergoing radiation and chemotherapy. Inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1982 and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, Lancaster has 142 regular-season coaching victories to rank fifth on the CFL list. After coaching Hamilton in 2006, he worked the team's radio broadcasts and was a senior adviser to organizational development.