George Dixon

Who was George Dixon?

George Dixon was a professional Canadian football player and a Canadian Interuniversity Sport football coach.

Dixon starred as a running back for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, from 1959 to 1965. While Dixon played in only 76 games during his injury-shortened, seven-year career, all with the Alouettes, he is remembered as one of their finest players. Dixon's jersey #28 is one of seven retired by the Alouettes, and he was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1974. In 2006, Dixon was voted to the Honour Roll of the CFL's Top 50 players of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN. After his playing career ended, Dixon was the head coach of the Loyola College Warriors Canadian college football team in the late 1960s-early 1970s.