Bob Jurasin - Class of 2005

(Bessemer)

A 12-year player in the Canadian Football league, Bob Jurasin joined his alma mater as an assistant football coach at Northern Michigan University upon his retirement as a player in 1999.  He was a four-year starting defensive lineman at NMU (1982-85) and signed with the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1986.  He was second in the CFL in career sacks (142) and career tackles (411) and was a three-time CFL all-star.  In 1987 he was Saskatchewan's most outstanding player and most outstanding defensive player.  He joined the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame (1995), the NMU Sports Hall of Fame (1998) and the Roughriders' Plaza of Honor (2002).