{"id":852699,"date":"2026-08-10T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852699\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:14:13","slug":"cfl-rick-galbos-former-calgary-stampeder-dead-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852699\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL: Rick Galbos, former Calgary Stampeder, dead at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rick Galbos, a former running back for the Calgary Stampeders, died Saturday at the age of 75.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team announced Galbos\u2019 death on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> The American played for the Stamps between 1973 and 1977, serving primarily as a blocking back for Canadian Football Hall of Famer Willie Burden, who rushed for a franchise record high 1,896 yards in 1975, which still stands. Burden died in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Galbos won a national U.S. college championship in 1970 with the Ohio State Buckeyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over the course of his Stampeder career, Galbos rushed 277 times for 1,244 yards and three touchdowns. He also had 172 receptions for 2,016 yards and eight more touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Galbos joined the Montreal Alouettes late in the 1977 season and was part of their Grey Cup-winning roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Galbos lived in Calgary after retiring from the CFL and worked in construction. He was also an assistant coach for the University of Calgary Dinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Galbos, a former running back for the Calgary Stampeders, died Saturday at the age of 75. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-852699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}