Rob Vanstone‘s favourite Labour Day Classic memory, you have to travel all the way back to 1976.“It was not going well for the Roughriders,” Vanstone said of the matchup against the B.C.
Lions. “Ron Lancaster had thrown four interceptions. It was just an ugly game.”Luckily for Vanstone, then a wide-eyed 12-year-old, the tables turned as the clock ticked down at Taylor Field.As he recalls, defensive lineman Bill Baker “flattened” Lancaster with a crushing tackle late in the fourth quarter.
Lancaster needed assistance to get off the field. But moments later, a Lions punt return was fumbled and the ball came back into white-and-green possession.