Tracy Ham Tracy Ham ( born January 5 , 1965 ) is a retired Canadian Football League quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos , Toronto Argonauts , Baltimore Stallions , and the Montreal Alouettes . He was known for his abilities as a dual threat quarterback . In his college career with Georgia Southern he became the first quarterback to rush for 3 , 000 yards and pass for 5 , 000 yards in a career . Career . After his college days he signed with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1987 serving as the third string quarterback behind Matt Dunigan and Damon Allen and was a member of their Grey Cup winning team that season . With the departure of Dunigan to the BC Lions and injuries to Allen , Ham established himself the their new starting quarterback . He passed for 2840 yards and ran for another 628 . In 1989 he won the CFL ' s Most Outstanding Player Award in leading the Eskimos to a 16 - 2 record , throwing for 4366 yards on 268 completions out of 517 attempts with 30 touchdowns to 18 interceptions . Plus Ham became the first CFL passer to rush for over 1000 yards with 1005 on 125 carries and with 10 touchdowns . Unfortunately for the Eskimos they lost the division final to the 9 - 9 Saskatchewan Roughriders , who went on to win the Grey Cup . In 1990 Ham added another 1000 yard rushing season with 1096 and passed for 4286 yards leading the Eskimos to the Grey Cup . However the team was handily beaten by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 55 - 10 . The next year Ham ran for 998 yards and passed for 3862 . Ham endured an injury plagued season in 1992 but played well enough to pass for 3655 yards and to run for 655 . He moved on to the Toronto Argonauts for 1993 and suffered through a 3 - 15 record . He threw for only 2147 yards and ran for 605 , struggling to adapt to the Run & Shoot offense . With the CFL expanding into the United States , Ham joined the Baltimore team in 1994 . He gained his last plus 4000 yard passing season with 4348 and ran for 613 yards . Ham led the team , not yet named the Stallions , to the Grey Cup , where they were defeated by the Lions . Finally , in 1995 , Ham led the Stallions to the only Grey Cup win by a US - based team in a 37 - 20 defeat of the Calgary Stampeders ; he won Grey Cup MVP honours for his efforts . In the regular season he passed for only 3357 yards and ran for 610 . With the demise of the US - based teams , the core of the Stallions franchise was transferred to Montreal where they became the third incarnation of the Alouettes . The team ' s offense was geared to the running attack , especially when Mike Pringle returned from the NFL midway through the 1996 season . Ham would spend two seasons as the clear - cut starting quarterback , but in 1998 he began to share passing duties with Anthony Calvillo and he retired after the 1999 season . In his career from 1987 to 1999 Ham accumulated 40 , 534 passing yards which currently ranks seventh all - time . He threw 4943 times with 2670 completions , 164 interceptions and 284 touchdowns . His 8043 rushing yards presently puts him in tenth all time and second among quarterbacks , behind only Damon Allen . He tallied 1059 carries with 62 touchdowns . In 2007 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and in 2010 into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame . Coaching career . In 2002 , Ham was hired to serve as head coach of the Clark Atlanta Panthers football team . He led the Panthers to records of 2 – 9 in 2002 and 0 – 11 in 2003 before he was fired prior to the start of the 2004 season .