Hall of Fame
ANTHONY CALVILLO
Hometown: La Puente, Calif.
Sport: Football
Years: 1992-93
Anthony Calvillo earned second-team all-Big West Conference honors as a senior in 1993 and was named the league's player of the week twice that season as he led the Aggies to their first conference championship since 1979. As a senior, Calvillo set the then single-season school record for total offense with 3,260 yards as he threw a school record 469 passes and had six 300-yard passing games. Calvillo also had a school-record five touchdown passes in a game twice during his career, including in a 58-56 home win against BYU. Calvillo concluded his career by being named the MVP of the 1993 Las Vegas Bowl as he threw for 386 yards and three touchdowns in Utah State's 42-33 win against Ball State, its first bowl win in school history. For his career, Calvillo ranked 31st in the history of the NCAA for career total offense per game (265.4 ypg). Following his collegiate career, Calvillo spent 20 years in the Canadian Football League (CFL), including 16 years with the Montreal Alouettes leading the team to the Grey Cup Championship in 2002, 2009 and 2010. Calvillo was named the Grey Cup Most Outstanding Player in 2002 and won the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award three times (2003, 2008, 2009), which ties him for second all-time behind Doug Flutie. Overall, Calvillo is the all-time passing leader in all of professional football with 79,816 yards and is one of just five professional quarterbacks to have thrown over 400 career touchdown passes joining Brett Favre, Warren Moon, Peyton Manning and Dan Marino.
