Neil Habig

American gridiron football player (born 1936)

Neil Habig
Career information
Born:	(1936-09-06) September 6, 1936 (age 87) West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.
CFL status	American
Position(s)	C, LB
College	Purdue
NFL draft	1958, Round: 27
Drafted by	Green Bay Packers
Career history
As player
1958–1964	Saskatchewan Roughriders

Career highlights and awards
Second-team All-Big Ten (1957)
CFL All-Star	1962
CFL West All-Star	1959–1964

Neil Habig (born September 6, 1936) is a former offensive lineman and linebacker for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1958 to 1964 and was a dominant player at his position of center.^[1]^[2]

CFL

As a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Neil Habig played center and linebacker. In 7 years (1958-1964), Habig was a CFL All-Star center once (1962, the first year this honor was awarded) and a Western conference all-star 6 times (1959-1964). As a linebacker, he was particularly adept at covering the pass, as indicated by his 10 career interceptions, including 6 in a single year (1963). Despite this prowess, his team reached the Western finals only once, in 1963, and lost to the BC Lions, so that he never played in a Grey cup game. He was replaced in 1965 by Ted Urness, a CFL All-Star center himself for the next 6 years.