Dave Dyment was a 5'8 fireplug with speed and aggression. One half of the feared Bash Brothers, he patrolled the Dolphins interior defence, causing every receiver who went over the middle to expect more than just the ball to arrive.

Dave practised like he played - hard nosed, no quarters given-going-for-ball defensive football.

“I was so glad when he joined us because it meant I didn’t have to play against him," says Larry Doan the centre for the Dolphins. "Then at practice I realized I’ld have to play against him TWICE a week.”  

For Dave "second place was not good enough." He and his Dolphin teammates "had one goal -Nationals. Nothing else mattered." 

His being there, on that team was no fluke. It was this stated goal - to win National championships - when he started playing with Corum Construction in 1978. 

The team got its start in the rec league in Abbotsford when Dave and his wrestling buddies were shown a video of the National Champions, the Montreal Panthers by their wrestling coach Barry Stewart. 

"It make us want to play and win Nationals" - and thus the quest to be the best began.

The next step in  the process was moving to the TFBC league as the Vancouver Trojans. There they hooked up with a QB who could take them to Top Flight; Mike Nodd, a 6'5 professional who was the 3rd string for the BC Lions and had spent time on the Oakland Raiders roster. The team was talented enough to play with the best in TFBC but "not serious enough to win it all." 

After 2 years the Dyment brothers knew the Trojans didn't have what it took to take the next step.Dejected they quit the team --- Doug was thinking of hanging up the cleats and taking up golfing and Dave was thinking of going to play for the Bucs --- when they were approached by Dale Baxter to join the Dolphins. 

"I told him I didn't like the Dolphins - but he sold us on going to nationals," says Dave. But first they would have to prove themselves in a tryout with the team in a weekend tournament in Edmonton.  At the end of the weekend both were Dolphins.

Dave started as a linebacker and sometimes DB. He'ld also take spells at centre and it wasn't unusual for him to play both ways in Nationals.

The Dolphins would go on to win 6 National Championships in a row. "They were building that team in 1979, each year just adding pieces" says Dave. He attributes the teams success to the dedication and single-minded purpose of the players. "We didn' t have the most athletic team - but we had the work ethic and we studied the game… it wasn't one individual - it was a team of great players who had the maturity and unselfishness to be the best. 

After the 6 Championships the Dolphins slipped and were only the second best team in Canada.

 "We were trying to win one more so we could retire," say Dave. Fearing the team was getting too old to win it all Dave and a few Dolphins left to join the Steelers, QBed by Bob Leblevec.

The Steelers didn't have the success they expected. But in 1997 a younger Dolphins team came calling "they just needed leadership" and so Dave again put on the blue jersey of the Dolphins and again was a part of a National Championship team. The indomitable will to win made Dave Dyment one of only 5 Dolphins to win 7 National Championships.