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© 2024 Winnipeg Blue Bombers. All rights reserved.
Years with the Bombers: 1953-64
Position: Flying wing, defensive back
Currently resides: Winnipeg
Occupation: Retired; formerly General Manager of Jim Pattison Toyota in North Vancouver, B.C.
Family: Two sons – Todd and Scott; Brother – Bill; Sisters — Shirley and Susan.
Fondest memory playing with the Bombers:
Winning the 1961 Grey Cup in overtime (21-14) and, as well, the ‘Fog Bowl’ a year later — played over two days (December 1-2) because of the fog which had rolled in over Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium.
Proudest football accomplishment:
Being selected as a winner of the Tommy Lumsden Trophy as the team’s top Canadian. It was a coach’s selection back then and it had great meaning as Tommy was a teammate before he passed away.
Proudest non-football accomplishment:
Working with Leo Ledohowski and the gang at Canad Inns Corporation to help get Grey Cup rings for the surviving members of those teams from 1958-62.
Favourite hobby/past-time:
It used to be golf, but now it’s working on the Blue Bombers Slumni board.
Prized football possession:
My Grey Cup ring.
Four former teammates you’d love to have dinner with again:
Jim Van Pelt; John Varrone, Dave Burkholder and Jack Jacobs.
Most-talented Bomber player you played with was…
Gerry James. Very talented athlete, a great guy and a super competitor.
Bombers coach who had the most influence on you:
Bud Grant – He taught us all how to win.
What you miss about playing football:
The locker room atmosphere and being around my teammates.
What you don’t miss about playing football:
Two things: training camp and two-a-day workouts.