- Joe Theismann
Former quarterback for the Washington Redskins. Chosen as one of the 70 greatest Washington Redskins (June 2002). Played college football at Notre Dame. Originally pronounced his last name "THEES-man" until he enrolled, when Notre Dame's sports information department convinced him to change the pronunciation to rhyme with "Heisman." All during his senior season, they would promote him to sportswriters as "Theismann, as in Heisman!" in hopes that he would win enough votes for the Heisman... - Ricky Williams
Errick Lynne Williams, Jr. (born May 21, 1977 in San Diego, California) is an American football running back whose NFL rights are held by the Miami Dolphins. He was originally drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the first round (fifth overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Texas. - Pinball Clemons
Michael Lutrell "Pinball" Clemons, O.Ont (born January 15, 1965 in Dunedin, Florida, USA) is the current head coach of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Clemons' #31 jersey is one of only four that has been retired by the Argos. He is also one of their most famous former players and also one of the most popular professional athletes in the history of Toronto. - Matt Dunigan
Matt Dunigan (born December 6, 1960 in Lakewood, Ohio) is a former quarterback, coach, and executive in the Canadian Football League who is currently a CFL sportscaster for Canadian sports television channel TSN. In 2006, Dunigan joined the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, and was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players (#39) of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN. - Bill Symons
Bill Symons, born in Nucla, Colorado, is a former star running back with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Symons played for the University of Colorado Buffaloes between 1962 and 1964. He was a versatile player, running, leading the team in receptions, punt returns and kickoff returns, and doing some punting. - Terry Evanshen
Terrence Anthony "Terry" Evanshen (born June 13, 1944 in Montreal, Quebec) is a motivational speaker and former star receiver in the Canadian Football League. Drafted by the Montreal Alouettes, Terry went on to have an outstanding career in the CFL playing for 14 years from 1965-1978, with the Montreal Alouettes, the Calgary Stampeders, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and the Toronto Argonauts playing in nearly 200 games and scoring over 90 touchdowns. - Annis Stukus
Annis Paul Stukus (October 25 1914-May 20 2006) was a Canadian football player, coach and general manager, and hockey general manager. Stukus was born in Toronto. He played for the Toronto Argonauts from 1935 to 1941, leading the team to Grey Cup victories in 1937 and 1938. He then played for the Oakwood Indians (1942), Balmy Beach (1943), HMCS York Bulldogs (1944) and the Toronto Indians (1945, 1946), all Toronto-based teams. - Jackie Parker
John Dickerson "Jackie" Parker (August 3 1932 - November 7 2006) was an American football player who became an All-American in college football and an outstanding professional football player in the Canadian Football League at the running back, quarterback, and defensive back positions. He is primarily known for his play with the Edmonton Eskimos. Later in his career, he played for the Toronto Argonauts and the British Columbia Lions, … - Steve Christie
Geoffrey Stephen Christie (born November 13, 1967 in Hamilton, Ontario) was an NFL placekicker, who as a member of the Buffalo Bills became known for his ability to kick clutch field goals, even in poor weather. Christie, who grew up in nearby Oakville, Ontario, graduated from The College of William and Mary and made his NFL debut with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1990. He made all 27 extra point attempts and 23 of 27 field goal tries in his rookie season. - Dave Raimey
Dave Raimey (born November 18, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio) is a former running back and defensive back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1965-1968 and the Toronto Argonauts from 1969-1974 of the Canadian Football League. He played in two Grey Cups, one for the Blue Bombers and played in another for the Argonauts. Raimey was selected in the ninth round of the 1963 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns after a stellar career at the University of Michigan, … - Dick Shatto
Dick Shatto (born 1933 in Springfield, Ohio, died February 4, 2003 in New Port Richey, Florida) was a professional Canadian football player for the Canadian Football League Toronto Argonauts. Shatto's career with the Argos lasted twelve seasons, from 1954 to 1965. His #22 jersey is one of only four that has been retired by the club. At his retirement in 1965, he held records for most touchdowns, most passes and most offensive yardage. - Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is an American former professional gridiron football player in the National Football League (American football) and Canadian Football League (Canadian football). Within the United States, he is perhaps best known for his career at Boston College and for the Boston College v. Miami game on November 23, 1984, in which his "Hail Mary" pass won the game for BC 47-45. - Tommy Joe Coffey
Tommy Joe Coffey was a Canadian Football League receiver who played for the Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tigercats and Toronto Argonauts. In his fourteen year career he caught 650 receptions for a total of 10,320 yards and 63 touchdowns. He was elected into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1977. Coffey was voted one of the CFL's top 50 players by Canadian sports network TSN. - Jim Corrigall
Jim Corrigall, born May 7, 1946 in Barrie, Ontario, was an all star defensive lineman in the Canadian Football League. Corrigall played his college football at Kent State University. During his outstanding university career, Corrigall was selected Most Valuable Sophomore, Best Defensive Lineman, Most Inspirational Player and he was the first Kent State player to be selected to the first team All-Mid-American Conference for three consecutive years. - Michael Bishop
Michael Paul Bishop (born May 15, 1976 in Galveston, Texas) is a quarterback in the Canadian Football League with the Toronto Argonauts. Bishop previously played with the NFL's New England Patriots during the 2000 season and also played in the Arena Football League, most recently with the Grand Rapids Rampage. He was also one of the best quarterbacks in the country during his days at Kansas State, beating out UCLA's Cade McNown for the 1998 Davey O' Brien award. - Joe Krol
Joe "King" Krol (born on February 20, 1919 in Hamilton, Ontario) was a Canadian Football League quarterback, running back, and placekicker/punter from 1942-1953 and 1955. Krol played collegiately at the University of Western Ontario. Krol won six Grey Cups, five with the Toronto Argonauts. His #55 jersey is one of only four that has been retired by the Boatmen. He was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's top athlete in 1946. - Condredge Holloway
Condredge Holloway (born January 24, 1954 in Huntsville, Alabama) was a star quarterback for the University of Tennessee and later in the Canadian Football League. Surprisingly, football wasn't Holloway's favourite sport; he preferred baseball. After starring as a high school player, he was drafted as a shortstop by the Montreal Expos in 1971; Holloway's was Montreal's first pick, and he was the fourth player selected overall. - Lou Marsh
Lewis Edwin "Lou" Marsh was a Canadian athlete and referee, and one of the pioneers of sports journalism in Canada, working at the "Toronto Star" for 43 years. Marsh was born in Campbellford, Ontario and lived there until the age of nine, when he moved with his family to Toronto. At 14, in the first year after the launch of the "Toronto Star", Marsh walked into the newspaper's office responding to a want ad and was hired as a copyboy. - Bobby Jurasin
Robert "Bobby" Jurasin (born August 26, 1964 in Wakefield, Michigan) is a former defensive lineman for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1986-1997 and the Toronto Argonauts in 1998. He was a CFL All-Star in 1987, 1988, 1992 and 1997. He was a part of the Roughriders 1989 Grey Cup winning team. Jurasin also played in the Arena Football League with the Iowa Barnstormers. A neck injury in the AFL forced Jurasin into retirement. - Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson was a football quarterback for several teams in the Canadian Football League. He was born in Iowa on January 4, 1943 but moved to Wyoming with his parents in 1945. Tom Wilkinson played high school football in the small town of Greybull, Wyoming. He is the second of three professional football players to come from this little town of 1700 in the Big Horn Basin. - Ray Nettles
Ray Nettles (born August 1, 1949 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a former linebacker for the British Columbia Lions from 1972-1976, Toronto Argonauts in 1977, Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1978, Ottawa Rough Riders in 1979 and the Calgary Stampeders in 1980 of the Canadian Football League. He was the CFL's Outstanding Lineman in 1973 Nettles was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2005. - Lionel Conacher
Lionel Pretoria Conacher (May 24, 1900 - May 26, 1954), nicknamed The Big Train, was Canada's top all-around athlete in the 1920s, excelling in Canadian football, ice hockey, lacrosse, baseball, boxing and wrestling. He later became a politician and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Conacher played for the Toronto Argonauts, and was part of the 1921 Grey Cup winning team. - Damon Allen
Damon Allen (born July 29, 1963 in San Diego, California) is a professional football player in the Canadian Football League. He is the third quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts. Allen leads the All-Time Pro football passing chart with 70,596 passing yards; he surpassed Warren Moon's total of 70,553 yards (in both the CFL and NFL combined) on September 4, 2006 in the annual Labour Day Classic. The 2006 season marks Allen's twenty-second season in the CFL. - Jake Gaudaur
Jacob Gill "Jake" Gaudaur, Jr (born 5 October 1920, Orillia, Ontario) is a former Canadian Canadian Football League (CFL) player, executive, and Commissioner of the CFL from 1968 to 1984. He played for the Hamilton Tigers (1940-1941 & 1948-1949), Toronto Argonauts (1941), Toronto RCAF Hurricanes (1942), Toronto Indians (Ontario Rugby Football Union) (1945-1946), Montreal Alouettes (1947), Hamilton Tiger-Cats (1950-1951 & 1953). - Noel Prefontaine
Noel Prefontaine (born December 23, 1973 in Camp Pendleton, California) is a punter/kicker with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Though born in the United States, Prefontaine moved with his family to Montreal, Quebec when he was seven years old, living there for the next five years of his life before moving back to California. - Ellison Kelly
Ellison Kelly (born May 17, 1935 in Butler, Georgia) is a former offensive lineman for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1960-1970 and the Toronto Argonauts from 1971-1972 of the Canadian Football League. He never missed a game in his thirteen seasons in the CFL. He won three Grey Cups for the Tiger-cats and played in another for the Argonauts. Kelly was selected in the fifth round of the 1959 NFL Draft by the New York Giants after a stellar career at Michigan State University, … - John Avery
John Edward Avery, Jr. (born November 1, 1976 in Richmond, Virginia) is a professional Canadian football player with the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, and is a former professional American football player with the NFL (Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys, and Minnesota Vikings) and the XFL (Chicago Enforcers). - Mike McMahon
Michael Edward McMahon (born February 8, 1979 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. - Bill Frank
William Frank Jr. (born April 13, 1938 in Denver, Colorado) is a former star offensive lineman in the Canadian Football League and with the University of Colorado, who also briefly played in the National Football League. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. Frank played college football at San Diego Junior College in 1959, where he was a junior college all-American before returning home to play at the University of Colorado in 1960 and 1961. - James Parker
James "Quick" Parker, born January 1, 1958, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a star defensive player in the Canadian Football League. After attending Wake Forest University from 1976 to 1979, where he was a conference all star and second in all time career sacks with 15. Parker joined the Edmonton Eskimos in 1980, right in the middle of the greatest dynasty in CFL history. He would play with them for 4 years, until 1983, … - Willie Pless
Willie Pless (born February 21, 1964) was a star football linebacker in the Canadian Football League. Pless played his college football at the University of Kansas. As a Jayhawk starter for only three years (1983 to 1985) he amassed an amazing 633 tackles. This is not recognized as a record, as the NCAA officially counted tackles starting in 2000, but the present leader (Rod Davis) has only 360. Being 5 feet 10 inches tall and 210 pounds, Pless was not drafted by the NFL. - Ab Box
Albert George "Ab" Box (March 8, 1909 - July 30, 2000) was a Canadian professional football halfback, quarterback and punter. Born in Toronto, Box attended Malvern Collegiate Institute where he played on the football team and later on the Malvern Grads junior team from 1928-1929 under coach Ted Reeve. Box then moved to the senior Ontario Rugby Football Union, again playing under Reeve with the Toronto Balmy Beach from 1930-1931, winning the Grey Cup in 1930. - Pierre Vercheval
Pierre Vercheval (b. November 22, 1964, Quebec City, Quebec) is a former all star offensive lineman in the Canadian Football League. Vercheval played his university football at the University of Western Ontario, where he won the J.P. Metras Trophy top lineman in Canadian university football in 1987. He tried out with the New England Patriots of the NFL, unsuccessfully, and signed with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1988, beginning a 14-year CFL career. - Ben Zambiasi
Benjamin Ray Zambiasi, more commonly known as Ben Zambiasi, (b. August 19, 1956) was a star linebacker in the Canadian Football League. Zambiasi was born in Valdosta, Georgia, and played for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1974 to 1977. He later graduated from the University of Georgia in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree. He was drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears in the 10th round, 271st overall, in 1978, … - Marv Luster
Marvin Luster (born 1939) was a football player in the CFL for fourteen years. He was selected originally by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960 NFL Draft. He starred as a defensive back for the Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes. He is inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. - Paul Bennett
Paul Frederick Bennett (born March 27, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former defensive back in the Canadian Football League. Paul attended General Brock public school and W.A.Porter Collegiate high school in Scarborough, Ontario, an eastern suburb of Toronto. As a high school football player Paul played defensive back and quarterback in his senior year. He was named Toronto All Star for the 1972 season. - Mike Rodden
Michael James Rodden (April 24, 1891 - January 11, 1978) was a Canadian sports journalist, National Hockey League referee, and football coach. Born in Mattawa, Ontario, Rodden officiated in 1,187 National Hockey League games. As a football coach, he led the Hamilton Tigers to Grey Cup championships in 1928 and 1929. He was the first person to be elected to both the Hockey Hall of Fame (1962) and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1964). - Don Sutherin
Donald Paul "Don" Sutherin (born February 29, 1936 in Empire, Ohio)is a former Canadian Football League (CFL) and National Football League (NFL) defensive back and placekicker. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1992). - Danny Bass
Danny Bass (born March 31, 1958 in Lansing, Michigan) is a former linebacker for the Toronto Argonauts in 1980, Calgary Stampeders from 1981-1983 and the Edmonton Eskimos from 1984-1991 of the Canadian Football League. He won a Grey Cup for the Eskimos and played in another two for them. Bass was voted one of the CFL's top 50 players by Canadian sports network TSN. Bass was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2000. - Tobin Rote
Tobin Rote (January 18, 1928 - June 27, 2000) was an American college and professional football player who played quarterback for the NFL's Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, and the American Football League's San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos. Rote was the only man to quarterback teams to championships in both the NFL and the American Football League.
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