He is A. Gordon Craig now but he’ll always be Gordie to the Football Reporters of Canada. Born in Brandon, Manitoba in the 1930s, Craig got into broadcasting with CBC Winnipeg in 1955. He did everything but mop the floors at first, then got behind a camera, shooting...
J.P. McConnell was born in British Columbia in 1945, and 50 years later he was still there, but there were several stops along the way. Nelson, Calgary, Red Deer, Melfort, Moose Jaw and Winnipeg, in that order, then back to B.C., where in 1969 he started covering the...
Frank M. Gibson and other prominent hamilton businessmen arranged the amalgamation of the Tigers and Wildcats to form the modern-era Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He served the team in various capacities for more than 35 years. During the early days of the CFL, eastern and...
Dan Kepley had an outstanding football career at East Carolina University and was signed by the Dallas Cowboys in 1974. He joined the Edmonton Eskimos following his release from Dallas in 1975. In Kepley’s rookie season the Edmonton Organization considered him the...
Bill Clarke, a native of Regina, played his amateur football in the city before moving up to the local professional team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He became one of the longest serving members of the Squad, playing 14 years for the green and white. Clarke played...
