by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
In his career as a Montreal sports columnist – and more importantly during his many years as sports editor of Weekend Magazine, which is circulated nationally – he championed the cause of Canadian Football. He made a major contribution to the popularization of the...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Annis Stukus – The Loquacious Lithuanian – enjoyed a career spanning five decades as a player, coach, administrator, journalist, and broadcaster. Emerging from the depression thirties, he quarterbacked the Argos, and then coached Edmonton Eskimos’ return to football...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Henry Viney – “The Little Man with the Big Cigar” – was an Albertan sportscaster for more than fifty years. Champion of amateur sport, he covered six Olympics, work amateur hockey, bowling and basketball championships. He refereed world basketball and several Allen...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Ivan Miller was a life-time newsman of great physical and professional stature. He was 6-foot-4 and 225 LBS, and he had the stamina and attitude to meet the demands of newspapering when it was seven days and seven nights a week. He wrote all sports for more than 40...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Basil “Baz” O’Meara’s writing was a building stimulus for football in two cities dating back to the pre-radio era as sports editor of the Ottawa Journal and later as sports editor of the Montreal Star. Ottawa-born, he was a press-box habitué up to his death in 1971 at...
