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...
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...
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...
In his more than 60 years of association with Canadian Football, he has been an outstanding player, a respected coach, and the game’s liveliest and most durable public commentator. No man in Canada can challenge his unique qualifications to be known among his peers as...
A newspaperman for 48 of his 65 years, Hal joined the sports staff of the Toronto Globe, forerunner to the Globe and Mail, in 1933. He was later sports editor of the Toronto Telegram and the Calgary Herald. He covered the football beat for most of those years,...
