G. Sydney Halter

G. Sydney Halter was active in amateur sports in Winnipeg, and in 1934 assisted in reorganizing the Winnipeg Rugby Football Club. He was the treasurer in 1935 when Winnipeg became the first Western team to win the Grey Cup.

G. Sydney Halter participated in the evolution of Canadian professional football. In 1958 he was selected the first commissioner of the Canadian Football League, and under his direction the league matured and prospered.

G. Sydney Halter is a member of the Canadian Amateur Sports Hall of Fame, Canada’s Sports, the Manitoba Sports Halls of Fame, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame. He received the Order of Canada in 1977.

Career

Executive, Winnipeg Football Club 1934 - 1953
President, Amateur Athletic Union of Canada 1938 - 1946
Commissioner, Western Interprovincial Football Union 1953 - 1957
Registrar, Canadian Football Council 1956, 1957
Commissioner, CFL 1958 - 1966

Awards/Honours

• Grey Cup Participation as an Executive
  1935, 1937 - 1939, 1941, 1945 - 1947, 1950, 1953
• Grey Cup Winning Teams as an Executive
  1935, 1939, 1941