Humphrey David Boone, Jr. (October 30, 1951 – March 26, 2005) was an All-Star
Canadian Football League
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defensive lineman, winner of 5 Grey Cups.
Career
Rookie Year
Boone graduated from
Eastern Michigan University
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and was drafted by the
Minnesota Vikings
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. He played 5 games in 1974, the year the team went to
Super Bowl VIII
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.
Years in CFL
He moved on to
Canada
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, playing with the
BC Lions
The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Lions compete in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and play their home games at BC Place.
The Lions played their first seas ...
in 1975 (6 games) and the
Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1976.
He began an All-Star career with the
Edmonton Eskimos in 1977, becoming a vital part of their famed "
Alberta Crude" defence. He was a CFL all-star in 1981, a three-time West Division all-star (
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...
,
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
,
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
) and won 5
Grey Cup rings.
He finished his career playing 15 games for the
Toronto Argonauts
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in 1984.
Death
His body was discovered outside of his house in the resort community of
Point Roberts, Washington
Point Roberts is a pene-exclave of Washington on the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, south of Vancouver, Canada. The area, which had a population of 1,191 at the 2020 census, is reached by land from the rest of the United States ...
.
On November 19, 2008, the
CBC Television show ''
The Fifth Estate'' suggested that Boone, who killed himself after many years of depression, suffered from the effects of years of unreported head injuries from playing professional football. Teammates
York Hentschel and
Bill Stevenson are believed to have suffered from the same injuries. The David Boone Award was created in 2005 in memory of him
David is survived by his son Kenan Joseph
References
External links
Dave Boonedatabasefootball.com
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1951 births
2005 deaths
American football defensive ends
BC Lions players
Canadian football defensive linemen
Cass Technical High School alumni
Eastern Michigan Eagles football players
Eastern Michigan University alumni
Edmonton Elks players
Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
Minnesota Vikings players
Players of American football from Detroit
Toronto Argonauts players
Sportspeople with chronic traumatic encephalopathy