Hawley "Huck" Welch (December 12, 1907 in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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– May 15, 1979 in
Ancaster, Ontario
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) was a star football player in the
Canadian Football League
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for eight seasons for the
Hamilton Tigers
The Hamilton Tigers were a professional ice hockey team based in Hamilton, Ontario. They competed in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1920 to 1925. The Tigers were formed by the sale of the Quebec Bulldogs NHL franchise to Hamilton intere ...
and the
Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers
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. He was inducted into the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1964 and into the
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.
References
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame profile
External links
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1907 births
1979 deaths
Sportspeople from Toronto
Players of Canadian football from Ontario
Hamilton Tigers football players
Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees
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