Reverend Father William J. Stanton (July 1, 1880 – January 1, 1937) was a

Canadian football Canadian football () is a team sport, sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's sco ...

coach and missionary. He was the head coach of multiple of the Ottawa Gee-Gees teams from the 1900s to 1915 and the head coach of the

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in 1913. He was considered to be one of the greatest Canadian rugby coaches. He retired from coaching in 1915 to become a missionary. Canadian Football Hall of Famer Mike Rodden described him as "The

Knute Rockne Knut (Norwegian and Swedish), Knud (Danish), or Knútur (Icelandic) is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch first name, of which the anglicised form is Canute. In Germany both "Knut" and "Knud" are used. In Spanish and Portuguese Canuto is used whi ...

of his time". He died on January 1, 1937, in a car accident. He was inducted into the Ottawa Gee-Gees Hall of Fame in 1973.

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