Anthony Charles Golab, (January 17, 1919 – October 16, 2016) was a
Canadian football
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halfback and
flying wing who played in the
Ontario Rugby Football Union
The Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) was an early amateur Canadian football league comprising teams in the Canadian province of Ontario. The ORFU was founded on Saturday, January 6, 1883 and in 1903 became the first major competition to adopt th ...
and
Interprovincial Rugby Football Union
The East Division is one of the two regional divisions of the Canadian Football League, its counterpart being the West Division. Although the CFL was not founded until 1958, the East Division and its clubs are descended from earlier leagues.
T ...
for 11 years with the
Sarnia Imperials
The Sarnia Imperials were a football team from Sarnia, Ontario and a member of the Ontario Rugby Football Union, a league that preceded the Canadian Football League and contested for the Grey Cup until 1955. In their history, the Imperials appe ...
,
Ottawa Rough Riders
The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. Formerly one of the oldest and longest-lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine ...
, and
Ottawa Uplands. He was born in
Windsor, Ontario
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.
Golab played with the
Ottawa Rough Riders
The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. Formerly one of the oldest and longest-lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine ...
from 1939 to 1950. He was part of the
1939,
1941
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January
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, and
1948 Grey Cup
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finalist teams and was part of the winning
1940 Grey Cup champions. He was an Eastern All-Star at halfback in 1938, 1940, and 1945 and at flying wing in 1947 and 1948.
In 1964, he was elected to the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame
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. In 1975, he was inducted into
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
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. In 1985, he was made a Member of the
Order of Canada
The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit.
To coincide with the ...
. In 1997, he was inducted into the
Ontario Sports Hall of Fame
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. He died at the Perley Veterans Health Centre in Ottawa, Ontario in October 2016 at the age of 97.
Former Rough Riders star Tony Golab dies
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1919 births
2016 deaths
Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees
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Montreal Alouettes general managers
Ontario Rugby Football Union players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Players of Canadian football from Ontario
Academic staff of the Royal Military College of Canada
Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario
20th-century Canadian people
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