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Don Knowles

Don Knowles

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Donald Gordon "Sleepy" Knowles (1927 – October 19, 2017) was a halfback in the Ontario Rugby Football Union.[1][2]

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Coming straight from high school, Knowles played for his hometown Sarnia Imperials from 1946 to 1950, with his finest season being 1949, when he was an all-star and won the Imperial Oil Trophy as OFRU most valuable player. He later played two seasons with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,[3] returned to Sarnia for a season, and finished his football career playing a game for the 1954 inaugural BC Lions team.[4]

In 1990 he was elected to the Sarnia Lambton Sports Hall of Fame.[5] He died in 2017.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "1954 British Columbia Lions (WIFU) - Pro Football Archives".
  2. [2]
    FANBASE entry : Don Knowles Archived December 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "Winnipeg Blue Bombers Alumni". Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  4. [4]
    1998 BC Lions Media Guide
  5. [5]
    1990 Inductees
  6. [6]
    "Obituary of Donald Knowles | R.S. Kane Funeral Home".
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