Canadian Football League
- Mel Becket, 27, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Tight End, plane crash (1956)†
- Norm Casola, 29, Toronto Argonauts, Running Back/Receiver, cancer (1998)
- Travis Claridge, 27, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Offensive Guard, acute pneumonia (2006)
- Mario DeMarco, 32, Saskatchewan Roughriders, offensive guard, plane crash (1956)†
- Cal Jones, 23, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, offensive guard, plane crash (1956)†
- Tom Pate, 23, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, linebacker, brain aneurysm (in-game) (1975)
- Derrell Robertson, 27, Las Vegas Posse, linebacker, car crash (1994)
- Gordon Sturtridge, 27, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Defensive End, plane crash (1956)†
- Ray Syrnyk, 22, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Offensive Tackle, plane crash (1956)†
† These five players were lost in the same plane crash.
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Famous quotes containing the words canadian, football and/or league:
“We’re definite in Nova Scotia—’bout things like ships ... and fish, the best in the world.”
—John Rhodes Sturdy, Canadian screenwriter. Richard Rossen. Joyce Cartwright (Ella Raines)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)