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)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 5:19-23.