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Canada’s Stars Under One RoofTORONTO (CP) - Many of Canada’s outstanding football and hockey stars, currently enshrined in their own Halls of Fame, will be inducter into, the revamped Canadian SportsHall of Fame during special ceremonies Saturday.A march past, featuring many of Canada’s athletic greats such as hockey stars Gordie Howe, Maurice (Roc-Sports Briefsk e t) Richard and Francis (King) Clancy and football player Normie Kwong, will mark the special occasion..The inductees from tire football and hockey halls will join five newly-inducted members to the Sports Hall of Fame—Fear, Tony Golab, Russ Jackson, Joe Krol, Kwong, Frank R. (Pep) Leadley, Gordon Perry, S. P. (Silver) Quiity, Paul Rowe, Hugh J. Stirling, Joe Tubman and Hawley (Huck) Welch.The following are being in-Compiled From CP-APbroadcaster J a c k Dennett, ducted posthumously: boxer Yvon Durelle, golfer PatBobby Charlton, former England and Manchester United soccer star, resigned Thursday as manager of Preston North End after a dispute with the club’s board of directors. Charlton quit after the directors of the Third Division club proceeded without him on negotiations for the transfer of one of the Preston players, centre back John Bird. He was called into the directors’ meeting and told about the decision to transfer Bird, and he resigned on the spot. Charlton said he did not agree with the directors’ assessment, of Bird, for whom Newcastle United offered $88,000 plus one of two players . . . Linfield defeated Ards 1-0 in a Northern Irish League Ulster Cup soccer match Thursday.In football: Bobby Howfield apparently has kicked his last National Football, League field goah Howfield, who will be 39 in _ December, was placed on unrecallable waivers by New York Jets Thursday. IL was the second trip to the waiver list for the veteran kicker, who went unclaimed last weekend. When the Jets waived him again Thursday, they lost the right to recall him off the waiver list. A native of England, Howfield led the American Football Conference in' scoring with 121 points in 1972. He scored 18 of them in a single game when he kicked six field goals to account for all the Jets’ points in an 18-17 victoryFletcher, speedboat racer Harold A. Wilson and oarsman H. R. (Bobby) Pearce.Representing hockey in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame will be:Builders—Foster Hewitt, Conn Smythc, Frank J'. Selke, Clarence S. Campbell; Player-Builders—Frank Boucher;Francis (King) Clancy, Hector (Toe) Blake, A. J. (Joe) Pri-mcau; Players—Jean Beiiveau, Bill Cook, Syl Apps Sr., Aubrey (Dit) Clapper, Doug Har-vey, Howe, Leonard (Red) Kelly, Aurel Job at, Richard, Milt Schmidt, Eddie Shore and Fred (Cyclone) Taylor.From the football ball will be Joseph B. Ryan and G. Sydney Halter, former commissioner of the Canadian Football League im the builder’s section along with players Ab Box, Jo-Football builders John De-G r u c h y and Harry Griffith along with players Harry Bat-stone, Wes Cutler, Ernest Cox, Ross Brown Cfaig, Eddie Emerson, Hugh Gall, Robert Isbister Sr., Eddie (Dynamite) James, Smirle Lawson, Percy Molson, Ted Morris, Norman Perry, David Sprague, 'Brian Timmis, Benjamin L. Simpson and Jeff Russel;Frank Patrick, Lester Patrick, Art Ross, Dick Irvin and Jack Adams are from hockey’s playcr-builder section with players Charlie Conacher,Charlie Gardiner, EddieGerard, Edouard (Newsy) La-londe, Joe Malone, Howie Morenz, Frank Nighbor, Terry Sawchuk, Joe Simpson, Nels Stewart and Harvey Jackson.Lalonde and Morenz had previously been inducted to theseph M. Breen, A. H. (Cap) Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Aug 22, 1975
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