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Five Others Named To Grid’s 6Hall9VANCOUVER (CP) — Retiring commissioner G. Sydney Halter and five other men were named Thursday to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.Selectors, here for Saturday’s Grey Cup classic, named Halter and the late Dave McCann of Ottawa to the builders category. :Selected as player* were Hugh (Bummer) Stirling lt;rf the old Sarnia Imperials of the Ontario Rugby Football Union; John J- Ferraro, former Hamilton and Montreal coach; Sylvester (Silver) Quilty, former Ottawa: player and simc official; and Greg (Hardrock) Rabat, player and coach at Winnipeg and Vancouver and one of Canadian football's earliest imports .The six were named at a CFLluncheon, which turned into a eulogy for Haller, retiring after ruuning the league since 1958.Ted Workman of Montreal Al-ouettcs reviewed Halter’s years in office during which “he resolved East-West rules.” negotiating rights and interlocking schedules. The seating capacity in all nine league stadiums had increased during Halter's regime. Grey Cup revenue had tripled and a players’ association had won recognition.General manager Herb Ca-pozri of British Columbia Lions made a presentation to incoming commissioner. Sena torKeith Davey—a three-fool-long football boot symbolizing “the size of the boot we think you'll have to fill.”THE NEW MEMBERS Halter: A lawyer, he joinedthe executive of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1934 and was treasurer, in 1935 when Borrthers won the west's first Grey Cup. In 1952 he was named deputy commissioner of the Western Intcrprovjneial Football Union, succeeding to the presidency in 1953. In 1958 he became the first commissioner of the interlocking conferences of the CFL which grew out of the WIFU in the west and the Big Four in the east.McCann: an outstandingplayer, he became a coach and one of the country's foremost authorities on Canadian football. He was quarterback and halfback for Ottawa Rough Ridersfrom 1907 to the First World War and came back to coach the cJub to Canadian championships in 1925 and 1926. A* a in ....................league official he served longer than any other man as a member of the Canadian Rugby Union's rules commission and was chairman until 19,58. He was instrumental in bringing about significant changes in Canadian football, including adoption of the forward pass in 1931.Stirling: Born in St. Thomas. Ont., in 1910, he was a top junior player before joining Sarnia Imperials where he played from 1931 through 1937. A triple-lhreat backfielder. he was an ORFU all-star for six consecutive years, three years an eastern all-star and was the most valuable player in the ORFU in 1936.Ferraro: an all-round athlete, he was bom in Buffalo, N.Y. at Cornell University he was foot-I hall captain in 1933, when he ! won the trophy as the best college passer. He won all-American honorable mention forthree years before joining Hamilton Tigers in 1934 as player-coach, a position he retained on joining Montreal Football Club in 1936. He won several all-Canadian honors. In 1942, he was selected on Lew Hayman’s 10-year all-Canadian team.Quilty: A university star from the age of 16, Silver Quilty was horn near Renfrew, Ont., In 1891 and enrolled at Ottawa Univcr-i ally in 1907. He played University football for five years,becoming the first player at theflying wing position when it was instituted hy the Ottawa coach, the Late Rev. William Stanton, in 1908. Quilty played with Ottawa Rough P.iders in 1913,joining McGill in 1914 to study medicine. Later, he was t referee for five years, handling (he Grey Cup game In 1922. Hewas also a member of the rules, committee of the inlercollcgigle . and interprovincial unions. In 1922 he was Ottawa Kough ^ Riders1 coach. . *. *Kabat: came to Canada from -the University of Wisconsin In 1933. Played the backfield .and acted as line coach in his first season, the original year of.Uw. Winnipeg Football club, after amalgamation of two senior teams the previous season. He saw duty as a quarterback, Guard, flying wing and fullback. He was in the Winnipeg line for* the first Grey Cup victory by a . western team in 1935. He later coached in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Los Angeles areas. • #M %%
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Nov 25, 1966
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