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OFC Final
Saturday October 29
Alumni Field at the University of Windsor
1:00 pm
Teddy Morris Memorial Trophy
Awarded annually to the Ontario Football Conference Champion
Allan Byron (Teddy) Morris (March 1910 – September 5, 1965) was a Canadian Football Hall of Fame player and coach for the Toronto Argonauts.
Morris began playing Canadian football with Toronto playground teams and moved on to the Winnipeg Native Sons junior football team. Upon his return to Toronto he joined the Argonauts junior squad and quickly earned a spot on the senior team. He was a star player for the Argonauts for nine years and was named All-Eastern running back three times and flying wing twice and named the 1937 Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy winner as the player who best exemplified skill, sportsmanship, and courage in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union.
Morris’ recovery of an Argonauts’ punt blocked by Winnipeg’s Bud Marquardt in the 25th Grey Cup is often cited as the first of the fabled “Argos Bounces” as it bounced off the field and right into Morris’ hands preventing a Blue Bomber possession deep in Argos territory.
In 1940, the year following his last game as a player, Morris began as a backfield coach for the Argonauts then, during IRFU’s break from playing during the Second World War, coached the HMCS York Navy football team, and upon IRFU’s return to play in 1945, became Argonauts head coach earning three consecutive Grey Cups from 1945 to 1947 and respect from fans and players alike.
He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1964 and Canadaβs Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.
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