Ormond Beach (Canadian football)
Date of birth | October 23, 1910 |
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Place of birth | Pawhuska, Oklahoma |
Date of death | September 21, 1938 27) | (aged
Place of death | Sarnia, Ontario |
Career information | |
Position(s) |
Flying Wing Linebacker |
College | University of Kansas |
Career history | |
As player | |
1934–1937 | Sarnia Imperials |
Career highlights and awards | |
CFL All-Star | 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 ORFU |
Awards | 1937 - Imperial Oil Trophy |
Honours | Grey Cup champion - 1934, 36 |
Career stats | |
Ormond Beach (born October 23, 1910, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, died September 9, 1938, in Sarnia, Ontario) was a star football player in the Ontario Rugby Football Union for four seasons for the Sarnia Imperials. Beach, who led the Imperials to Grey Cup victories in 1934 and 1936, died at the age of 27 in an industrial accident. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
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