Don Knowles

Don Knowles

Born:	1927 Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Died:	October 19, 2017(2017-10-19) (aged 89–90) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Career information
Position(s)	HB
College	Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School
Career history
As player
1946–50	Sarnia Imperials
1950–51	Winnipeg Blue Bombers
1953	Sarnia Imperials
1954	BC Lions
Career highlights and awards
CFL All-Star	1949
Awards	1949 - Imperial Oil Trophy

Donald Gordon "Sleepy" Knowles (1927 – October 19, 2017) was a halfback in the Ontario Rugby Football Union.^[1][2]

Coming straight from high school, Knowles played for his hometown Sarnia Imperials from 1946 to 1950, with his finest season being 1949, when he was an all-star and won the Imperial Oil Trophy as OFRU most valuable player. He later played two seasons with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,^[3] returned to Sarnia for a season, and finished his football career playing a game for the 1954 inaugural BC Lions team.^[4]

In 1990 he was elected to the Sarnia Lambton Sports Hall of Fame.^[5] He died in 2017.^[6]

References

1. "1954 British Columbia Lions (WIFU) - Pro Football Archives".
2. FANBASE entry : Don Knowles Archived December 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
3. "Winnipeg Blue Bombers Alumni". Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
4. 1998 BC Lions Media Guide
5. 1990 Inductees
6. "Obituary of Donald Knowles | R.S. Kane Funeral Home".