Brian Fryer
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| Date of birth | July 16, 1953 |
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| Place of birth | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Career information | |
| Status | Retired |
| CFL status | National |
| Position(s) | WR |
| University | Alberta |
| CFL draft | 1976 / Round: Territorial Exemption |
| Drafted by | Edmonton Eskimos |
| NFL draft | 1976 / Round: 8 / Pick: 234 |
| Drafted by | Washington Redskins |
| Career history | |
| As player | |
| 1976 | Washington Redskins |
| 1978–1985 | Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1985 | Ottawa Rough Riders |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Brian Fryer (born July 16, 1953) is a retired football player who starred at wide receiver for the University of Alberta, and played professionally for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League and the Edmonton Eskimos and Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League.
Fryer was a three-sport athlete at Strathcona High School in Edmonton from the fall of 1968 to the spring of 1971, starring on the Lords’ football, basketball and track and field teams all three years. As an intermediate boy in his grade 11 year at the Alberta Schools Athletic Association provincial track and field meet in Calgary, Fryer won and set the ASAA record for the 120 yard hurdles with a time of 14.4 seconds. The following year at the provincial championship in Edmonton, Fryer once again won the 120 yard hurdles, setting a new record of 14.2 seconds. He also smashed the records in both the long jump (7.08m) and triple jump (13.8m), setting standards that stood for almost two decades before being surpassed. In total Fryer won four gold medals and set three provincial records in ASAA competition. In his last year Fryer was awarded the Most Outstanding Athlete award.
From 1972 to 1975 Fryer was a dominant wide receiver for the University of Alberta football team. In his first season the Alberta Golden Bears went 9-1 and beat Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University) 20-7 for the Vanier Cup symbolizing Canadian University football supremacy.
On October 12, 1974, Fryer set a single game Canadian Interuniversity Sport record with 227 yards receiving against the University of Calgary. In 1974, he set a single season CIS record with 58 receptions, and recorded the first 1000-yard receiving season in CIS history with a record 1068 yards. In addition he scored 16 touchdowns, including a CIS record 14 receiving touchdowns. His total of 16 touchdowns on the season was the third highest total in a single season, behind Paul Brule’s 25 touchdowns at St. Francis Xavier University in 1967 and Brule’s 20 touchdowns at St. FX in 1966. He finished 1974 as an all Canadian all-star and was nominated as the Canada West's nominee for the Hec Creighton Trophy.
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