Date of birth | August 11, 1910 |
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Place of birth | Dunkirk, New York |
Date of death | February 20, 1968 | (aged 57)
Place of death | Ottawa, Ontario |
Career information | |
Position(s) |
Running back Defensive tackle |
College | Delta Collegiate |
Career history | |
As player | |
1930–1932 | Hamilton Tigers |
1933–1940 | Ottawa Rough Riders |
CFL East All-Star | 1932, 1936, 1939, 1940 |
Career stats | |
David S. Sprague (August 11, 1910 – February 20, 1968) was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for eleven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers and the Ottawa Rough Riders. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.
Sprague represented Elmdale Ward for one year on Ottawa City Council in 1940. [1] In the 1940 election he ran for a seat on the Ottawa Board of Control, but lost.