Normie Kwong
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The Honourable Norman Lim Kwong 林佐民 CM AOE LLD |
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| 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta | |
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In office January 20, 2005 – May 11, 2010 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General |
Adrienne Clarkson Michaëlle Jean |
| Premier |
Ralph Klein Ed Stelmach |
| Preceded by | Lois Hole |
| Succeeded by | Donald Ethell |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Lim Kwong Yew October 24, 1929 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Died |
September 3, 2016 (aged 86) Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Kwong (m. 1960; his death 2016) |
| Children | 4 |
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| CFL status | National |
| Position(s) | RB |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
| Career history | |
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| 1948–1950 | Calgary Stampeders |
| 1951–1960 | Edmonton Eskimos |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| CFL West All-Star | 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956 |
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Eskimos Record
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Norman Lim "Normie" Kwong (born Lim Kwong Yew; Chinese: 林佐民; October 24, 1929 – September 3, 2016) was a Canadian football player who played for the Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was also an active businessman and politician being part owner of the Calgary Flames and serving as the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from January 2005 to May 2010.
The son of Chinese immigrants from Taishan, Guangdong, Kwong was the first Canadian professional gridiron football player of Chinese heritage. In addition, Kwong was also the first person of Chinese heritage to serve as lieutenant-governor of Alberta. As a former vice-regal representative of Alberta, he was styled "The Honourable" for life. Kwong was the third Canadian of Chinese heritage to be appointed as a vice-regal in Canada, after David Lam and Adrienne Clarkson.
Eskimos Record
After playing football at Western Canada High School, he went on to play for the Calgary Stampeders from 1948 to 1950 and, after a trade, the Edmonton Eskimos from 1951 until his retirement in 1960. Nicknamed the "China Clipper", Kwong was the first Chinese Canadian to play on a professional Canadian football team. A powerful fullback, in 11 years of recorded statistics Kwong rushed for 9,022 yards for an average of 5.2 yards per carry and scored 93 touchdowns. He won the Grey Cup four times during his career (1948, 1954, 1955, and 1956). Kwong was a Western Conference all-star running back and three-time winner of the Eddie James Memorial Trophy, in 1951, 1955 and 1956. He was named the Schenley Most Outstanding Canadian in 1955 and 1956. He was named Canadian Athlete of the Year in 1955. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1969, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975, the Edmonton Eskimos' Wall of Honour in 1983 (where his jersey No. 95 was retired), the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1980, and the Calgary Stampeders' Wall of Fame in 2012 (as a builder of that sports organization). In November 2006, he was one of very few of his contemporaries to be voted one of the Canadian Football League's Top 50 players of the sport's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN. Kwong set the CFL record for the most yards rushing by Canadian in a season with 1,437 in the 1956 season. This record held for 56 years, being broken by Jon Cornish only in 2012, though Kwong accomplished his record in fifteen games, rather than eighteen for Cornish.
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