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Ted Watkins

Ted Watkins
Date of birth 1941
Place of birth Chicago
Date of death June 2, 1968 (aged 27)
Place of death
Career information
Position(s) WR
Height 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Weight 200 lb (91 kg)
College Pacific
Career history
As player
19631966 Ottawa Rough Riders
1967 Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Career highlights and awards
  • Grey Cup champion (1967)

Ted Watkins (1941 — June 2, 1968) was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1967. He previously played college football at the University of the Pacific in .

In the late 1960s, Watkins was active in the Black Power movement in Toronto.

He was shot and killed in 1968 during an alleged liquor store holdup in , weeks before the beginning of the 1968 CFL season.


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