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FRED DOTY

Name: DOTY, Fred
Sport: Football

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     To the young generation, Fred Doty’s name does not mean a whole lot, but those with long memories have no trouble remembering him. He was a bright star on the horizon of Canadian football during the years after the Second World War.
 
Frederick Kenneth Doty shares a couple of Toronto Argonaut football records that have stood the test of time very well over the years. In the days when players played for the joy of the game — and maybe pocket money and a case of beer here and there — Doty left his mark on the Argo record book with some big-league feats. He intercepted three passes in one game and ran back two intercepted passes for touchdowns during one season. While playing for the Argonauts, he led the team in punt returns four years in a row, from 1945 to 1948. But what Doty remembers most vividly (and fondly) are not so much the great returns or picked-off passes he turned in to touchdowns, but the sweet taste of Grey Cup victory. Doty played football with the Toronto Argos of the Interprovincial Rugby Union (the name of the circuit before it became the Canadian Football League) from 1945 to 1949.  During those years, the powerful Argos were the toast of the nation, winners of the Grey Cup three consecutive years in 1945, ‘46 and ‘47. Born in Toronto, Doty attended the University of Toronto and in ‘46, he played football for two teams, on the collegiate level the Varsity Blues and the Canadian League level the Argonauts. Before turning his attention to pro football, Doty played basketball while in Calgary with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the war years in 1943 and 1944.
   
    

An all-round talent — not a rare thing those days — he played both defence and offence right through his Argonaut career. He considers this feat his most outstanding achievement. Fred was inducted into the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame for 1977, the same year his son Cole (Canadian sprint champion who represented the country in various international competitions and starred for the southern Methodist University track team in Dallas) was named Mississauga’s Amateur Athlete of the Year. Fred Doty also made his mark on the business world as president of Dufferin Concrete Products.

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