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Name:
CLARE, Lou
Sport:
Football
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Growing up in Mississauga, Lou Clare’s football dreams were not so much Technicolor as Double Blue. The young lad was dreaming of becoming a professional football player one day, donning the Double Blue of the Toronto Argonauts and playing in front of a home crowd. His dreams came true, but not the way Lou envisioned. He became a professional football player and played in front of a home crowd, but not in the the Argonaut colours. Louis Clare is a pioneer of a kind, the first Mississauga-born athlete to play professional football in the Canadian Football League. His talent for football became evident early when he attended high school. He made the team when he was in only Grade 9 then went on to star with the Gordon Graydon Hawks in inter-scholastic competition. Football was not the game to end all games for Lou in his high school days. He was also an outstanding hockey talent. He served his minor hockey apprenticeship in the Dixie Beehives Junior B organization until he was 17, then moved up the ladder joining the St. Catharines Black Hawks. Lou’s sport career became defined when he received an offer of a full football scholarship from the University of Minnesota. He bid farewell to hockey and went off to Minnesota to play football while receiving an education. A versatile player, Lou played various positions, including defensive half back, linebacker and even kicked field goals. His talent was recognized by the Toronto Argonauts, who protected his Canadian Football League playing rights in the 1973 college draft. But his dream of playing for the Argos was not about to come reality, the Boatmen traded his rights to the Hamilton Tigercats before the start of the ’73 season and it was in the colours of the Ti-Cats that Lou made his Canadian professional football debut. He played both defensive halfback and cornerback with Hamilton, remaining in Steeltown until 1975 when he was traded to Saskatchewan Roughriders. |
During the first of his four seasons with Saskatchewan, he made his first Grey Cup appearance and until the final minute of play, it looked as though he would be wearing the championship ring. A desperation pass in the dying seconds enabled Ottawa Rough Riders to edge the other Roughriders from Saskatchewan 23-20 at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium. Toronto proved to be a place for sad memories for Lou. In 1980, in his the first season after being traded back to Hamilton, he and the Ti-Cats made it to the Grey Cup, but ended up on losing end of a 48-10 score against the Edmonton Eskimos — at Exhibition Stadium. Lou’s professional career ended in 1981 when he played in 12 games with the Montreal Alouettes. Mississauaga's sports community recognized Lou’s achievements when he was inducted into the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame for 1986. |
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