Teddy Morris

Infobox CFL player
Name=Teddy Morris


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position1=Running back
position2=Flying wing
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College=Toronto
DateOfBirth=Birth date|1910|03|
Birthplace=Toronto, Ontario
DateOfDeath=Death date|1965|09|5 (aged 55)
Deathplace=Malton, Ontario [cite web|url=http://www.mississaugablogs.com/2008/03/runnin_into_history.html|title=Running into history|last=Stewart|first=John|date=2008-03-24|publisher=MississaugaBlogs.com|accessdate=2008-06-07|quote=on the Sixth Line in Malton … sheep farm was located behind a store on Sixth Line … who owned the place … Alan Byron Morris, better known as Teddy Morris.]
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coaching_years=1940-1941
1942-1944
1945-1949
coaching_teams=Toronto Argonauts (assistant)
HMCS York Navy team
Toronto Argonauts
playing_years=1931-1939
playing_teams=Toronto Argonauts
career_highlights=
* won Grey Cup in 1933, 1937, and 1938 as a player
* won Grey Cup in 1945, 1946, and 1947 as coach
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Awards=
* Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy (1937)
Honors=
* All-Eastern Running back (1933, 1934, 1936)
* All-Eastern Flying wing (1935, 1938)
* Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1964)
* Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1975)
* named an All-Time Argo (1998)
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CFHOF=24&player=Morris,%20Teddy

Allan Byron (Teddy) Morris (March 1910 [cite book|title=1911 Census of Canada|publisher=Government of Canada|pages=Ontario / Toronto East / 43 Toronto / page 10 / Line 48|url=http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=81128] - September 5 1965cite news|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/182684082.html?dids=182684082:182684082&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=SEP+06%2C+1965&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Teddy+Morris+Dies&pqatl=google|title=Teddy Morris Dies|date=1965-09-06|publisher=The Washington Post|pages=D1|accessdate=2008-06-01] ) was a Canadian Football Hall of Fame player and coach for the Toronto Argonauts.

Morris began playing Canadian football with Toronto playground teams and moved on to the Winnipeg Native Sons junior football team. Upon his return to Toronto he joined the Argonauts junior squad and quickly earned a spot on the senior team. He was a star player for the Argonauts for nine years and was named All-Eastern running back three times and flying wing twice and named the 1937 Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy winner as the player who best exemplified skill, sportsmanship, and courage in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union.cite web|url=http://www.cfhof.ca/index.php?module=page&id=24&player=Morris,%20Teddy|title=Teddy Morris|work=Hall of Famers|publisher=Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Museum|accessdate=2008-05-31]

Morris' recovery of an Argonauts' punt blocked by Winnipeg's Bud Marquardt in the 25th Grey Cup is often cited as the first of the fabled "Argos Bounces" as it bounced off the field and right into Morris' hands preventing a Blue Bomber possession deep in Argos territory. [cite web|url=http://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1937|title=1937 – Toronto Argonauts 4, Winnipeg Blue Bombers 3|work=Grey Cup History|publisher=CFL.ca|accessdate=2008-07-17] [cite news|url=http://toronto.cflgreycup.ca/index.php?module=newser&func=display&topicnum=&nid=21185&writer=0|title=Grey Cup returns to its roots|last=Bell-Webster|first=Josh|date=2007-11-05|publisher=CFL.ca|accessdate=2008-06-07]

In 1940, the year following his last game as a player, Morris began as a backfield coach for the Argonauts then, during IRFU's break from playing during the Second World War, coached the HMCS York Navy football team, and upon IRFU's return to play in 1945, became Argonauts head coach earning three consecutive Grey Cups from 1945 to 1947 and respect from fans and players alike.cite news|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F11F8355F147A93C4A91782D85F418685F9|title=Allan B. Morris|date=1965-09-06|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=2008-06-07|quote=Allan Byron (Teddy) Morris, who starred at Canadian football for Toronto Argonauts and later coached them to three successive Grey Cup championships died of a heart attack today at his farm home near here (Toronto)…]

Awards, honours, and records

* The Teddy Morris Memorial Trophy is the championship trophy of the Ontario Football Conference of the Canadian Junior Football League. [cite web|url=http://www.ofcfootball.com/english/docs/0/1114/1117.asp|title=The Teddy Morris Memorial Trophy|publisher=Ontario Football Conference|accessdate=2008-07-17|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050106061000/http://www.ofcfootball.com/english/docs/0/1114/1117.asp|archivedate=2005-01-06]
* awarded the Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy in 1937 as the player who best exemplified skill, sportsmanship, and courage in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union.
* named All-Eastern running back in 1933, 1934, and 1936.
* named All-Eastern flying wing in 1935 and 1938.
* merited Canadian Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a builder (1964)cite book|title=Canadian Football League 2007 Facts, Figures & Records|publisher=Canadian Football League|pages=276|isbn=9780973942521]
* inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975 [cite web|url=http://www.cshof.ca/hm_profile.php?i=471|title=Ted Morris|work=Honoured members profile|publisher=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame|accessdate=2008-06-08]
* named an All-Time Argo in 1998.

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