| Profile | |
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| Positions | Running back •Flying wing |
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1910-03-00)March , 1910 Toronto,Ontario, Canada |
| Died | (1965-09-05)September 5, 1965 (aged 55) Malton, Ontario, Canada[1][2] |
| Career information | |
| College | Toronto |
| Career history | |
Playing | |
| 1931–1939 | Toronto Argonauts |
Coaching | |
| 1940–1941 | Toronto Argonauts (assistant) |
| 1942–1944 | HMCS York Navy team |
| 1945–1949 | Toronto Argonauts |
| 1960 | Toronto Argonauts |
| Awards and highlights | |
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Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Class of 1965) | |
Allan Byron (Teddy) Morris (March 1910[3] – September 5, 1965[4]) was aCanadian Football Hall of Fame player and coach for theToronto Argonauts.
Morris began playingCanadian 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-Easternrunning back three times andflying wing twice and named the 1937Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy winner as the player who best exemplified skill, sportsmanship, and courage in theInterprovincial Rugby Football Union.[5]
Morris' recovery of an Argonauts' punt blocked byWinnipeg'sBud Marquardt in the25th 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.[6][7]
In 1940, the year following his last game as a player, Morris began as abackfield coach for the Argonauts then, during IRFU's break from playing during theSecond World War, coachedHMCSYork's football team, and upon IRFU's return to play in 1945, became Argonauts head coach earning three consecutive Grey Cups from1945 to1947 and respect from fans and players alike.[1][5] Morris briefly returned to the Argonauts in 1960 as assistant coach toLou Agase, having been brought in to help the American acclimatize to Canadian football.
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)…
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.