Chris Schultz
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Christopher Schultz (February 16, 1960 – March 4, 2021) was a Canadian professional
sportscaster with Canadian sports television channel TSN
.
Early years
Schultz attended
Aldershot High School in Burlington, Ontario, where he was a part of 2 football championships. He also practiced basketball. He accepted a football scholarship from the University of Arizona
.
He was recruited by Arizona head coach
left tackle
as a senior.
Professional career
Dallas Cowboys
Schultz was selected by the
special teams. In 1984
, he was lost for the season after injuring his right knee in the third preseason game.
After only playing in 5 games with no starts during his first two years, in
left tackle, only to return to a backup role when Pozderac was healthy. He eventually regained the starting position from the thirteenth game until the playoffs, but struggled while playing against the Los Angeles Rams.[2] He was waived on August 26, 1986.[3]
Toronto Argonauts
In
1982 CFL Draft. He played in 124 games for the Argos over his nine-year career.[4] Schultz was named a CFL All-Star twice (1987, 1988), appeared in the Grey Cup in 1987 and was a member of the 1991 Grey Cup championship
team.
In 2007, he was named to the Argonauts All-time team.
Broadcasting career
Schultz was a CFL football
sportscaster on The Sports Network from 1998 to 2017.[5] He also co-hosted a weekly one-hour sports radio program on TSN 1050 in Toronto, called Football Sunday with Mike Hogan during the CFL and NFL seasons. He was also the NFL Insider for TSN
.
Schultz was announced as a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame 2023 class on March 16, 2023, in the media wing.[5]
Personal life
On October 17, 2016, Schultz was part of a class inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, where he spoke on the influence his father had on him.[6]
Schultz died of a heart attack on March 4, 2021, at the age of 61.[7]
References
- ^ "Observer-Reporter - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ WOJCIECHOWSKI, GENE (5 January 1986). "Unable to Do Any Kicking, Cowboys Take Their Licking" – via LA Times.
- ^ "Boca Raton News - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ Simmons, Steve (2007-07-05). "Pick of the Argos crop". SLAM! Sports. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Solomon Elimimian, John Bowman headline 2023 CFHOF class". Canadian Football League. March 16, 2023.
- ^ "Fernandez put Cleveland in its last WS, now Ontario HOFer". canadianbaseballnetwork.com. 24 October 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
- ^ "Former Argonauts offensive lineman, TSN analyst Chris Schultz dies at age 61". The Canadian Press. March 5, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.