Ted Watkins
Born: | 1941 Chicago |
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Died: | June 2, 1968 Stockton, California | (aged 26โ27)
Career information | |
Position(s) | Wide receiver |
Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) |
Weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
College | Pacific |
Career history | |
As player | |
1963–1966 | Ottawa Rough Riders |
1967 | Hamilton Tiger-Cats |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Ted Watkins (1941 โ June 2, 1968) was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1967.[1] He previously played college football at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
In the late 1960s, Watkins was active in the
He was shot and killed in 1968 during an alleged liquor store holdup in Stockton, California, weeks before the beginning of the 1968 CFL season.[3]