Bert Iannone | |
Birth Date: | 10 March 1917 |
Birth Place: | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Death Place: | Langley, British Columbia, Canada |
Import: | no |
Position1: | Guard |
Position2: | Tackle |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 10 |
Weight Lb: | 195 |
Playing Years1: | - |
Playing Team1: | Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
Playing Years2: | - |
Playing Team2: | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
Playing Years3: | - |
Playing Team3: | Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
Playing Team4: | Calgary Stampeders |
Playing Years5: | - |
Playing Team5: | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
Career Highlights: | |
Playing Years4: | - |
Bert Louis Iannone (March 10, 1917 – February 16, 1996) was a Canadian football player who played for the Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders. He played from 1939 to 1952. He won the Grey Cup with the Winnipeg Bluebombers in 1939 and with the Calgary Stampeders in 1948 and played in seven grey cup games.[1] [2] He previously played junior football in Winnipeg.[3] He fought in the war for the Royal Canadian Navy from 1940 to 1944. He coached football for Campion College in Regina, the Regina Rams and for Saint Thomas Moore Secondary in Burnaby BC. He married Fay Iannone and had 9 children. He died in Langley, British Columbia in 1996, at the age of 79 years old.[4]