Ced Gyles Explained

Ced Gyles
Birth Date:23 December 1926
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Death Place:The Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada
Import:no
Height Ft:6
Height In:0
Weight Lbs:180
Position1:Halfback
Career Highlights:
  • Grey Cup champion
Playing Years1: -
Playing Team1:Calgary Stampeders

Cedric George Edward Gyles (December 23, 1926 – September 24, 2023) was a Canadian football player who played for the Calgary Stampeders. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1948.[1] Gyles played junior football in Vancouver, British Columbia with the Junior Vancouver Blue Bombers. From 1968 to 1969, Gyles was president of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.[2] An avid sailor, he was a long time member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto, Ontario. He served as Club Commodore in 1985-86. Gyles skippered the yacht Norseman to the Sira Cup at the 1999 8-Metre World Cup in Rochester, New York[3] Gyles died on September 30, 2023 at the age of 96. Gyles resided in Collingwood, Ontario and was one of the last surviving members of the 1948 Grey Cup championship team.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cedric Gyles football statistics on StatsCrew.com.
  2. Web site: Manitoba Organization: Winnipeg Football Club / Winnipeg Blue Bombers . Manitoba Historical Society Archives . Manitoba Historical Society . 6 April 2024.
  3. Web site: Remembering Pete Thodos | Calgary Stampeders . 2014-09-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140908180159/http://www.stampeders.com/article/remembering-pete-thodos . 2014-09-08 . dead .
  4. https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/obituaries/gyles-cedric-george-edward-7624162 Cedric Gyles obituary