Ken Reed | |
Birth Date: | 24 November 1941 |
Birth Place: | Poplar Bluff, Missouri, U.S. |
Death Place: | Alaska Highway, British Columbia, Canada |
Status: | Retired |
Import: | no |
Position1: | Defensive end |
Position2: | Linebacker |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 1 |
Weight Lb: | 235 |
College: | Tulsa |
Nfldraftedyear: | 1963 |
Nfldraftedround: | 17 |
Nfldraftedpick: | 232 |
Nfldraftedteam: | San Francisco 49ers |
Playing Years1: | – |
Playing Team1: | Edmonton Eskimos |
Playing Years2: | – |
Playing Team2: | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
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Kenneth Woodrow Reed (November 24, 1941 - September 5, 2014) was a Canadian football player who played as a linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos and the Saskatchewan Roughriders; he won the Grey Cup in 1966. Born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri,[1] he was an alumnus of the University of Tulsa.[2] Reed, 72 and his wife died in a car accident in 2014 on the Alaska Highway near Fort St. John, British Columbia.[3] [4]