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Ted Watkins (1941 – 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. He previously played college football at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

In the late 1960s, Watkins was active in the Black Power movement in Toronto.

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.

References

1. "Stats". www.justsportsstats.com. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
2. "Photo" (PDF). www.gettyimages.ca. July 17, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2021.

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