College Kentucky State Role Football player Name Ezzrett Anderson Movies The Story of Seabiscuit | Cfl all star 1949 | |
Date of birth (1920-02-10) February 10, 1920 (age 95) Similar People Woody Strode, Cecil B DeMille, David Butler | ||
Education Kentucky State University | ||
Ezzrett 'Sugarfoot' Anderson
Ezzrett "Sugarfoot" Anderson (February 10, 1920 – March 8, 2017) was an all-star professional Canadian football player.
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2010 Inductee - Sugarfoot Anderson
Biography
Anderson graduated from Kentucky State and turned pro in 1945 and 1946 with the Hollywood Bears in the Pacific Coast Football League (along with Chuck Anderson, who would also later play pro in Canada). After playing with the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference in 1947, catching 11 passes for 126 yards and scoring one touchdown, he began a 6-year stay with the Calgary Stampeders of the Western Interprovincial Football Union. As a Stamp he caught 116 passes for 1576 yards and made 5 TDs, with his best year being 1950, when he caught 46 passes for 673 yards. He retired in 1954.
Following in the footsteps of Herb Trawick, he was among the first African-American players in the Canadian professional leagues. In 1990, he was inducted into the Calgary Stampeders Wall of Fame. He died on March 8, 2017 at the age of 97.