PLAYING CAREER
OTTAWA ROUGH RIDERS    1912 - 1915, 1919 – 1924, 1927 – 1935, 1937
OTTAWA SENATORS     1925-1926

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION PLAYER   1925
GREY CUP WINNING TEAMS PLAYER   1925

EXECUTIVE CAREER
PRESIDENT, OTTAWA ROUGH RIDER FOOTBALL CLUB 1930-1931, 1947-1951
PRESIDENT, INTERPROVINCIAL RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION 1948-1949

E.K. "EDDIE" EMERSON SERVED FOOTBALL IN OTTAWA FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS. HE BEGAN HIS CAREER AS A SNAP (CENTRE), AND THEN PLAYED MORE THAN 20 YEARS AS A FULLBACK AND LINEBACKER.

EMERSON WAS THE CLUB PRESIDENT TWICE; THE FIRST TIME WHILE HE WAS STILL PLAYING. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE OTTAWA EXECUTIVE FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE INTERPROVINCIAL UNION EXECUTIVE FOR 25 YEARS.

HE HELD THE RECORD IN CANADIAN FOOTBALL FOR MOST SEASONS - 22 SEASONS (17 OF THESE WERE CONSECUTIVE) AT THE TIME OF HIS INDUCTION. 

E.K. EMERSON WAS HONOURED AT A GREY CUP DINNER AND IS A MEMBER OF THE OTTAWA  SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

INDUCTED 1963 - PLAYER

CHARTER MEMBER

Class of 1963 Earl Grey, D. Wes Brown, John DeGruchy, "Seppi" DuMoulin, William C. Foulds, Frank J. Hannibal, Alvin Ritchie, Harry L. Batstone, Ormond Beach, Joseph M. Breen, Lionel P. Conacher, Ernest Cox, Jake Jacobs, Eddie "Dynamite" James, Fritz Hanson, Smirle Lawson, Frank R. "Pep" Leadlay, Norman Perry, Teddy Reeve, Jeff Russel, David S. Sprague, Brian M. Timmis, Dr. Harry Crawford Griffith, N.J. "Piffles" Taylor, Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy, Benjamin L. Simpson, Hugh Gall, Percy Molson, Joe Krol, Russ Rebholz