Norm Fieldgate

PLAYING CAREER
BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS  1954-1967

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-WESTERN LINEBACKER 1959, 1960, 1963
ALL-CANADIAN LINEBACKER 1963

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION 1963, 1964
GREY CUP WINNING TEAM 1964

NORM FIELDGATE AND HALL OF FAME MEMBER BY BAILEY WERE THE ONLY TWO PLAYERS FROM THE ORIGINAL LIONS TEAM OF 1954 WHO WERE STILL WITH THE CLUB WHEN THEY CELEBRATED THEIR FIRST GREY CUP VICTORY 11 YEARS LATER.

FIELDGATE PLAYED 223 GAMES AT OFFENSIVE END, DEFENSIVE END, CORNER LINEBACKER, AND DEFENSIVE BACK. WHAT HE LACKED IN PHYSICAL STATURE, HE MADE UP FOR IN PURE TALENT. HE WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST CANADIAN CORNER LINEBACKERS TO HAVE PLAYED THE GAME.

A PERENNIAL ALL-STAR, HE WAS HONOURED BY THE CITIZENS OF VANCOUVER AT "NORM FIELDGATE NIGHT" IN 1962. AFTER HIS PLAYING CAREER, FIELDGATE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE B.C. LIONS. NORM FIELDGATE IS A MEMBER OF THE B.C. SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

INDUCTED 1979 - PLAYER

Class of 1979 Garney Henley, Peter Neuman, George Reed