EXECUTIVE CAREER
HEAD COACH, SUDBURY SPARTANS   1967 – 1994
PRESIDENT, NORTHERN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE  1977
HEAD COACH, PARIS STREET BLUES   1982 – 1991
SECRETARY, NORTHERN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE  1989 – 1990
HEAD COACH, LOCKERBY VIKINGS   1993 – 1994

AWARDS AND HONOURS
NFC COACH OF THE YEAR        1971, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1990, 1992
FOOTBALL ONTARIO, AMATEUR COACH OF THE YEAR     1985
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL AWARD     1995
FOOTBALL ONTARIO AWARD, BUILDER OF SUDBURY AND DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOLS  1995
FOOTBALL ONTARIO AWARD, NORTHERN FOOTBALL      1995

SID FORSTER DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO FOOTBALL AT THE AMATEUR LEVEL. HE BECAME A LEGEND IN SUDBURY WHERE HE SPENT 28 SEASONS AS HEAD COACH OF THE SUDBURY SPARTANS OF THE NORTHERN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE.  HE SUCCESSFULLY COACHED THE SPARTANS TO 12 NFC CHAMPIONSHIPS.  THE NFC COACH OF THE YEAR AWARD IS NOW KNOWN AS THE SID FORSTER MEMORIAL AWARD.

HE ALSO SERVED IN THE EXECUTIVE CAPACITY AS PRESIDENT OF THE NFC IN 1977, PAST PRESIDENT IN 1978, AND SECRETARY IN 1989 AND 1990.  HE WAS THE NFC DELEGATE TO FOOTBALL ONTARIO FROM 1978 TO 1983

FORSTER WAS ALSO INVOLVED WITH HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FORMING THE “PARIS STREET BLUES” FOR HIGH SCHOOLS WHICH DID NOT HAVE TEAMS OF THEIR OWN.  THE PARIS STREET BLUES WON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990.  WHEN THE “BLUES” DISBANDED IN 1991, FORSTER COACHED THE LOCKERBY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM. FORSTER WAS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN FORMING THE JOE MACDONALD YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE IN 1993 FOR GIRLS AND BOYS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 10 AND 15 YEARS. TO DATE, THE LEAGUE HOLDS AN ANNUAL ENROLMENT OF OVER 100 YOUTHS FROM THE SUDBURY AREA.  SIDNEY FORSTER IS A MEMBER OF THE SUDBURY KINSMEN SPORTS HALL OF FAME AND NORTHERN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE HALL OF FAME.

INDUCTED 2001 – BUILDER

Class of 2001 James"Quick" Parker, Willie Burden, Bill Frank, Warren Moon