PLAYING CAREER
HAMILTON TIGERS  1930-1932
OTTAWA ROUGH RIDERS  1933-1940

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-EASTERN TACKLE  1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION 1932, 1936, 1939, 1940
GREY CUP WINNING TEAMS 1932, 1940

DAVID SPRAGUE FIRST PLAYED FOOTBALL AT DELTA COLLEGIATE IN HAMILTON. WITH TEAMMATE HUCK WELCH AND COACH BEN SIMPSON, IT WAS NO WONDER THAT THE TEAM WON NATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC HONOURS IN 1926 AND 1927.

SPRAGUE PLAYED WITH GREAT ENTHUSIASM ON THE LINE AND WAS A POWERFUL RUNNING BACK. DESPITE NUMEROUS INJURIES, HE WAS A PERENNIAL ALL-STAR WHO EARNED GREAT RESPECT FROM OPPONENTS. AT 6 FEET 5 INCHES, SPRAGUE WOULD RUN OVER TACKLERS AND RUMBLE DOWN THE FIELD, GAINING VALUABLE YARDS FOR HIS TEAM.

BOTH DURING, AND FOLLOWING HIS PLAYING DAYS, SPRAGUE SUCCESSFULLY COACHED NUMEROUS TEAMS TO PROVINCIAL AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. IN 1984 DAVID SPRAGUE WAS ELECTED TO 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, Brian M. Timmis, Dr. Harry Crawford Griffith, N.J. "Piffles" Taylor, Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy, Benjamin L. Simpson, Hugh Gall, Percy Molson, Eddie Emerson, Joe Krol, Russ Rebholz