DON BEATTY

DON BEATTY Don Beatty, a defensive end and flanker, was a member of both Yates Cup and Grey Cup championship teams before leaving football to assume a teaching career. After his graduation from Brampton High School in 1949, he joined the University of Western Ontario Mustangs. The Mustangs won the Ontario Universities Athletic Association intermediate championship in ’49 and capped the 1950 season with an OUAA Yates Cup crown. Beatty was rookieoftheyear with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League in 1952. He was a member of the Hamilton TiCats which won the Grey Cup in 1953. His teammates with the TiCats included running back Bernie Custis, tackles Ralph Sazio and Vince Mazza, guards Vince Scott and Eddie Bevan and center Jake Gaudar. In Calgary, Bob Shaw, Herb Capozzi, Keith Spaith and John Bright, who went on to star with Edmonton Eskimos, were among his teammates. Beatty’s athletic career also included lacrosse, basketball and track and field. He was the Toronto and District Intercollegiate Atheltic Association senior champion in 1949, competing in shot put, discus and long jump events. Beatty taught at Brampton High School from 1959’65, coaching football, basketball and track and field teams. While teaching he also served five years on the Brampton Council. After leaving Brampton, he served as viceprincipal and principal at Penetanguishene Secondary School before becoming Superintendent of Schools for Simcoe County’s Board of Education from 1979’36. Inducted November 21, 1990