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Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd_Grey_Cup

Hamilton Tiger-Cats History:
http://www.ticats.ca/index.php?module=page&id=4065

CFL Recap:
http://www.cfl.ca/index.php?module=news ... 4&writer=0

Biography on Roy Dewalt, brief mention of 1985 GC:
http://www.geocities.com/cfl_historical/Dewalt.Roy.htm

BC Sports Hall of Fame Article and Pictures:
http://www.bcsportshalloffame.com/cgi-b ... earchall=1



1985 Grey Cup Program:


1985 Grey Cup Ticket Stub:


1985 BC Lion CFL All-Stars
Keyvan Jenkins, RB
Mervyn Fernandez, WR
John Blain, OT
Mike Gray, DT
James "Quick" Parker, DE
Kevin Konar, LB
Darnell Clash, LB

1985 Miss BC Lion
Judy Lowrie

1985 Grey Cup Logo Button:

Courtesy of the Lions web page, a video clip of Lui's fake punt in the 2nd quarter.

http://www.bclions.com/video/video_pop. ... o/features

85 Grey Cup Champs Where are they now? Credit the Vancouver Province

James (Quick) Parker, New Westminster

Guiding his 16-year-old son, a St. Thomas More Knights football star who finished fifth in the 100 metres at last week's world youth track championships in the Czech Republic.

Mervyn Fernandez, Morgan Hill, Calif.

Resides in the bedroom community of the Silicon Valley 40 kilometres outside of San Jose.

Lui Passaglia, Coquitlam

Community relations for B.C. Lions.

John Blain, Ladysmith

Principal at Ladysmith Secondary -- the left tackle once found Sonny Homer's lost Grey Cup ring and believed it was an omen that the Lions would win in '85.

Roy Dewalt, Houston area

His youngest son Jeremy is a junior guard at his dad's alma mater, the University of Texas-Arlington.

John Pankratz, Burnaby

Receiver who played at John Oliver and SFU teaches and coaches at Burnaby Central, summers on Galiano Island.

Ned Armour, Vancouver

Former track star drives bus and coaches football.

John Henry White, Coquitlam

Works for Vancouver parks and recreation.

Gerald Roper/Ian Sinclair, Vancouver

0-linemen are partners in Vancouver-based Working Enterprise Travel, which books facilities for organized labour.

Tyrone Crews, Burnaby

Linebacker works with autistic kids teaching them life skills.

Keith Gooch, Fresno, Calif.

Prison guard has three track stars for daughters and a son playing hoops at Brown U.

It's nice to see many of them made the Lower Mainland home after their careers ended.

Last I heard of John Henry was that he was selling real estate in North Vancouver. Must have switched career.

Very interesting list, Derek!

I'm really interested in what the following other members of the 1985 team are up to:

Melvin Byrd
Nelson Martin
Jamie Buis
Darnell Clash
Freddie Sims
Keyvan Jenkins
Ron Robinson
Judy Lowrie (Miss BC Lion, 1985)

D wrote:85 Grey Cup Champs Where are they now? Credit the Vancouver Province

James (Quick) Parker, New Westminster

Guiding his 16-year-old son, a St. Thomas More Knights football star who finished fifth in the 100 metres at last week's world youth track championships in the Czech Republic.

Mervyn Fernandez, Morgan Hill, Calif.

Resides in the bedroom community of the Silicon Valley 40 kilometres outside of San Jose.

Lui Passaglia, Coquitlam

Community relations for B.C. Lions.

John Blain, Ladysmith

Principal at Ladysmith Secondary -- the left tackle once found Sonny Homer's lost Grey Cup ring and believed it was an omen that the Lions would win in '85.

Roy Dewalt, Houston area

His youngest son Jeremy is a junior guard at his dad's alma mater, the University of Texas-Arlington.

John Pankratz, Burnaby

Receiver who played at John Oliver and SFU teaches and coaches at Burnaby Central, summers on Galiano Island.

Ned Armour, Vancouver

Former track star drives bus and coaches football.

John Henry White, Coquitlam

Works for Vancouver parks and recreation.

Gerald Roper/Ian Sinclair, Vancouver

0-linemen are partners in Vancouver-based Working Enterprise Travel, which books facilities for organized labour.

Tyrone Crews, Burnaby

Linebacker works with autistic kids teaching them life skills.

Keith Gooch, Fresno, Calif.

Prison guard has three track stars for daughters and a son playing hoops at Brown U.

Glen Jackson LB, Kevin Konar LB, Nick Hebeler DE and Rick Klassen DT are also here in the Lower Mainland.

Robbie wrote:Very interesting list, Derek!

I'm really interested in what the following other members of the 1985 team are up to:

Melvin Byrd
Nelson Martin
Jamie Buis
Darnell Clash
Freddie Sims
Keyvan Jenkins
Ron Robinson
Judy Lowrie (Miss BC Lion, 1985)

Nelson Martin is in real estate in Toronto

I looked up Darnell Clash on Google a few years back and he was selling cars in the U.S. at that time (might have been in Pennsylvania but I am anything but sure about that).

Was Jim Sandusky part of that team, or was he already gone by that point?

I believe he was. The receiving corp consisted of Mervyn Fernandez, Ned Armour, Ron Robinson, Jim Pankratz and Sandusky.

Now that's a nice looking receiving corps.

No Ordinary Joe wrote:Was Jim Sandusky part of that team, or was he already gone by that point?

Yes, Jim Sandusky was definitely part of that team. In the 1985 Grey Cup game, he scored the third Lions TD of the day after receiving a pass from Dewalt. Sandusky stayed with the Lions until just before the 1988 season when he was sent to Edmonton as part of the Matt Dunigan trade.

Karlton Watson is deceased. He was killed in Detroit in 1987.