1. Ed Meads played college football for the University of Michigan from 1953 to 1955 and was selected as the captain of the 1955 Michigan Wolverines football team.
17 Facts About Ed Meads
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Ed Meads played college football at the University of Western Ontario in 1957 while attending medical school.
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Ed Meads was selected to 1957 All-Canada team and led UWO to the 1957 Canadian national football championship.
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Ed Meads later served as a professor of surgery for 34 years at UWO.
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Ed Meads was a star athlete at Oxford High School, receiving a total of 12 varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball, and track.
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Ed Meads received a University of Michigan Regent's Scholarship, an academic award, to attend the University of Michigan.
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Ed Meads enrolled in 1952 and played for the school's all-freshman football team.
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Ed Meads' recover set up the only touchdown of the game.
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Ed Meads was selected to play in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama on January 7,1956.
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Ed Meads played football at the center position for the UWO football team in 1957.
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Ed Meads helped lead the Western Ontario Mustangs to the 1957 Canadian national football championship and was named the 1957 most valuable player.
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Ed Meads played for UWO again in 1958, but suffered a concussion.
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UWO's head coach John Metras refused to let Ed Meads remain on the team out of concern that Ed Meads could suffer a further injury.
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Ed Meads was the chief of surgery at St Joseph Hospital from 1980 to 1990.
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Ed Meads was a professor of surgery at UWO for 34 years.
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In 2010, Ed Meads became one of the inaugural inductees into the Oxford Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Ed Meads has been inducted into the UWO Athletics Hall of Fame.