Joe Krol was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
12 Facts About Joe Krol
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Joe Krol was born on February 20,1919, in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Joe Krol began playing Canadian football in high school at Kennedy Collegiate Institute in Windsor, Ontario in 1932, with which he won several secondary school championships.
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Joe Krol went to the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario and played Intercollegiate Football for the Western Ontario Mustangs from 1938 to 1942 including the Intercollegiate championship in 1939.
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Joe Krol joined the Hamilton Flying Wildcats, an Ontario Rugby Football Union precursor to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, following university in 1942.
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In that game, Joe Krol fumbled the ball to the St Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy team after a hard hit on a run in the second quarter.
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Joe Krol went on to play two games with the Detroit Lions in 1945 before joining the Toronto Argonauts for the remainder of the 1945 Canadian football season.
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Joe Krol won six Grey Cups, five with the Toronto Argonauts.
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Joe Krol was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's top athlete in 1946.
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Joe Krol was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.
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In November 2006, Joe Krol was voted one of the CFL's top 50 players in a poll conducted by Canadian sports network TSN.
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Joe Krol was one of the owners of the Mercury Night club with Harry Eckler of the Softball Canada Hall of Fame and Sam Luftspring of the Boxing Hall of Fame the most popular night club of the 1950s.