Cal Connor first played football for the Gaels in 1958, when he was in the first year of his undergraduate degree.
He took the following year off from both school and sports, going back home to Hamilton, Ont., to work in a steel mill. After that year, he knew he wanted to come back to university, but he still didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t know what he wanted to do with his life.
Back at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in 1960, he continued on with his studies and rejoined the Gaels, making a name for himself on the football field. He also met some key people who first sparked his interest in medicine and later helped him balance the workload of medical school and his sports commitments. Some were faculty, like the late Dr. Hal Dunlop, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션43, and Dr. Jack Kerr, Meds카지노 게임 컬렉션53, both also team doctors for the Gaels. Of the latter, Cal says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션He had a lot to do with keeping me in the right direction,카지노 게임 컬렉션 during his hectic med school days.
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Photo: Queen's Tricolour 1965
Connor also got inspiration from other players a few years ahead of him, like David Skene, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션59, Meds카지노 게임 컬렉션63 (who played both hockey and football at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s) and the late Terry Porter, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션63, who also played football through his medical school days.
Connor continued to play football during his four years of medical school. 카지노 게임 컬렉션It was quite demanding,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says modestly, 카지노 게임 컬렉션but somehow I was able to get all my ducks in a row.카지노 게임 컬렉션
He led his team to three intercollegiate titles, became team co-captain in 1965, and won the Jenkins Trophy (awarded to a male athlete in honour of scholastic achievement and leadership as well as athletic prowess.) Back in the day before the five-year eligibility rule came into effect for university players, it wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t unusual for players in law, business, or medical school to have six- or seven-year football careers.
After graduation, Connor walked away from football with mixed emotions. He loved the game, but he had found his calling as a doctor, and medicine became his sole passion.
He interned at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston and, in 1967, Dr. Cal Connor set up his general practice in the city카지노 게임 컬렉션s west end.
For 48 years, he served the Kingston community as a family doctor. In recent years, his patients were the children and grandchildren of some of his original patients. And though he retired from his general practice this spring, Dr. Connor still makes house calls, of a sort. He is involved in patient care at a local long-term care facility.
Read more about the 카지노 게임 컬렉션Silver Sixties카지노 게임 컬렉션 era of Gaels football, in an excerpt from Gael Force by Merv Daub, Com카지노 게임 컬렉션66, Professor Emeritus, Business (Gaels middle linebacker, 1962-65; co-captain, 1965; assistant coach, 1976-78 and 1991; and a member of the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Football Hall of Fame.)
