Galt Gores
Inter-City Fastball Champions 1963, 1964, 1966 The Galt Gores fastball team of the mid-1960s was not lacking for talent, and none were as talented on the field as pitcher Gerry Hopcraft. The late Hopcraft, several times an Inter-City league MVP – he won the batting title in 1965 – was a legend in fastball circles. […]
Lorne Johannes
July 3, 1902 – May 18, 1984 Years after the Ontario Rural Softball (ORSA) and Hockey (ORHA) Associations were formed, they were still regarded as “the best things to come out of the lean thirties for Ontario’s rural population.” And they came about thanks to Blair’s Lorne Johannes. Johannes was helped in both ventures by […]
Ray Brown
The pinnacle of Ray Brown’s swimming career came in 1992 when he represented Canada at the Barcelona Olympics in both the 100 and 200-metre backstroke events. But his career was full of accomplishments, from his days as a member of the Cambridge Aquajets to his years as a standout with the University of Tennessee swim […]
Doug Consiglio
From a city with a rich heritage of distance runners came a Southwood graduate by the name of Doug Consiglio who ranked with the best of them. Joining Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame inductees Cliff Bricker, Billy Reynolds, Scotty Rankine and Ab Morton, Consiglio, like the others, was highly successful at the national and international […]
Peter Savich
Former University of Waterloo basketball coach Don McCrae knew there was something special about Peter Savich several years before he recruited the young star to play for the Warriors. He was just a junior at Preston High School when McCrae first heard of him, and in the ensuing years, McCrae followed Savich with great interest. […]
Galt Gaytops
1957 Ontario Fastball Champions The Galt Gaytops ladies fastball team was a talent-laden squad that drew hundreds of fans out to Lincoln Park, where they played their home games during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The team was founded by Ed Riley in the early 1950s, and Riley became the team’s first coach and […]
Baier & Cowan
World Junior Figure Skating Pairs Champions 1976 Sherri Baier and Robin Cowan skated together for only four years but they achieved what so few athletes ever claim: a world championship. The pair began skating together with the Preston Figure Skating Club in May, 1974, and within two years had vaulted to the top of the […]
Toots Last
August 14, 1907 – January 2, 1970 Toots Last was a local institution around Galt for several decades, and was one of the greatest athletic trainers the city has ever seen. For generations of hockey players, Last was the focal point of their lives in Galt. One such player was Gordie Howe. Howe was a […]
Jim Schoenfeld
In addition to his NHL career, which was the foundation for his induction into the Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame, Jim Schoenfeld has the distinction of also being inducted into the Hall as a member of the provincial champion Galt Legion Squirt softball team in 1962. A Galt native, Schoenfeld was the first defenceman and […]
Wray Upper
It is no exaggeration to say that Wray Upper was an Intercounty legend. On August 6, 1970, he achieved a distinction granted very few athletes. On that evening at Dickson Park, the scene of so many of his athletic heroics, the Galt Terriers Baseball Club held a “Wray Upper Night.” Upper, a Port Colborne native, […]