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{{short description|Canadian professional football player and coach}}
{{Infobox gridiron football person
| name = Teddy Morris
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| caption = Teddy Morris 2014 Finals
| birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1910|03| }}
| birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| death_date = {{Death date|mf=yes|1965|09|5}} (aged 55)
| death_place = [[Malton, Ontario]], Canada<ref name="nyt" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mississaugablogs.com/2008/03/runnin_into_history.html|title=Running into history|last=Stewart|first=John|date=2008-03-24|publisher=MississaugaBlogs.com|access-date=2008-06-07|quote=on the Sixth Line in Malton … sheep farm was located behind a store on Sixth Line … who owned the place … Alan Byron Morris, better known as Teddy Morris.}}</ref>
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| position1 = Running back
| position2 = [[Flying wing (football)|Flying wing]]
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| college = [[University of Toronto|Toronto]]
| coaching_years1 = 1940–1941
| coaching_team1 = [[Toronto Argonauts]] (assistant)
| coaching_years2 = 1942–1944
| coaching_team2 = [[HMCS York]] Navy team
| coaching_years3 = 1945–1949
| coaching_team3 = Toronto Argonauts
| coaching_years4 = 1960
| coaching_team4 = Toronto Argonauts
| playing_years1 = 1931–1939
| playing_team1 = [[Toronto Argonauts]]
| career_highlights = 
; As player:
* 3× [[Grey Cup]] champion ([[21st Grey Cup|1933]], [[25th Grey Cup|1937]], [[26th Grey Cup|1938]])
* [[Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy]] (1937)
* 5× All-Eastern (1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938)
;As coach:
* 3× [[Grey Cup]] champion ([[33rd Grey Cup|1945]], [[34th Grey Cup|1946]], [[35th Grey Cup|1947]])
| awards = 
| honors = 
* [[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame]] (1975)
* All-Time Argo (1998)
| CFHOF = allan-teddy-morris
| CFHOFYear = 1965
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'''Allan Byron (Teddy) Morris''' (March 1910<ref>{{cite book|title=1911 Census of Canada|publisher=Government of Canada|pages=Ontario / Toronto East / 43 Toronto / page 10 / Line 48|url=http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=81128}}</ref> – September 5, 1965<ref name="post">{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/182684082.html?dids=182684082:182684082&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=SEP+06%2C+1965&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Teddy+Morris+Dies&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525012640/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/182684082.html?dids=182684082:182684082&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=SEP+06,+1965&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Teddy+Morris+Dies&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 25, 2011|title=Teddy Morris Dies|date=1965-09-06|work=The Washington Post|pages=D1|access-date=2008-06-01}}</ref>) was a [[Canadian Football Hall of Fame]] player and coach for the [[Toronto Argonauts]].

Morris began playing [[Canadian football]] with Toronto playground teams and moved on to the Winnipeg Native Sons junior football team. Upon his return to Toronto he joined the Argonauts junior squad and quickly earned a spot on the senior team. He was a star player for the Argonauts for nine years and was named All-[[Canadian Football League East Division|Eastern]] [[running back]] three times and [[flying wing (football)|flying wing]] twice and named the 1937 [[Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy]] winner as the player who best exemplified skill, sportsmanship, and courage in the [[Interprovincial Rugby Football Union]].<ref name="cfhof">{{cite web|url=http://www.cfhof.ca/members/allan-teddy-morris/|title=Teddy Morris|work=Hall of Famers|publisher=Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Museum|access-date=2008-05-31}}</ref>

Morris' recovery of an Argonauts' punt blocked by [[Winnipeg Blue Bombers|Winnipeg's]] [[Bud Marquardt]] in the [[25th Grey Cup]] is often cited as the first of the fabled "Argos Bounces" as it bounced off the field and right into Morris' hands preventing a Blue Bomber possession deep in Argos territory.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1937|title=1937 – Toronto Argonauts 4, Winnipeg Blue Bombers 3|work=Grey Cup History|publisher=CFL.ca|access-date=2008-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://toronto.cflgreycup.ca/index.php?module=newser&func=display&topicnum=&nid=21185&writer=0|title=Grey Cup returns to its roots|last=Bell-Webster|first=Josh|date=2007-11-05|publisher=CFL.ca|access-date=2008-06-07}}</ref>

In 1940, the year following his last game as a player, Morris began as a [[backfield]] coach for the Argonauts then, during IRFU's break from playing during the [[World War II|Second World War]], coached [[HMCS York|HMCS ''York'']]'s football team, and upon IRFU's return to play in 1945, became Argonauts head coach earning three consecutive Grey Cups from [[33rd Grey Cup|1945]] to [[35th Grey Cup|1947]] and respect from fans and players alike.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F11F8355F147A93C4A91782D85F418685F9|title=Allan B. Morris|date=1965-09-06|work=New York Times|access-date=2008-06-07|quote=Allan Byron (Teddy) Morris, who starred at Canadian football for Toronto Argonauts and later coached them to three successive Grey Cup championships died of a heart attack today at his farm home near here (Toronto)…}}</ref><ref name="cfhof" /> Morris briefly returned to the Argonauts in 1960 as assistant coach to [[Lou Agase]], having been brought in to help the American acclimatize to Canadian football.

== Awards, honours, and records ==
* The [[Teddy Morris Memorial Trophy]] is the championship trophy of the Ontario Football Conference of the [[Canadian Junior Football League]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ofcfootball.com/english/docs/0/1114/1117.asp|title=The Teddy Morris Memorial Trophy|publisher=Ontario Football Conference|access-date=2008-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050106061000/http://www.ofcfootball.com/english/docs/0/1114/1117.asp|archive-date=2005-01-06}}</ref>
* The [[Ted Morris Memorial Trophy]] is awarded to the [[Most Valuable Player]] of the [[CIS football]] [[Vanier Cup]] championship game.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vaniercup.ca/page/championship-all-stars|title=Championship All-Stars|publisher=Canadian Interuniversity Sport|access-date=2008-11-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916101527/http://www.vaniercup.ca/page/championship-all-stars|archive-date=2008-09-16}}</ref>
* awarded the [[Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy]] in 1937 as the player who best exemplified skill, sportsmanship, and courage in the [[Interprovincial Rugby Football Union]].
* named All-[[Canadian Football League East Division|Eastern]] running back in 1933, 1934, and 1936.
* named All-Eastern flying wing in 1935 and 1938.
* merited Canadian Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a builder ([[1964 CFL season|1964]])<ref name="CFL facts">{{cite book|title=Canadian Football League 2007 Facts, Figures & Records|publisher=Canadian Football League|pages=276|isbn=978-0-9739425-2-1}}</ref>
* inducted into [[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1975<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cshof.ca/hm_profile.php?i=471|title=Ted Morris|work=Honoured members profile|publisher=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame|access-date=2008-06-08}}</ref>
* named an All-Time Argo in 1998.

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Canadian Football League executives]]
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[[Category:Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Player Award winners]]
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[[Category:Canadian football people from Toronto]]