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{{Short description|Canadian football player (1919–2016)}}
{{Infobox CFL player
 |name=Tony Golab
 |image=
 |import=no
 |position1=Halfback
 |position2=[[Flying wing (football)|FW]]
 |number=72
 |College=
 |birth_date=January 17, 1919
 |birth_place=[[Windsor, Ontario]], Canada
 |death_date=October 16, 2016 (aged 97)
 |death_place=[[Ottawa, Ontario]], Canada
 |Height_ft=6
 |Height_in=2
 |Weight_lbs=210
 |administrating_years1=1959
 |administrating_team1=Atlantic Football Conference
 |administrating_years2=[[1968 CFL season|1968]]–[[1969 CFL season|1969]]
 |administrating_team2=[[Montreal Alouettes]]
 |coaching_years1=1952–1953
 |coaching_team1=[[Royal Military College of Canada]]
 |coaching_years2=1954–1957
 |coaching_team2=[[Royal Military College of Canada]]
 |playing_years1={{CFL Year|1938}}
 |playing_team1=[[Sarnia Imperials]]
 |playing_years2={{CFL Year|1939}}–{{CFL Year|1941}}
 |playing_team2=[[Ottawa Rough Riders]]
 |playing_years3={{CFL Year|1942}}
 |playing_team3=[[CFB Uplands|Ottawa Uplands]] ([[Royal Canadian Air Force|RCAF]])
 |playing_years4={{CFL Year|1945}}–{{CFL Year|1950}}
 |playing_team4=Ottawa Rough Riders
 |career_highlights=
* [[Grey Cup]] champion ([[28th Grey Cup|1940]])
* [[Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy]] (1941)
* [[Lionel Conacher Award]] (1941)
 |CFLEastAllStar={{CFL Year|1938}}, {{CFL Year|1940}}, {{CFL Year|1945}}, {{CFL Year|1947}}, {{CFL Year|1948}}
 |Awards=
 |Honors=
 |Retired #s= [[Ottawa Rough Riders#Retired numbers|Ottawa Rough Riders #72]]
 |Records=
| CFHOF = tony-golab
 |CFHOFYear=1964
}}
'''Anthony Charles Golab''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|CM}} (January 17, 1919 &ndash; October 16, 2016) was a [[Canadian football]] [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]] and [[Flying wing (football)|flying wing]] who played in the [[Ontario Rugby Football Union]] and [[Interprovincial Rugby Football Union]] for 11 years with the [[Sarnia Imperials]], [[Ottawa Rough Riders]], and [[CFB Uplands|Ottawa Uplands]]. He was born in [[Windsor, Ontario]].

Golab played with the [[Ottawa Rough Riders]] from 1939 to 1950. He was part of the [[27th Grey Cup|1939]], [[29th Grey Cup|1941]], and [[36th Grey Cup|1948]] [[Grey Cup]] finalist teams and was part of the winning [[28th Grey Cup|1940 Grey Cup]] champions. He was an Eastern All-Star at halfback in 1938, 1940, and 1945 and at flying wing in 1947 and 1948.

In 1964, he was elected to the [[Canadian Football Hall of Fame]]. In 1975, he was inducted into [[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame]]. In 1985, he was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]]. In 1997, he was inducted into the [[Ontario Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Tony Golab|url=http://oshof.ca/index.php/honoured-members/item/75-tony-golab|website=[[oshof.ca]]|access-date=24 September 2014|archive-date=28 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228125854/http://www.oshof.ca/index.php/honoured-members/item/75-tony-golab|url-status=dead}}</ref> He died at the Perley Veterans Health Centre in Ottawa, Ontario in October 2016 at the age of 97.<ref>[https://ottawacitizen.com/sports/football/cfl/former-rough-riders-star-tony-golab-dies Former Rough Riders star Tony Golab dies]</ref>

== References ==
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*{{Cite web| url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tony-golab/| title=Golab, Anthony Charles| publisher=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]| first=Frank| last=Cosentino}}
*{{Cite web| url=http://www.cshof.ca/hm_profile.php?i=456| title=Tony Golab| work=Honoured Members| publisher=Canada Sports Hall of Fame| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080126092351/http://www.cshof.ca/hm_profile.php?i=456| archive-date=2008-01-26}}

{{Lionel Conacher Award}}
{{Jeff Russel pre 1973}}
{{28th Grey Cup}}
{{AlsGM}}
{{Canadian Football Hall of Fame members}}

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[[Category:1919 births]]
[[Category:2016 deaths]]
[[Category:Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Members of the Order of Canada]]
[[Category:Montreal Alouettes general managers]]
[[Category:Ontario Rugby Football Union players]]
[[Category:Ottawa Rough Riders players]]
[[Category:Players of Canadian football from Ontario]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the Royal Military College of Canada]]
[[Category:Canadian football people from Windsor, Ontario]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen]]
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