Hall of Fame
As an intercollegiate athlete, Crighton competed in two sports: Basketball (Senior OBA team 1922-23, Senior team manager 1923-24, Club President 1924-25 and Club Secretary 1925-26) and Football (intermediate 1924, Senior 1925, Senior champions in 1926). He also participated in Intramural hockey and track, and won the national diving title in 1920.
Crighton coached the Varsity women's Basketball team from 1925-27, winning the league championship in both 1926 and 1927.
However, he is best-known for his contributions to amateur and professional football: he refereed in a record 16 Grey Cup games, rewrote the Canadian Amateur Football Rule Book in 1952 and served as referee-in-chief of intercollegiate football for more than 20 years. The Hec Crighton Trophy, awarded annually to the outstanding player in Canadian university football, was created in his honour in 1965, and he was elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
