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While a U of T student, Lester Pearson played Intercollegiate Basketball (1914-15, 1918-19), Intramural Basketball (1913-14, 1918-19), Intramural Football (1913, 1914) and Intramural Hockey (1914-15, 1918-19). As a graduate student at Oxford from 1921-23, he played Hockey, Lacrosse and Rugger.
Pearson returned to U of T as a lecturer in History(1924-28) and coached Varsity Blues teams in three sports: Football--(ORFU team) 1925, 1926, 1927 Hockey--senior team 1926-27 and 1927-28(both champions) Lacrosse--1926-27, 1927-28 He was elected to the men's athletics Advisory Board in 1927. He was Prime Minister of Canada from 1963-68 and received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1957.
Born in Newtonbrook, Ontario 1897
Died December 1972
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