Bruce Coulter

{{short description|Canadian football player and coach}}

{{Infobox Canadian Football League biography

| name = Bruce Coulter

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|11|19}}

| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|06|05|1927|11|19}}

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| number = 65

| import = no

| position1 = Defensive back
Head coach

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| college = Toronto

| coaching_years1 = 1958–1961

| coaching_team1 = McGill University

| coaching_years2 = 1962–1990

| coaching_team2 = Bishop's University

| playing_years1 = 1947

| playing_team1 = Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers

| playing_years2 = 1948–1957

| playing_team2 = Montreal Alouettes

| career_highlights =

• Grey Cup champion (1949)

| honors =

| CFHOF = bruce-coulter

| CFHOFYear = 1997

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Bruce Coulter (November 19, 1927 – June 5, 2018){{Cite web|url=https://montrealgazette.com/sports/football/coulter|title=Bishop's Gaiters football coaching legend Bruce Coulter dies at age 90}} was a Canadian football player and coach. He played ten seasons for the Montreal Alouettes, winning the Grey Cup in 1949.[http://www.cflapedia.com/Players/c/coulter_bruce.htm CFLAPEDIA entry - Bruce Coulter] He then went on to coach 29 seasons for the Bishop's Gaiters.{{Cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/497535031.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=Oct+21%2C+1995&author=Christine+Rivet&pub=Waterloo+Region+Record&desc=UW%27s+Tuffy+a+win+away+from+record+book&pqatl=google |title=UW's Tuffy a win away from record book The Record (Kitchener, Ont.) Christine Rivet, Oct 21, 1995 |access-date=July 5, 2017 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306200738/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/doc/275409927.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=Oct%2021%2C%201995&author=Christine%20Rivet&pub=Waterloo%20Region%20Record&edition=&startpage=&desc=UW%27s%20Tuffy%20a%20win%20away%20from%20record%20book |url-status=dead }} He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1997.[http://www.cfhof.ca/members/bruce-coulter/ Canadian Football Hall of Fame - Bruce Coulter]

Coulter was also a curler, and represented Quebec at the 1957 Macdonald Brier.{{cite news|title=Hopes Boom for Weldon|date=March 4, 1957|page=17|newspaper=Montreal Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101196005/the-montreal-star/|access-date=May 6, 2022}}