Gerry MacTaggart

{{Short description|Canadian football player}}

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|name=Gerry MacTaggart

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|birth_date=c. 1931

|birth_place=Lindsay, Ontario, Canada

|death_date={{death date|2017|1|12}}

|death_place=Ontario, Canada

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|Height_ft=6

|Height_in=3

|Weight_lbs=185

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|position1=End

|position2=Halfback

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• Grey Cup champion ({{CFL Year|1953}})

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|playing_years1={{CFL Year|1953}}

|playing_team1=Hamilton Tiger-Cats

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William Gerald Lorne MacTaggart (c. 1931 – January 12, 2017) was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He won the Grey Cup with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1953.{{cite web| url = http://www.justsportsstats.com/footballstatsindex.php?player_id=mactager001| title = Gerry MacTaggart football statistics on StatsCrew.com}} He previously attended and played football and basketball at McMaster University. MacTaggart later played with the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen in the ORFU.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19550714&id=6N0wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Td0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2747,2569691|title = Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive Search}} In 1989, he was inducted into the McMaster Maurauders Hall of Fame.{{Cite web|url=http://www.marauders.ca/hof.aspx?hof=104|title = GERRY MACTAGGART (1989) - McMASTER ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME}} He died from heart failure in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=william-gerald-lorne-mactaggart&pid=190002392|title=William MACTAGGART Obituary (2017) - the Globe and Mail}}