Tony Golab

{{Short description|Canadian football player (1919–2016)}}

{{Infobox CFL player

|name=Tony Golab

|image=

|import=no

|position1=Halfback

|position2=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=1968–1969

|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=Ottawa Uplands (RCAF)

|playing_years4={{CFL Year|1945}}–{{CFL Year|1950}}

|playing_team4=Ottawa Rough Riders

|career_highlights=

• Grey Cup champion (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 #72

|Records=

| CFHOF = tony-golab

|CFHOFYear=1964

}}

Anthony Charles Golab, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|CM}} (January 17, 1919 – October 16, 2016) was a Canadian football halfback and 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 Ottawa Uplands. He was born in Windsor, Ontario.

Golab played with the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1939 to 1950. He was part of the 1939, 1941, and 1948 Grey Cup finalist teams and was part of the winning 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.{{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}} He died at the Perley Veterans Health Centre in Ottawa, Ontario in October 2016 at the age of 97.[https://ottawacitizen.com/sports/football/cfl/former-rough-riders-star-tony-golab-dies Former Rough Riders star Tony Golab dies]