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North York Knights

The North York Knights was a Canadian Junior Football League team that played in the 1959 and 1960 seasons. The 1959 season was remarkably successful. The team won the Ontario division, and beat out Montreal to advance to the Canadian final in Saskatchewan, where they lost to the Saskatoon Hilltops.

Much of the success of the 1959 team was due to the coach, Ulysses Curtis, a former halfback for the Toronto Argonauts. The team had some excellent players out of high school, notebly lineman Fred Fleming, who went on to play with the Calgary Stampeders, and quarterback Norm Turner who played for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues in 1960.