Nick Paithouski

Nick Paithouski was an award-winning and all-star center in the Ontario Rugby Football Union.

Nick Paithouski
Born:Sarnia, Ontario
Died:September 15, 1985
Career information
Position(s)C
CollegeQueen's University
Career history
As player
1940Sarnia 2/26 Battery
1941Saskatchewan Roughriders
1945–47Hamilton Tigers
Career highlights and awards
CFL All-Star1940
Awards1940 - Imperial Oil Trophy

A graduate of Queen's University, he was a star player with the Golden Gaels, twice selected as a team MVP.[1] In 1940 he joined the Sarnia 2/26 Battery team of the ORFU and it was a successful season: he was an all-star, and he won the Imperial Oil Trophy as MVP in the ORFU.[2] He joined the Saskatchewan Roughriders for the 1941 season.

Paithouski joined the Royal Canadian Engineers and served during World War II, receiving a Bronze Star from the American Army. He also had the good fortune to play in the famed Tea Bowl for the Canadian Army football team against American Army team at White City Stadium on February 13, 1944 in London, England (the Canadians won 16-6).[3][4]

After the war he played with the Hamilton Tigers for 3 seasons. He later worked as a civil engineer for the Federal government, living in Ottawa with his wife Barbara (1917-1976) and their two children, Janet and Joe. He was inducted into the Sarnia Lambton Sports Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Queen’s University Football Hall of Fame in 1987. He died September 15, 1985.[5]

References
  1. Gael Force: A Century of Football at Queen's, by Mervin Daub (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996) p.79
  2. Two Sarnia war heroes to be honoured, theobserver, April 27, 2010
  3. Donor Stories : The Paithouski Prize
  4. The coffee & tea bowls: football classics: Canada vs. the United States in wartime London as Spitfires fly cover.
  5. Donor Stories : The Paithouski Prize


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