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1950 Alberta Snapshots

 


    

Above left - Additions for the Calgary Purity 99s (left to right)  Bernie Weinstein, Claude Wheeler, Chet Vasey, who was said to have achieved an All-American rating, and Don Abbott.  The players are from Tucson, Arizona and Fresno, California.  (Calgary Herald, June 14, 1950)

Above right - Four players from the University of Arizona moved into the Calgary Buffaloes camp (left to right)  Clarke Duncan, Lloyd Jenney, an All-American, Jim Starkey and Jerry Dobson.

Lloyd Jenney     Don Stewart & Vern Callihan

Above left - Calgary Buffaloes featured college All-American Lloyd Jenney from the University of Arizona.  Above right - Two of the stars of Cal's Dodgers, who upset John Ducey's Edmonton Eskimos to capture  the 1950 Big Four championship -- Don Stewart, left, and pitcher Vern Callihan, right.  Below - Dodgers' Jim Ryan accepts congratulations.

Jim Ryan

 
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