Earl Zukerman (McGill Athletics & Friends of McGill Football)
Entered
December 15, 2020
from Montreal
On behalf of McGill Athletics & Recreation, I offer most sincere condolences. I have posted the following article on the McGill Athletics website.
OBIT: Doug Pryde, player on McGill's 1960 championship football team, was 81
MONTREAL -- Doug Pryde, a defensive lineman on McGill University's 1960 championship football team, has passed away. He was 81.
He died in his sleep on Dec. 5 after several years of battling Parkinson's disease and leukemia.
The 1960 squad, coached by Bruce Coulter and inducted to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame 20 years ago, is scheduled to celebrate their 60th anniversary reunion over a Zoom call on Dec.16.
A 6-foot-2, 195-pound defensive end who played two seasons for McGill, Pryde is the ninth player lost from the 33-man roster of a team that cruised to a stunning 46-7 victory over Alberta in the Churchill Bowl, a national showdown on Nov. 19, 1960, before 9,200 at Percival Molson Stadium. Prior to the inaugural Vanier Cup game in 1965, the Churchill Bowl served as an invitational meeting of the eastern and western champs for college football supremacy. McGill had reached the national final after a 21-0 Yates Cup victory at Queen's on Nov. 12. It was their first league title since 1938.
Born Douglas Scott Pryde in Montreal on May 23, 1939, he was a product of Mt. Royal high school, earning all-star status in 1956. After graduating from Mt. Allison University in Sackville, N.B., where he also merited all-star honours, Pryde transferred to McGill in 1960 for a law degree, which he completed in 1963.
Under his grad photo in the 1963 Old McGill yearbook was the expression: "Getting there is half the fun."
After graduation, Pryde embarked a lengthy legal career at the firm of Lavery O'Brien, later renamed Lavery de Billy. He served on numerous boards, including Mt. Royal United Church and Griffith McConnell Seniors Residence. He was elected president of Entrepreneurship A Product of our Culture (EPOC), an organization that provided training opportunities for disadvantaged young adults.
He is survived by Patty, his wife of 58 years, a sister (Dodie), a daughter (Kim), and two sons (Scott and David), in addition to many nieces, nephews and grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family has indicated that donations may be made to The Canadian Parkinson's Association. Online condolences may be left in a guestbook at Mt. Royal Commemorative Services.
SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Sports Info Office
McGill Athletics & Recreation
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca
(514) 398-7012
