Don Sweet (born July 13, 1948) is a former star football

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for the

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and

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of the

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(CFL).

College years

Sweet graduated from

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in 1971. He was a

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all star kicker in 1971. Perhaps his greatest moment happened when WSU upset defending conference champions

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24 to 23 in 1971. His 27-yard game-winning field goal was scored with no time left on the game clock. Sweet had never played football before he tried out for his university team.

Professional career

In 1972, he began a successful 13-year career with Montreal, the second longest in team history. He played with the Alouettes until 1981 and with the Concordes three more years. He played 185 regular season games, scoring a team record 1,342 points, including 312 field goals and 325 converts. His most points was in 1976, with 141, and he was an all star in 1977, 1978 and 1979. Perhaps his greatest fame came in the ultimate CFL limelight, the

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. He played in that championship 5 times with the Alouettes, winning in 1974 Ex-Coug Don Sweet Kicks Montreal to Grey Cup Win
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/ref> and losing in 1975, 1978, and 1979. He scored 61 total Grey Cup points, and his best game was the 1977 Ice Bowl, when he scored a record 23 points and kicked a record 6 field goals. He won the Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian awards three times, in 1974, 1977, and 1979. Sweet travelled from the heights of glory with the Alouettes to the basement as a member of the newly franchised Concordes. He played 48 games with them over three years, including the dreadful 1982 season, with 2 wins and 14 losses.

Sexual assault allegations

Sweet, who served as both a teacher and a school principal in the Mission school district before retiring in 2010, was charged on March 6, 2021 with four counts of sexual interference, two counts of sexual assault and one count of assault. Two women have accused Sweet of sexually assaulting them while they were Grade 6 and 7 students at Durieu Elementary School in Mission BC in 2007 and 2008.

References

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