Jock Climie is a

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retired

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player who played the slotback position primarily with the

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, and

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. He is also a former sportscaster with

sports television channel TSN as part of the ''

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'' studio panel during the CFL season. Climie is currently a labour and employment

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at the

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of Emond Harnden.

College career

While attending Queen's University, Climie played university football for the

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. His 1,091 receiving yards in 1988 was at the time the single-season record for Canadian university football; it has since been broken, first by Don Blair (

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), then by Andy Fantuz (

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); Fantuz played one more game during his college career. Climie was the OQIFC conference's nominee for outstanding national player in 1988. He was inducted into the Queen's Football Hall of Fame. He earned his law degree at Queen's by attending its winter academic sessions while playing CFL football in the summer and fall, taking six terms over six years to graduate.

Professional career

Following his outstanding college career, Climie was drafted fourth overall in the 1990 CFL Draft by the

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.Draft tracker 1990
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and would go on to play in 62 games for the franchise while also being named a CFL East All-Star in 1993. Climie re-signed with the Argonauts in

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

and then signed with the newly reborn

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

. That year, he was again named a CFL East All-Star and he repeated the feat in

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, while also being awarded the Lew Hayman Trophy as the top Canadian player in the CFL's East Division. Climie finished his career as an Alouette in 2001, having recorded 627 catches for 9619 yards and 56 touchdowns and finishing in the top 20 in receiving yardage at the time of his retirement.

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References

External links

Emond Harnden (law firm) Biography Page - Jock ClimieTSN Talent Page - Jock Climie
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