Gino Fracas

Gino Fracas (April 28, 1930 – October 29, 2009) was a Canadian football player and university coach. Drafted first overall by the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1954, he played his Canadian Football League career with the Edmonton Eskimos from 1955 to 1962, serving as team captain and winning Grey Cup championships in 1955 and 1956. After his playing career he coached the University of Alberta Golden Bears to a national championship in 1963, then became the first head coach of the University of Windsor Lancers football program in 1968, leading them to conference titles and earning OUAA coach of the year honors in 1976 and 1977. He was a professor of human kinetics at the University of Windsor from 1967 to 1995 and was inducted posthumously into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame as a builder in 2011.