Bill Price (curler)
William Hilliard Price[2][3] (born 1928) is a Canadian former curler. He played as lead on the 1957 and 1958 Brier-winning Team Alberta, skipped by Matt Baldwin. He was from Edmonton and also played basketball and baseball locally.[4][5] He married to Margaret Jeanne (Peggy) Blundell[6] in 1950.[3]
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Price grew up in Saskatoon and attended the University of Alberta where he studied chemical engineering. There, he won the Gene Carrigan Trophy as the Edmonton's most outstanding junior athlete, as he was a top basketball player for the Alberta Golden Bears and was a top city baseball player at the time.[1]
References
- "Varsity's Starry Bill Price Winner Gene Carrigan Trophy". Edmonton Journal. May 10, 1947. p. 10. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- 2017 Brier Media Guide: Previous Rosters
- "Price-Blondell (sic) Wedding at McDougall Church". Edmonton Journal. May 22, 1950. p. 23. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- "Baldwin Quartet Takes Third Title", Lethbridge Herald, Monday, February 18, 1957, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, pg. 7
- http://ashfm.ca/hall-of-fame-honoured-members/browse/multisport/price-bill
- http://www.wetaskiwinonline.com/museum/blundell_mae/index.html
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