Elementary students rally behind alumnus athlete

Thursday, April 8, 2021

A class of elementary students in the Ontario town of Haliburton are getting behind a Waterloo Engineering alumnus who went on to play in the Canadian Football League.

The students want to see Taly Williams (BASc ’94, civil engineering) recognized on the wall of a local arena along with other hometown athletes who made good.

A card of pro football player Tally Williams.

Taly Williams on cards from his career with the Hamilton Ti-Cats (left) and Toronto Argonauts.

Williams grew up in Haliburton and played for the Waterloo Warriors before suiting up as a defensive back with the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger Cats in the mid-1990s.

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