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Mike Law (Canadian football)

Canadian football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6847625 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mike Law (March 9, 1942 – February 21, 2021) was a Grey Cup champion defensive back in the Canadian Football League (CFL).

A Queen's Golden Gael, Law started with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1967 but played 6 seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos, where he scored 2 touchdowns (on a fumble and interception) and picked off 5 passes (4 in 1971.) After a year with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers he finished his career with the 1973 Grey Cup champion Ottawa Rough Riders.

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“Mike Law (Canadian football)” enters the record as canadian football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mike, Canadian and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 2021, 1967, 1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-03-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mike, Canadian and football.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6847625. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1942, 2021, 1967 and 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mike Law (Canadian football)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.