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Wilky Wyoming Hall of Fame Bound By GERRY PRINCE, Staff Writer - Edmonton Sun They like to do things a little differently in Wyoming. Edmonton Eskimos great Tom Wilkinson grew up there and will attest to that. The 59-year-old CFL Hall of Famer still doesn't understand why if the state capital is Cheyenne and Laramie is home to the University of Wyoming, how the Wyoming Sports Hall of Fame wound up in Casper. Given he's scheduled to be
enshrined in the Wyoming Sports Hall of Fame, perhaps the two-sport
man from Greybull, Wyoming, can solve that mystery when he heads to
Casper for the June 21 induction ceremony. "It's certainly a
nice honour," offered Wilkinson, an integral part of the Esks'
five in a row championship dynasty. "When you start playing
sports it certainly isn't to get into any Hall of Fame.
"Fortunately, I got on to a really good team here in Edmonton
and we won championships. Automatically, if you're winning, certain
positions get a lot of credit and I happened to play one of those
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really getting into the things I'm getting into because I was on a
really good team more than being an outstanding player."
Given Wilkinson's ever-growing list of career achievements, you may have to be lucky to be good. However, his fistful of Grey Cup rings says otherwise. In 1982, Wilkinson was the first man to have his name placed on the Esks Wall of Honour. Five years later he was selected to the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame. If there was a Hall of Fame for the self-effacing, Wilkinson would have been named to it after leading his high school football team to a state championship in his senior year. "I'm not trying to belittle myself," said Wilkinson, who joined the Esks in 1972 after stints in Toronto and B.C. "I think I was a pretty good quarterback but I wasn't the kind of quarterback that could throw the ball 80 yards and outrun everybody on the outside. "I was limited in what I could do. I just happened to get on a team that was extremely talented and played together as a team."
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