Curtis Wester | |
Birth Date: | 7 May 1951 |
Birth Place: | Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Death Place: | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
Number: | 61 |
Import: | yes |
Position1: | Guard |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 3 |
Weight Lb: | 255 |
College: | East Texas State |
Nfldraftedyear: | 1973 |
Nfldraftedround: | 9 |
Nfldraftedpick: | 228 |
Nfldraftedteam: | Cleveland Browns |
Playing Team1: | BC Lions |
Playing Team2: | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
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Curtis Wester (May 7, 1951 – May 8, 1995) was a guard in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Wester played college football at East Texas State where he was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team guard on the 1972 Little All-America college football team.[1] He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns of the NFL.[2] He came to Canada in 1974 and played with the BC Lions for three seasons, his best year being 1974, when he was an all-star and won the DeMarco-Becket Memorial Trophy as best lineman in the West Division (and was runner-up for the CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award). He played 33 regular season games for the Leos.[3] He also played one season, 1979, with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
In 1990, he was elected to the Texas A&M-Commerce (East Texas State) Athletic Hall of Fame.[4]