Bruce Reid (football player)

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Bruce Reid (born July 5,  1971 ) is a retired Canadian football player .

career

Vancouver native Reid played as a running back at Simon Fraser University in the Canadian province of British Columbia . There he played with Dino Bucciol as he did later with the Hamburg Blue Devils . In 1993, the Calgary Stampeders  from the Canadian league CFL secured the rights to Reid, but he did not make the jump into the squad.

From 1995 he was part of the Hamburg Blue Devils squad. With the team he became German champion in 1996 and Eurobowl winner in 1996, 1997 and 1998 . For the 1999 season, Reid brought his brother Angus to Hamburg, who then also played for the Blue Devils.

After the end of the 2000 season, Bruce Reid returned to Canada and worked for a brewery there. The Hamburg Blue Devils decided not to award the number 31 worn by Reid in recognition of his achievements.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Reid. In: profootballarchives.com. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2000/pdf/20001107.pdf/HAHA20001107lf0000131.pdf
  3. ^ Clan in the Pros. In: athletics.sfu.ca. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Ex-Teufel Bucciol comes to the Eurobowl in Hamburg with Bergamo: Blue Devils: The Return. June 15, 2000, accessed on February 26, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ CFL Draft. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Saved by a Brother's Love - My Forgotten Season in Germany. March 28, 2018, Retrieved February 26, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Hamburg Blue Devils NAMES, DATES, FACTS. (PDF; 957 kB) In: fk-hbd.de. Förderkreis Hamburg Blue Devils eV Hamburg, December 31, 2013, accessed on February 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2001/pdf/20010427.pdf/HAHA20010427lf0000127.pdf
  9. ↑ Yumpu.com: BLUE DEVILS Football All-Time Roster - Football-Stats.de. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Reid, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian American Football Player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1971