Inducted October 31, 1986

E.C. (Ted) Withers - Builder

Ted Withers’ career as an outstanding athlete, an irreproachable official and highly respected administrator spans more than 40 years of service to hockey, baseball, golf, curling, figure skating, the Newfoundland and Labrador Amateur Sports Federation, the Newfoundland Sports Hall of Fame, the organizing committee for the 1977 Canada Summer Games, and the Canada Games Park Commission.

As an athlete, he was a member of five teams that won the St. John’s senior hockey championship and the Boyle Trophy, and in baseball, he was a member of two St. Bon’s teams that won city championships.

He was a founding member of the St. John’s Baseball Umpires Association and the St. John’s Hockey Referees Association. He was provincial hockey referee-in-chief and qualified as a figure skating judge.

Provincially, he was hockey registrar and assistant-secretary for seven years, a founding member of the golf association where he served on the board of governors, a charter executive member of the Sports Federation, serving as president, chairman of the figure skating association, a member of the selection committee of the Sports Hall of Fame and a member of the Canada Games Park Commission.

He was an executive member of the sports technical committee for the 1977 Canada Summer Games, the board of directors of the Sports Federation of Canada, and the executive board of the Canadian Figure Skating Association. He served for two years as president of the St. John’s Hockey League, the St. John’s Minor Hockey Association and the St. John’s Figure Skating Club.

A retired sports announcer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Mr. Withers lived in St. John’s with his wife, Audrey.