Ted Watkins

Ted Watkins

Date of birth	1941
Place of birth	Chicago
Date of death	June 2, 1968 (aged 27)
Place of death	Stockton, California
Career information
Position(s)	WR
Height	6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg)
US college	Pacific
Career history
As player
1963–1966	Ottawa Rough Riders
1967	Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Career highlights and awards
Grey Cup champion (1967)

Ted Watkins (1941 – June 2, 1968) was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1967. He previously played college football at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

In the late 1960s, Watkins was active in the Black Power movement in Toronto.

He was shot and killed in 1968 during an alleged liquor store holdup in Stockton, California, weeks before the beginning of the 1968 CFL season.