Bob Howes is a former professional Canadian football

Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

 offensive lineman who played fourteen seasons in the Canadian Football League

Canadian Football League

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, mainly for the Edmonton Eskimos

Edmonton Eskimos

The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...

. He was a part of six Grey Cup

Grey Cup

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 championship teams with the Eskimos. Howes played college football

College football

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 and basketball

Basketball

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 at Queen's University

Queen's University

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, and has coached the Queen's Golden Gaels football team for many years, both as an assistant and as head coach. His son Beau Howes played quarterback

Quarterback

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for the Gaels in the 1990s.