Larry Wruck is a former linebacker

Linebacker

A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...

 who played twelve seasons for the Edmonton Eskimos

Edmonton Eskimos

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 of the Canadian Football League

Canadian Football League

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 winning two Grey Cup

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Wruck began playing Canadian football

Canadian football

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 with the Saskatoon Tinklers in the Kinsmen

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 Tackle League in 1975 and won championships all four years at Evan Hardy Collegiate

Evan Hardy Collegiate

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, winning the Saskatoon junior championship in 1976 and the Saskatchewan high school championship in 1977, 1978, and 1979.

He joined the Saskatoon Hilltops

Saskatoon Hilltops

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 in 1980, winning the rookie of the year award in 1980, leading the Prairie Junior Football Conference in tackles in both 1981 and 1982, and, in 1982, was named an all-star, won the outstanding linebacker award in the conference, and the Canadian Junior Football League

Canadian Junior Football League

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's Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year trophy. In 2007, the CJFL's Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year trophy was renamed the Larry Wruck Award in his honour.

Wruck spent two seasons in the Saskatchewan Roughriders

Saskatchewan Roughriders

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' training camps before being traded to the Edmonton Eskimos

Edmonton Eskimos

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 at the start of the 1985 CFL season

1985 CFL season

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. Between 1985 and Wruck played 213 games and recorded a total of 667 tackle

Tackle (football move)

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s, 32 sack

Quarterback sack

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s, 15 interceptions, and 19 fumble

Fumble

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 recoveries.

He appeared in five Grey Cup games, winning in 1987

75th Grey Cup

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 and 1993

81st Grey Cup

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. Wruck was named a West Division

Canadian Football League West Division

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 All-Star in , was named the Eskimos' most outstanding Canadian player five times, and was runner-up for the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award

CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award

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 in the and 1995 seasons

1995 CFL season

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Wruck is a third cousin of Dylan Wruck of the Edmonton Oil Kings

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