Ed Learn passed away earlier this month at the age of 90.<\/p>\n
The native of Welland, Ont. played for the Montreal Alouettes from 1958 to 1966 and the Toronto Argonauts from 1967 to 1969. He was a one-time CFL all-star and four-time East Division all-star.<\/p>\n
The six-foot, 170-pound speedster led the CFL in punt return average in 1981 and punt return yardage in 1967. He remains fourth all-time in Alouettes team history in punt return yardage (Stefan Logan, Dickie Harris, and Randy Rhino) and interceptions (Chip Cox, Harris, Tom Hugo).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Toronto Argonauts mourn the passing of Ed Learn,\u201d the team wrote in a statement. \u201cOur thoughts are with his family and many friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
In total, Learn played 162 regular-season CFL games and recorded 51 interceptions and 11 fumble recoveries. He had eight multi-interception games, including at least one in which he had three interceptions. The CFL did not record tackles as an official statistic during the time of Learn\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
According to his obituary, Learn is survived by his wife Bernadee. The couple had five children, 12 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n
The Toronto Argonauts added several key free agents this winter, including offensive lineman Dakoda Shepley, defensive lineman DeWayne Hendrix, strong-side linebacker Adarius Pickett, and defensive back DaShaun Amos. The team\u2019s key losses included receiver Dejon Brissett (Calgary Stampeders) and linebacker Wynton McManis (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).<\/p>\n
The Argonauts hold the second overall pick in the 2026 CFL Draft, which is scheduled for Tuesday, April 28 at 7:00 p.m. EDT. All CFL training camps are scheduled to open on May 10. Toronto will play its first preseason game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday, May 23, then its first regular-season game against the Montreal Alouettes on Friday, June 12.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Toronto finished third in the East Division standings with a 5-13 record, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2019. Mike Miller was promoted to the role of head coach following the departure of Ryan Dinwiddie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Learn passed away earlier this month at the age of 90. The native of Welland, Ont. played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,220315,50470,3179,100127,22069,49,48,7028,521,522,520,21190,428,220316,527,87200,2338,82,3302,154056],"class_list":["post-573203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-220315","tag-alouettes","tag-als","tag-argonauts","tag-argos","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-ed-learn","tag-football","tag-learn","tag-montreal","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-welland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}