Carroll Morgan was not involved in any sports until he entered Nova Scotia’s St. Francis Xavier University in the mid-1960s, but quickly took up both boxing and football, both of which he excelled at. After winning numerous titles as a heavyweight boxer in his home country, he finally got the opportunity to represent Canada abroad at the 1972 Summer Olympics. At the Games he defeated Fatai Ayinla-Adekunle of Nigeria in round one, but then lost to Sweden’s Hasse Thomsén, an eventual bronze medalist, in the quarter-finals. His only other major international tournament was the 1974 Commonwealth Games, but he continued to compete until injuries forced him to retire in 1988. Over the course of his career, he collected seven Nova Scotia provincial, three Canadian national, and one North American title, among numerous other distinctions. By career he was a school teacher, but was also involved in coaching both boxing and football. He was made a member of the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame twice, in 1994 for his college football career and in 2008 for his boxing, and the Cape Breton Sports Hall of Fame in 2018, less than a month prior to his death.
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