Much of the Teddy Morris story came from files held by the author, who lived on the 6th Line not far from Teddy and Minnie Morris. In addition, some information was collected from a story that originally appeared in a 1977 issue of The Mississauga News, also written by the author.
It can be said that while Teddy Morris was creating Canadian football history, the sheep farm where he lived was surrounded by numerous developments in world history.
Teddy and his wife Minnie lived on the Sixth Line, Malton. His farmhouse was just 100 yards from the entrance of the Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) program, and just a mile or so south of the Victory Aircraft Plant where the Lancaster Bombers were being manufactured.
The location of their property was on the south east corner of Britannia Road, south of where the Sixth Line splits with Dixon Road, just about 100 yards (91.44 m) from where the new Terminal One parking structure (2006) is now located.
Alan Byron ‘Teddy’ Morris was instrumental in bringing to the Toronto Argonauts six of its 15 Grey Cup victories, a record which will surely stand for some time to come.
He was born March 20, 1910 in Toronto but first reached prominence with the Native Sons, a junior team from Winnipeg. It was there he sparked the team to the Western Canadian Junior Championships in 1930.
The championship brought Teddy back to his hometown when he and his Winnipeg squad played the junior Argos. While the Winnipeg team was defeated 6-1, they also lost the services of Teddy because he elected to remain in Toronto and join the Argonaut organization.