| Ellison Kelly | |
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| Date of birth: | May 17, 1935 |
| Place of birth: | Butler, GA |
| Career information | |
| Position(s): | Guard Tackle |
| College: | Michigan State |
| NFL Draft: | 1959 / Round: 5 / Pick: 59 |
| Organizations | |
| As player: | |
| 1959 1960-1970 1971-1972 |
New York Giants Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL) Toronto Argonauts (CFL) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| CFL All-Star: | 1964, 1969, 1970 |
| Playing stats at NFL.com | |
| Canadian Football Hall of Fame | |
Ellison Lamar Kelly (born May 17, 1935 in Butler, Georgia) is a former American and Canadian football offensive lineman for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1960-1970 and the Toronto Argonauts from 1971-1972 of the Canadian Football League. He also played in the National Football League for the New York Giants. Kelly never missed a game in his thirteen seasons in the CFL. He won three Grey Cups for the Tiger-Cats and played in another for the Argonauts.
Kelly was drafted in the fifth round of the 1959 NFL Draft by the Giants after a stellar career at Michigan State University, but he opted to go to Canada to play in the CFL in his second season. In that first season he only played one game for the Giants.
Kelly was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1991.
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