height_ft weight_lbs playing_years birth_place color cfleastallstar article_title import fontcolor position playing_teams birth_date height_in college
5 180 1960 - 1960 1961 - 1964 1965 - 1965 youngstown ohio #c 7cad0 1962 ernie white -lrb- canadian football -rrb-
 yes # 000080 running back hamilton tiger cats ottawa rough riders montreal alouettes 26 january 1938 8 university of dayton
ernie white -lrb- canadian football -rrb-

ernie white was a canadian football running back who played 6 seasons in the canadian football league for three teams .
he was voted as an eastern conference all-star in 1962 .
ernie white played college football at the university of dayton and , after playing rugby for the london lords of the ontario rugby football union , joined the hamilton tiger cats in 1960 , where he had only 3 carries .
white blossomed as a member of the ottawa rough riders the following year , rushing for a 9.0 yard average on 30 carries on a backfield that included dave thelen and ron stewart .
white became an eastern conference all-star in 1962 , rushing for 804 yards -lrb- 5.9 yards per carry -rrb- , along with 758 receiving yards -lrb- 24.5 yards per catch -rrb- , 429 yards in kick returns -lrb- 26.8 yards per return -rrb- , and 10 touchdowns .
despite his 6.4 yards per rush average and 23.4 yards per catch , he had fewer than half as many carries the following year .
he nevertheless led the east in kickoff return yards with 665 and a 35.0 yard per return average .
he played only 5 games for ottawa in 1964 and 5 more in 1965 for the montreal alouettes before retiring .
