Today in CBC History
On this day in 1913, physical fitness expert Lloyd Percival was born in Toronto. In 1941, track coach Percival started his Sports College, a correspondence school of sport on CBC radio, and registered almost 800,000 students. The weekly broadcasts were heard around Foster Hewitt’s Saturday night hockey broadcasts. In 1963 he established the Fitness Institute in Don Mills, Ont., and set up conditioning programs for many of Canada’s finest athletes. He died July 23 1974 at age 61. Listen to Percival in action in this clip from CBC Archives.
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