Editing David Canary (section)

==Football==
Canary starred as an [[end (gridiron football)|end]] on both offense and defense on the football team at [[Massillon Washington High School]], where he graduated in 1956.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-did-football-kill-my-father-20190102-story.html |title=Did football kill my father? It's not just the NFL; blows to the head sustained in high school and college have damaged countless brains |last=Canary |first=Kate |website=nydailynews.com|date=January 6, 2019 |access-date=October 19, 2019}}</ref> The school honored him as a Distinguished Citizen 35 years later in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.indeonline.com/article/20151124/NEWS/151129645 |title=Massillon mourns loss of beloved actor David Canary |first=Amy L. |last=Knapp |website=The Independent}}</ref> He earned a football scholarship to the [[University of Cincinnati]], where he was a three-year [[letterman (sports)|letterman]] from 1957 to 1959 and the recipient of the John Pease Award, as the [[Cincinnati Bearcats football|program]]'s best [[lineman (gridiron football)|lineman]], in his [[Junior (education year)|junior]] and [[senior (education)|senior]] years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/cinn/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2015-16/misc_non_event/15_fb_guide.pdf |title=University of Cincinnati 2015 Football Media Guide. |access-date=November 27, 2015 |archive-date=January 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104201232/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/cinn/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2015-16/misc_non_event/15_fb_guide.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Canary trained as a singer at the university's College of Arts and Sciences and received his [[bachelor's degree]] in music in 1960.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://magazine.uc.edu/issues/1000/canary.html |title=Interview with an 'All My Children' star |website=University of Cincinnati}}</ref> He was picked by the [[Denver Broncos]] in the inaugural [[1960 American Football League draft|1960 American Football League (AFL) draft]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.remembertheafl.com/1960AFLDraft.html |title=AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DRAFT - 1960 |website=www.remembertheafl.com}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Commenting on the selection in a 2004 interview for the [[Archive of American Television]], he said, "I thought they were out of their minds. I was 172 pounds, I wasn't very fast, and I couldn't catch a pass. They called me stone fingers."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/arts/television/david-canary-star-of-all-my-children-dies-at-77.html |title=David Canary, Star of 'All My Children,' Dies at 77 |first=William |last=Grimes |date=November 25, 2015 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>