George Brancato - Ottawa
Sam Etcheverry - Montreal
Bud Grant - Winnipeg
Les Lear - Calgary
Ted Morris - Toronto
Brian Timmis - Hamilton (played with the Tigers but coached the Wildcats)
Wikipedia (that most reliable of all sources) agrees with you on Brancato, Lear, Morris and Timmis. (Apparently Lear was both a player and head coach at the same time - different era.)
However, the same source tells me that Grant and Etcheverry did not win Grey Cups as players for WPG and MTL. What years do you have them winning as players?
Dave Beckman who the Dork mentioned would be the one and only incompetent drunken lush we had here as our coach for the last half of the 1990 season and the first half of the 1991 season before getting canned for going 0-8 to start the season . Without a doubt one of the worst if not the worst hiring this team has ever had as a Head Coach . :-[
This is one guy whose name will NEVER be seen on the Ti-Cats Wall of Honour . :o
Neither Bud Grant nor Sam Etcheverry won any Grey Cups as players.
Sadly this fellow missed out on joining the select fraternity when for health reasons he had to step down as head coach a couple of games into the 1987 season: