Professional Football Player, Canadian Statesman. He played at the position of lineman for six seasons (1949 to 1954) in the Canadian Football League with the Edmonton Eskimos. Born Steven Eugene Paproski in Lwów, Poland, he immigrated with his parents who were of Ukrainian descent and of the Roman Catholic faith to Canada as a child and the family settled in the Province of Alberta. He attended the Victoria High School in Edmonton, Alberta, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, on a sports scholarship where he played football collegiately. He also attended the University of North Dakota. After graduating from college, he was signed to play with the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos in 1949. He played with them for six seasons before retiring following the 1954 season. His teammates during this time included Peter Lougheed, who would go on to become the 10th Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, and Norman Kwong, who would go on to become the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 2005 to 2010. His Canadian Football League career consisted of some 50 games played, and 2 games started. After his retirement from football, he decided to follow many of his former football team members into the world of politics. After a few years in public office, he ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Edmonton North and was elected to that post in 1968. He was then reelected in 1972, and again in 1974. He was also re-elected in 1979, 1980, 1984, and 1988, again for the riding of Edmonton North. During this time he also served in the position of Chief Opposition Whip from 1976 to 1978. After Joe Clark was elected to the office of Prime Minister of Canada in 1979, he was named to the cabinet posts of Minister of State for Fitness and Amateur Sports and Minister of State for Multiculturalism, which he held from 1979 to 1980. After Joe Clark left office in 1980, he assumed some small duties until Brian Mulroney was elected to the office of Prime Minister of Canada in 1984. He was named to Brian Mulroney's cabinet and served as the Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole from 1984 to 1993. He also served as a Deputy Whip for Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield and Chief Whip for the Progressive Conservative Party caucus. He passed away while still in office at the age of 65. His brothers, Kenneth Paproski and Carl Paproski were also members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. For his contributions to politics, he was made an Honored Member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, and for his contributions to the sport of football, he was posthumously inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall & Museum as a Member of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos football team in 2007.