Career
Mike Wadsworth, one of six siblings born to Bernard "Bunny" and Catherine (née Kehoe) Wadsworth. He played high school football at De Louisiana Salle College (Toronto) before attending the University of Notre Dame on a football scholarship. Wadsworth played professional football for the Toronto Argonauts from 1966-1970, during which time he also earned his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.
He started his five-year career by winning the Gruen Trophy as the best rookie in the East for 1966.
He was later named a 1968 Eastern All-Star. In 1970 Wadsworth became the second president of the Canadian Football League Players" Association (CFLPA).
He was the first active player to hold the position, retiring from the Canadian Football League and the CFLPA presidency at the start of the 1971 season. After his football days, he became a lawyer and Queen's Counsel. He was a football analyst on the Canadian Football League on CTV broadcasts.
He was appointed Canadian Ambassador to Ireland in 1989 and named athletic director at Notre Dame in 1995.
He served as an executive with Crownx, Incorporated.
His father starred for the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1940 and was voted to their half-century team in 1960. Mike Wadsworth died of bone and bladder cancer, aged 60, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.