Former Canadian Football League player passes away

Former Giant defensive end Robert Taylor, who played for Big Blue in 1963 and '64, has died from complications following surgery for colon cancer. He was 68.
Taylor died Sunday at New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center, said his daughter, Melba Taylor.
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Taylor, nicknamed "Big Man," was taken by the Giants in the ninth round of the 1963 draft out of Maryland State College (now the University of Maryland Eastern Shore). He was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982.
Taylor played in the 1963 NFL title game, which the Giants lost 14-10 to the Bears.
He later played for the Vikings, and for the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts.
After his football days, he lived in Manhattan and worked as an administrative supervisor for the New York Department of Labor. He retired from that post in December. A service is set for Friday at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.