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MONTREAL 鈥� Like the Mounties, McGill basketball coach Craig Norman finally got his man.

Redmen football star Erik Galas, a two-time all-Canadian receiver from Ottawa, will make his debut with the basketball Redmen at Quebec City tonight (Nov. 28), when McGill plays the first of a home-and home series with Laval. His debut at the Currie gym is slated for Saturday night at 8 p.m.

鈥淚鈥檓 happy to finally land him,鈥� quipped Norman, who originally recruited Galas about six years ago, when Norman was coaching at Royal Military College and the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Galas was a multi-sport athlete at St. Matthew鈥檚 high school in Ottawa.

鈥淓rik can play both forward and guard and instantly brings us more depth, flexibility and versatility,鈥� added Norman, whose troops have a 9-4 record against Canadian university teams this season, including a 1-1 record in league play.

鈥淗e is strong enough to play down low (under the basket) and quick enough to help us around the perimeter.鈥�

According to available data, Galas will be only the fifth McGill athlete in the past four decades to actually play for both the football and basketball Redmen in the same school year and the first since 2003-04, when Nick Landry, a 6-foot-6, 300-pound offensive lineman from Orleans, Ont., played in his second straight season, as a centre.聽

Others to accomplish that feat include receiver Jay McHarg of Ayer鈥檚 Cliff, Que., who was a forward on the hard-court in 1995-96, quarterback Jaime Crawford, a forward with the cagers in 1984-85 and 6-foot-3, 185-pound defensive back Bill Holt, an all-conference forward who played for both teams from 1967-68 and 1969 to 1971.

A sixth player, Ken Tucker,聽 6-foot-2 forward with the basketball squad from 1982 to 1984, was also a receiver with the football team during the 1982 season but never played in a game.

Galas, a slotback who wears jersey No. 70 with the football team, will don No. 31 with the hoops squad. He recently finished his fifth season on the gridiron by setting a CIS career record with 194 receptions.聽

The聽 22-year-old physical education senior is coming off an impressive year with 64 receptions in eight games, the third-highest single-season total in CIS history. He ranked fifth among CIS leaders in yards this season (781) and hauled in six touchdowns in eight games. He also established McGill career records for most receptions, yards (2,555) and receiving TDs (19).

McGILL ATHLETES TO PLAY FOOTBALL & BASKETBALL IN THE SAME SCHOOL YEAR:
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Bill Holt (DB / FOR; 1967-68 & 1969-71)
Jaime Crawford (QB / FOR; 1984-85)
Jay McHarg (REC / FOR; 1995-96)
Nick Landry (OL / FOR; 2002-04)
Erik Galas (REC / FOR / GUARD; 2008-09)