James Walter Mitchener (March 19, 1929 – January 31, 2017) was a Canadian football player who played for the Calgary Stampeders, Montreal Alouettes, and BC Lions.
[1] Mitchener played junior football with the McGill University Redmen.
Mitchener resided in South Carolina and was one of the last surviving members of the 1948 Grey Cup championship team.
[2] After graduating from both McGill University and McGill Medical School, Mitchener worked as a pathologist at University Hospital for many years where he helped establish the Epidemiology Department.
Early in his career, he taught Pathology at the Medical College of Georgia.