Dinsmore played on high school teams for Oakwood Collegiate Institute. In 1919, he was the quarterback of their senior rugby team, which won the High School Rugby League Championship. In 1920 he was on Northview in the junior ORFU league that won the Junior title over Sarnia. He got involved in Canadian football as well as hockey, and also paddled for the Toronto Canoe Club. In 1924, he paddled in the Bala Regatta in Muskoka.\n', '

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Dinsmore was a halfback for the 1922 Toronto Argonauts teams with Lionel Conacher, Canada\'s Athlete of the Half-century. Dinsmore, "is a thick set youngster, powerful and tireless ... and he is as tough as a pineknot." The smallest man on either team, "Little Hercules" slid through the line and he picked up more loose balls than two men on either team. The team went to New York for an exhibition game, struggled with the American rules, losing 55 to 7; Dinsmore had a 32-yard run. "Dinsmore\'s loss was one of the most severe a team can suffer. He was one of the greatest secondary defence men ever produced in Canadian football, and his absence weakened the Argo wing line."\n', '

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