A graduate of the University of Connecticut, he had a try out with the New York Giants of the NFL in 1956, but played pro football in Canada, with the B.C. Lions of the CFL in 1957 and 1958 (23 games.) He is most famously known as a successful university athletics director. Quoting his 1998 Concordia University Sports Hall of Fame induction: The Quebec Student Sports Federation has named their women's hockey championship trophy the Dr. Ed Enos Trophy in his honour.