Bruce Cummings

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Bruce Cummings
Date of birth: 1927
Place of birth: Ottawa, Ontario
Career information
Position(s): Halfback
College: University of Toronto
Organizations
As player:
1950-53 Ottawa Rough Riders
Career highlights and awards
CFL All-Star: 1951
Awards: 1951 Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy
Honors: Grey Cup champion - 1951

Bruce Cummings, was a award winning, all-star and Grey Cup champion Canadian football player with the Ottawa Rough Riders, playing from 1950 to 53.[1][2]

Born in Ottawa and a star football player at the University of Toronto,[3] Cummings joined his hometown Riders in 1950. Though his career was relatively brief, he enjoyed a complete season in 1951, being named an all-star, winning the Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy as the best player in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and hoisting the Grey Cup as champion.[4][5]

His father, W. Garfield Cummings, was a local politician and former Ottawa footballer.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Ottawa Rough Rider Player Database
  2. ↑ FANBASE entry : Bruce Cummings
  3. ↑ Ex-Nepean Star leads Toronto Blues to 15-5 Victory - Bruce Cummings sinks Queen's team Ottawa Citizen, November 10, 1947
  4. ↑ Bruce and Bruno Winners, by Jack Koffman Hamilton Spectator, November 8, 1951
  5. ↑ Cummings Wins Football Award Calgary Herald, November 8, 1951
  6. ↑ Former Nepean Reeve W.G. Cummings Passes Ottawa Citizen, September 30, 1959
Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy - MVP in the IRFU or CFL Eastern Conference (prior to 1973)

Before re-purposing in 1973 the trophy was awarded to the player who best exemplified skill, sportsmanship, and courage in the IRFU or the CFL East

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