Bruce Cummings

This article is about the Canadian football player. For the English diarist, see W. N. P. Barbellion.

For the Korean War historian, see Bruce Cumings.

Bruce Frederick Cummings,^[1] (March 1927 – June 16, 1991) was an all-star and Grey Cup champion Canadian football player with the Ottawa Rough Riders, playing from 1950 to 53.^[2][3]

Bruce Cummings

Profile
Position	Halfback
Personal information
Born	March 1927 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died	June 16, 1991 (aged 64) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Career information
College	University of Toronto
Career history
1950–53	Ottawa Rough Riders
Awards and highlights
Grey Cup champion (1951) Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy (1951) CFL All-Star (1951)

Born in Ottawa and a star football player at the University of Toronto,^[4] 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.^[5][6]

His father, W. Garfield Cummings, was a local politician and former Ottawa footballer.^[7] Bruce Cummings died at the age of 64 in 1991 following a heart attack.^[8][9]