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Bruce Frederick Cummings, was an award-winning, all-star and Grey Cup champion Canadian football player with the Ottawa Rough Riders, playing from 1950 to 53.
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Dave West was a Canadian football player who played for the Toronto Argonauts, Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with Eskimos in 1954 and 1955, and with the Rough Riders in 1960. He attended the University of Tulsa. West retired to Coquitlam, British Columbia and was working at a school library in 1984.
Harold D. Krebs was a Canadian football player who played for the Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes and Calgary Stampeders. He won the Grey Cup with the Eskimos in 1956. He played junior football previously for the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen and London Lords. His son, Tom Krebs also played for the Edmonton Eskimos in the 1980s. He was later working in the real estate investment business in Calgary. In 1969, Krebs filed a lawsuit against the Stampeders, alleging that he was forced to play games while injured. He died on June 3, 2019.
William Gerald Lorne MacTaggart was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He won the Grey Cup with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1953. He previously attended and played football and basketball at McMaster University. MacTaggart later played with the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen in the ORFU. In 1989, he was inducted into the McMaster Maurauders Hall of Fame. He died from heart failure in 2017.
Robert A. Garside was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1953 and retired in 1955 due to injury. He previously played football at and attended the University of Toronto. In 1957, he became the head coach of the Brantford Tiger-Cat Bees in the Ontario Rugby Football Union after serving as an assistant the prior year.
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