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Cornish named a finalist for Most Outstanding Player

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Jon Cornish (Wikimedia Commons)

According to the Canadian Press, Calgary Stampeders’ running back Jon Cornish has been nominated for the Canadian Football League’s most outstanding player award.

Cornish, who will represent the Western Division, led the Canadian Football League this season with 1457 rushing yards and tied Kory Sheets of the Saskatchewan Roughriders for the CFL lead in rushing touchdowns with 11. Cornish also set a record for most rushing yards in a season by a Canadian and became the first Canadian to lead the CFL in rushing yards since Orville Lee of the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1988.

Cornish, a native of New Westminster, British Columbia, is up against Toronto Argonauts wide receiver Chad Owens, who set a CFL single season record for most all-purpose yards in 2012.

The last Calgary Stampeder to win the most outstanding player award was quarterback Henry Burris in 2010.

Cornish has also been nominated for top Canadian, where he is up against Montreal Alouette linebacker Shea Emery of Richmond, British Columbia.

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Lulay named CFL MVP & Messam named Top Canadian

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Travis Lulay (Wikimedia Commons)

The Canadian Football League handed out its annual awards last night, and Travis Lulay, the quarterback of the British Columbia Lions, was named the Most Valuable Player.

Lulay led the CFL with 32 touchdown passes. Even though he had fewer passing yards to Anthony Calvillo of the Montreal Alouettes (5251 to 4815), and a lower passer rating (95.8 to 98.2 for Calvillo and 99.3 to Ricky Ray of the Edmonton Eskimos), Lulay led the Lions to a 11-7 record, best in the CFL, and a dominating 43-1 win over the Alouettes in the final week of the regular season.

An Edmonton Eskimo also received some hardware Thursday night in Vancouver. Running back Jerome Messam was named Top Canadian after becoming the first Canadian since 2000 to run for 1,000 yards. Messam was third in rushing with 1,057 yards.

Other award winners were Josh Bourke of the Montreal Alouettes who was named the most outstanding lineman, Jovon Johnson of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers who was named the most outstanding defensive player, kicker Paul McCallum of the British Columbia Lions who was named the most outstanding special teams player, wide receiver Chris Williams of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats who was named the most outstanding rookie.

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Eskimos finalists for CFL Awards

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

A pair of Edmonton Eskimos have been named finalists for the Canadian Football League Awards.

Running back Jerome Messam has been named a finalist for the Top Canadian and linebacker J.C. Sherritt has been named a finalist for the Top Rookie in the CFL this season.

Messam, from Brampton, Ontario, finished third in the Canadian Football League this season with 1,057 rushing yards, behind Brandon Whitaker of the Montreal Alouettes (1378) and Cory Boyd of the Toronto Argonauts (1141). Messam became the first Canadian running back since Sean Millington of the British Columbia Lions in 2000 to rush for 1,000 yards in one season.

Messam will be favoured against Sean Whyte of Surrey, British Columbia– the kicker for the Montreal Alouettes.

Sherritt had 72 tackles and three sacks for the Eskimos. He’ll be the underdog against Hamilton Tiger Cats’ wide receiver Chris Williams, who led his team with 1,064 receiving yards.

Following are the other nominees with my favourites in bold:

Most Outstanding Player– QB Anthony Calvillo–Montreal Alouettes vs. QB Travis Lulay–British Columbia Lions

Most Outstanding Defensive Player–DB Jovon Johnson–Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs. LB Jerrell Freeman–Saskatchewan Roughriders

Best Special Teams Player–KR Chad Owens–Toronto Argonauts vs. K Paul McCallum–British Columbia Lions

Best Offensive Lineman–OT Josh Bourke–Montreal Alouettes vs. OL Jovan Olafioye–British Columbia Lions 

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