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. Born in Ottawa and a star football player at the University of Toronto, 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. His father, W. Garfield Cummings, was a local politician and former Ottawa footballer.