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By Stampeders.com Staff
For the third consecutive season, Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish is the Canadian Football League’s Most Outstanding Canadian. Cornish was honoured at the CFL awards show at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
Cornish is the first player to win the Most Outstanding Canadian award three years in a row since Ottawa’s Tony Gabriel (1976-78).
The award winners are determined through a vote by the Football Reporters of Canada and CFL head coaches.
Cornish won his third consecutive league rushing title in 2014 despite playing in just nine of 18 regular-season contests. He had 1,082 yards on 139 rushes, an average of 7.8 yards per carry. Cornish cracked the 100-yard mark in six of his nine games including a season-high 174 yards against Toronto on Sept. 13. Cornish had five rushing touchdowns this season as well as 18 receptions for 133 yards and one score. He was named to the West Division all-star team for a fourth consecutive season.
Cornish received eight CFL player of the week awards during the 2014 regular season — offensive player of the week three times and top Canadian on five occasions — and was the league’s offensive player and Canadian of the month for September. Cornish joined Johnny Bright (three in a row from 1957-59), George Reed (five straight from 1965-69) and Pringle (four in a row from 1997-2000) as the only CFLers to win at least three straight rushing titles.