Thunderbirds had last topped weekly poll in 1999.
May 10-14, 2016 West 29, East 14 Highlights from the 2016 CIS East-West Bowl week.
MONTREAL (CIS) – Over 80 CIS football standouts tested their abilities at the combine for East-West Bowl participating players which took place Wednesday morning at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard, Que.
OTTAWA (CIS) – Philippe Gagnon, an offensive lineman from Laval University, was the first CIS player selected in the 2016 CFL Canadian Draft when the Montreal Alouettes called his name at No. 2, on Tuesday evening.
OTTAWA (CIS) – The winners of the 24th BLG Awards as CIS female and male athletes of the year will be announced on Monday, May 2nd at the Martha Cohen Theatre in Calgary. The ceremony will air nationally later in May on Sportsnet.
OTTAWA (CIS) – David Onyemata, a defensive lineman from the University of Manitoba, could become later this week the 12th player in CIS history to be selected in the National Football League draft.
OTTAWA (CIS) – David Onyemata, a defensive lineman from the University of Manitoba, tops the third and final prospect list released by the CFL’s Scouting Bureau in advance of the league’s 2016 Canadian Draft.
Just five years after watching his first football game, University of Manitoba Bisons defensive lineman David Onyemata is garnering plenty of attention from CFL and NFL scouts. Chris Zuk reports on the Nigerian-born Onyemata, who will suit up in the East-West Shrine Game on Saturday, January 23, as he looks to continue his meteoric rise on the gridiron.
