Winnipeg Football Club Hall of Famers:

• Cliff Roseborough (1985)

Bomber Team Awards

• Most Outstanding Rookie Player – Khalil Bass, 2015

He Wore It Well:

Cliff Roseborough HB, FW, QB, G 1934-42

A Winnipeg product, Roseborough played his high school and then junior ball in Saskatoon at Bedford Road Collegiate and then the Hilltops and began his pro football career with the Regina Roughriders in 1932. He came to Winnipeg in 1934 and was part of three Grey Cup championship teams in 1935, 1939 and 1941.

Roseborough had been active during his playing days as an official at the high school and junior levels and helped found the Manitoba Officials Association, later serving as its president on five different occasions between 1936-50. Roseborough officiated in 12 Grey Cups, the first referee from Western Canada to do so, and later served as president of the Blue Bombers Alumni Association.

Notable:

Pierre-Luc Labbé was one of the top players in Canadian college football when the Bombers selected him in the sixth-round of the 2008 CFL Draft. He was the Quebec Conference’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2005 and a three-time all-star while at Sherbrooke. Thinking he should have been selected higher and not the second-last pick in the whole draft, he wore jersey #47 – the place he was chosen by the Bombers – as motivation.