Neil Lumsden

Neil Lumsden

No. 32
Date of birth	(1952-12-19) December 19, 1952
Place of birth	London, Ontario
Career information
Status	Retired
CFL status	National
Position(s)	FB/RB
University	Ottawa Gee-Gees
CFL draft	1976 / Round: Territorial Protection
Drafted by	Toronto Argonauts
Career history
As administrator
1996-1999	Hamilton Tiger-Cats
As player
1976–1978	Toronto Argonauts
1978–1979	Hamilton Tiger-Cats
1980–1985	Edmonton Eskimos
Career highlights and awards
Grey Cup champion (1980, 1981, 1982)
Awards	1976 Frank M. Gibson Trophy 1981 Dick Suderman Trophy
Records	410 points CIS career 148 points in a CIS season (1975)
Career stats
Canadian Football Hall of Fame, 2014

Neil Lumsden (born December 19, 1952 in London, Ontario) is a former Canadian Football League player who played mostly as a fullback and also as a running back for the Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Edmonton Eskimos from 1976 to 1985.

Early life

He played high school football at Northern Secondary School and graduated from Crescent School in Toronto.

Football career

Some of his career highlights include the Vanier Cup with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in 1975, being the eastern conference nominee for Most Outstanding Rookie in 1976, losing out to John Sciarra of the BC Lions, and winning three Grey Cup Championships with Edmonton Eskimos from 1980 to 1982, and again being a Grey Cup winner in 1999 as General Manager of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In the 1981 Grey Cup game Lumsden with 8 receptions for 91 yards plus a carry for 2 yards was selected as the Outstanding Canadian being awarded with the Dick Suderman Trophy.

In ten seasons Lumsden played in 141 regular season games and carried the ball 767 times for 3755 yards and with 36 touchdowns. He also had 180 receptions for 1729 yards and 15 more touchdowns. Several times during his career he was called on to fill in as a placekicker and punter.

Post-CFL career

Lumsden worked briefly in cycling when he was appointed COO of the Hamilton, Ontario, UCI Road World Championships in 2003. This was only the fourth time the road cycling world championships had taken place outside Europe.

Lumsden now heads Drive Marketing, a sports marketing firm and a division of OK&D Marketing Group of Burlington, Ontario.

Lumsden acted as Honorary Chairman of the 2008 Desjardins Vanier Cup in Hamilton, Ontario.

In 2014, he was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

Personal life

His son is Jesse Lumsden was also a CFL football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos, and Calgary Stampeders before retiring in 2011. He is now a member of the Canadian Olympic Bobsled Team.

In 2015, he and his daughter, Kristin Lumsden, a makeup artist/skincare specialist living and working in Toronto, competed in the third season of The Amazing Race Canada. In legs 1-6, they placed in 10th, 6th, 1st, 6th, 7th, and 6th. In leg 7, they placed in 7th and were eliminated from the race.

References

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Dale Potter	Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian 1981	Succeeded by Dave Fennell