Andy Tommy Sr.

PLAYING CAREER
OTTAWA RANGERS INTERMEDIATES  1931-1932
OTTAWA ROUGH RIDERS   1933-1941, 1946-1947
TORONTO ARGONAUTS   1945

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-EASTERN HALFBACK   1936
ALL-EASTERN FLYING WING   1940
JEFF RUSSEL MEMORIAL TROPHY  1940

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION   1936, 1939, 1940, 1945,
GREY CUP WINNING TEAMS   1940, 1945

THE VERY FIRST TIME ANDREW TOMMY SR. ATTENDED A RUGBY FOOTBALL GAME, HE ENDED UP BEING ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS. FROM THIS HUMBLE BEGINNING, HE WOULD GO ON TO STAR IN THE INTERPROVINCIAL RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION.

IN A GAME AGAINST TORONTO OCTOBER 14, 1933 TOMMY PICKED UP A FUMBLE BEHIND HIS OWN GOAL LINE AND RAN 120 YARDS FOR A TOUCHDOWN. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE 1940 OTTAWA SQUAD WHICH WON THE GREY CUP IN THE ONLY TWO-GAME CHAMPIONSHIP EVER HELD. TOMMY ALSO PLAYED SIX GAMES WITH THE ARGONAUTS IN 1945, INCLUDING THE GREY CUP GAME WHICH WAS THE LAST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYED ONLY BY CANADIAN PLAYERS.

ANDY TOMMY IS A MEMBER OF THE NEW BRUNSWICK SPORTS HALL OF FAME, THE OTTAWA SPORTS HALL OF FAME AND CANADA'S SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

INDUCTED 1989 - PLAYER

Class of 1989 Jerry Keeling, Karl Slocomb, Dave Thelen, Ted Urness