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1978 SCHENLEY AWARDS

Gabriel a two time winner

TORONTO (CP) — Tony
Gabriel, who fearlessly
catches passes amid crowds
of defenders, broke down in
tears Thursday night when
he claimed the top two
outstanding player awards
in the Canadian Football

League.

Gabriel, the 29-year-old
Ottawa Rough Riders tight
end, was so avercome hy
emotion he was unable to
speak after he was named
the CFL's outstanding

player.

Minutes earlier he was
named the outstanding
Canadian and, in @ short
acceptance speech, gave
thanks to his Ottawa team-
mates and coaches. But
when he was announced as
the league’s top player, all
he was able to blurt out was:
“This is just too much for
Tom, ‘you're my

won the outstanding player
award in 1974 and this time
finished as the runner-up to
Gabriel:

It was the third year in a
row Gabriel, a Burlington,
Ont., native, has won the
outstanding Canadian
award. This time he was
selected over rookie receiver
Joe Poplawski of Winnipeg
Blue Bombers,

“I hear they’re going to
name it the Tony Gabriel
award,”’ Poplawski joked
when be accepted his runner-
up prize.

Gabriel led Eastern
Conference pass receivers
with 67 catche: for 1,070
yards, the fourt: year in a
row he had tut:: gains of
more than 1,000 yards.

The 35-year-old © “!kinson,
aGrey Bull, Wy.,° ‘ive, led
the Eskimos to first place in
the WFC with a 10-4-2 record

_ and led conference passers
with a .606 completion
percentage. .

Gabriel joins former Ot-
tawa quarterback Russ
Jackson in having won the
outstanding Canadian player
award four times,

wulinggia in ategari out-
sta yer ca es in
voting by sporta writers and
broadcasters in the nine CFL
cities;

Rookie—Poplawski, the ?1-
year-old flanker who led the
league with 75 passes caught
for 998 yards, chosen over
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
from University of Goorgia’
from Univa 0 :

Offensive lineman—Jim
Coode, Ottawa Rough Riders
tackle, chosen over British
Columbia Lions centre Al
Wilson who won the award in
1977 and was runner-up in
1978.

Defensive player—
Edmonton tackle Dave
Fennel], who carries the
nickname Dr. Death as
leader of the fierce Eskimos
front four, selected over
Montreal safety Randy

-Rhino who topped the
league's punt returners with
668 yards on 76 carries this

season. . .

The outstanding player re-
ceived a savings bond for
$3,000 while the runner-up
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Canadian player, offensive
lineman and defensive
player recelved $2,000 bonds
and the rookie $1,500.
Runners-up apart from the
outstanding player category
received $500 each.

The awards were spon-
sored by Canadian Schenley
Distilleries Ltd.

Gabriel and Wilson were
the only 1977 winners among
this year’s nominees. Other
winners last year were
Hamilton running back
Jimmy Edwards, the out-
standing player; Edmonton
linebacker Dan Kepley, the
outstanding defensive
player, and B.C. recelver
Leon Bright, the outstanding
rookle,

Gabriel previously won the
Canadian player award in
1977, 1976 and 1974. He also is
the first Canadian to win i
outstanding player iy.
since Jackson captured the
award in 1969,

The sure-handed Ottawa
tight end has led EFC
receivers five years in a row
arc was named to the CFL
a! ctarteam in 1977, 1976,

awed, 1974 and 1972,

Gabriel played college ball
at Syracuse, N.Y., and
started his pro career with
Hamilton Ticats in 1971, He
played out his contract with
Hamilton and signed with
Ottawa in 1975.

Since then, the six-foot-
four, 210-pound tight end has
become the favorite target
for Ottawa quarterbacks
despite the fact he often
crawedouble coverage by

pos fences, en,
the key to his success is his
ability to complete a
reception in the middle of a
crowd of defendere.-

Gabriel caught 11 touch-
down passes this season,
helping the Riders to finish

first in the EFC with an 115

record.
Wi
177 pounds, is completing his

seventh season with the f:

Eskimos and 10th in the
league. He started in the
CFL in 1967 with Toronto
Argonauts, was traded to

B.C. Lions in 1972 and the §

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The Herald, Friday, November 24, 1978, Page 7

It’s Grey Cup‘7

Esks still plotting as game
time is looming ever closer

TORONTO (CP) — Head
coach Hugh Campbell said
Thursday he's still for-
mulating Edmonton
Eskimos strategy for Sun-
day's Grey Cup clash with
Montreal Alouettes, a task
delayed by the travel and
restrictions involved in
Canada's pro football
championship.

Although he hasn't
managed to get down io the
fine points yei, Campbell

told a coaches’ news con- .

ference that the Eskimos
will have to find a way to
nullify Montreal's team

spirit and the Alouettes’
Many offensive weapons,

“They have great esprit-
decorp. They seem tobe able
ta suck ‘em up when things
get tough,” he said of the
Alouettes, who will be
playing the Eskimos for the
fourth time in the last five
Grey Cup games.

“They can do a variety of
things offensively, par-
ticularly with a quarterback
who can run.” He said the
Alouettes also had a good
defence and special teams
that rate at the top in the
Canadian Football League.

“It’s going to be a great
football game.”

Montreal head coach Joe
Scannella described the Es-
kimos as a tough, close-knit
team with “tremendous
depth, great receivers and a
brilliant quarterback"’ in
Tom Wilkinson.

Wilkinson will start but
Campbell said there’s a
possibility that rookle
Warren Moon may see some
action,

“Warren does a few
that Tom doesn’t do, and it
doesn't hurt to provide a
little bit of variety for the

defence to worry about,” He
said he'll make the deciaion
on whether to switch
quarterbacks on instinct,
“like in baseball when a
manager has to decide when
a pitcher comes out,”

Campbell intends to go
with the same lineup that

beat Calgary Stampeders 26- .

13 in the Western Conference
final last Saturday.

He's not worried about
field conditions or the

weather, although the
forecast for Sunday is windy
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