Two former Bombers, International DB Vince Phason and National OT Cornel Piper, died just a day apart this week.

Phason, a defensive back who played with the Bombers from 1976-82 and was a CFL All-Star in 1982 and the club’s Most Outstanding Defensive Player in 1978, had been in a Denver hospital when he died. Phason was in a car accident in 1988 that left him paralyzed from the chest down, but stayed active in the game for years as a volunteer assistant coach with a high school in Denver.
https://www.bluebombers.com/2018/09/...w-september-5/


Offensive Tackle: 1957-67
Division All-Star: 1960, 1961
Bud Grant long raved about the Canadians that were the backbone of the team’s Glory Years in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Cornel Piper was among those homegrowns. He played his junior ball with the Winnipeg Rods and after joining the Bombers in 1957, was a mainstay on the club’s four championships over the next five years.
https://www.bluebombers.com/2017/04/25/cornel-piper/