Bob Cosgrove was an offensive lineman in the

Ontario Rugby Football Union The Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) was an early amateur Canadian football league comprising teams in the Canadian province of Ontario. The ORFU was founded on Saturday, January 6, 1883 and in 1903 became the first major competition to adopt th ...

. A graduate of the

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Cosgrove began his football career in the WIFU with the Calgary Bronks. He turned professional in the east with

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in 1941, but moved to the ORFU the next season with the

Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers The Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers were a Canadian football team based in Toronto, Ontario and a member of the Ontario Rugby Football Union, a league that preceded the Canadian Football League. Spanning three decades, they appeared in four Grey Cup ...

where he was an all-star. Perhaps his best season was 1943 with the wartime

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, when he was again an all-star and winner of the Imperial Oil Trophy as the ORFU most valuable player. Cosgrove later played for several Toronto teams: the Beachers, the

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, the Beachers again when they merged with the Indians, and finally another year with the Argos (he played 13 regular season and 2 playoff games with the Boatmen in his two years).Toronto Argonauts 2008 Media Guide

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