Paul Brule

Paul Brule (born February 21, 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former football player who starred at St. Francis Xavier University in the 1960s before playing professionally in the Canadian Football League.

Brule played fullback and defensive halfback at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada from 1964 to 1967.

In 1966 he set a Canadian university football record with 1103 yards rushing and became the first player in Canadian Interuniversity Sport history to score 20 touchdowns in a season. He also set a CIS season record with 120 points scored. That season the St. Xavier X-Men won the Vanier Cup Trophy as Canada’s top university football team by beating Waterloo Lutheran University (now known as Wifred Laurier University) 40-14 in the Canadian College Bowl at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

Brule did not win another championship in 1967, but his senior year at St. Francis Xavier was perhaps his finest. He broke his own record for touchdowns in a season with 25. This included 21 rushing touchdowns, two receiving touchdowns, one punt return touchdown and one interception return touchdown. This record still stands as of the beginning of the 2010 CIS season. Brule’s 150 points in the 1967 season were also a new Canadian record. Remarkably, eight of Brule’s touchdowns in 1967 came in a single game. On October 20, 1967, Brule scored seven rushing touchdowns and one punt return touchdown against Dalhousie University. This record still stands, as does his record of 48 points in a single game. He finished his four-year university career with 51 all-purpose touchdowns, a record that still stands as of the beginning of the 2010 CIS season.

When Brule graduated after the 1967 season, he held the records for most rushing yards in a season (1103), most touchdowns in a game (8), most touchdowns in a season (25), most touchdowns in a career (51), most points in a season (150) and most points in a career (306).

Brule was selected fourth overall in the first round of the Canadian Football League’s 1968 amateur draft by the Ottawa Rough Riders.

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