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 . University football career ( 1964 - 1967 ) . 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 . CIS records . 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 ) . Professional football career ( 1968 - 1972 ) . Brule was selected fourth overall in the first round of the Canadian Football League ’ s 1968 amateur draft by the Ottawa Rough Riders . Brule became the property of the Blue Bombers and played both fullback and defensive back for Winnipeg from 1968 to 1971 . He enjoyed his most productive season offensively in his rookie year , when he rushed for 32 yards and one touchdown on 13 carries and caught five passes for 43 yards . Defensively , Brule ’ s best season was 1970 , when he had nine interceptions to rank third in the West and earn a Western Conference All - Star selection at defensive back . Brule had another four interceptions in 1971 with Winnipeg before moving to the Montreal Alouettes for his final season in 1972 . With Montreal , Brule had two more interceptions to raise his career total to 16 . Besides playing fullback and defensive back , Brule was also used as a punt returner and kick returner , averaging over seven yards per punt return for his career . His best season returning punts was 1969 when he finished second in the Western Conference with 498 yards . Career Honors . Brule was inducted into the St . Francis Xavier University Sports Hall of Fame in 1988 . He was inducted into the Nova Scotia Football Hall of Fame in 2009 . Personal . Paul Brule is the father of journalist , entrepreneur and magazine publisher Jayson Tyler Brule ( born 1968 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) .