New Westminster's Jon Cornish is just 49 yards shy of tying a long-standing All-Canadian pro football rushing mark.
The St. Thomas More product and former provincial high school player of the year rushed for 86 yards in the Calgary Stampeders' 41-21 victory over the B.C. Lions in a CFL regular season game last weekend.
Cornish's yardage last week gave him 1,388 total yards this season.
Cornish needs just 50 yards in his final league game against the Edmonton Eskimos to surpass the 56-year-old record set by the China Clipper Normie Kwong in 1956.
Kwong won three consecutive Grey Cups with Edmonton from 1954 to '56. He was a four-time Western all-star and was twice named the league's outstanding Canadian.
Kwong rushed for four 1,000-yard seasons and garnered close to 10,000 yards on the ground in his 13-year pro career.
Cornish, in his sixth season with the Stamps, went over the 1,000-yard mark for the first time this year.
In comparison, Kwong averaged 6.20 yards per carry and scored five touchdowns when he set the rushing mark in 1956.
To date, Cornish is averaging 5.7 yards a carry and has 11 TDs.
Cornish earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Kansas, where he set an all-time single-season rushing record of 1,457 yards.
In 2006, Cornish also earned Big 12 first team honours, finishing first in the conference in rushing and ninth in NCAA Division I football.
Calgary plays Edmonton this Friday on TSN.
