Canadian Football League - Early history

The Canadian Football League (CFL; French: Ligue canadienne de football) is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football. It is considered to be the highest level of play in Canadian football. The league's top trophy, the Grey Cup, was donated by Governor General Earl Grey in 1909 to the team winning the Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada. Both the trophy and the championship game have become known as the Grey Cup. Since 1954, when the Ontario Rugby Football Union stopp ...

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• Canadian Football League - Early history
• Canadian Football League - Attempts at expansion into the United States
• Canadian Football League - Popularity
• Canadian Football League - CFL vs. NFL Comparisons
• Canadian Football League - Format
• Canadian Football League - Teams
• Canadian Football League - Defunct teams
• Canadian Football League - CFL Commissioners/Presidents

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Canadian Football League - Early history. The first Canadian football teams played under the auspices of the Canadian Rugby Football Union (CRFU), founded in 1884. However this union quickly folded and was reorganized as the Canadian Rugby Union in 1892. The CRU was an umbrella organization that several leagues were part of. From the 1930s to the 1950s the two senior leagues of the CRU (the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union) gradually evolved from amateur to profe ...

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Canadian Football League, Canadian Football League - History, Canadian Football League - Early history, Canadian Football League - Attempts at expansion into the United States, Canadian Football League - Popularity, Canadian Football League - CFL vs. NFL Comparisons, Canadian Football League - Format, Canadian Football League - Teams, Canadian Football League - Defunct teams, Canadian Football League - CFL Commissioners/Presidents

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League training camps open in May, with regular season games beginning by late June and finishing by early November. The current season format has each team playing 18 games over this 20 week span (thus giving each team at least 2 bye weeks, while one team must play 2 games in one week at some point during the schedule, because of the odd number of teams). Teams are divided into 2 divisions, with 4 teams in the East and 5 in the West. Each team plays a home game and an away game against every other team ...

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Canadian Football League, Canadian Football League - History, Canadian Football League - Early history, Canadian Football League - Attempts at expansion into the United States, Canadian Football League - Popularity, Canadian Football League - CFL vs. NFL Comparisons, Canadian Football League - Format, Canadian Football League - Teams, Canadian Football League - Defunct teams, Canadian Football League - CFL Commissioners/Presidents

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In the days when sports teams were financed almost entirely by ticket sales the two leagues were on equal footing and the CFL could sign top U.S. college football stars such as Johnny Rodgers and Joe Theismann. In fact, during the 1950's and 1960's exhibition games were played between CFL and NFL/AFL teams using a mixture of rules. The last such exhibition game saw the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat the AFL's Buffalo Bills. However, since the 1970s the advent of television revenue has allowed the NFL to far outspend the CFL. The CFL also sets a ...

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Canadian Football League, Canadian Football League - History, Canadian Football League - Early history, Canadian Football League - Attempts at expansion into the United States, Canadian Football League - Popularity, Canadian Football League - CFL vs. NFL Comparisons, Canadian Football League - Format, Canadian Football League - Teams, Canadian Football League - Defunct teams, Canadian Football League - CFL Commissioners/Presidents

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Canadian Football League - Defunct teams. Atlantic Schooners - never played a game Baltimore Stallions Birmingham Barracudas Las Vegas Posse Memphis Mad Dogs Montreal Concordes Ottawa Rough Riders San Antonio Texans Sacramento Gold Miners Shreveport Pirates ...

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Canadian Football League, Canadian Football League - History, Canadian Football League - Early history, Canadian Football League - Attempts at expansion into the United States, Canadian Football League - Popularity, Canadian Football League - CFL vs. NFL Comparisons, Canadian Football League - Format, Canadian Football League - Teams, Canadian Football League - Defunct teams, Canadian Football League - CFL Commissioners/Presidents

Read more here: » Canadian Football League: Encyclopedia II - Canadian Football League - Teams