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Alouettes Beat the Rough Riders 1-0 in Lowest Scoring Game in CFL History

Most football fans like a lot of scoring. You really can’t beat seeing two teams going back and forth and lighting up the scoreboard. Of course, a good defensive matchup can still make for some entert…

Canadian Football History·6d ago·3 min read

Canadian Football’s Quirky Playoffs, Part II: No Dominion Championship in 1885, An All-Star Game Instead

This is the second in an ongoing series of articles looking back at some of Canadian football’s rather quirky playoff systems used over the years. A previous article examined how tie schedules and cha…

Canadian Football History·Jun 3·4 min read

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CFL preseason: There must be a better way, for fans’ sake (1985)

The 2026 CFL preseason is underway with a full slate of games this weekend. I'm always happy to have football back - even if the games don't really matter much to us fans. It's safe to say that the co…

Canadian Football History·May 22·2 min read

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Canadian Football’s Quirky Playoffs, Part I: Tie Schedules and Challenge Cups in 1884

With the recent announcement that the CFL is changing its playoff format in 2027, I thought it would be an interesting learning experience to revisit some of the old playoff systems used in Canadian f…

Canadian Football History·May 13·5 min read

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Robokicker Dave Ridgway Retires

On April 24, 1996, one of the most prolific kickers to play the Canadian game announced his retirement. Dave Ridgway played every game throughout his 14-year career in the Canadian Football League wit…

Canadian Football History·Apr 24·6 min read

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Calgary Tigers First Winners of the Hugo Ross Trophy

On October 21, 1911, representatives from the Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba rugby football unions met at the King’s Hotel in Regina to form the Western Canada Rugby Football Union. The new leagu…

Canadian Football History·Apr 9·3 min read

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Tigers Quit the Big Four

In the Spring of 1948, the Hamilton Tigers shocked the Canadian football world when they announced their withdrawal from the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union. A founding member of the league also …

Canadian Football History·Apr 1·5 min read

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The CFL’s Early Websites

At high school in the mid 1990s we were asked to use a new technology called the "World Wide Web” for a research project. Yours truly balked and wanted to stick with the tried-and-true volumes of Ency…

Canadian Football History·Mar 26·5 min read

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1955 East-West Game a Success

In the 1950s, the Shriners organization sponsored an East-West all-star game featuring the best players of Canadian football. The game was played the week after the Grey Cup between all-stars from the…

Canadian Football History·Mar 11·3 min read

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CFL Ends U.S. Expansion, Retreats Back to Canada

On Friday February 2, 1996, the Canadian Football League officially ended its American expansion efforts. During the CFL’s annual winter meetings, the league announced that the Birmingham Barracudas, …

Canadian Football History·Mar 5·4 min read

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Pirate Ball Comes to the CFL

Of all the U.S. cities that the CFL awarded teams to as part of its American expansion in the 1990s, Shreveport had to be the most obscure choice. Whereas the other cities had teams in the defunct Wor…

Canadian Football History·Feb 27·7 min read

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A Fan Remembers the Baltimore Stallions

Baltimore Stallions logo (SportsLogos.Net) Doug Phillips was just five years old when his father took him to his first football game at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. He got to see the Johnn…

Canadian Football History·Feb 11·6 min read

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CFL Adds More American Teams

After the Sacramento Gold Miners joined the Canadian Football League in 1993 and despite some scepticism and opposition, the league sought to grow its footprint in the United States with additional te…

Canadian Football History·Feb 4·6 min read

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