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Pages in category "Defunct Canadian Football League teams" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Canadian Football League (CFL; French: Ligue canadienne de football [liɡ kanadjɛn də futbol], LCF) is a professional Canadian football league in Canada. It comprises nine teams divided into two divisions, with four teams in the East Division and five in the West Division. The CFL is the highest professional level of Canadian football in ...
The Canadian Football League (CFL), ... Iowa, presumably because both teams had a number of former University of Iowa stars, including Willie Mitchell, who scored the ...
Merged with the All-America Football Conference (1946-1949) and with the American Football League (1960–69) Canadian Football League (CFL), 1958– Formed from Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (1909) and Western Interprovincial Football Union (1936). Grey Cup Canadian Football Championships since 1909. Minor:
Speros's approach to building the team was simple. He knew Canadian football was very different from the American game, so he made a point of hiring personnel and players with CFL experience. In contrast, the other American CFL teams stocked their rosters with former NFL players, former college football players, and locally-known players.
For the sake of simplicity, this list will only focus on national (non-regional, non-National Football League) outdoor (i.e., not arena football or leagues with similar rules) North American football teams not covered in other lists; i.e., the All-America Football Conference, the first three universally recognized as major incarnations of the American Football League, Continental Football ...
The Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club, unaffiliated with the current team, was an early Canadian football-rugby union team based in Edmonton. The team played its first organized games with the formation of the Alberta Rugby Football League in 1895. In 1908 the name Esquimaux was adopted. [10]
After the merger of the Big Four and WIFU, the first 29 CFL seasons each consisted of nine teams playing in the same nine cities. [1] In 1961, inter-conference play began during the regular season. Until 1973, Western Canadian teams played 16 games, while Eastern Canadian teams played 14 games.