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Longest kickoff Prior to 2022 rule change. 100 – Paul Osbaldiston at Saskatchewan Roughriders, July 26, 1991; 100 – Paul McCallum at Sacramento Gold Miners, September 2, 1994; Since 2022 rule change. 100 – many players, most by Boris Bede (four times) Highest kickoff average, career (Minimum 150 attempts) 69.4 – Boris Bede (2015–2024)
In Canadian football, each team has two timeouts per game, but in the CFL, a team cannot use both in the last three minutes of the game. Canadian football has a three-minute whereas American football has a two-minute warning. In both codes, the respective warning amounts to an extra time-out, with the clock being stopped either at the requisite ...
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 owners, for their part, refused to make any major changes to the rules, the schedule, or the name of the league; the only concession they made was to allow smaller field sizes in American stadiums that could not fit a regulation CFL field. Agreement on rules and schedules might have been reached had the league achieved economic ...
The Burnside rules were a set of rules that transformed Canadian football from a rugby-style game to the gridiron-style game it has remained ever since. The rules were first adopted by the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1903 , and were named after John Thrift Meldrum Burnside, captain of the University of Toronto football team (although he did ...
In June 2010, the CFLPA and the CFL announced the details of a new four-year collective bargaining agreement. [3] The CFL's annual John Agro Special Teams Award, voted on by the players, is named for CFLPA co-founder and long-time legal counsel John Agro, QC. On April 18, 2024, the CFLPA affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress. [4]
CIRFU and IRFU adopted a four-yard Interference rule while the CRU opted for three yards of Interference. ARFU played games with 12 players per side and introduced the snap-back. The reduction in the number of players was done for monetary reasons as train rates were high after World War I. The CRU would make the same changes in 1921.
The 2012 CFL season was the 59th season of modern-day Canadian football. Officially, it was the 55th season for the Canadian Football League . The pre-season began on June 13, 2012, and the regular season started on June 29, 2012. [ 1 ]