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The 1969 Ottawa Rough Riders finished in first place in the Eastern Conference with an 11–3 record and won the Grey Cup, repeating as Grey Cup Champions.Russ Jackson retired from the Canadian Football League after this game, having won three Grey Cup championships.
Every year in the decade, Jackson led the Rough Riders to the playoffs. From 1963 to 1969, he was the Eastern Division Passing Leader. ... 1961 Ottawa Rough Riders ...
57th Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League's championship game, was played November 30, 1969, and the Ottawa Rough Riders defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders 29–11 before 33,172 fans at Montreal's Autostade. It was the first time since 1931, a break of 38 years, that the CFL title match would be played in Montreal. [1]
This is an incomplete list of seasons competed by the Ottawa Rough Riders, a Canadian Football League team. While the team was founded in 1876, it did not join the CFL until the later was founded in 1958. The franchise folded in 1996 due to poor management and would not see another team until the Ottawa Renegades franchise.
Ottawa Rough Riders in Montreal in 1905. The Ottawa Football Club was organized on Wednesday, September 20, 1876, where they won the first game they played on September 23 against the Aylmer Club at Jacques Cartier Square. The team's colours were cerise, grey, and navy blue. The club adopted the name Ottawa Rough Riders on Friday, September 9 ...
The 1969 Grey Cup game started play on a Sunday for the first time in CFL history; all Grey Cup games since (except for 1970) have been played on a Sunday. (The CFL did play a Grey Cup game on Sunday before, in 1962, when the original Saturday Grey Cup game was delayed due to heavy fog that caused the final 9 minutes and 28 seconds to be played the following day.)
Thomas Pullen (born January 3, 1945) is a former American football and Canadian football player. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1965 to 1967. A native of Ottawa, Ontario, he also played professional football in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Rough Riders (1968–1969, 1972–1974), the Montreal Alouettes (1970–1971), and the Toronto Argonauts (1975).
14 – Vic Washington – 1969; 14 – Art Green – 1975; 14 – Tony Gabriel – 1976; ... Ottawa Rough Riders Records CFL Record Book 2009 CFL website