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CFL's Most Outstanding Lineman Award
The Most Outstanding Lineman Award was an award annually given to the best defensive player or offensive lineman in the Canadian Football League from the year 1955 to 1973. By the 1974 season, the league decided to make two separate awards for both defensive players and offensive linemen. CFL's Most Outstanding Lineman Award winners (1955-1973) *1973 - Ray Nettles (LB), British Columbia Lions *1972 - John Helton (DT), Calgary Stampeders *1971 - Wayne Harris (LB), Calgary Stampeders *1970 - Wayne Harris (LB), Calgary Stampeders *1969 - John LaGrone (DT), Edmonton Eskimos *1968 - Ken Lehmann (LB), Ottawa Rough Riders *1967 - Ed McQuarters (DT), Saskatchewan Roughriders *1966 - Wayne Harris (LB), Calgary Stampeders *1965 - Wayne Harris (LB), Calgary Stampeders *1964 - Tom Brown (LB), British Columbia Lions *1963 - Tom Brown (LB), British Columbia Lions *1962 - John Barrow (DT), Hamilton Tiger-Cats *1961 - Frank Rigney (OT), Winnipeg Blue Bombers *1960 - Herb Gray (DE), Winnip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a city in Canada. They are divided into two divisions: four teams in the East Division and five teams in the West Division. As of 2022, it features a 21-week regular season in which each team plays 18 games with three bye weeks. This season traditionally runs from mid-June to early November. Following the regular season, six teams compete in the league's three-week playoffs, which culminate in the Grey Cup championship game in late November. The Grey Cup is one of Canada's largest annual sports and television events. The CFL was officially named on January 19, 1958, upon the merger between the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union or "Big Four" (founded in 1907) and the Western Interprovincial Football Union (founded in 1936). History Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 CFL Season
The 1968 CFL season is considered to be the 15th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 11th Canadian Football League season. CFL News in 1968 J.G. (Jake) Gaudaur was appointed CFL Commissioner and the league adopted a new constitution. Gaudaur would serve in that position until 1984; he is the league's longest-tenured commissioner. Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Ted Watkins was shot and killed while allegedly robbing a liquor store in California, shortly before the start of the CFL season. Regular season standings Final regular season standings ''Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points'' *Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs. *''Saskatchewan and Ottawa have first round byes.'' Grey Cup playoffs ''Note: All dates in 1968'' Conference Semi-Finals Conference Finals Playoff bracket Grey Cup Championship CFL Leaders * CFL Passing Leaders * CFL Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Field. In 1950, the Tigers merged with cross-town upstart Hamilton Wildcats and adopted the name "Tiger-Cats". Since the 1950 merger, the team has won the Grey Cup championship eight times, most recently in 1999. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club recognizes all Grey Cups won by Hamilton-based teams as part of their history, bringing their win total to 15 (the Hamilton Tigers with five, the Hamilton Flying Wildcats and Hamilton Alerts with one each). However, the CFL does not recognize these wins under one franchise, rather as the individual franchises that won them. If one includes their historical lineage, Hamilton football clubs won league championships in every decade of the 20th century, a feat matched by only one other North America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barrow (Canadian Football)
John B. Barrow (October 31, 1935 – February 17, 2015) was an American college and professional football player who was an offensive and defensive tackle in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for fourteen seasons in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Barrow played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as an All-American. Thereafter, he played professionally for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL, and was later inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. Early years Barrow was born in Delray Beach, Florida in 1935.CFLapedia.com, Hall of Fame John Barrow Retrieved August 26, 2011. He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was an offensive and defensive lineman for coach Bob Woodruff's Florida Gators football team from 1954 to 1956. 2012 Florida Football Media Guide'', University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 76, 79, 87, 89, 102, 104, 115, 176 (2012). Retrieved September 15, 2012. As a senior in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 CFL Season
The 1962 CFL season is considered to be the ninth season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the fifth Canadian Football League season. CFL News in 1962 The Canadian Football Hall of Fame was established in Hamilton. The 50th Grey Cup game, nicknamed "The Fog Bowl", was postponed due to fog on Saturday, December 1. The final 9 minutes and 29 seconds was played on Sunday as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 28–27 to win their third championship in four years. This was the most recent CFL season with average attendance of under 20,000 spectators per game. Regular season standings Final regular season standings ''Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points'' *Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs. * ''Winnipeg and Hamilton have first round byes.'' Grey Cup playoffs ''Note: All dates in 1962'' Conference Semi-Finals Conference Finals P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 CFL Season
The 1963 CFL season is considered to be the tenth season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the sixth Canadian Football League season. CFL News in 1963 Charter Membership into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame started on June 19. Average attendance exceeded 20,000 spectators per game for the first time in league history. The league has consistently drawn at least that number of fans to its games ever since. Regular season standings Final regular season standings ''Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points'' *Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs. * ''British Columbia and Hamilton have first round byes.'' Grey Cup playoffs ''Note: All dates in 1963'' Conference Semi-Finals Conference Finals Playoff bracket Grey Cup Championship CFL Leaders * CFL Passing Leaders * CFL Rushing Leaders * CFL Receiving Leaders 1963 CFL All-Stars Offence *QB – Joe Kapp, BC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Brown (guard)
Tom Brown (born December 5, 1936) is a former professional Canadian football player, and a former outstanding American college football player. He played collegiately at the University of Minnesota, and won the Outland Trophy in 1960 as the nation's best lineman. He played professional football with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League, and was made a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1984. Brown was inducted into College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ... in 2003. Notes 1936 births Living people People from Albert Lea, Minnesota Players of American football from Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers football players All-American college football players College Football Hall of Fame inductees American players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 CFL Season
The 1964 CFL season is considered to be the 11th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the seventh Canadian Football League season. Regular season standings Final regular season standings ''Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points'' *Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs. * ''BC and Hamilton have first round byes.'' Grey Cup playoffs ''Note: All dates in 1964'' Conference Semi-Finals Conference Finals Playoff bracket Grey Cup Championship CFL Leaders * CFL Passing Leaders * CFL Rushing Leaders * CFL Receiving Leaders 1964 CFL All-Stars Offence *QB – Joe Kapp, BC Lions *RB – Lovell Coleman, Calgary Stampeders *RB – Dick Shatto, Toronto Argonauts *RB – Ed Buchanan, Saskatchewan Roughriders *TE – Tommy Joe Coffey, Edmonton Eskimos *TE – Hal Patterson, Hamilton Tiger-Cats *F – Tommy Grant, Hamilton Tiger-Cats *C – Chet Miksza, Hamilton Tige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 CFL Season
The 1965 CFL season is considered to be the 12th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the eighth Canadian Football League season. CFL News in 1965 The Canadian Football League commissioned an economic study of Canadian football and all its aspects. The Canadian Football League Players' Association was formed and had their first meetings on May 15 and 16 in Toronto. Regular season standings Final regular season standings ''Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points'' *Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs. * ''Calgary and Hamilton have first round byes.'' Grey Cup playoffs ''Note: All dates in 1965'' Conference Semi-Finals * ''The Rough Riders will play the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Eastern Finals.'' * ''The Blue Bombers will play the Calgary Stampeders in the Western Finals.'' Conference Finals Playoff bracket Grey Cup Championship CFL Leaders * CFL P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 CFL Season
The 1966 CFL season was the Canadian Football League's ninth season since the 1958 merger of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union to create a national league. It was the 13th season in modern-day Canadian football. CFL news in 1966 The Canadian Football League made several rule changes. The league started to legalize unlimited blocking on rushing plays and introduced their new goose-necked goal posts. The league rewrote its rule book and reduced it in size. The Canadian Rugby Union, owners of the trophy, granted trusteeship of the Grey Cup to the Canadian Football League in exchange for annual financial support for amateur football. One of the more notable games of the regular season was Montreal's 1–0 victory over Ottawa, the lowest scoring game in CFL history, and only the second 1–0 game since a 1949 win by Winnipeg over Calgary in the WIFU. Regular season standings ''Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskatchewan Roughriders
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a professional Canadian football team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Roughriders compete in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member club of the league's West Division. The Roughriders were founded in 1910 as the Regina Rugby Club. Although Saskatchewan was not the first team to play football in Western Canada, the club has maintained an unbroken organizational continuity since their founding. The Roughriders are the fourth-oldest professional gridiron football team in existence today (only the Arizona Cardinals, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts are older), and one of the oldest professional sports teams still in existence in North America. Of these teams, the Roughriders are both the oldest still in existence that continuously has been based in Western Canada (as well as the oldest surviving team in the CFL's present-day West Division) and the oldest in North America to continuously have been based west of St. Louis, Missouri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed McQuarters
Eddie Lee McQuarters (born April 16, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a former defensive tackle (number 61) for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1966–1974. McQuarters was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1988. College and NFL After a stellar career at the University of Oklahoma, Ed McQuarters was selected in the 18th round of the 1965 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals, but after one year was released. Saskatchewan Roughriders McQuarters was a defensive tackle, playing his entire 9-year career for Saskatchewan. The Green Riders played in four Grey Cup games during that period, winning in his rookie year, the 54th Grey Cup in 1966 against the Ottawa Rough Riders. Mcquarters lost his left eye in a home workshop accident prior to the 1971 season, which limited his effectiveness but did not prevent him from playing up to the 1974 season, when he was cut after spending most of the year with knee injuries. Honors and statistics Ed McQuarters was a CFL all-star in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
