The Alberta Rugby Football Union was formed on September 25, 1911, and governed the newly emerging and evolving sport of football in the province for over 2 decades before it was disbanded in 1936. First the Calgary Rugby Football Union (CRFU) was created on September 29, 1908.News: Alberta Rugby Football Union http://iphone.fairelaissez.com/news/Alberta-Rugby-Football-Union.html The CRFU would play the champion from Edmonton to determine the winner of the ''Alberta Rugby Football League'' for 4 seasons from 1907 to 1910. After that the Alberta Rugby Football Union was formed in 1911. It joined the

Manitoba Rugby Football Union Manitoba Rugby Football Union was a Canadian football league, founded on Monday February 22, 1892. The league merged with the Alberta Rugby Football Union and Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union to form the Western Canada Rugby Football Union on Satu ...

and the

Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union The Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union was a Canadian football league created on September 22, 1910 and disbanded after the 1936 season. It joined the Manitoba Rugby Football Union and the Alberta Rugby Football Union to form the Western Canada Rugb ...

to form the

Western Canada Rugby Football Union The West Division is one of the two regional divisions of the Canadian Football League (CFL), its counterpart being the East Division. Although the CFL was not founded until 1958, the West Division and its clubs are descended from earlier leagu ...

(WCRFU) in 1911. Alberta Rugby Football Union teams won three WCRFU championships and lost two

Grey Cup The Grey Cup (french: Coupe Grey) is both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing in the namesake championship of professional Canadian football. The game is contested be ...

games in 22 years of competition. With the formation of the WCRFU in 1911, the ARFU Champion would compete in a playoff with the winners of the other Western Canadian unions to determine the WCRFU Champion. After reaching an agreement with the Eastern Canadian based Canadian Rugby Union in 1921, the WCRFU was able to compete in the

Championship game. That year, the AFRU champion

Edmonton Eskimos The Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club competes in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the league's West Division and plays their home games at the Brick Field at Commo ...

(no relation to the modern team) won the WCRFU championship to become the first ever western team to compete for the

Teams

* Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club + Edmonton Esquimaux + Eskimos + Elks - 1911 to 1913 & 1920 to 1924 & 1928 to 1929 * Calgary Rugby Foot-ball Club + Calgary Tigers + 50th Battalions + Altomahs - 1911 to 1914 & 1919 to 1920 & 1928 to 1934 *

Calgary Canucks The Calgary Canucks are a junior A ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). They play in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with home games at the Ken Bracko Arena. They have won the AJHL championship nine times and one national champi ...

- 1915 & 1919 to 1920 *University of Alberta Varsity + Polar Bears + Golden Bears - 1913 to 1921 & 1923 & 1925 to 1926 & 1928 to 1930 & 1932 to 1936 *

Calgary Bronks The Calgary Bronks were a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta, that competed in the Alberta Rugby Football Union (ARFU) in 1935 and 1936, as well as the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) from 1936 and 1940. ...

- 1935 to 1936 *Calgary YMCA - 1908 to 1910 & 1912 *Calgary Rough Riders - 1911 *Hillhurst Hornets - 1908 to 1909 *Calgary Rugby Club - 1921 *Edmonton YMCA - 1911 *Edmonton Civics - 1914 *Edmonton Canucks - 1919 *Edmonton Harlequins - 1922 *

Edmonton Boosters Edmonton Boosters was a Canadian football team in the Alberta Rugby Football Union The Alberta Rugby Football Union was formed on September 25, 1911, and governed the newly emerging and evolving sport of football in the province for over 2 decades ...

- 1930 to 1932 *Edmonton Hi-Grads - 1936 *Lethbridge Bulldogs - 1934 to 1936

Champions

* 1891

Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club was an early Canadian football - rugby union team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The team was founded in 1907 as the ''Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club'', but football had been played in the city and environs for nearly 2 d ...

* 1896 Calgary City Rugby Football Club * 1899 Edmonton Rugby Football Club * 1907 ''Alberta Rugby Football League'' - Edmonton City Rugby Foot-Ball Club * 1908 ''Alberta Rugby Football League'' - Edmonton Esquimaux *

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Januar ...

''Alberta Rugby Football League'' -

Calgary Tigers The Calgary Tigers, often nicknamed the ''Bengals'', were an ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from 1920 until 1927 as members of the Big-4 League, Western Canada Hockey League and Prairie Hockey League. The Tigers were revived in ...

* 1910 ''Alberta Rugby Football League'' - Calgary Tigers **''Start of Alberta Rugby Football Union'' *

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

- WCRFU Champions *

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

Calgary Tigers *

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...

University of Alberta Varsity *

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...

* 1916 ARFU season suspended (

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

) * 1917 ARFU season suspended (World War I) * 1918 ARFU season suspended (World War I) *

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...

* 1920 Calgary Tigers *

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...

Edmonton Eskimos -

9th Grey Cup The 9th Grey Cup was played on December 3, 1921, before 9,558 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. Edmonton was the first western team to challenge for the Grey Cup. The Toronto Argonauts shut out the Edmonton Eskimos 23–0. External links * * ...

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

Edmonton Elks The Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club competes in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the league's West Division and plays their home games at the Brick Field at Commo ...

- 10th Grey Cup * 1923 Edmonton Eskimos * 1924 Calgary 50th Battalion *

1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...

University of Alberta Polar Bears * 1926 University of Alberta Polar Bears ''(declared provincial champions)'' * 1927 ''No senior football played in Alberta'' *

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...

Calgary Tigers *

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

Calgary Altomah-Tigers *

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

Calgary Altomahs Calgary Rugby Foot-ball Club was one of the first football teams based in Calgary, Alberta, formed March 14, 1906 at Calgary City Hall. It was part of the Calgary Rugby Football Union. Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club played its first game on Oct ...

* 1933 Calgary Altomahs *

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

University of Alberta Golden Bears *

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

Calgary Bronks "B" sideThe Calgary Daily Herald - Oct 26, 1936
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TOTALS

*9 - Calgary Tigers + 50th Battalions + Altomahs *5 - Edmonton Esquimaux + Eskimos + Elks *4 - University of Alberta Varsity + Polar Bears + Golden Bears *2 - Calgary Bronks + Bronks "B" side *2 -

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