The Peterborough Pets were a
Canadian football
Canadian football () is a team sport, sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's sco ...
franchise in the early 20th century. They played in the
Ontario Rugby Football Union
The Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) was an early amateur Canadian football league comprising teams in the Canadian province of Ontario. The ORFU was founded on Saturday, January 6, 1883 and in 1903 became the first major competition to adopt th ...
. Their greatest success came in
1907
Events
January
* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February
* February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...
when they won the ORFU title and advanced to the
Canadian Dominion Final. They were soundly defeated 75-10 by the
Montreal Football Club
The Montreal Football Club was a Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec that played in the Quebec Rugby Football Union from 1883 to 1906 and in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union from 1907 to 1915. The club was a founding member of ...
in the final that year.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20110727185339/http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/07-An-245.pdf
Ontario Rugby Football Union teams
Sport in Peterborough, Ontario
Canadian football teams in Ontario
Defunct Canadian football teams
1904 establishments in Ontario
1909 disestablishments in Ontario
Sports clubs and teams established in 1904
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1909
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