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The Winnipeg Rugby Football Club was 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 ...
team in
Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...
,
Manitoba Manitoba ( ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population o ...
that played in 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 ...
between
1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...
and
1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
. The team was originally founded in 1879, was the ''first'' club in Manitoba, and played in the ''Manitoba Rugby League'', the forerunner to the MRFU which was founded in 1892.Football in Winnipeg
/ref> They were 3 time league champions. The team is not part of the official history or records of Winnipeg's current team: the
Blue Bombers The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a professional Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Blue Bombers compete in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member club of the league's West division. They play their home games at IG Fiel ...
.


MRFU season-by-season

{, class="wikitable" ! Season ! G ! W ! L ! T ! PF ! PA ! Pts ! Finish ! Playoffs , - ,
1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...
, , 4 , , 1 , , 3 , , 0 , , 17 , , 34 , , 2 , , 3rd , , , - ,
1893 Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – Th ...
, , 4 , , 2 , , 2 , , 0 , , 20 , , 39 , , 4, , 2nd , , , - ,
1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
, , 4 , , 3 , , 1 , , 0 , , 42 , , 31 , , 6, , 1st, , MRFU Champion , - ,
1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...
, , 4 , , 1 , , 3 , , 0 , , 16 , , 39 , , 2, , 2nd , , , - ,
1896 Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...
, , 3 , , 1 , , 2 , , 0 , , 23 , , 34 , , 2, , 2nd , , , - ,
1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...
, , 5 , , 3 , , 2 , , 0 , , 36 , , 10 , , 6, , 1st, , 3 way tie - no champion , - ,
1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
, , 6 , , 3 , , 3 , , 0 , , 36 , , 29 , , 6, , 2nd , , , - ,
1899 Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a c ...
, , 6 , , 1 , , 5 , , 0 , , 29 , , 83 , , 2, , 2nd , , , - ,
1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
, , 6 , , 3 , , 2 , , 1 , , 39 , , 23 , , 7, , 1st , , MRFU Champion , - ,
1901 Events January * January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...
, , 6 , , 4 , , 2 , , 0 , , 49 , , 35 , , 8, , 1st , , MRFU Champion , - ,
1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's f ...
, , 4 , , 2 , , 2 , , 0 , , 36 , , 45 , , 4, , 2nd , , , - ,
1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , did not play , - ,
1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...
, , 4 , , 0 , , 4 , , 0 , , 23 , , 67 , , 0, , 3rd , , , - ,
1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...
, , 3 , , 2 , , 1 , , 0 , , 28 , , 23 , , 4, , 2nd, , , - ,
1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
, , 6 , , 1 , , 5 , , 0 , , 26 , , 22 , , 5, , 4th , , , - , Totals , , 65 , , 27 , , 37 , , 1 , , , , , , 54, , , , Three MRFU Championships


References

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