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	British Columbia Lions
		In their 1954 inaugural season, Stukus sold football fever on the streets of Vancouver and put together a team that made history when they stepped on the field of Empire Stadium for their first ever home game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday, August 28, 1954.
		The British Columbia Lions are a Canadian Football League team based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
		During the rest of 1953, a fan contest was held by all of the local media to pick the new nickname of the football franchise.
	www.tocatch.info /en/BC_Lions.htm (2185 words)

	Windsor Alpha Kai Omega Fratmen - 1999 Canadian Junior Football League and Ontario Football Conference Champions - AKO AKO AKO !!!
		The Windsor AKO Fratmen junior football club competes in Ontario Football Conference (OFC) in Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) and won both championships in 1999, the Fratmen's last provincial championship win in Ontario was in 1998 and its last national championship win in Canada was 1954.
		Junior football was formally organized by the Canadian Amateur Football Association in 1972 when Joe Kanuka from Regina was named chairman of the junior football committee.
		The league became a separate entity in 1974 with the formation of the Canadian Junior Football League.
	ca.geocities.com /windsorakofratmen (2160 words)

	Winnipeg Jr Football : HISTORY
		During the early years of that league the Winnipeg Rods dominated Junior football in Canada, appearing in the Canadian Junior Football Championship in 1954, 55, 56, 57 and 1961.
		The Manitoba league operated until 1994 and reached its peak in 1987 when the St. Vital Mustangs reached the Canadian Junior Football final in Regina.
		The History of Junior football in Manitoba extends all the way back to the early part of the twentieth century, with its beginnings in the 1920's.
	www.winnipegrifles.com /history (461 words)

	College Football Hall of Fame
		Following graduation in 1954, Lewis was drafted by the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League, but it was in the CFL that he made his greatest mark.
		Jon F. Hanson, Chairman of The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF), announced the Divisional Hall of Fame Class for 2005, which includes players and coaches from NCAA Divisions I-AA, II, III, and the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics).
		He is a member of the NAIA District 14, Wisconsin - La Crosse Athletic, Wisconsin High School Football Coaches and Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School Halls of Fame.
	collegefootball.org /news.php?id=592 (1317 words)

	Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame
		He played professionally for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles (1953, 1956) and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (1957) around a stint in the Army in 1954-55, during which time he was selected as an All-Army player.
		Sportswriter Stanley Woodward wrote of Michels in his 1952 Football Magazine: "Inordinately quick, combative and hard-running, Michels is an effective blocker on the line and one of the Tennessee players most likely to be found blocking ahead of the runner twenty-five yards down the field.
		Michels' tenure at Tennessee coincided with the final three years of the coaching career of Gen. Robert R. Neyland, Vol mentor from 1926-52 and 1956 College Football Hall of Fame inductee.
	tshf.net /inductees/michels.html (501 words)

	1954 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the Canadian Football League was not technically founded until the late 1950's, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football.
		See also: 1953 in sports, other events of 1954, 1955 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		These changes result in the Grey Cup being an East vs. West competition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1954_in_sports (842 words)

	1954 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1950's, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football.
		Canadian Football League was not technically founded until the late
		Drag racing - The NHRA expands, sanctioning other drag strip operators in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1954_in_sports (842 words)

	1954 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the Canadian Football League was not technically founded until the late 1950's, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football.
		The British Columbia Lions started play in the Western Interprovincial Football Union as the ninth professional team.
		The stops challenging for the Grey Cup, permanently establishing that trophy as one to be awarded only to professional teams.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1954_in_sports (656 words)

	1954_in_sports encyclopedia and info, forum and guides
		Although the Canadian Football League was not technically founded until the late 1950's, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football.
		The Ontario Rugby Football Union stops challenging for the Grey Cup, permanently establishing that trophy as one to be awarded only to professional teams.
		The British Columbia Lions started play in the Western Interprovincial Football Union as the ninth professional team.
	saint-kitts-and-nevis.caribbean-forum.com /encyclopedia.php?title=1954_in_sports (656 words)

	1954 in sports
		Although the Canadian Football League was not technically founded until the late 1950's, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football.
		The Ontario Rugby Football Union stops challenging for the Grey Cup, permanently establishing that trophy as one to be awarded only to professional teams.
		The British Columbia Lions started play in the Western Interprovincial Football Union as the ninth professional team.
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/1954-in-sports.wikipedia (699 words)

	Northern Football Conference
		The Northern Football Conference (NFC) was formed in 1954 as the Northern Ontario Rugby Football Union (NORFU).
		Northern Football Conference teams fared very well in the senior competition twice reaching the Canadian Finals in the last years of the 1960s.
		Its status is intact as the oldest senior amateur football league in Canada and a reputation as a leader for football in Ontario and Canada.
	nfcfootball.ca /league-history.shtml (3132 words)

	Articles - Canadian Football League
		However, fan interest in Canadian football, with the possible exception of the Stallions (largely because the Stallions were a top team), was sparse at best, with fans being driven away to see American college football or the NFL late in the season.
		Football has been gaining in popularity in Quebec with the recent success of the Alouettes, and Quebec university football teams now lead the country in attendance and on the field, with Laval University, the University of Montreal and Concordia University consistently in the top ten in the country.
		After the admission of the expansion British Columbia Lions in 1954, the league remained stable with nine franchises from its 1958 inception until 1982 when the Montreal Alouettes folded and were subsequently replaced the same year by a new franchise named the Concordes.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Canadian_Football_League (1722 words)

	Canadian Football Literature, 1950-1969
		The issues of 1949 and 1951 (virtually identical in content, though the inside covers of both have been re-set and updated to allow for changed penalty applications) are identified by a simple notation of "H19-1949" (or "H19-1951", as appropriate) in the lower right-hand corner of the (otherwise blank) back cover.
		I would think that there is reason to suspect the existence of separate reprints in 1950 and 1952, although I have seen a number of different copies of the earlier issues, all from 1949 or 1951, thus it is possible that this bookelt was only printed in alternate years prior to 1953.
		For the 1957 manual, the publishers inserted a 16-page summary of the previous season into surplus copies of the 1956 manual; a large sticker was affixed to the cover of all such manuals.
	www.geocities.com /ianspeers/5060lit.htm (1722 words)

	The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1953 Chronology
		It grew to be the largest western regional air carrier, and in 1987 would buy CP Air to form Canadian Airlines International.
		A new 25,000-seat stadium was about to be built in Vancouver to house the 1954 Commonwealth Games.
		Winnipeg voted no, but Edmonton, Calgary and Regina—who had earlier balked—agreed to admit BC into the Western Interprovincial Football Union.
	www.vancouverhistory.ca /chronology1953.htm (2881 words)

	John Tory
		John Tory (born May 28 1954) is a Canadian businessman and aspiring He is the former president of the Canadian Football League and former CEO of Rogers Communications.
		Tory was also a senior policy to then Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney and managed the 1993 Canadian election campaign of Mulroney's successor Kim Campbell.
		Tory has thus far the support of former cabinet ministers David Tsubouchi Jim Wilson Janet Chris Hodgson Cam Jackson and Bob Runciman as well as backbench MPPs Norm Miller and John O'Toole.
	www.freeglossary.com /John_Tory (2881 words)

	Norbert Hecker -- football player, 49ers, Stanford coach
		Hecker played for the Toronto Argos in the Canadian Football League in 1954 and the Washington Redskins from 1955 to 1957.
		Hecker earned eight National Football League championship and Super Bowl rings as a player and coach during his 40-year football career.
		His passion for the game took him as far as Amsterdam, where he was an administrator for the Admirals in the World Football League in 1995.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/25/BAGN95QTGM1.DTL (487 words)

	Canadian Football League
		This is also the year British Columbia Lions started play as the ninth professional so although the CFL was not technically until the late 1950's 1954 is often referred to as start of the "modern era" of Canadian football.
		Although the Canadian Football League is the level of competition in Canadian football the competes with the American National Football League for the best players.
		In the when sports teams were financed almost entirely ticket sales the two leagues were on footing and the CFL could sign top college football stars such as Rocket Ismail and Heisman Trophy winners Doug Flutie and Johnny Rodgers.
	www.freeglossary.com /Canadian_Football_League (710 words)

	ipedia.com: July 25 Article
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		1954 - Walter Payton, National Football League player (d.
		1758 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
	www.ipedia.com /july_25.html (1020 words)

	The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1954 Chronology
		August 28 The construction of Empire Stadium allowed Vancouver to win a Canadian Football League franchise, the B.C. Lions.
		They didn’t win (losing to the Western Interprovincial Football Union champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers 8 to 6), but Province columnist Jim Kearney wrote that to 20,606 paying customers at Empire Stadium the Lions had proved they could score.
		Baseball’s Western International League folded, but at least the WIL’s Capilanos went out as league champions.
	www.vancouverhistory.ca /chronology1954.htm (3748 words)

	Yahoo! - Recreation:Sports:Football (American):Leagues:CFL - Canadian Football League:Teams
		Open to all current and past members of any UWC football team and their family or friends, this always proves to be a very sociable and entertaining affair.
		Grey Cup Champions - winners from 1954 to the present.
		Or coach football in the US wether in college or some proffesional team.
	www.stusoc.cf.ac.uk /suon/amfoot/frame.html (3748 words)

	CEC: Closed Canadian Parks - Happyland Park
		Empire Stadium opened in 1954, but Callister Park would continue to be operated by the PNE until it was exchanged for an artificial surface for Empire Stadium in 1969.
		During the 1954 games, Roger Bannister competed here.
		Although the exhibition didn't run in 1946, an independent directory from that year shows there were 14 rides including the carousel, a fun house walk-thru, 15 games, 2 refreshment stands, a shooting gallery, and a penny arcade.
	cec.chebucto.org /ClosPark/HappLand.html (8017 words)

	Regina Rams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Regina Rams are the Canadian football team that represents the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
		During the 33 football seasons from 1966 to 1998, the Regina Rams participated in 17 Canadian Junior Football Championships, emerging with victories on 15 occasions (1966, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998).
		More than fifty former Regina Rams have moved on to the professional ranks in the Canadian Football League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regina_Rams (261 words)

	Lionel Conacher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lionel Pretoria Conacher (May 24, 1900 – May 26, 1954), nicknamed The Big Train, was Canada's all-around athlete in the 1920s excelling in Canadian football, ice hockey, lacrosse, baseball, boxing and wrestling, and later playing a significant role in Canadian politics.
		He is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame (1955), the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1955), the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame (1966), and Hockey Hall of Fame (1994).
		Born in Toronto, Ontario, he played for the Toronto Argonauts, and was part of the 1921 Grey Cup winning team from 1921-1922.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lionel_Conacher (217 words)

	Sports leagues
		This is also the year the British Columbia Lions started play as the ninth professional team, so although the CFL was not technically founded until the late 1950s, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the modern era of Canadian professional football.
		Since 1954, when the Ontario Rugby Football Union stopped challenging for the Grey Cup, the trophy has been awarded only to professional sport teams with the championship generally being an Eastern Canada vs. Western Canada competition.
		The leagues top trophy, the Grey Cup, was donated by Governor-General of Canada Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey in 1909 to the team winning the Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Sports-leagues (217 words)

	Vince Ferragamo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vince Ferragamo (born April 24, 1954 in Torrance, California) was an American football quarterback from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s.
		However, Vince Ferragamo had a difficult time adapting to Canadian football and Montreal went on to win only three game during the season against 13 losses.
		Ferragamo played one season for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League for one year, 1981.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vince_Ferragamo (565 words)

	Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
		It hosted the Baltimore Orioles for baseball from 1954 – 1991, the Baltimore Colts from 1953 – 1983 and the Baltimore Ravens from 1996 – 1998 for American football and the Baltimore Stallions for Canadian football from 1994 – 1995.
		The stadium was initially quite large in center field for baseball due to the need to fit a football field on the premises, and foul territory was also quite large as well.
		Seating 31,000 at the time, the stadium consisted of a single, horseshoe-shaped deck, and was intended to host football and minor-league baseball.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/m/me/memorial_stadium__baltimore_.html (565 words)

	Former Eskimo Normie Kwong appointed as Alberta’s Lieutenant Governor - OurSports Central
		Kwong, the first Chinese Canadian to play in the Canadian Football League, was named Canadian Athlete of the Year in 1955 and was inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame in 1969, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1975 and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.
		Normie finished his glorious career with 9,022 rushing yards, 78 TDs, Teamed with Johnny Bright, Kwong gave the Eskimos a dynamic backfield which resulted in three consecutive Grey Cup wins (1954-55-56).
		Normie’s name was added to the Eskimos Wall of Honour at Commonwealth Stadium in 1983.
	www.oursportscentral.com /services/releases/?id=3118414 (565 words)

	John Henry Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He also played one season with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League in 1953, and with the Houston Oilers of the American Football League in 1966.
		Johnson played professionally from 1954 to 1965 for the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions, and Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.
		John Henry Johnson (born November 24, 1929 in Waterproof, Louisiana) was an American football running back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Henry_Johnson (173 words)

	Fraser Valley's Competitive Sports scene information, listings and links
		The team was begun in 1941 as the Vancouver Grizzlies in the Western Inter-provincial Football Union, and became the BC Lions in 1954.
		This is VancouverÂ’s team in the Canadian Football League.
		The Canadians are VancouverÂ’s team in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League, playing out of the Nat Bailey Stadium (Ontario St. at 41st Ave.).
	www.foundlocally.com /Fraser/Sports/Rec-CompSports.htm (173 words)

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