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Canadian Football League Gilchrist was a CFL All-Star five straight years, with the Hamilton Tiger Cats in 1956 and 1957, in 1958 with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and with the Toronto Argonauts in 1959 and 1960. The Canadian Football League can trace its roots back to a soccer game in Rugby, England in 1823 when a player named William Webb Ellis suddenly picked up the ball and started to run with it, only to be tackled by an opponent. Because of their influence on the league that was to become the genesis of modern professional football in the United States, some of those players are acknowledged here. www.conigliofamily.com /CanadianFootballLeague.htm   (1262 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)

Canadian Interuniversity Sport Canadian Football in the Halifax and Nova Scotia 1940-1957 Stebbins, Robert A. Canadian football: The view from the helmet. University Football in Ontario and Quebec from 1967 to 1980 www.universitysport.ca /e/football/history.cfm   (501 words)

Canadian Interuniversity Sport Canadian Football in the Halifax and Nova Scotia 1940-1957 Stebbins, Robert A. Canadian football: The view from the helmet. University Football in Ontario and Quebec from 1967 to 1980 sportuniversitaire.ca /e/football/history.cfm   (501 words)

John Bassett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia From 1957 until 1979, Bassett was the owner of the Toronto Argonauts, a team in the Canadian Football League. In the 1970's his son John Frederick was also the owner of the Toronto Toros, a hockey team in the World Hockey Association. John White Hughes Bassett, PC, CC, O.Ont (August 25, 1915 – April 27, 1998) was a Canadian publisher and media baron. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Bassett   (427 words)

CanadaSoccer.com Official Site of the Canadian Soccer Association Colin Jose is the Historian at The Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum in Vaughan, Ontario, and represents Canada and the United States on the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Football History of Statistics in Wiesbaden, Germany. 1957 - Canada entered the FIFA World Cup for the first time and met the United States and Mexico in qualifying for the finals in Sweden in 1958. 1928 - The Dominion of Canada Football Association resigned from FIFA and remained outside the world governing body until 1946. www.canadasoccer.com /eng/history/index.asp?sub2=13   (3433 words)

Winnipeg Blue Bombers - TheBestLinks.com - 2001, 1984, 1947, 1993, ... The Winnipeg Blue Bombers is a Canadian Football League team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Despite Winnipeg being a western Canadian city, the Blue Bombers have played many seasons (1987 to 1994 and 1997 to 2001) in the Eastern Division in order to keep the number of teams in each division somewhat equal. In 1936 the 'Pegs became the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and joined the newly created Western Interprovincial Football Union (one of the CFL's forerunners). www.thebestlinks.com /Winnipeg_Blue_Bombers.html   (264 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)

McMurry Football Homepage He lettered three years in football and was team captain in 1958, was chosen all-district in 1957, all-area and all-state in 1958. He enjoyed a 10-year professional career in the Canadian Football League with the Saskatchewan Roughriders as as an offensive guard/place kicker, and he was inducted into the team's Plaza of Honor in 1992. He lettered two years in football, was all-conference linebacker, was elected team captain, and lettered one year in baseball. www.mcm.edu /sports/football   (6336 words)

McMurry Football Homepage He lettered three years in football and was team captain in 1958, was chosen all-district in 1957, all-area and all-state in 1958. He enjoyed a 10-year professional career in the Canadian Football League with the Saskatchewan Roughriders as as an offensive guard/place kicker, and he was inducted into the team's Plaza of Honor in 1992. He lettered two years in football, was all-conference linebacker, was elected team captain, and lettered one year in baseball. www.mcm.edu /sports/football   (6336 words)

The Official Site of the Canadian Football League When he enters the Hall of Fame, he will need a separate plaque just for his kicking records, At present, he holds records for playing the most seasons (24), career scoring (3,811 points)- compare with George Blanda's NFL record over 26 seasons of 2,002 points- career fieldgoals (835), career converts (995), career singles (307). He presently holds a slew of club records, including both career and single season scoring, converts, field goals, career punting yards, longest kick- 100 yards in '91. Twice in his l9 seasons, he was voted Most Outstanding Player. www.cfl.ca /CFLHistoryTodayInHistory/home.html   (6336 words)

B DATA041 Bill joined the Canadian Football League in 1957 to man the yardsticks and by 1977 was named the league's director of officiating, which post he held until 1985. Donations in her memory to the Canadian Opera Company or to the University of St. Michael's College (81 St. Mary Street, Toronto, M5S 1J4) would be greatly appreciated. On May 30, 1951, he was a lieutenant with the Second Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, commanding a platoon of 35 infantrymen during their first major action in the Korean War when his company commander was wounded. www.ogs.on.ca /ogspi/200ob/2005b041.htm   (6336 words)

A SASKATCHEWAN SPORT BIBLIOGRAPHY Contains materials relating to individuals from Saskatchewan who won "Spirit of Youth" awards and who were involved in various sports: badminton, baseball, bowling, broomball, cricket, curling, fencing, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, lawn bowling, polo, soccer, swimming, etc. "The Undertaker Takes Over: Saskatchewan's Bill Baker is Canadian Football's Latest Saviour.,, Western Report Vol.3.49 (26 Dec. 1988): p. Regina: Provincial Youth Agency, Government of Saskatchewan, unknown. www.lin.ca /resource/html/biblio.htm   (6336 words)

Television Programming In the 1950s the CBC was unable to manufacture an appealing brand of popular English Canadian drama, although it tried with "The Plouffe Family" (1954-59), with a prime-time historical adventure series for children called "Radisson" (1957-58), and with a big-budget crime drama entitled "RCMP" (1959-60). Montréal producers developed a host of games and quizzes with titles like "Le nez de Cléopâtre" and "La clé de champs," although it was their Toronto counterparts who fashioned the long-lasting FRONT PAGE CHALLENGE in the summer of 1957. French Canadian television, in particular, won enormous audiences, earning the title of a tribal medium because it seemed to reflect the "soul" of old and new Québec. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0007908   (6336 words)

Bernie Faloney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Traded to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1957, Bernie Faloney became one of the major stars of the Canadian Football league, winning four Grey Cup championships. At season's end, Faloney finished fourth in the balloting for the 1953 Heisman Trophy and was drafted in the first round by the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League but signed with the Edmonton Eskimos of the B.J. "Bernie" Faloney was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, where he played high school football before attending the www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernie_Faloney   (6336 words)

CanadaSoccer.com Official Site of the Canadian Soccer Association 1885 and 1886- The Western Football Association sent teams to New Jersey to play teams from the American Football Association, then the unofficial governing body of soccer in the United States. 1957 - Canada entered the FIFA World Cup for the first time and met the United States and Mexico in qualifying for the finals in Sweden in 1958. 1928 - The Dominion of Canada Football Association resigned from FIFA and remained outside the world governing body until 1946. www.canadasoccer.com /eng/history/index.asp?sub2=13   (6336 words)

Jim Brown --  Encyclopædia Britannica He was an All-America player at Ohio State, but skipped his senior year to play football in the Canadian League. Jim Brown was probably the greatest rushing back in professional football history. He played with the Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965, scoring 126 touchdowns. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016686   (856 words)

The Signal When Joe Kapp arrived at the University of California Berkeley, he did so not just as a member of Pappy Waldorf’s football team, but also as a forward on Pete Newell’s basketball team, which won Pacific Coast Conference Championships in 1957 and 1958. He passed for 22,925 yards and on March 16, 1984, Joe Kapp was elected to the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame. After the war, Joe’s father got a job in Salinas, where the family stayed until Joe was in 10th grade and they moved back to Newhall. www.the-signal.com /News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=7654   (3786 words)

CanadaSoccer.com Official Site of the Canadian Soccer Association Colin Jose is the Historian at The Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum in Vaughan, Ontario, and represents Canada and the United States on the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Football History of Statistics in Wiesbaden, Germany. 1957 - Canada entered the FIFA World Cup for the first time and met the United States and Mexico in qualifying for the finals in Sweden in 1958. 1928 - The Dominion of Canada Football Association resigned from FIFA and remained outside the world governing body until 1946. www.canadasoccer.com /eng/history/index.asp?sub2=13   (3433 words)

Robert Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Smith (British Columbia politician), Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province of British Columbia 1871 to 1878 Robert Smith (football), American football running back for the Minnesota Vikings Sir Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet (born 1957), Liberal Democrat politician from Scotland en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Smith   (366 words)

Canadian Football League: 02/06/2005 - 02/12/2005 Hershey was back in the playoffs in 1957, and Mathers guided the team to back-to-back Calder Cup championships in 1958 and 1959. "Frank was a very easy-going and flexible guy to play for as a coach and a pleasure to be with as a player," said Willie Marshall, who played with Mathers in both Pittsburgh and Hershey, and later for him after Mathers retired as a player to become a full-time coach. Not long afterward, Eagles general manager Vince McNally telephoned him and told him to report to training camp in Hershey. cfl-football.blogspot.com /2005_02_06_cfl-football_archive.html   (366 words)

Untitled Document Gene Lockhart, one of Hollywood’s best-known character actors and the star of such Broadway plays as Death of a Salesman, was also a Canadian sports celebrity who won the mile-long swimming championship of Canada in 1909 and played football with the Toronto Argonauts for three years between 1910 and 1912. Described as a genial and outgoing individual, Lockhart was active in several writers and theatre clubs in New York and Hollywood and enjoyed swimming and golf before his death at age 65 in 1957. Lockhart, like Cobb, found that the part put a great strain on his health and returned to Hollywood in 1950. collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/112-113.htm   (739 words)

The Official Site of the Canadian Football League Grant was enshrined in both the Canadian and US pro football halls of fame - one of only two men to earn that distinction (Marv Levy, CFL coach of Montreal and Kansas City and Buffalo of the NFL, is the other). It was 1957 and Grant was already accomplished in the field of sport. Grant's straight lance approach was instrumental in guiding the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to six Grey Cup appearances and four wins. www.cfl.ca /CFLFanZoneFootballProfessor/home.html   (739 words)

Transfer Table November 2000 There were views of the #614 on Moodna Viaduct and the 1960 Reading Ramble to Tamaqua, PA where everyone walked up the street to the football field. We got to see Wilmington and Western's #98 when it was at Strasburg, PA, the Spiral Tunnels in the Canadian Rockies, and the last day of operation of the Camas Prairie. We saw the last steam engine in town in 1957. wilmingtonnrhs.com /newsletters/2001feb.htm   (3465 words)

Dr Bernie Siegel Traded to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1957, Bernie Faloney became one of the major stars of the Cana 7: Bernie Faloney was inducted into the Canadian Football 11: Bernie Faloney passed away on June 14, 1999, in Hamilton Bernie Faloney 1: '''Bernie Faloney''', born 1932 — died June 14, 1 3: B.J. "Bernie " Faloney was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 5: 6. In Norse mythology, Sol was the goddess of the sun, a daughter of Mundilfari and Glaur and the wife of Glen. www.elusiveeye.com /side33245-dr-bernie-siegel.html   (845 words)

McManus closing in on Tiger-Cat career record  McManus surpassed Canadian Football Hall of Fame member Bernie Faloney for second place on the team's career list Sept. 30 against the Montreal Alouettes.  Faloney had 17,425 yards passing in 8 years with the Tiger-Cats from 1957 through 1964. Mike Kerrigan holds the team record with 17,761 yards passing, also in 8 seasons, from 1986 through 1991, 1995 and 1996. www.canoe.ca /TigerCatsNews01/1003_mcm.html   (845 words)

Ben Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Benjamin Watson, American Football Player of the New England Patriots. Ben Watson (developer) (1966-), Canadian developer, evangelist and spokesperson for Adobe, formerly with Microsoft. Ben Watson (writer) (1957-), British Marxist writer on music. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Watson   (126 words)

Ben Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Benjamin Watson, American Football Player of the New England Patriots. Ben Watson (developer) (1966-), Canadian developer, evangelist and spokesperson for Adobe, formerly with Microsoft. Ben Watson (writer) (1957-), British Marxist writer on music. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Watson   (126 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. 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. Hecker was born in Berea, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/25/BAGN95QTGM1.DTL&type=printable   (466 words)

CanadaSoccer.com Official Site of the Canadian Soccer Association 1957- Canada entered the FIFA World Cup for the first time and met the United States and Mexico in qualifying for the finals in Sweden in 1958. 1928 - The Dominion of Canada Football Association resigned from FIFA and remained outside the world governing body until 1946. Canada opened against the Soviet Union in the Olympic Stadium and lost 2-1, the second game is played in Toronto against North Korea and with another loss and Canada was eliminated. www.canadasoccer.com /eng/history/index.asp?sub2=13   (3433 words)

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