Williams guided the Stamps to a record, following a mark in After taking a halftime lead — thanks to a Terry Evanshen touchdown catch and a Liske run — the Stamps unraveled in the second half.
Ottawa quarterback Russ Jackson would do just enough to beat Calgary This was the first with a happy ending. A week later, the Stamps lost to Edmonton in the West final. Lions in the West Division semifinal but a long drought ensued. He rushed for 1, yards and 10 touchdowns on carries. Slotback Vince Danielsen was the Top Canadian. A year earlier, Pitts set CFL records for receiving yards and touchdown catches.
He retired after the season with catches for 14, yards and touchdown receptions. Captain Grant of Harvard, by correctly naming the turn of the coin, set a precedent for all his successors at Harvard. He selected the north-west goal, thereby obtaining the advantage of a slight breeze. Captain Rodger of McGill, who had been carrying his arm in a sling on account of a recent injury, thereupon unconcernedly walked to one of the posts which supported the goal rope, hung his sling upon the post, and called to his players to take the field.
The two teams lined up at once. The uniforms of the time are interesting as relics of bygone days. The Harvard players wore gauze undershirts, full length gymnasium costumes and light baseball shoes. Most of them had handkerchiefs knotted about their heads.
The gauze undershirts were worn for reasons of strategy, the idea being that the first tackle would demolish them, leaving slippery human flesh for the next opponent. Harvard won the game by a score of At that time, there was no standard method of scoring points. Certain things, however, were recognized as turning the tide of battle. Crossing the goal-line was one of them and kicking the ball over the goal-posts was another. Harvard seems to have done at least one of these things, McGill had by far the faster team.
Bowie, Huntington and Joseph were all springs and runners of note in Montreal. Bowie was one of the very fast men in Canada at the time, having been credited with a clocking of Huntington and Joseph were also track men and these three on the half line made things hot for the Harvard defenders time after time. According to Mr. On the following day the universities met again, this time under Canadian rules with 13 men to the side. The line-up is very difficult to ascertain.
There was no complete list of players in any paper and human memory is so frail that a survivor who was known to have played denied all knowledge of the game when he was asked to name his teammates 30 years after the match. The game ended in a scoreless draw after two hours of the most strenuous sort of play. That same year, on Oct. James the Apostle now stands. Again McGill went down to defeat. The rules had apparently been modified because only nine men took the field and their positions remain unknown, Mr.
Joseph being able to speak only for himself and one or two others. Harvard played superior football. Their attack was faster and more determined, the McGill running halves were collared on each break-away.
The pursuit rule had been dropped and McGill had now nothing of which complain. Since then, the sport has gone through many radical changes. It took a while for football to resemble the modern game we know and love, and for the Canadian Football League to be formed.
The first historical mention of football played in Canada comes from when a game was played at University College, University of Toronto. A football club was formed at the university soon after, although its rules were more in line with rugby football than those of the modern game.
Many rugby football teams in Canada then began forming in the s. In , the Canadian Rugby Football Union was established. In , it changed its name to the Canadian Rugby Union, and it served as an umbrella organization for various regional and provincial unions. In the early s, the sport began to resemble little of its rugby origins and started to become more similar to American football. You do not have to get covered in mud to play football in the 21st Century like you would have had to in the 19th Century, because today there are a wide variety of football video games you can play from the comfort of your home to test your skills.
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