OJFC 1967

OJFC 1967	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
Burlington Braves (P)	10	9	1	0	198	75	18
Hamilton Hurricanes (P)	10	8	1	1	148	67	17
Scraboro Rams (P)	10	4	4	2	84	106	10
Weston Invictus Redmen	10	3	5	2	150	124	8
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears	10	3	7	0	128	135	6
Richmond Knights	10	0	9	1	77	273	1

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1967	Burlington Braves	21	Scarboro Rams	3
1967	Hamilton Hurricanes	23	Weston Invictus Redmen	7
	Championship
1967	Burlington Braves	10	Hamilton Hurricanes	8
1967	Burlington Braves	23	Hamilton Hurricanes	0
	(Burlington won series 33-8)

OJFC 1968

OJFC 1968	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
Hamilton Hurricanes (P)	8	7	1	0	132	72	14
Burlington Braves (P)	8	6	2	0	204	84	12
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears (P)	8	5	3	0	129	111	10
York Redmen (P)	8	2	6	0	76	121	4
Scarboro Rams	8	0	8	0	23	173	0

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1968	Burlington Braves	14	York Redmen	0
1968	Hamilton Hurricanes	36	Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears	10
	Championship
1968	Hamilton Hurricanes	5	Burlington Braves	0
1968	Burlington Braves	14	Hamilton Hurricanes	3
	(Burlington won series 14-8)

OJFC 1969

OJFC 1969	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
Burlington Braves (P)	8	8	0	0	236	26	16
Hamilton Hurricanes (P)	8	5	3	0	188	149	10
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears (P)	8	4	4	0	131	197	8
Scarboro Rams (P)	8	3	5	0	152	123	6
York Redmen	8	0	8	0	84	96	0

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1969	Burlington Braves	27	Lakeshore Bears	10
1969	Hamilton Hurricanes	9	Scarboro Rams	7
	Championship
1969	Hamilton Hurricanes	7	Burlington Braves	7
1969	Hamilton Hurricanes	7	Burlington Braves	0
	(Hamilton won Series 14-7)

OJFC 1970

OJFC 1970	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
Burlington Braves (P)	8	8	0	0	375	14	16
Hamilton Hurricanes (P)	8	6	2	0	221	46	12
Scarboro Rams (P)	8	5	3	1	137	173	11
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears (P)	9	2	6	1	67	349	5
Oakville Colts	10	1	9	0	36	259	2

Note: ^ last game of season cancelled due to park light failure with Burlington leading 8-7 at halftime.

Note 2: Played Inter-locking Schedule with Junior Ontario Rugby Football Union.

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1970	Burlington Braves	62	Scarboro Rams	0
1970	Hamilton Hurricanes	44	Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears	0
	Championship
1970	Burlington Braves	35	Hamilton Hurricanes	3
1970	Burlington Braves	19	Hamilton Hurricanes	12
	(Burlington won series 54-15)

OJFC 1971

OJFC 1971	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
East
Scarboro Rams (P)	10	7	3	0	197	122	14
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears	10	4	6	0	220	300	8
Oakville Colts	10	2	8	0	111	279	4
Peterboro Panthers	10	1	9	0	88	298	2
West
Burlington Braves (P)	10	9	1	0	373	100	18
Hamilton Hurricanes (P)	10	7	2	1	284	81	15
Brantford Bisons	10	7	3	0	240	129	14
Sarnia Lakers	10	2	7	1	113	317	5

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1971	Burlington Braves	59	Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears	7
1971	Hamilton Hurricanes	26	Scarboro Rams	13
	Championship
1971	Burlington Braves	28	Hamilton Hurricanes	11
1971	Hamilton Hurricanes	14	Burlington Braves	10
	(Burlington won series 38-25)

OJFC 1972

OJFC 1972	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
East
Scarboro Rams (P)	10	10	0	0	413	48	20
Peterboro Panthers #	10	5	5	0	134	183	10
Oshawa Hawkeyes (P)	10	4	6	0	82	242	8
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears	10	2	8	0	124	266	4
Oakville Colts	10	1	9	0	89	228	2
West
Hamilton Hurricanes (P)	10	10	0	0	307	89	20
Brantford Bisons (P)	10	7	3	0	211	118	14
Burlington Braves	10	5	5	0	146	161	10
Niagara Falls Regional Raiders	10	3	7	0	169	234	6
Sarnia Lakers	10	3	7	0	115	223	6

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1972	Scarboro Rams	13	Brantford Bisons	7
1972	Hamilton Hurricanes	59	Oshawa Hawkeyes	0
	Championship
1972	Scarboro Rams	11	Hamilton Hurricanes	6
1972	Hamilton Hurricanes	16	Scarboro Rams	3
	(Hamilton won Series 22-14)

OJFC 1973

OJFC 1973	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
East
Scarboro Rams (P)	10	10	0	0	389	55	20
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears (P)	10	7	3	0	282	91	14
Peterboro Panthers	10	4	6	0	221	295	8
Oshawa Hawkeyes	10	1	9	0	87	326	2
Oakville Colts	10	1	9	0	72	443	2
West
Brantford Bisons (P)	10	9	1	0	260	146	18
Hamilton Hurricanes (P)	10	7	3	0	203	108	14
Niagara Falls Regional Raiders	10	7	3	0	295	143	14
Burlington Braves	10	2	8	0	170	226	4
Sarnia Lakers	10	2	8	0	127	290	4

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1973	Scarboro Rams	27	Hamilton Hurricanes	1
1973	Brantford Bisons	23	Etobicoke-Lakeshore Bears	17
	Championship
1973	Scarboro Rams	9	Brantford Bisons	4
1973	Brantford Bisons	15	Scarboro Rams	12
	(Scarboro won series 21-19)

Report

Burlington Braves won the Canadian Amateur Football Association’s Ontario Junior Football Conference Championship four times from 1967 to 1973 (1967, 1968, 1970 and 1971). Hamilton Hurricanes won twice (1969 and 1972) and the Scarboro Rams won the Championship in 1973.

The Champions went on to represent the Ontario Junior Football Conference in the Canadian Rugby Union Junior Championships, with the winners of that meeting the Western Canada Championship winners in the Canadian Amateur Football Association Leader-Post Trophy.

There were six teams in the Ontario Junior Football Conference in 1967, with Oshawa Hawkeyes dropping out for one season and the Richmond Knights joining. Burlington Braves defeated Hamilton Hurricanes 33-8 in the Championship Series over two games. The Knights folded after one season, however, leaving the OJFC at five teams. Weston Invictus Redmen moved to York, keeping the name Redmen. Again Burlington defeated Hamilton over two games for the Championship, although it was much closer in 1968 with the Braves winning 14-8 over two games.

The same five teams played in 1969, with Hamilton Hurricanes winning at the third attempt 14-7 against the Braves. The 1970 season saw the OJFC play an Inter-locking schedule with the three teams from the Junior Ontario Rugby Football Union. The Championship again was a tussle between Burlington and Hamilton with the Championship returning to Burlington.

The OJFC and JORFU merged for the 1971 season, playing in East and West Divisions. Oakville Colts, Brantford Bisons, and Sarnia Lakers joined the OJFC during this process, with Scarboro Rams winning the East Division title and Burlington Braves the West. Hamilton Hurricanes, runners-up in the West defeated Scarboro in the Semi-Finals, and so again the Championship was between the Hurricanes and Braves with the Braves winning for the fourth time in five years.

The Amature Canadian Football Association was slightly renamed the Amateur Canadian Football Association in 1972, and Hamilton and Scarboro were Division winners in an expanded 10-team Conference, with the addition of Niagara Falls Regional Raiders and Peterboro Panthers. Hamilton defeated Scarboro in the Championship which for the first tome in six years featured a team other than the Hurricanes or Braves. In 1973 Scarboro finally managed to make the breakthrough, defeating Brantford Bisons 21-19 in the closest two-leg Championship in the seven years of the era.

The Hamilton Hurricanes went all the way to the Leaderr-Post Trophy in 1972, defeating Western Canada Champions Regina Rams 33-8 to become Canadian Amateur Football Association Champions. Burlington Braves were the only other team from the OJFC to progress to the Leader-Post Trophy during this period, having won the Canadian Rugby Union Junior Eastern Semi-Finals on three occasions in 1967, 1970 and 1971 but lost on all three occasions.

In 1974 the CAFA was renamed the Canadian National Junior Football League.

About Canadian Football

The 12v12 version of the game played in Canada differs from American Football not only in the number of players allowed on the field at any one time (12 in a Canadian Football team versus 11 in an American Football team), but also in the size of the field (a Canadian Football field is 110 yards long with two 20-yard endzones, while an American Football field is 100 yards long with two 15 yard endzones). Canadian Football teams also have only three downs (attempts) in which to gain 10 yards or the ball is turned over as opposed to four downs in American Football. There is also the possibility of scoring a “Rouge” in Canadian Football – this happens when the ball is kicked through the back of the endzone, and is worth one point.

References

Images

[1] Canadian Junior Football League | Facebook (2011) CJFL Profile Picture: March 3, 2011 [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s720x720/172369_166507693399012_2554406_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_eui2=AeEmInrSy7Bp5Q4nj_j07-ZNBsVadK5KjxZ41fzEaVCISv70yVik13v0v3zYpBxRgsfUNu-p8l9wNdwiUtbFgjxmLVz-GqrX6CXGQ0Q1t3vEOg&_nc_ohc=qW-lYWvPX78AQld50UAOtsqMmpIdM9heSa3xodVrfPzv-6YUYkLSkRtlA&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=6d635c510b3954231714cee2128f1767&oe=5E6D4BE8%5BAccessed 20 December 2019]

Websites:

[2] British Columbia Football Conference (2019) CJFL Records | All Time Standings [Internet] Available from: https://cdn4.sportngin.com/attachments/document/0132/8193/Team_Standings_1887-2016.pdf?_ga=2.223530395.1807741386.1558376670-2095904572.1558376670 [Accessed 21 May 2019]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Robert Burns. Judith Burns, Steve Hearn, Anton Pippo O’Grady, John Wills, John Morahan & John Kane.

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