Canadian Football League 1958

Enda Mulcahy

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Standings

CFL Canadian Football League East Division 1958

Pos	Team	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
1	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	10	3	1	291	235	21
2	Montreal Alouettes	7	6	1	265	269	15
3	Ottawa Rough Riders	6	8	0	233	243	12
4	Toronto Argonauts	4	10	0	266	308	8

CFL Canadian Football League West Division 1958

Pos	Team	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
1	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	13	3	0	361	182	26
2	Edmonton Eskimos	9	6	1	312	292	19
3	Saskatchewan Roughriders	7	7	2	320	324	16
4	Calgary Stampeders	6	9	1	314	312	13
5	British Columbia Lions	3	13	0	202	399	6

Playoffs

CFL Canadian Football League Playoffs 1958


Match Day Eastern Semi-Final
January 1, 1958 (Eastern Semi-Final) 12 - 26 N/A Montreal Alouettes vs Ottawa Rough Riders
Match Day Western Semi-Final
January 1, 1958 (Western Semi-Final) 11 - 27 N/A Saskatchewan Roughriders vs Edmonton Eskimos
January 1, 1958 (Western Semi-Final) 31 - 1 N/A Edmonton Eskimos vs Saskatchewan Roughriders
Match Day Eastern Final
January 1, 1958 (Eastern Final) 7 - 35 N/A Ottawa Rough Riders vs Hamilton Tiger-Cats
January 1, 1958 (Eastern Final) 19 - 7 N/A Hamilton Tiger-Cats vs Ottawa Rough Riders
Match Day Western Final
January 1, 1958 (Western Final) 7 - 30 N/A Edmonton Eskimos vs Winnipeg Blue Bombers
January 1, 1958 (Western Final) 7 - 30 N/A Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs Edmonton Eskimos
January 1, 1958 (Western Final) 23 - 7 N/A Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs Edmonton Eskimos
Match Day Grey Cup
January 1, 1958 (Grey Cup) 28 - 35 N/A Hamilton Tiger-Cats vs Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Recap

1958 was the first official year of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and Winnipeg Blue Bombers greatest season ever, winning 13 games (a team record only beaten in 2022) and proceeding to win the Grey Cup by defeating Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35-28. Along the way in the playoffs they won the Western Final by two games to one versus Edmonton Eskimos who had knocked out Saskatchewan Roughriders in two games in the Western Semi-Final. The Eastern Final was won by Hamilton in two games versus Ottawa Rough Riders, who had eliminated Montreal Alouettes 26-12 in a single game in the Eastern Semi-Final. [References: S-1]

About the 1958 Canadian Football League

1958 was the first official year of the Canadian Football League, having broken away from the Canadian Rugby Union and adopted fully Gridiron Football rules like in the National Football League with a number of exceptions: 3-Downs to move the ball 10 yards or the ball is turned over rather than four in the NFL; 12 players on the Field at any one time rather than 11 in the NFL; and the possibility to score a Single (also known as a Rouge) where the ball is kicked through the back of the endzone but not through the goalposts. The Field is much bigger too – 110 yards long with 20 yard endzones rather than 100n yardsv long with 10 yard endzones as in the NFL.

Stock Image of 1950s Football Helmet

A worn and aged vintage old style American football helmet. Authentic and game-worn 1950s style football face mask and helmet **Picture Credit: By Brocreative[Shutterstock]**

References

Logo References

[1] Marcus Aurelius Nelson Facebook (2022) Photo & Post, 19 January 2023 [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160661803865050&set=gm.3468674473351543&idorvanity=1604657553086587 [Accessed 20 January 2023][Actual Photo Reference at: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/326215543_740221097461125_4334037578557723754_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=z-XdYUEGb_4AX85nzsY&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=00_AfCDV4TbUWxj7b96-jNct1BW-UAz_BaBpbjYnZOvRyjm7Q&oe=63D05A5C ][Accessed 20 January 2023][Cropped]

Standings References

[S-1] CFL Wayback Machine Internet Archive (1999) CFL Standings: The 1950s [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/19990203160244/http://www.cfl.ca/CFLArchives/1950s.html [Accessed 20 January 2023][Archived from the Original: http://www.cfl.ca/CFLArchives/1950s.html [Accessed 21 September 1999]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Dave Stewart-Candy

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