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Author : Frank Cosentino
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365981821
Author : Steve O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1411658604
North American football was born in Canada in the 1860s. For decades, though, the growth of Canadian football was slow to change from its rugby traditions. In recent decades, it has been in the shadow of its largest competitor, the National Football League. Although hockey is held up as Canada's number one sport, the CFL has enjoyed as rich and storied a tradition in Canadian sports history. This book is not the usual general history detailing on-field accomplishments, Grey Cup winners etc. Instead, it combines an historical look through 2003 with discussion of continuous themes which have shaped the League. These include the role of the Canadian player, competition from other pro sports, the media's role in creating an image of the CFL, Canadians' attitudes towards pro sports, and how the CFL continually struggles to survive - often in spite of itself.
Author : Steve O'Brien
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1411613023
Modern North American football was born in the 1860s at the same time Canada became a nation. However, for decades, the growth of Canadian football was slow and unwilling to change from its rugby traditions. In more recent times, it has also been in the shadow of its largest competitor, the National Football League. Although hockey is professed to be Canada's number one sport, the CFL has held as rich and storied tradition in Canadian sports history. This book is not the usual general history detailing on-field accomplishments, Grey Cup winners and so on. Instead, it combines an historical look through 2003 with various continuous themes which have shaped the League. These topics include the role of the Canadian player, marketing, competition from other pro sports, the media's role in creating an image of the CFL, Canadian attitudes towards professional sports, and how the CFL continually struggles to survive.
Author : Ed Willes
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1550176145
End Zones and Border Wars is the story of the CFL's ill-fated period of expansion into the United States during the early to mid- 1990s. It was a time filled with intriguing characters, from John Candy to Nick Mileti to Pepper Rodgers, the coach who loved everything about the Canadian game except the rules and the teams. With a cast of investors who are hopeful but unfamiliar with the game, bizarre stories emerge, from the Las Vegas Posse practising in the parking lot of the Riviera to the Shreveport Pirates camping out above a barn full of circus animals. The CFL's attempts to push the Canadian game into expanded territory brought both heartbreak and victory, with the 1994 Grey Cup victory of the BC Lions coming alongside the quick decline of every American club under low sales and resistance to new rules. The CFL survived these turbulent times to the harsh realization that it is a game for Canada alone, breaking through to a promising new era for the venerable institution.
Author : Jeffrey Giles,John Tory
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1553660838
Author : Graham Kelly
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1554390567
Against the odds, the Canadian Football League continues to entertain and enthrall Canadians from coast to coast. And the biggest event on the football calendar--the most popular sporting event in Canada no less--is the Grey Cup. While the battle for the championship is always a memorable event, this collection highlights the 10 greatest Grey Cup games in the history of the event.
Author : Bob Ackles,Ian Mulgrew
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780470738993
In 1953, Bobby Ackles became the first water boy in the BC Lions Football Club. Today he is the team’s President and CEO. His star rose quickly from the very beginning, taking him from the sidelines to the top job and three Grey Cup championships. An integral member of the Lions’ organization for over 50 years, Bobby Ackles has seen and done it all in the extraordinary world of professional football. Not only did he go from lowly Water Boy to the executive suite in the CFL, Ackles also spent fifteen years in the NFL--six seasons with the mighty Dallas Cowboys, and then on to the Arizona Cardinals, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Miami Dolphins—and he even served a brief stint in the short-lived XFL as Vice President and General Manager of the Las Vegas Outlaws. As the only man to hold executive positions in all three professional leagues, Ackles offers up a unique perspective on pro football in North America. The Water Boy is Bob Ackles’ engaging memoir, a candid, personal account of his life and his amazing career in the game of football. From his humble beginnings, personally and professionally, Ackles has risen to become one of the most respected executives in football and in sports in general, both in Canada and the United States. With veteran journalist Ian Mulgrew, Ackles shares his rich, expansive life openly, with humour and amazing insights into the sport of football and its personalities, his long-running love affair with his wife Kay, his grasp on leadership and running a successful business. The Water Boy is a fascinating look inside the locker rooms and the owners’ boxes of the football world in North America, and an engaging telling of a life lived to its fullest.
Author : Canadian Football League
Publisher : PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781624670657
Celebrate the 100th Grey Cup and The Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders battle for the honour of being called Grey Cup champions!_x000D_ _x000D_ To celebrate this momentous occasion, leading sports publisher CCMC, the Canadian Football League and Premier Digital Publishing are publishing a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative magazine to honour the rich history of Canada’s premier sports event._x000D_ _x000D_ This “special” magazine was more than a century in the making and featuring more than 100 pages of articles, and classic historical photography, the Grey Cup 100th Anniversary Program will be a collector’s item for CFL fans and history buffs from coast to coast._x000D_ _x000D_ This eBook also includes the Game Day program with rosters, stats and all of the storylines of the 100th Grey Cup! _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Célébrez la Coupe Grey et 100e Les Argonauts de Toronto et les Stampeders de Calgary bataille pour l'honneur d'être appelés champions de la Coupe Grey!_x000D_ _x000D_ Pour célébrer cette occasion unique, CCMC, un chef de file de l’édition sportive, et la Ligue canadienne de football publient un magazine commémoratif rendant hommage à la riche histoire de cette grande manifestation sportive canadienne._x000D_ _x000D_ Ce magazine «spécial», fruit de plus d'un siècle de gestation, comprend plus de 100 pages d’articles et de photographies classiques. Le programme souvenir du 100e anniversaire de la Coupe Grey sera une pièce de collection pour les fans de la LCF et les férus d’histoire d'un océan à l’autre.
Author : Peter Tremblay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1927538998
The much talked of "merger" between the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the upstart reincarnated Xtreme Football League (XFL), a league without even one successful season under its belt, was a dog's breakfast. Thankfully, Canadian football survived those perilous negotiations and remained intact for the 2021 season. In Canadian Football World League: Growing the CFL through a new independent international league, Peter Tremblay argues that the most logical direction for the CFL would be a "Canadian Football World League" (CFWL). The CFL is a leader in the International Alliance of Gridiron Football, and there has been significant interest in Canadian football and the CFL among international players and representative international organizations, demonstrating that a global professional football league using Canadian rules is more than viable. Based upon economic models already successfully implemented in other leagues and the unique identity of Canadian football, Peter Tremblay maintains that the time is right for a global approach to growing our national game.
Author : Ron Snyder
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476678412
Baltimore is home to some of the greatest football players ever to step onto the gridiron. From the Colts' Johnny Unitas to the Ravens' Ray Lewis, Charm City has been blessed with multiple championship teams and plenty of Hall of Fame players. Between the Colts and Ravens, a brief but significant chapter of Baltimore football history was written--the Stallions. Formed in 1994, they posted the most successful single season in the history of the Canadian Football League, when in 1995 they became the only U.S. team to win the Grey Cup. By 1996 the Stallions were gone, undermined by the arrival of the Ravens and the overall failure of the CFL's U.S. expansion efforts. Drawing on original interviews with players, coaches, journalists and fans, this book recalls how the Stallions both captured the imagination and broke the hearts of Baltimore football fans in just 24 months.
Author : Curtis Fogel
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781927356531
In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already accepted by voluntarily participating in the sport? In the case of Canadian football, acts of on-field violence, hazing, and performance-enhancing drug use that would be considered criminal outside the context of sport are tolerated and even promoted by team and league administrators. The manner in which league review committees and the Canadian legal system understand such actions highlights the challenges faced by those looking to protect players from the dangers of the sport. Although there has been some discussion of legal and institutional reforms dealing with crime and deviance in Canadian sport, little exists in the way of sports law, with most cases falling into the legal categories of criminal, administrative, or civil law. In Game-Day Gangsters, Fogel argues for a review of the systems by which Canadian football is governed and analyzes the reforms proposed by football leagues and by players. Juxtaposing material from interviews with football players and administrators and from media files and legal cases, he explores the discrepancies between the players’ own experiences and the institutional handling of disciplinary matters in junior, university, and professional football leagues across the country.
Author : Stephen Brunt,Canadian Football League
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780771017445
This country and its people are made of the same hardy stuff that makes our game and our league. The Grey Cup has helped unite our country for 100 years now. And it has revealed us, built our pride and our sense of Canadianness in annual tributes to effort, sweat and toil. But what does 100 years of history and cultural relevance add up to? When we Canadians look at the Grey Cup, we see far more than a gleaming football trophy; we see a reflection of ourselves. After its first years as an amateur challenge cup, the Grey Cup would go on to be awarded to the best football team in Canada, with Western challengers traveling back east to fall at the hands of the more established Toronto teams. That is, until a group of frustrated Winnipeggers paid an enormous sum during the Depression to buy up star players and bring the cup west for the first time. Following this, the games became about the pride of the country, East versus West, the national identity fought over the gridiron, all chronicled dutifully by bestselling author Stephen Brunt. From the birth of the modern CFL in 1958, through the dynastic Edmonton Eskimos and into the nineties, attempted USA expansion, franchise re-birth in Montreal, 100 Grey Cups has it all: behind-the-scene anecdotes, never-before-seen photographs, and unprecedented access to the CFL archives. It is a must-have for all fans of this national tradition
Author : Matt Dunigan,Jim Taylor
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550174487
"Put aside the fact that it ended my playing career, punched holes in my memory and put life as I knew it on indefinite hold, it wasn't that tough a hit." Thus begins Goin' Deep, Matt Dunigan's gritty, often startling memoir of his 14-year journey as a Canadian Football League quarterback, a career brought to a shattering halt on an afternoon in Hamilton in 1996 in a game he still cannot remember. It is a story that takes readers where football fans cannot go--down the stadium runway into the dressing rooms--where injury is a fact of life, injections can put agony on temporary hold, and the tough-minded live by the credo that "Pain is mind over matter. If you don't mind the pain, it doesn't matter." But Goin' Deep is more than a football story. The concussion suffered in that game against the BC Lions marked the end of Dunigan's brilliant Hall of Fame career in the no-quarter world of professional football--and the beginning of another journey still in progress, where some days start third-and-long and memories can be shrouded in a drifting, frustrating fog that may or may not clear. "You play the hand you're dealt," he says. "There are good days and bad days. Sometimes putting sentences together can be a struggle. Some days Kathy will say 'Remember when such-and-such,' and I can't. But these are my cards, and I'll play 'em." The way he's played and continues to play them as a TSN football CFL analyst makes Goin' Deep a riveting, heart-warming read.
Author : Stephen Drake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Canadian football
ISBN : 1897277261
Weird Facts About the Canadian Football League. "The football they play is quirky too. That's what makes it unique. That's what makes it Canadian. And that's what makes it worth protecting." - Alison Gordon, Toronto Star * Known as the Crazy Football League in the 1990s, the CFL, in its long history as the oldest professional sporting league in North America, has had numerous outrageous and madcap moments on the field and in the boardrooms:* The Grey Cup was stolen from Lansdowne Park in Ottawa and held for ransom for two months before being returned safely* During World War II the CFL was about to shutdown when the Canadian military stepped up in an effort to boost morale; for three years non-civilian squads won the Grey Cup* The 1950 Grey Cup was called the "Mud Bowl" --at one point, fans in Toronto's Varsity Stadium thought a Winnipeg player lying face down in the ankle deep slush was drowning* Conditions were so bad in the " Fog Bowl" Grey Cup game of 1962 that the contest was played over two days* During the American expansion years in the 1990s, the short-lived Las Vegas Posse trucked in tons of sand and turf to hold their training camp in the parking lot of a sponsoring casino* In 1974, the minority liberal federal government introduced legislation to prevent the World Football League from expanding into Canada, and so the Toronto Northmen moved south of the border to become the Memphis Southmen* The 1957 Grey Cup was immortalized by the famous "Tripper" incident when fan on the sidelines stuck his leg out to take down a Hamilton player as he raced down the field after intercepting a Winnipeg pass (the tripper later went on to become an Ontario judge). And more...
Author : Frank Cosentino
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365651960
