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The Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) was an early amateur Canadian football league comprising teams in the Canadian province of Ontario. The ORFU was founded on Saturday, January 6, 1883 and in 1903 became the first major competition to adopt the Burnside rules, from which the modern Canadian football code would evolve.

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and was a founding member of the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1883 and of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union in 1907. In their long history, the...

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football team based in Hamilton, Ontario that played in the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) from 1941 to 1947, and in the Interprovincial Rugby Football...

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1955 in Canadian football

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amateur Ontario Rugby Football Union was not invited to compete in an inter-union playdown, leaving only the (Eastern Canadian) Interprovincial Rugby Football...

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1953 in Canadian football

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the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the annual Grey Cup in 1953. The Canadian Rugby Union was paid in total of $20,500 by three television stations for the rights...

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1st Grey Cup

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between the Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union champion University of Toronto Varsity Blues and the Ontario Rugby Football Union champion Toronto Parkdale...

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Gino Cappelletti

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1954 in sports

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Western Interprovincial Football Union as the ninth professional team. After the 1954 season, the Ontario Rugby Football Union stops challenging for the...

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Western Mustangs football

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intercollegiate football collapsed due to the war, Crocker considered placing the football team in the Ontario Rugby Football Union, but it was impossible...

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Denis Whitaker

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March 1957, the CRU officially adopted a resolution allowing the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) to retain its constitutional right to challenge for the...

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Grey Cup champions in 1934 and 1936), and Windsor Royals of the Ontario Rugby Football Union. The combined London-Kitchener TV market, as of 2023, is the...

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Ontario

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baseball, basketball, Canadian football, ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby league, rugby union and soccer. Transportation in Ontario is under the purview of the...

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