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1958 CFL season
DurationJune – October, 1958
East championsHamilton Tiger-Cats
West championsWinnipeg Blue Bombers
46th Grey Cup
DateNovember 29, 1958
VenueEmpire Stadium, Vancouver
ChampionsWinnipeg Blue Bombers
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The 1958 CFL season was the inaugural season of the Canadian Football League, although the season structure was essentially unchanged from the one established three years earlier when the league's founding unions (the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union) had effectively barred amateur teams from competing for the Grey Cup.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers met again for Canadian football supremacy. The Blue Bombers turned the tables on the Tiger-Cats this time, winning their first Grey Cup since 1941.[1]

League news

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The Canadian Football Council (CFC) withdrew from the Canadian Rugby Union (CRU) to become a separate entity. As a separate entity, the CFC decided to rename its league the Canadian Football League (CFL) on Sunday, January 19, at the Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg.[2] The CRU deeded the Grey Cup to the newly-minted CFL, officially locking amateur teams out of Grey Cup play. However, the Grey Cup had been the de facto professional football championship of Canada since the Ontario Rugby Football Union withdrew from Grey Cup competition in 1954.

The Commissioner of the CFC, Winnipeg's G. Sydney Halter, QC, was reappointed as the first-ever CFL commissioner. The CFL officially opened its operations on Thursday, August 14, as 18,206 spectators watched the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeat the Edmonton Eskimos 29–21 at Winnipeg. A regular season game was played in the United States, at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium on September 14 as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Ottawa Rough Riders by a score of 24–18.

Regular season

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Final regular season standings

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Note: GP = games played, W = wins, L = losses, T = ties, PF = points for, PA = points against, Pts = points

Western Interprovincial Football Union
Team GP W L T PF PA Pts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers 16 13 3 0 361 182 26
Edmonton Eskimos 16 9 6 1 312 292 19
Saskatchewan Roughriders 16 7 7 2 320 324 16
Calgary Stampeders 16 6 9 1 314 312 13
BC Lions 16 3 13 0 202 399 6
Interprovincial Rugby Football Union
Team GP W L T PF PA Pts
Hamilton Tiger-Cats 14 10 3 1 291 235 21
Montreal Alouettes 14 7 6 1 265 269 15
Ottawa Rough Riders 14 6 8 0 233 243 12
Toronto Argonauts 14 4 10 0 266 308 8
  • Bold text means a team clinched a playoff berth.
  • Winnipeg and Hamilton both received first-round byes.

Grey Cup playoffs

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Playoff bracket

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Division Semi-Finals Division Finals 46th Grey Cup
         
E1 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 54
(35+19)
East
E2 Ottawa Rough Riders 14
(7+7)
E2 Montreal Alouettes 12
E3 Ottawa Rough Riders 26
E1 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 28
W1 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 35
W1 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 2
(30,7,23)
West
W2 Edmonton Eskimos 1
(7,30,7)
W2 Edmonton Eskimos 58
(27+31)
W3 Saskatchewan Roughriders 12
(11+1)

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Division Semi-Finals

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Western Semi-Finals
Edmonton Eskimos vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders
Game Date Away Home
1 November 8 Edmonton Eskimos 27 Saskatchewan Roughriders 11
2 November 11 Saskatchewan Roughriders 1 Edmonton Eskimos 31
  • Edmonton won the total-point series 58–12.

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Eastern Semi-Final
Ottawa Rough Riders @ Montreal Alouettes
Date Away Home
November 12 Ottawa Rough Riders 26 Montreal Alouettes 12

Division Finals

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Western Finals
Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs. Edmonton Eskimos
Game Date Away Home
1 November 15 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 30 Edmonton Eskimos 7
2 November 19 Edmonton Eskimos 30 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 7
3 November 22 Edmonton Eskimos 7 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23
  • Winnipeg won the best-of-three series 2–1.
Eastern Final
Hamilton Tiger-Cats vs. Ottawa Rough Riders
Date Away Home
November 20? Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35 Ottawa Rough Riders 7
November 23? Ottawa Rough Riders 7 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 19
  • Hamilton won the total-point series 54–14.

Grey Cup Championship

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November 29, Empire Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia
WIFU Champion IRFU Champion
Winnipeg Blue Bombers 35 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 28
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers won the 46th Grey Cup Championship
  • Note: Western Semi-Final dates are not confirmed; however, since (1) the regular season ended on November 1 in the West and on November 8 in the East, and (2) all other playoff dates are accurate, including the date of the Grey Cup game, it is reasonable to assume the above dates are correct.

CFL Leaders

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1958 Eastern All-Stars

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Offence

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Defence

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1958 Western All-Stars

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Offence

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Defence

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1958 CFL Awards

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1958 Miss Grey Cup

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  • Miss Montreal Alouettes Joan Van Boven was named Miss Grey Cup 1958

References

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  1. ^ "Grey Cup Memories: 1958". CFL.ca. November 12, 2005. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
  2. ^ "Canadian Football Timelines (1860-2005)" (PDF). 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 9, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  3. ^ "1958".
  4. ^ "CFL Database".
  5. ^ "CFLapedia".
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