1958 CFL season

The 1958 CFL season was the inaugural season of the Canadian Football League. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers met again for Canadian football supremacy. The Bombers turned the tables on the Tiger-Cats this time, winning their first Grey Cup since 1941.[1]

1958 CFL season
Regular season
DurationJune, 1958 – October, 1958
Playoffs
Start dateNovember 8, 1958
East ChampionsHamilton Tiger-Cats1958-11-23
West ChampionsWinnipeg Blue Bombers1958-11-22
46th Grey Cup
DateNovember 29, 1958
SiteEmpire Stadium, Vancouver
ChampionsWinnipeg Blue Bombers
CFL seasons

League news

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

Final regular season standings

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

Western Interprovincial Football Union
TeamGPWLTPFPAPts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers16133036118226
Edmonton Eskimos1696131229219
Saskatchewan Roughriders1677232032416
Calgary Stampeders1669131431213
BC Lions1631302023996
Interprovincial Rugby Football Union
TeamGPWLTPFPAPts
Hamilton Tiger-Cats14103129123521
Montreal Alouettes1476126526915
Ottawa Rough Riders1468023324312
Toronto Argonauts1441002663088
  • Bold text means a team clinched a playoff berth.
  • Winnipeg and Hamilton both received first-round byes.

Grey Cup playoffs

Playoff bracket

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

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Division Semi-Finals

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

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

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

1958 Eastern All-Stars

Offence

Defence

1958 Western All-Stars

Offence

Defence

1958 CFL Awards

1958 Miss Grey Cup

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

References

  1. "Grey Cup Memories: 1958". CFL.ca. 2005-11-12. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  2. "Canadian Football Timelines (1860-2005)" (PDF). 2005. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  3. "1958".
  4. "CFL Database".
  5. "CFLapedia".
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