Manitoba Rugby Football Union
Manitoba Rugby Football Union was a Canadian football league, founded on Monday February 22, 1892. The league merged with the Alberta Rugby Football Union and Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union to form the Western Canada Rugby Football Union on Saturday October 21, 1911.[1][2][3]
MRFU teams
- Winnipegs - 1930 to 1935
- Winnipeg Rugby Football Club - 1892 to 1906
- St.John's Rugby Football Club - 1892 to 1913 & 1919 & 1925 to 1931
- Winnipeg Rowing Club - 1902 to 1914
- Winnipeg Tammany Tigers - 1913 to 1929
- Winnipeg Victorias Rugby Club - 1919 to 1927 & 1935
- Winnipeg Shamrocks - 1903 & 1905
- Brandon Football Club - 1906
- Wesley College Football Club - 1897 to 1898
- Royal Canadian Dragoons - 1897 to 1898
- Royal School of Infantry / 90th Regiment - 1888[4]
- Garrison Rugby Club - 1932 to 1933[5]
- University of Manitoba Varsity & Bisons - 1920 to 1926 & 1934
- Osborne Rugby Football Club - 1892 to 1893
- Winnipeg Canoe Club - 1915
MRFU Champions
- 1892 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 1893 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 1894 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club
- 1895 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 1896 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 1897 - No Champion (Wesley College Football Club, St.John's Rugby Football Club and Winnipeg Rugby Football Club finished in a three-way tie)
- 1898 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 1899 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 1900 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club
- 1901 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club
- 1902 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1903 - Winnipeg Shamrocks
- 1904 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1905 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1906 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1907 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1908 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 1909 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 1910 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1911 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1912 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1913 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1914 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 1915 - No League Play - Winnipeg Tigers won the only game played in 1915[6]
- 1916 - World War I
- 1917 - World War I
- 1918 - World War I
- 1919 - Winnipeg Victorias
- 1920 - Winnipeg Victorias
- 1921 - Winnipeg Victorias
- 1922 - Winnipeg Victorias
- 1923 - Winnipeg Victorias
- 1924 - Winnipeg Victorias
- 1925 - Winnipeg Tammany Tigers
- 1926 - Winnipeg St.John's
- 1927 - Winnipeg Tammany Tigers
- 1928 - suspended play for Tri-City Rugby Football League
- 1929 - Winnipeg St.John's
- 1930 - Winnipeg St.John's
- 1931 - Winnipeg St.John's
- 1932 - Winnipeg St.John's
- 1933 - Winnipegs
- 1934 - Winnipegs
- 1935 - Winnipegs
TOTALS
- 13 - St.John's Rugby Football Club
- 10 - Winnipeg Rowing Club
- 6 - Winnipeg Victorias Rugby Club
- 3 - Winnipegs (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
- 3 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club
- 2 - Winnipeg Tammany Tigers
- 1 - Winnipeg Shamrocks
References
- ^ From Rugby to Football: The History of Canadian Football
- ^ Winnipeg Blue Bombers Inducted Into Manitoba Rugby Hall Of Fame
- ^ Football in Winnipeg
- ^ Manitoba Rugby Hall of Fame - The Winnipeg Rugby Football Club
- ^ Quest Through the Decades - 1930s
"The Tigers played their last game in 1929 and a year later morphed into the Winnipeg Football Club, which swallowed up the Garrison – made up of Army servicemen – and then merged with the St. John’s Tigers in 1933." - ^ The Winnipeg Tigers beat the Winnipeg Canoe Club, 10-4, at River Park in Winnipeg, Saturday, October 23