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Our thanks to Rick Frohloff for providing us with the two old Alouettes logos on the left.
1872 - The Montreal Foot Ball Club was formed. The first organized game
was played in Quebec on October 12th in Quebec City when the Montreal FC
played Quebec City. They met again on Saturday, October 26th at McGill
University. Both games ended in 0-0 ties.
McGill at Harvard 1874
1874 - The rules, devised by the University of McGill were first used in
the United States in a game at Boston between McGill and Harvard. On
May 14th, Harvard won 3-0 using Harvard rules. The next day, the teams tied
0-0 while playing Canadian rules.
1875 - The first inter-provincial game between Ontario
and Quebec was played on October 16th at the Toronto Cricket Grounds.
Ontario won on a Goal from a Try.
1877 - The Ottawa and Britannia Football Clubs played their first
game at Montreal. Britannia won 2 Trys and 3 Rouges to 1 Rouge.
1878 - Second inter-provincial game is played to a scoreless draw on
October 28th between an "All-Ontario" team and a team from Montreal at
Montreal.
1883 - The Quebec Rugby Football Union was formed on January 16th.
1884 - The Canadian Rugby Football Union was formed on February 7th at the
Montreal Gymnasium. The Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeated the Toronto
Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 on November 6th in the first CRFU Championship game.
1885 - A combined Quebec Team (QRFU) defeated an Ontario Combined Team
(ORFU) 3-0 on November 12th in the CRFU Championship game. The CRFU ruled
the game was a draw because the Montreal team did not score 4 points.
1887 - At the end of the season, team executive members arranged a
Dominion Championship game at McGill University in which Ottawa College
(ORFU) defeated the Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 on November 5th.
1888 - ORFU and QRFU executives arranged a Dominion Championship at Ottawa.
Ottawa College (ORFU) and the Montreal Football Club played to a scoreless
tie.
1891 - At a meeting of delegates of the Quebec and Ontario Rugby
Unions at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal on Saturday, December 19th,
the Canadian Rugby Union was formed.
1898 - The first Intercollegiate game was played at Kingston on
Saturday, October 8th between McGill and Queen's. McGill won by 3
Rouges to 2. McGill then played the University of Toronto on Saturday,
October 15th. The U of T won 11-5 in the rain.
Montreal Foot Ball Club 1907
1907 - The Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) grew out
of an amalgamation between the Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts of
the ORFU and the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Montreal Foot Ball Club
of the QRFU on Friday, September 13, 1907. Montreal won the
Big Four's first game, 17-8 over Toronto and subsequently became the
league's first championship team.
Warren Stevens
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1925 - McGill coach Frank Shaughnessy introduced the concept of the huddle
to Canadian football.
1931 - CRU approved the forward pass for all leagues and the first
TD pass in Grey Cup history was a Warren Stevens to Kenny Grant play
in Montreal's 22-0 win over Regina.
1946 - Montreal Alouettes were organized.
1949 - The Alouettes won their first Grey Cup with a 28-15 victory
over the Calgary Stampeders.
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1954 - B.C. played its first game at Empire Games Stadium against
the Montreal Alouettes on Wednesday August 11th. The Alouettes won
22-0.
1977 - Grey Cup Game was played before record crowd (68,318) which
paid record receipts ($1,401,930) at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.
Montreal Alouettes set CFL attendance record of 476,201.
1982 - The CFL granted a new franchise to Montreal called the Concordes.
1986 - On the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Montreal Alouettes the Alouettes were re-born as the Montreal Football Club changed the name from the Concordes back to the Alouettes. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes played the first pre-season game in the Canada Games Stadium at Saint John, New Brunswick. Winnipeg won 36-10.
1987 - The Montreal Alouettes folded on June 24th.
1996 - When the Cleveland Browns of the NFL move to Baltimore, the Baltimore Stallions of the ill-fated American expansion move to Montreal and the Montreal Alouettes are re-born once more.
1997 - A U2 concert conflicted with a home play-off game against the B.C. Lions and management decided to move the game to its old home at Molson Stadium. Interest in the team soared and the game was sold out, prompting the team to permanently relocate to the smaller venue beginning with the 1998 season.
2002 - Montreal wins the Grey Cup by defeating Edmonton
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