Collection search - Canadian Football League fonds [moving images, textual record]

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Canadian Football League fonds [moving images, textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1962-1978.

Reference:

R4621-0-9-E, MG28-I160

Type of material:

Moving images, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

99801

Context of this record:

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Canadian Football League fonds
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1962-1978.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

ca. 1338 film reels.
2.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of films documenting Canadian Football League games, 1963-1978. Fonds also contains textual records including copies of submissions of the Canadian Football League Commissioner to various federal government agencies on behalf of the league; report of commissioner to League concerning the Competition Act of 1970; miscellaneous manuals and brochures, 1962-1972.

Provenance:

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Canadian Football League

Biography/Administrative history:

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Canadian Football League : The development of Canadian football received great impetus with the organization of the Canadian Rugby Union (C.R.U.) in 1891. During the ensuing forty years Canadian football evolved into the sport we know today, with innovators such as Shag Shaughnessy borrowing heavily from the American game.

In 1921 a league which had been operating in Western Canada joined the C.R.U. After 1935 the Canadian colleges dropped out of contention and by 1938 there were three leagues competing within the framework of the Canadian Rugby Union for the Grey Cup. In the East there were the Ontario Rugby Football Union and the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union. In the West the league was called the Western Interprovincial Rugby Union.

The 1950's saw a very rapid growth in the professionalism and popularity of Canadian football. The Interprovincial Rugby Union revised and modernized their constitutions to become organizations known as the Eastern and Western Football Conferences. In 1959 the Canadian Football League was organized with the Eastern and Western Conferences becoming the Eastern and Western Divisions of the league and Mr. G. Sydney Halter as first league Commissioner.

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Moving images: (Electronic) Refer to MINISIS for item-level descriptions.

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General note:

Textual records copied in 1972 from originals held by the Canadian Football League, Toronto, Ont. Films received in 1981 and 1982.

Location of originals note:

Originals of textual material with the Canadian Football League, Toronto, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Sports - Canada, 1962-1972 Competition Act of 1970, 1970-1972

Canadian football, 1962-1972

Football - Records, 1962-1972

Football - Canada, 1962-1972
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1981-06-19)
109-060017-8
1981-0247 MISA
1982-0245 MISA
MR4436 (1982-10-22)

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I160
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Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG28 I 160] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Moving images: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holders and the written permission of the Canadian Football League.

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