The Toronto Argonauts lost their first two games of the season, only to storm back and win eight straight, including their first Grey Cup win in 12 years.
The Winnipeg St.John's were a no show at the annual meeting of the Manitoba Rugby Football Union. It was later learned that the St.John's had suspended operations for one season while they got their finances in order.
The MRFU made attempts to get another organization to take over the operations of the St.John's for the 1933 season. Although there was interest in taking over the team on a permanent basis, there was no interest in being custodian of the team for just one season.
In August, the players of the St.John's were dispersed between the Winnipegs and the Garrison. The Garrison was an Army team and only servicemen were eligible to play on the team. The Garrison claimed the only player who qualified (Alf Woods) and the remainder of the players ended up in the camp of the Winnipegs.
With an abundance of players available the Winnipegs operated two teams in 1933. The best players ended up on the Winnipegs who were wearing brand new blue jerseys (they weren't blue & gold until 1934). The remaining players wore the old green jerseys and they played under the name Shamrocks. [1]
The Winnipeg St.John's failed to re-form in 1934.
The British Columbia Rugby Football Union did not have regular season play, but did play 8 games in 3 multi-game series to determine a western semi finalist, and later another final for the league championship.
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points
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*Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs.
| Team | GP | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pts |
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| Winnipegs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 6 | 4 |
| Garrison Rugby Club | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 72 | 0 |
| Team | GP | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pts |
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| Regina Roughriders | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 54 | 23 | 10 |
| Moose Jaw Millers | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 15 | 10 |
| University of Saskatchewan Huskies | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 19 | 4 |
| Saskatoon Hilltops | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 86 | 0 |
*The Huskies defaulted the final game of the season to the Millers
| Team | GP | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pts |
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| Calgary Altomahs | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 14 | 6 |
| University of Alberta Varsity | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 38 | 2 |
| Football Union | League Champion |
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| IRFU | Toronto Argonauts |
| WCRFU | Winnipegs |
| CIRFU | University of Toronto |
| ORFU | Sarnia Imperials |
| MRFU | Winnipegs |
| SRFU | Regina Roughriders |
| ARFU | Calgary Altomahs |
| BCRFU | Vancouver Meralomas |
Note: All dates in 1933
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New Westminster Dodekas win series on points, 14-11, advance to BCRFU finals series
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Vancouver Meralomas win series 2 games to 1, advance to BCRFU finals series
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Vancouver Meralomas win series on points, 31-10
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Vancouver Meralomas, evidentially playing a second final, win the BCRFU championship
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University of British Columbia Varsity, in front of a sellout crowd of 2500, win the western collegiate championship
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| ORFU | Sarnia Imperials | |||||||||||||
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| CIRFU | University of Toronto | Forfeit | ||||||||||||
| CIRFU | University of Toronto | 10 | ||||||||||||
| CIRFU | Queen's University | 3 | ||||||||||||
| ORFU | Sarnia Imperials | 3 | ||||||||||||
| IRFU | Toronto Argonauts | 4 | ||||||||||||
| IRFU | Toronto Argonauts | 5–15 | ||||||||||||
| IRFU | Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers | 4–5 | ||||||||||||
| IRFU | Toronto Argonauts | 13 | ||||||||||||
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| MRFU | Winnipegs | 0 | ||||||||||||
| ARFU | Calgary Altomahs | 1 | ||||||||||||
| MRFU | Winnipegs | 15 | ||||||||||||
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NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.
The Toronto Argonauts won the Grey Cup for the second time in five years.
For the second consecutive season the Toronto Argonauts and Winnipeg Blue Bombers met for the Grey Cup. The Argonauts won the game.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers played in their third consecutive Grey Cup final. A last-second rouge gave Winnipeg its second title in five years.
The only two-game total point series in Grey Cup history was played between the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers. It was Ottawa's first Grey Cup championship since the Senators won back-to-back titles in 1925 and 1926. It was Balmy Beach's fourth and final appearance at a Grey Cup, winning two times in four opportunities.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers were once again permitted to challenge for the Grey Cup following a rule dispute a year earlier. In a meeting of the previous two Grey Cup champions, the Blue Bombers prevailed, sending the coveted mug west for the third time.
Football returned to relative normal in 1945 following the conclusion of World War II. Two rivals from the pre-war years met once again in the annual Grey Cup, but on this occasion, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were no match for the Toronto Argonauts. For Winnipeg, it was the worst loss by a western team in the Grey Cup since 1923 when Queen's University routed the Regina Roughriders 54–0.
After a 17-year absence, the Saskatchewan Roughriders returned to the Grey Cup final. Their losing streak in the big game continued, however, as it was the other Rough Riders that took home the prize.
The Toronto Argonauts faced the Edmonton Eskimos in the Grey Cup. Although the Argos would hold on to win the game and their tenth Grey Cup championship, an Argo would not sip from the silver mug again until 1983.
The Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) was an early amateur Canadian football league comprising teams in the Canadian province of Ontario. The ORFU was founded on Saturday, January 6, 1883 and in 1903 became the first major competition to adopt the Burnside rules, from which the modern Canadian football code would evolve.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the annual Grey Cup in 1953.
The Edmonton Eskimos defeat the Montreal Alouettes in the first Grey Cup held in the west. This was also the first year that the Grey Cup was open to professional teams only, as the amateur Ontario Rugby Football Union was not invited to compete in an inter-union playdown, leaving only the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union to compete for the Canadian championship.
The Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers were a Canadian football team based in Toronto, Ontario and a member of the Ontario Rugby Football Union, a league that preceded the Canadian Football League. Spanning three decades, they appeared in four Grey Cup championships, winning twice in 1927 and 1930, and were the longest lasting member of the ORFU.