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The Elks were founded in 1949 as the Edmonton Eskimos and have won the Grey Cup championship fourteen times (including a three-peat between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982), most recently in 2015 and the most of any CFL club based in Western Canada.
] The stadium hosted the Edmonton Eskimos (now Elks) of the Western Interprovincial Football Union/Canadian Football League from 1949 to 1978, following which the team moved to Commonwealth Stadium, which had been built adjacent to Clarke Stadium in preparation for the 1978 Commonwealth Games. Clarke Stadium was used for local and minor league ...
The 42nd Grey Cup football game was played on November 27, 1954, before a full house (27,321 in attendance) at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]The underdog Edmonton Eskimos won a contest over the Montreal Alouettes 26–25.
The Edmonton Eskimos were a Canadian amateur and later professional men's ice hockey team that existed from 1911 to 1927. After playing in senior hockey in the Alberta -based Big-4 League , the Eskimos joined the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) for the inaugural 1921–22 WCHL season , and played for the Stanley Cup against the Ottawa ...
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The game was the first Grey Cup to be played in Western Canada. ... forced the amateur Ontario Rugby ... between Edmonton and Montreal. The Eskimos have won in 1954 ...
The team was founded in 1907 as the Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club. The club was renamed the Edmonton Esquimaux in 1908 and again as the Edmonton Eskimos in 1910. Later it took the name Edmonton Boosters, then the Edmonton Hi-Grads in 1936, then yet another incarnation of the Eskimos before ceasing
The Edmonton Eskimos were a baseball team that played in the class-D Western Canada League from 1909 until the league's demise in 1914 (when they were known as the Esquimos), and later in a revival of the league between 1919 and 1921. They were known as the Gray Birds in 1912 and 1913.