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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.
On June 15, 2016, the Edmonton Eskimos announced a five-year field naming rights partnership with The Brick to name the field "The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium" during CFL events. [16] The Edmonton Elks will not sell upper bowl tickets at Commonwealth Stadium for the 2024 CFL season, reducing the stadium's capacity to 31,000 seats. [17]
] 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 ...
Bayne Norrie (born June 30, 1944) is a retired Canadian football player who was drafted in the 1st round of the 1965 CFL Draft by the BC Lions. Bayne Norrie, played for the Edmonton Eskimos for 8 years and participated in three straight Grey Cups from 1973 to 1975 and won one Grey Cup with Edmonton in 1975.
The 84th Grey Cup, also known as The Snow Bowl, was the 1996 Grey Cup Canadian Football League championship game played between the Toronto Argonauts and the Edmonton Eskimos at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario. The Argonauts won the game by a score of 43–37 in controversial fashion. [1]
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.
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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 ...