Manitoba Rugby Football Union

Manitoba Rugby Football Union was a Canadian football league, founded on Monday February 22, 1892. The league merged with the Alberta Rugby Football Union and Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union to form the Western Canada Rugby Football Union on Saturday October 21, 1911.[1][2][3]

MRFU teams

Team Years
Winnipegs 1930–1935
Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1892–1906
St. John's Rugby Football Club 1892–1913, 1919, 1925–1931
Winnipeg Rowing Club 1902–1914
Winnipeg Tammany Tigers 1913–1929
Winnipeg Victorias Rugby Club 1919–1927, 1935
Winnipeg Shamrocks 1903, 1905
Brandon Football Club 1906
Wesley College Football Club 1897–1898
Royal Canadian Dragoons 1897–1898
Royal School Infantry/90th Regiment[4] 1888
Garrison Rugby Club[5] 1932–1933
University of Manitoba Bisons and Varsity 1920–1926, 1934
Osborne Rugby Football Club 1892–1893
Winnipeg Canoe Club 1915

    MRFU Champions

    Year Team
    1892 St. John's Rugby Football Club
    1893
    1894 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club
    1895 St. John's Rugby Football Club
    1896
    1897 No Champion[a]
    1898 St. John's Rugby Football Club
    1899
    1900 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club
    1901
    1902 Winnipeg Rowing Club
    1903 Winnipeg Shamrocks
    1904 Winnipeg Rowing Club
    1905
    1906
    1907
    1908 St. John's Rugby Football Club
    1909
    1910 Winnipeg Rowing Club
    1911
    1912
    1913
    1914
    1915 No League Play[b]
    1916 World War I
    1917
    1918
    1919 Winnipeg Victorias Rugby Club
    1920
    1921
    1922
    1923
    1924
    1925 Winnipeg Tammany Tigers
    1926 Winnipeg St. John's
    1927 Winnipeg Tammany Tigers
    1928 St Johns Royalists and Winnipeg Tammany Tigers played in the Western Inter-Provincial Rugby Football League
    1929

    TOTALS

    References

    1. ^ From Rugby to Football: The History of Canadian Football
    2. ^ Winnipeg Blue Bombers Inducted Into Manitoba Rugby Hall Of Fame
    3. ^ Football in Winnipeg
    4. ^ Manitoba Rugby Hall of Fame - The Winnipeg Rugby Football Club
    5. ^ "Quest Through the Decades | 1930s". Winnipeg Blue Bombers. 2020-09-08. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
    6. ^ The Winnipeg Tigers beat the Winnipeg Canoe Club, 10-4, at River Park in Winnipeg, Saturday, October 23
    7. ^ The Winnipeg Tigers beat the Winnipeg Canoe Club, 10-4, at River Park in Winnipeg, Saturday, October 23
    1. ^ (Wesley College Football club, St. John's Rugby Football Club and Winnipeg Rugby Football Club finished in a three way tie)
    2. ^ Winnipeg Tigers won the only game played in 1915[6]
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