Canadian Football

Canadian Rules Football often known as CFL or gridiron football is a Canadian sport that is played on a rectangular pitch by two teams of 12 players each along with a goalkeeper.

 

In Canada football refers both to American and Canadian football and specifically to any of them, depending upon the context. Both the sports are of same origin but have significant differences.

To outscore the opponent team by winning more no. of points through goals in order to win the play.

General History

 

The first documented football match was a practice game played on November 9, 1861, at University College, the University of Toronto, while the first written account of a game played was taken on October 15, 1862, on the Montreal Cricket Grounds. It was between the First Battalion Grenadier Guards and the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards resulting in a win.

 

The sport started gaining popularity very quickly and hence; the Hamilton Football Club was formed on three Nov 1869. Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto also built their separate clubs from which only the Toronto club still exists today.

 

The first governing body to be formed and hence adopt the current rules of rugby was the Foot Ball Association of Canada, organised on March 24, 1873, followed by the Canadian Rugby Football Union (CRFU) which was founded on June 12, 1880.

 

The original forerunner to the current Canadian Football League was established in 1956 when the IRFU (Interprovincial Football Union) and WIFU (Western Interprovincial Football Union) formed an umbrella organisation, The Canadian Football Council (CFC). CFC left the CRFU to become the CFL in 1958.

 

The Grey Cup was established in 1909, initially being an amateur competition. However, it was eventually overshadowed by professional teams in the 1940s and early 1950s. The Ontario Rugby Football Union (the last amateur organisation to compete for the trophy) withdrew from competition in 1954. The move led the modern era of Canadian professional football, resulting in the formation of the current Canadian Football League in 1958.

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Equipment

 

The ball: historically, the Canadian rules football was oval in shape, but slightly bigger than today’s ball.

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Game Rules (major changes in rules)

 

The Burnside rules intently looking like American football (which are similar guidelines created by Walter Camp for that sport) that were joined in 1903 by the ORFU, was a push to distinguish it from a more rugby-arranged sport. The Burnside Rules had teams diminished to 12 men for each side, presented the Snap-Back framework, required the attacking team to pick up 10 yards on three downs, disposed of the Throw-In from the sidelines, permitted just six men online, expressed that all goals made by kicking were worth two points and the opposition should line up 10 yards from the defenders on all kicks.

 

The rules were an endeavour to institutionalise the standards all through the nation. The CIRFU, QRFU and CRU wouldn't embrace the new standards at first. Forward passes were not permitted in the Canadian games until 1929, and touchdowns, which had been five points, were expanded to six points in 1956, in both the two cases a very long while after the Americans had received similar changes.

 

The essential contrasts between the Canadian and American games originate from guideline changes that the American side of the fringe received, however, the Canadian team did not (initially, the two sides had three downs, objective posts on the objective lines and boundless forward movement, yet the American side altered these principles, and the Canadians did not). The Canadian field width was one guideline that did not depend on American policies, as the Canadian game was played in more extensive fields and arenas that were not as restricted as the American arenas.