Talk:Vancouver Grizzlies (football)
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September 15 In pouring rain at old Athletic Park at 5th and Hemlock, the Vancouver Grizzlies football team (you read that right!), in their all-red uniforms, registered their first and only regular season win of this their only season. It was a 7 - 6 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on a touchdown by Jack Horne.
“In the west,” writes UBC athletics historian Fred Hume, “only Regina and Winnipeg boasted professional football franchises. A third team was sought to fill out the Western Conference of what is now known as the CFL, so what better choice than Vancouver? This was the thinking of Italo ‘Tiny’ Rader and journalist Jim Coleman, two fellows in their late 20s who possessed a love of football, an entrepreneurial spirit and an impressive sports background. They pooled their talents to found our first professional football team, the Vancouver Grizzlies . . . But looking at the season as a whole, cruel and unusual punishment could only describe the Grizzlies’ schedule. Travel was a big part of their life. Their eight league games were played in a span of 33 days and at one point they played four games on the road in nine days!”
So, season stats: one win, seven losses.
http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1941.htm
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