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Canadian Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2046 words) |
 | This is also the year the British Columbia Lions started play as the ninth professional team, so although the CFL was not technically founded until the late 1950s, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football. |
| After the admission of the expansion British Columbia Lions in 1954, the league remained stable with nine franchises from its 1958 inception until 1982 when the Montreal Alouettes folded and were subsequently replaced the same year by a new franchise named the Concordes. |
| In 2002 the league expanded back to nine teams with the Ottawa Renegades, which were suspended for the 2006 season after sustaining millions of dollars in losses in their four seasons.. |
| NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: History of rugby league (4569 words) |
| The rugby union authorities opted to suspend play throughout the war, and this decision is often cited as one of the prime reasons for the traditional dominance of rugby league over rugby union in Australia. |
| The French rugby union authorities worked with the collaborating Vichy regime to re-establish the dominance of their sport; rugby league was banned and many players and officials of the sport were punished. |
| In 1995 rugby union went professional, and those who had long derided rugby league as merely a professional version of that game were soon predicting the demise of the sport. |
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