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Manitoba Rugby Football Union

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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.

MRFU teams

MRFU Champions

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
    "The Tigers played their last game in 1929 and a year later morphed into the Winnipeg Football Club, which swallowed up the Garrison – made up of Army servicemen – and then merged with the St. John’s Tigers in 1933."
  6. The Winnipeg Tigers beat the Winnipeg Canoe Club, 10-4, at River Park in Winnipeg, Saturday, October 23
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