The 1971 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 18th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it was officially the 14th Canadian Football League season.
CFL News for 1971 [edit]
The Grey Cup Championship was played on artificial turf for the first time in Vancouver. The BC Lions also wore special "CCC"-logo helmets to commemorate the Canadian Confederation Centennial of British Columbia, the province having entered into Canadian Confederation a hundred years earlier, in 1871. The flower in the centre of the "CCC" logo is the pacific dogwood, the official provincial flower of British Columbia.
Regular season standings [edit]
Final regular season standings [edit]
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points
- Bold text indicates that the team clinched a playoff berth.
- Calgary and Toronto had first round byes.
1971 Grey Cup Playoffs [edit]
Conference Semi-Finals [edit]
Conference Finals [edit]
- Calgary won best-of-three series 2–0, advancing to the Grey Cup Championship game.
- Toronto won two-game total-point series 40–25, advancing to the Grey Cup Championship game.
Playoff bracket [edit]
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Grey Cup Championship [edit]
CFL Leaders [edit]
1971 CFL All-Stars [edit]
Offence [edit]
- QB – Don Jonas, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- RB – George Reed, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- RB – Jim Evenson, BC Lions
- RB – Leon McQuay, Toronto Argonauts
- TE – Mel Profit, Toronto Argonauts
- SE – Jim Thorpe, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- WR – Bob LaRose, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- C – Bob Swift, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- OG – Jack Abendschan, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- OG – Granville Liggins, Calgary Stampeders
- OT – Bill Frank, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- OT – Ed George, Montreal Alouettes
Defence [edit]
- DT – John Helton, Calgary Stampeders
- DT – Jim Stillwagon, Toronto Argonauts
- DE – Jim Corrigall, Toronto Argonauts
- DE – Craig Koinzan, Calgary Stampeders
- LB – Wayne Harris, Calgary Stampeders
- LB – Mark Kosmos, Montreal Alouettes
- LB – Jerry Campbell, Ottawa Rough Riders
- DB – Dick Dupuis, Edmonton Eskimos
- DB – Frank Andruski, Calgary Stampeders
- DB – Garney Henley, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- DB – Marv Luster, Toronto Argonauts
- DB – Dick Thornton, Toronto Argonauts
1971 Eastern All-Stars [edit]
Offence [edit]
- QB – Joe Theismann, Toronto Argonauts
- RB – Dennis Duncan, Ottawa Rough Riders
- RB – Bruce Van Ness, Montreal Alouettes
- RB – Leon McQuay, Toronto Argonauts
- TE – Mel Profit, Toronto Argonauts
- SE – Terry Evanshen, Montreal Alouettes
- WR – Mike Eben, Toronto Argonauts
- C – Paul Desjardins, Toronto Argonauts
- OG – Charlie Bray, Toronto Argonauts
- OG – Justin Canale, Montreal Alouettes
- OT – Ellison Kelly, Toronto Argonauts
- OT – Ed George, Montreal Alouettes
Defence [edit]
- DT – Rudy Sims, Ottawa Rough Riders
- DT – Jim Stillwagon, Toronto Argonauts
- DE – Jim Corrigall, Toronto Argonauts
- DE – Tom Laputka, Ottawa Rough Riders
- LB – Mike Blum, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- LB – Mark Kosmos, Montreal Alouettes
- LB – Jerry Campbell, Ottawa Rough Riders
- DB – Johnny Williams, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- DB – Gene Gaines, Montreal Alouettes
- DB – Garney Henley, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- DB – Marv Luster, Toronto Argonauts
- DB – Dick Thornton, Toronto Argonauts
1971 Western All-Stars [edit]
Offence [edit]
- QB – Don Jonas, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- RB – George Reed, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- RB – Jim Evenson, BC Lions
- RB – Mack Herron, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- TE – Herm Harrison, Calgary Stampeders
- SE – Jim Thorpe, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- WR – Bob LaRose, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- C – Bob Swift, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- C – Basil Bark, Calgary Stampeders
- OG – Jack Abendschan, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- OG – Granville Liggins, Calgary Stampeders
- OT – Bill Frank, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- OT – Ken Sugarman, BC Lions
Defence [edit]
- DT – John Helton, Calgary Stampeders
- DT – John LaGrone, Edmonton Eskimos
- DE – Bill Baker, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- DE – Dick Suderman, Calgary Stampeders
- DE – Craig Koinzan, Calgary Stampeders
- LB – Wayne Harris, Calgary Stampeders
- LB – Dave Gasser, Edmonton Eskimos
- LB – Rob McLaren, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- LB – Wayne Shaw, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- DB – Dick Dupuis, Edmonton Eskimos
- DB – Frank Andruski, Calgary Stampeders
- DB – Bruce Bennett, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- DB – Larry Robinson, Calgary Stampeders
- DB – Howard Starks, Calgary Stampeders
1971 CFL Awards [edit]
References [edit]
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