1976 CFL season

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The 1976 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 23rd season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 19th Canadian Football League season.

Contents 1 CFL News in 1976 2 Regular Season Standings 2.1 Final regular season standings 3 Grey Cup playoffs 3.1 Playoff bracket 4 1976 CFL All-Stars 4.1 OFFENCE 4.2 DEFENCE 5 1976 CFL Awards

[edit] CFL News in 1976

For the first time in Canadian Football League history, more than 2 million fans attended CFL games with 2,029,586.

[edit] Regular Season Standings

[edit] Final regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points

Western Football Conference Team GP W L T PF PA Pts Saskatchewan Roughriders 16 11 5 0 427 238 22 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 16 10 6 0 384 316 20 Edmonton Eskimos 16 9 6 1 311 367 19 British Columbia Lions 16 5 9 2 308 336 12 Calgary Stampeders 16 2 12 2 316 422 6

Eastern Football Conference Team GP W L T PF PA Pts Ottawa Rough Riders 16 9 6 1 411 346 19 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 16 8 8 0 269 348 16 Montreal Alouettes 16 7 8 1 305 273 15 Toronto Argonauts 16 7 8 1 289 354 15

• Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs.
• Saskatchewan and Ottawa have first round byes.

[edit] Grey Cup playoffs

Main article: 64th Grey Cup

The Ottawa Rough Riders are the 1976 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders, 23-20, at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, in the highest shut out recorded in CFL history. This was the third championship game between the two Rough Riders with Ottawa winning two out of three games. Ottawa's Tom Clements (QB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Offence and Saskatchewan's Cleveland Vann (LB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Defence. Ottawa's Tony Gabriel (TE) was named Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.

[edit] Playoff bracket

November 13/14: Division Semifinals

November 20/21: Division Finals

November 28: 64th Grey Cup @ Exhibition Stadium - Toronto, ON

East

E2

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

15

E3

Montreal Alouettes

0

E1

Ottawa Rough Riders

17

E2

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

23

E1

Ottawa Rough Riders

23

W1

Saskatchewan Roughriders

20

West

W3

Edmonton Eskimos

13

W3

Edmonton Eskimos

14

W1

Saskatchewan Roughriders

23

W2

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

12

[edit] 1976 CFL All-Stars

[edit] 1976 CFL Awards

• CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award - Ron Lancaster (QB), Saskatchewan Roughriders
• CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award - Tony Gabriel (TE), Ottawa Rough Riders
• CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award - Bill Baker (DE), British Columbia Lions
• CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award - Dan Yochum (OT), Montreal Alouettes
• CFL's Most Outstanding Rookie Award - John Sciarra (QB), British Columbia Lions
• CFLPA's Most Outstanding Community Service Award - George Reed (RB), Saskatchewan Roughriders
• CFL's Coach of the Year - Bob Shaw, Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Preceded by 1975 CFL season

CFL seasons

Succeeded by 1977 CFL season

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