1971 CFL season


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

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.
All CFL teams had their player's last names appearing on the jersey backs beginning this season.
This would be the last year until 2006 that the Edmonton Eskimos would miss the playoffs; in the intervening years, they would reach the playoffs for 33 straight years.

Regular season standings

Final regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points
TeamGPWLTPFPAPts
Calgary Stampeders1696129021819
Saskatchewan Roughriders1696134731619
Winnipeg Blue Bombers1678136634915
BC Lions1669128236313
Edmonton Eskimos16610023730512

Conference Semi-Finals

Conference Finals

Playoff bracket

Grey Cup Championship

1971 CFL All-Stars

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