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Canadian football

• a game derived from "rugger" (or rugby, a name still frequently used for the game in Canada), played by two teams of twelve men each on a field 110 by 65 yards; also, the organized activity of games, players, officials, etc.

  • The Canadian game differs in the above and several other respects from American football, which, however, it more resembles than it does English rugby.

  • 1958  A donation of $120 has been made by the North Shore Canadian Football Club to three high schools. . . .
  • 1964  Jimmy Finks was once known as the Willie Sutton of Canadian football for some of the trades he managed to pull off.