1971 CFL season

The 1971 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the eighteenth season in modern-day Canadian football, although it was officially the fourteenth Canadian Football League season.

CFL News for 1971

The Grey Cup Championship was played on artificial turf for the first time in Vancouver. The B.C. 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

Final regular season standings

"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

Conference Semi-Finals

Conference Finals

*"Toronto won two-game total-point series 40-25, advancing to the Grey Cup Championship game."

Grey Cup Championship

1971 CFL All-Stars

OFFENCE

*QB - Don Jonas, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
*RB - George Reed, Saskatchewan Roughriders
*RB - Jim Evenson, British Columbia 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

*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 CFL Awards

*CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award - Don Jonas (QB), Winnipeg Blue Bombers
*CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award - Terry Evanshen (WR), Montreal Alouettes
*CFL's Most Outstanding Lineman Award - Wayne Harris (LB), Calgary Stampeders
*CFL's Coach of the Year - Leo Cahill, Toronto Argonauts