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Football had been played in the city and environs for nearly two decades before the
Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club was founded in 1907. The first game in Alberta was played in Edmonton, with Edmonton and Clover Bar (an outlying community, now a suburb) playing to a scoreless tie in 1890. "The first
187:"The Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club was formed on April 10, 1907, and adopted the uniform colors of black with yellow facings. Edmonton played its first game on November 9 and defeated the Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at the Edmonton Exhibition Grounds." The club was renamed the
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record of an organized rugby club in
Edmonton appeared in the Edmonton bulletin on September 19, 1891." In 1891 Edmonton defeated Calgary 6-5 in the Alberta Total-point Challenge Series. A team from Edmonton (actually the outlying community of
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Edmonton Rugby Football Club was reorganized as the Esquimaux on Oct. 16, 1908 at a meeting in the Windsor Hotel on Jasper Avenue and 101st Street. The team had been nicknamed “Esquimaux” by a Calgary sportswriter as early as
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in 1910. They competed in the
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1623:"LINE ALONE CARES ESKIMOS TO VICTORY OVER CALGARY'S NEW SQUAD"
292:) before ceasing operation as the Second World War began.
1598:"CFL.ca - Official Site of the Canadian Football League"
1573:"CFL.ca - Official Site of the Canadian Football League"
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1510:A History of the Edmonton Rugby Union
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1673:"HISTORY OF THE EDMONTON ESKIMOS"
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1734:Categories
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1658:2017-11-20
1608:2017-08-26
1583:2010-05-27
1487:References
1249:Harlequins
1093: ; 7
1140:Playoffs
602:1st - tie
492:(beat by
450:(beat by
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381:Esquimaux
330:Playoffs
156:then the
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1387:Hi-Grads
1353:Boosters
1318:Boosters
1283:Boosters
1089:Grey Cup
261:season.
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