1887 CANADIAN RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION

The 1887 Canadian Rugby Football Union (Canadian Football) Senior Chamionship was for the fourth year in a row decided between the Ontario Rugby Football Union Champions and the Quebec Rugby Football Union Champions. The QRFU was a two-game playoff involving three teams, while the ORFU season was again a League Final between the City Champions and College Champions, with the College Championship involving three teams (three less than in 1886) and the City Championship involving three rounds of matches between five teams, one less than in the previous year. There would be no Canadian Senior Championship from 1888 to 1891 as the ORFU and QRFU played separate Championships with no Playoff between them.

ONTARIO RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION

CITY PLAYOFFS

Toronto Argonauts	9	Hamilton Tigers	6 *
Hamilton Tigers	10	Toronto Argonauts	8 **
ROUND 2
Hamilton Tigers	14	London	6
Ottawa Football Club	10	Kingston	1
CITY FINAL
Hamilton Tigers	13	Ottawa Football Club	1

*(game called)

**(replay of previous game)

COLLEGE PLAYOFFS

Ottawa College	defeated	Royal Military College	by default
COLLEGE FINAL
Ottawa College	9	University of Toronto	0

LEAGUE FINAL

Ottawa College

15

Hamilton Tigers

0

QUÉBEC RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION

PLAYOFFS

Montréal AAA	33	Westmount Britannia AC	15
McGill University	8	Québec	4
FINAL
Montréal AAA	29	McGill University	0

CANADIAN RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

Ottawa College

10

Montréal AAA

5

Report

Ottawa College won the 1887 Canadian Rugby Football Union Senior Championship (Canadian Football) with a close 10-9 victory over Montréal AAA in the CRFU Senior Championship Game. Ottawa College had earlier won both the Ontario Rugby Football Union College Championship 9-0 over the University of Toronto before winning the ORFU League Final 15-0 versus Hamilton Tigers who had won the ORFU City Final 13-1 against Ottawa Football Club. The Quebec Rugby Football Union Championship had been decided between Montréal AAA and McGill University with Montréal AAA winning 29-0.

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Many thanks to Jim Stevenson (Statistician – Ontario Football Conference) for kindly providing OFC material for 1984 to 2000
Many thanks to Mitch Soivenski of Hampton, New Hampshire for submitting errata corrections

Acknowledgements

Thanks to David Stewart-Candy

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Data Compiled by Dave Stewart-Candy & Dave Clamen, (Canadian Football Almanac 1875-2012, unpublished, Vancouver 2012).

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