The Canadian Football League is the highest level of professional Canadian football, a game similar to American football but with differences such as three downs instead of four, twelve players per side, a wider and longer field, and a single point for kicks missed that go through the end zone. It was formed from the two regional unions that had governed the sport, the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union in the east and the Western Interprovincial Football Union in the west. The league's championship trophy is the Grey Cup, which dates from 1909, and is awarded to the winner of the final, which has become a major national event. The league has nine teams, including the Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Before and after
- 1958Publication of Exodus
- 1958Founding of Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
- 1958Child mortality falls below 20% worldwide
- from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962Founding of West Indies Federation
- 19 January 1958Origins of Canadian Football League
- 23 January 1958Establishment of Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park
- 26 January 1958Birth of Ellen DeGeneres
- 1 February 1958Launch of Explorer 1
- 6 February 1958Munich air disaster
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