The 1994 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 41st season in modern-day Canadian football , although it is officially the 37th Canadian Football League season.
CFL News in 1994
The CFL admitted three more U.S. -based teams with the Las Vegas Posse , the Shreveport Pirates and the Baltimore Colts - making it 12 teams in total, six in each division. However, the Colts name was revoked from the Baltimore franchise due to NFL pressure and played the entire season as the "Baltimore CFLers". The new teams would start play in 1994, with Las Vegas joining the Sacramento Gold Miners in the West Division and with Baltimore and Shreveport joining the East Division .
In February, Bruce M. Firestone purchased the Ottawa Rough Riders from the Glieberman family. In May, the JLL Broadcast Group purchased the Toronto Argonauts .
BC Place Stadium played host to the Grey Cup game on Sunday, November 27th , making Vancouver the host city for the twelfth time-more than any other Western Canadian city . In the Grey Cup game, the hometown B.C. Lions were against the Baltimore CFLers, becoming the first ever Grey Cup game between a Canadian team and an American team. The Lions ended up defeating the Baltimore team by a score of 26-23, on Lui Passaglia 's game-winning field goal in the final seconds of the game.
Records: In a July 14 , 1994 matchup of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Edmonton Eskimos , Matt Dunigan passed for a remarkable 713 yards, setting the CFL record that still stands (as of 2006 ).[1]
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 means that they have clinched the playoffs.
Grey Cup playoffs
Note: All dates in 1994
Eastern Semi-Finals
Western Semi-Finals
Divisional Finals
Grey Cup Championship
1994 CFL All-Stars
OFFENCE QB - Doug Flutie , Calgary Stampeders
FB - Sean Millington , British Columbia Lions
RB - Mike Pringle , Baltimore CFLers
SB - Allen Pitts , Calgary Stampeders
SB - Gerald Wilcox , Winnipeg Blue Bombers
WR - Paul Masotti , Toronto Argonauts
WR - Rod Harris , Saskatchewan Roughriders
C - Mike Anderson , Saskatchewan Roughriders
OG - Pierre Vercheval , Toronto Argonauts
OG - Rocco Romano , Calgary Stampeders
OT - Shar Pourdanesh , Baltimore CFLers
OT - Chris Walby , Winnipeg Blue Bombers
DEFENCE DT - Bennie Goods , Edmonton Eskimos
DT - Rodney Harding , Toronto Argonauts
DE - Will Johnson , Calgary Stampeders
DE - Tim Cofield , Hamilton Tiger-Cats
LB - Ron Goetz , Saskatchewan Roughriders
LB - Willie Pless , Edmonton Eskimos
LB - Calvin Tiggle , Toronto Argonauts
CB - Less Browne , British Columbia Lions
CB - Irvin Smith , Baltimore CFLers
DB - Charles Gordon , British Columbia Lions
DB - Robert Holland , Edmonton Eskimos
DS - Greg Knox , Calgary Stampeders
1994 CFL Awards
