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44-661: Before the 1993 season , the CFL granted expansion franchises to the owners of two WLAF teams, the Sacramento Surge and San Antonio Riders . The Riders changed their name to the Texans to avoid confusion with the Ottawa Rough Riders and Saskatchewan Roughriders . However, the original Texans franchise folded without ever playing a down when its owner, Larry Benson, ran out of money and was forced to withdraw. In

88-705: A halt to football in Calgary, the final year for the Bronks. None of these earlier Calgary based teams are part of the Stampeders official history or records. The WIFU returned to Calgary on September 29, 1945, with the formation of the Calgary Stampeders. In their first game played on October 20 at Mewata Stadium they beat the Regina Roughriders 12–0 before 4,000 fans in attendance. It was

132-551: A long period of struggles for the Stampeders. In the 18 seasons from 1972 to 1989, the Stampeders made the playoffs only 7 times, and although they reached the Western Final in 1978 and 1979 under Jack Gotta (which were their only two playoff wins and appearances for the rest of the 1970s) losing both times to their provincial rivals in Edmonton , who were in the midst of an unprecedented five-year Grey Cup victory run at

176-472: A poor 3–13 record. However, a successful Save Our Stamps campaign in 1986 resulted in season ticket sales of 22,400, additional funds and stability that translated to improved on-field play which laid the groundwork for both their first playoff win since 1979 in 1990, and back-to-back Grey Cup berths in 1991 and 1992 when they won the title over Winnipeg . Wally Buono took over the head coaching duties in 1990 (after having served as an assistant coach for

220-791: A professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta . The Stampeders compete in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The club plays its home games at McMahon Stadium and are the fifth oldest active franchise in the CFL. The Stampeders were officially founded in 1945, although there were clubs operating in Calgary since the 1890s. The Calgary Stampeders have won eight Grey Cups , most recently in 2018 , from their appearances in 17 Grey Cup Championship games. They have won 20 Western Division Championships and one Northern Division Championship in

264-700: A second attempt to place a team in San Antonio, Larry Ryckman threatened to move the Calgary Stampeders to San Antonio for the 1995 season if Calgary fans did not buy 16,000 season tickets; the tickets were purchased, though Ryckman was forced to sell the team a year later. The Surge changed their name to the Gold Miners, and played the 1993 and 1994 seasons in Sacramento. However, their home stadium, Sacramento State 's Hornet Stadium ,

308-632: A significant factor in San Antonio. Anderson was heavily committed to the American CFL experiment. Indeed, by most accounts, he and the Baltimore Stallions ' Jim Speros were the only truly dedicated American-based owners. When the experiment appeared to be in jeopardy near the end of the 1995 season, Anderson attempted to orchestrate a plan to save it. Under the plan, the Stallions, who were about to be forced out of Baltimore due to

352-468: A taste of success to come that decade under the direction of head coach Les Lear and talented stars such as Woody Strode , Paul Rowe , Keith Spaith , Dave Berry , Normie Kwong and Ezzert "Sugarfoot" Anderson . The year 1948 was perhaps the greatest season in Stamps history, achieving a perfect regular season of 12–0 and capping the year a 2-0-1 record in the playoffs including a Grey Cup victory over

396-437: A team that made a good account of itself in its first season with a market that at least had the potential to support it. The 'Cudas' attendance had dwindled to unsustainable levels once college football season started. In contrast, while Shreveport was the smallest American market in the league, it had proven it could support CFL football for a full season despite being saddled with one of the league's worst teams both on and off

440-613: A third straight Grey Cup appearance, winning the title over the Redblacks 27–16 in Edmonton. Bo Levi Mitchell won Most Outstanding Player at the 2018 CFL Awards as well as the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player. Lemar Durant was named the game's Most Valuable Canadian. The Calgary Stampeders quest for a fourth consecutive Grey Cup appearance came to an abrupt end in 2019, as the team lost a step, finishing second in

484-473: Is still the team's general manager to this day. Hufnagel was also the team's head coach until the end of the 2015 season, when he turned over the head coaching duties to former Stampeder and BC Lions star Dave Dickenson . Between 2009 and 2014 , the Stampeders reached the Western Final every year except 2011 , when the team lost the semi-final game to the Eskimos in Edmonton, 33–19. The following year,

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528-955: The Alberta Rugby Football Union in 1911. The ensuing decades saw Calgary based teams come and go; including the Calgary Canucks , the 50th Battalion , the Tigers again, the Calgary Altomahs, and finally the Calgary Bronks of the Western Interprovincial Football Union . These teams were a dominant force in Alberta football, winning the AFRU championship 15 times over the next 25 years. World War II and 1940 brought

572-464: The BC Lions after the 2002 CFL season. After Wally Buono departed from the Stampeders, the team went through three different head coaches in three years. Jim Barker succeeded Buono in 2003, but was let go after a 5–13 season, and he was replaced by Matt Dunigan , who fared no better in his lone season in 2004, going 4–14. The coaching carousel ended with Tom Higgins taking over in 2005, who brought

616-590: The Las Vegas Posse after only one season left the Gold Miners once again isolated from the rest of the league. Faced with an inadequate stadium and an unsustainable travel situation, Anderson reluctantly opted to move the team to San Antonio as the Texans. The move brought the Texans closer to the league's three Southern teams—the Birmingham Barracudas , Memphis Mad Dogs and Shreveport Pirates . The Texans were unique in that their stadium,

660-551: The Ottawa Rough Riders at Toronto's Varsity Stadium , memorable for the team's scoring a touchdown on a "sleeper play". It was also during that same Grey Cup festival that Calgary fans brought pageantry to the game and made it into a national celebration, featuring pancake breakfasts on the steps of City Hall, starting the Grey Cup parade and even riding a horse in the lobby of the Royal York Hotel . They returned to

704-617: The pending establishment of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens , would have moved to Houston , a city that was about to lose their NFL team, the Oilers , and Speros would have sold a minority stake to Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane . Meanwhile, the Barracudas would have been sold to a new investment group and relocated to Shreveport to take the place of the Pirates. This would have matched up

748-494: The Alamodome, had a playing surface large enough to accommodate a regulation Canadian football field. Although the facility had been designed primarily with American football in mind, its sideline seats could be retracted to create a playing surface wide enough for the full 65-yard width of a CFL field, and its end zone seating could be retracted to accommodate the full 150-yard length of a CFL field. In their third season in

792-465: The Alamodome, in what was the only CFL playoff game ever held in an American city other than Baltimore . However, their playoff run would end with a loss to the eventual Grey Cup champion Baltimore Stallions in the Southern Final by a score of 21–11. As it turned out, it would be the last game the Texans would ever play, and (as of the 2015 season) the last meaningful CFL game ever played in

836-548: The CFL and their first as the Texans, the team had the second-highest scoring offence in the league, which was led by veteran quarterback David Archer . The franchise finished the 1995 CFL season with a 12–6 record, finishing in second place of the South Division, which sent them to their first playoff berth. In the playoffs, the Texans soundly defeated the Barracudas, 52–9, in the Southern Semi-Final at

880-653: The Grey Cup the following year (1949), with a 13–1 record but lost to the Montreal Alouettes 28–15 in the title game. It was 19 years until Calgary once again reached the Grey Cup, losing 24–21 to Ottawa in the 1968 final and not until 1971 when they were crowned champions, defeating the Toronto Argonauts 14–11. The Stampeders, like all the teams playing in the WIFU and IRFU, joined the newly formed Canadian Football League in 1958. The year 1960 brought

924-550: The Stallions opting to move to Montreal, there was no longer a viable place for Anderson to relocate had he decided to follow the Stallions' example. Although several other markets in Canada had expressed interest in joining the CFL, none had a stadium at the time that was suitable even for temporary use. Malcolm Frank was the last remaining player from the Texans to play in the Canadian Football League when he

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968-538: The Stampeders a new home, McMahon Stadium . Their first game in their new stadium was on August 15, 1960, a 38–23 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers . From 1968 to 1971, the Stampeders made it to the Grey Cup game three out of those four years (missing in 1969), winning it in 1971. After having some great years at the end of the 1960s which culminated in their 1971 Grey Cup championship, 1972 started

1012-543: The Stampeders racked up a 153–79–2 record during these years. They reached the Grey Cup six times, winning in 1992, 1998, and 2001, losing in 1991, 1995, and 1999. In 1996, Ryckman was found by the Alberta Securities Commission to have run a stock manipulation scheme, was fined $ 492,000 and was forced to give up the Stampeders, who were subsequently purchased by Sig Gutsche via a receivership court for $ 1.6 million on April 3. Gutsche helped rectify

1056-599: The United States. San Antonio's two backup quarterbacks had connections to the National Football League ' s (NFL) Buffalo Bills . The first was 45-year-old former Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson , who had retired five years earlier and came out of retirement when Dave Archer, the Texans' long-time starting quarterback, suffered an injury. The second was Jimmy Kemp , son of Bills quarterback (and politician) Jack Kemp . Head coach Kay Stephenson

1100-469: The West Division again with a 15–2–1 record, but falling to the third-year Ottawa Redblacks in the 104th Grey Cup in overtime. In 2017, the Stampeders finished 13-4-1 (with the league's best record for the season) and made their second straight Grey Cup appearance , but lost to the Toronto Argonauts again, just as they did five years earlier. In 2018, the Stampeders finished 13-5 and made

1144-460: The West Division. However, only two months after the Grey Cup, the Mad Dogs and Pirates had both folded. The Barracudas were about to be euthanized as well, as by then it was obvious the CFL would not approve their proposed sale and relocation to Shreveport. Speros was seriously considering moving his team to Montreal , in response to pressure from the league office. Anderson was not enamored at

1188-685: The West with a 12–6 record, falling to the eventual Grey Cup champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the West Semi-Final 35–14. The CFL went on hiatus in 2020, but returned in 2021, and the Stampeders finished one game back of the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the shortened 2021 season with an 8–6 record. The team met an early playoff exit at the hands of the Riders in the West Semi-Final in an overtime heartbreaker, 33–30. The team reached

1232-486: The field. The plan would have concentrated the CFL's American experiment in the Southwest, and the three cities would have been close enough to make both it and the three teams more viable. The proposal would likely have meant the end of the CFL's South Division. The most likely alignment would have been to place the three U.S. teams in a re-constituted East Division, while the Winnipeg Blue Bombers would have returned to

1276-473: The following year. This time, they came out on top with the franchise's seventh championship, defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 20–16. After the 2015 season, Hufnagel stepped down from his dual responsibility as head coach and general manager, becoming purely a general manager and handing the coaching reins to former Stamps QB Dave Dickenson . The Stamps continued their success in 2016, winning

1320-632: The franchise's history. The team has a provincial rivalry with the Edmonton Elks , as well as fierce divisional rivalries with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the BC Lions . Prior to the formation of the Stampeders in 1945, football in Calgary can be dated back as early as 1891, when Edmonton defeated Calgary 6–5 in the Alberta Total-point Challenge Series. A team from Edmonton (actually

1364-465: The organization by now known as Calgary Sports and Entertainment became the majority owner of the team; the company previously only had a 5% stake in the team. They were able to reach the Grey Cup game that year only to come up short against the Argonauts , falling by a score of 35–22 . Following another defeat in the Western Final in 2013 , the Stampeders were once again able to reach the Grey Cup

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1408-580: The organization that represents the NHL's Calgary Flames . In 2008, one-time Stamps QB John Hufnagel took the coaching reins, and the Stampeders ended their playoff victory drought en route to winning the team's sixth Grey Cup 22–14 against the Montreal Alouettes. Burris was named the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player with DeAngelis being the top Canadian for their efforts. John Hufnagel had been interviewed by several NFL and college football teams, but

1452-557: The outlying community of Fort Saskatchewan ) had a picture taken of themselves after they defeated a Calgary team (in Calgary,) declaring themselves Champions of Alberta ; the picture has two dates on it, being taken in either 1893 or 1895. The Calgary Rugby Foot-ball Club played for the Alberta championship in 1907, became the Calgary Tigers and joined the Calgary Rugby Football Union in 1908 and

1496-440: The playoffs again in 2022 with a 12–6 record, but fell to the second place BC Lions in the West Semi-Final 30–16. On December 12, 2022, it was announced that Dickenson had been named the team's new general manager in addition to retaining his head coaching duties. The Presidents' Ring was established in 1967 by Calgary Stampeders Football Club team president George McMahon and general manager Rogers Lehew. Formerly presented to

1540-479: The previous three years). Late in the 1991 season, the team, after being community-owned since its inception, went private when Larry Ryckman purchased the team. The next 13 years were some of the most successful years in Stampeders history. Led by quarterbacks Doug Flutie , Jeff Garcia and Dave Dickenson , receivers Allen Pitts , Terry Vaughn and Dave Sapunjis , and a rock-steady defence led by Western All Stars Alondra Johnson , Stu Laird , and Will Johnson

1584-440: The prospect of being the only American owner in the CFL once again. He believed that the league needed at least three more American teams for the Texans to be viable in the long term. However, he was willing to play another season in San Antonio provided the Stallions stuck to their initial plan to move to Houston. On February 3, 1996, the Stallions received formal approval to move to Montreal (they later reconstituted themselves as

1628-561: The team back to respectability led by Henry Burris at quarterback and Joffrey Reynolds at running back, but lost in three straight years in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 Western semi-final games in that span. During this time, the team lost money, and in January 2005, Feterik sold the team to a group led by Ted Hellard, Doug Mitchell and former Stampeder John Forzani, and the Calgary Flames Limited Partnership ,

1672-524: The team's debts and made the team profitable again. The team finished the 1990s having made the playoffs in every year that decade. On October 8, 2001, Sig Gutsche sold the team to California businessman Michael Feterik. Unlike previous owners, Feterik was intimately involved in the club's football operations. Feterik's most notorious move was to give the starting quarterback position to his son Kevin Feterik , angering both fans and Buono. Buono left to join

1716-488: The third incarnation of the Montreal Alouettes ) and the Texans were shuttered along with the Mad Dogs, Pirates and Barracudas. Anderson had little choice but to accept the euthanization of his team; earlier he had stated that he'd lost $ 6 million in 1995—far too much to make it worth the effort to go it alone. With the Stallions' move to Montreal, his nearest opponent would have been in Hamilton, over 1,400 miles away. With

1760-465: The time), the next decade was less than kind to the team. During the 1980s, the Stampeders were the only CFL team that did not win a playoff game (the team made five appearances during the decade, all but one of which came on the road and all resulting in losses in the West Semi-Final). The Stampeders nearly folded after the 1985 season due to years of declining attendance, financial woes and

1804-457: Was Jack Kemp's backup on the Bills squad in 1968 and served as head coach of the Bills during Ferguson's last season with the team in 1984. The San Antonio Texans had respectable attendance, with the average being 15,855. In one of their games at the Alamodome, attendance reached 22,043, in a 38–32 loss to the Calgary Stampeders . The turmoil surrounding most of the other American CFL teams was not

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1848-604: Was a member of the Edmonton Eskimos in 2006. He retired after that season. 1993 CFL season Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 221682379 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:42:03 GMT Calgary Stampeders The Calgary Stampeders are

1892-407: Was completely inadequate as a professional football venue. At the time, it consisted mostly of temporary-style bleacher seats, had few amenities and did not have permanent bathrooms. Additionally, it was uncovered, and thus offered no protection from Sacramento's blistering summer heat. They were also relatively isolated from the rest of the league; for their first two seasons, their nearest opponent

1936-452: Was the BC Lions , 890 miles (1,430 km) north. Unable to persuade Sacramento State to upgrade Hornet Stadium to something approaching CFL standards, Anderson tried to build a new stadium, but those plans fizzled. Neither of the other two stadiums in the Sacramento area, Toomey Field and Charles C. Hughes Stadium , offered anything significantly better; like Hornet Stadium, they were both inadequate even for temporary use. The failure of

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