1922 CFL
In 1922, Canadian Football consisted of 6 separate leagues, which only competed within its own league during the regular season. Each league would have teams that would qualify for the post-season, and the right to compete for the 10th Grey Cup Championship. This included the IRFU (Interprovincial Rugby Football Union), the ORFU (Ontario Rugby Football Union), the CIRFU (Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union), the MRFU (Manitoba Rugby Football Union), the SRFU (Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union), and the ARFU (Alberta Rugby Football Union). In the first round of the playoffs, it was Queen's University over the University of Toronto 12-6. The Toronto Argonauts rolled over Toronto Parkdale 20-1, and the newly re-named Edmonton Elks took care of the Regina Rugby Club 13-8. In the East Semi-Final, it was Queen's University squeaking by the Toronto Argonauts 12-11, while the Edmonton Elks would have no trouble with the Winnipeg Victorias 19-1, setting up the match-up for the 10th Grey Cup Championship Game. The game was played on December 2, 1922, before 4,700 fans at Richardson Memorial Stadium at Kingston. Queen's University defeated the Edmonton Elks 13 to 1. The Edmonton Eskimos, renamed the Elks, made it to consecutive Grey Cup games, but suffered the same fate as they did in 1921. The only difference was that the Elks actually got on the scoreboard, and led their opponents at halftime. It was the first and only time the Grey Cup game was played in Kingston, but it wasn't a memorable one. After victories against the University of Toronto and Toronto Argonauts, the past two Grey Cup winners, Queen's was expected to steamroll over the Elks. Richardson Stadium overflowed with fans, some of whom were forced to stand around the playing field, but the small venue meant only 4,700 could watch the game. The Elks were weary following a four-day journey by train that brought them into Kingston at midnight on game day. But it didn't stop them from taking a 1-0 lead into halftime on a rouge by Jack Fraser. After a verbal tirade by coach Billy Hughes, Queen's looked like their dominant selves in the third quarter. After a pair of rouges off the foot of Pep Leadlay which gave the students a 2-1 lead, Edmonton's Scotty Brown dropped a punt at his own 30-yard line, which was recovered by Queen's and returned ten yards. Harry Batstone and Johnny Evans carried Queen's to the five-yard line, and then Charlie Mundell crashed through the line for a try. Leadlay was good on the convert. On the ensuing kickoff, Queen's recovered George Day's fumble on the Elks' 40-yard line just as time expired in the third quarter. The students drove down the field to begin the fourth, and from the 10-yard line Dave Harding marched through a hole as wide as one of the Thousand Islands, running the ball between the goal posts. Following the game, a banquet was held in the players' honour, followed by a dance with the student body. The Elks were asked to attend, but they refused, upset over a lack of hospitality by the winning side. They were also irritated with the officiating, with one member of the club saying that they would have to be twice as good as their Eastern opponent if they ever hoped to offset the unfavourable decisions of the Eastern officials. Edmonton would not send a team to the Grey Cup again until the 1940s. For Queen's, however, it was the beginning of a dynasty.
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