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Contents

1 Canadian Football News in 1953
2 Regular season

2.1 Final regular season standings

3 Grey Cup playoffs

3.1 SEMI-FINALS
3.2 FINALS
3.3 Grey Cup Semi-Final
3.4 Grey Cup Championship

4 1953 Canadian Football Awards

Canadian Football News in 1953

The Canadian Rugby Union was paid in total of $20,500 by three television stations for the rights to show the Grey Cup game live.

Edmonton's Billy Vessels (RB), became the first player to win the Schenley Award as the Most Outstanding Player.

G. Sydney Halter, QC was named as WIFU Commissioner.

Regular season

Final regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points

**Western Interprovincial Football Union Standings**
Team	GP	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
Edmonton Eskimos	16	12	4	0	276	157	24
Saskatchewan Roughriders	16	8	7	1	243	239	17
Winnipeg Blue Bombers	16	8	8	0	226	226	16
Calgary Stampeders	16	3	12	1	190	313	7

**Interprovincial Rugby Football Union Standings**
Team	GP	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
Montreal Alouettes	14	8	6	0	292	229	16
Hamilton Tiger-Cats	14	8	6	0	229	243	16
Ottawa Rough Riders	14	7	7	0	266	238	14
Toronto Argonauts	14	5	9	0	172	249	10

Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs.
Edmonton has a bye and will play in the WIFU Finals.

Grey Cup playoffs

Note: All dates in 1953

SEMI-FINALS

WIFU Semi-Finals

Saskatchewan Roughriders 5

Winnipeg Blue Bombers 43

Winnipeg won the total-point series by 60-23. The Blue Bombers will play the Edmonton Eskimos in the WIFU Finals.

FINALS

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Winnipeg wins the best of three series 2-1. The Blue Bombers will play the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers (ORFU) in the Grey Cup Semi-Final.

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''Hamilton wins the best of three series 2-0. The Tiger-Cats will advance to the Grey Cup game.

Grey Cup Semi-Final

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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will advance to the Grey Cup game.

Grey Cup Championship

Note: IRFU Final dates are not confirmed, however since [1] the regular season ended October 24 in the West, and November 14 in the East, and [2] all other playoff dates, as well as Grey Cup date are accurate, it is reasonable to assume the above dates are accurate.

1953 Canadian Football Awards

Outstanding Player Award - Billy Vessels (RB), Edmonton Eskimos

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Canadian Football League
East Division: Hamilton | Montreal | Toronto | Winnipeg
West Division: British Columbia | Calgary | Edmonton | Saskatchewan
Suspended for 2006 season: Ottawa
Trophies and awards: Grey Cup | Dixon | Taylor | Nicklin | Evanshen | Martin | Hayman | Fieldgate | McCaffrey | Parker | Gibson | DeMarco-Becket | Dandurand | Dryburgh | James | Stukus | Pate | Agro | Rogers | Outstanding Player | Outstanding Canadian

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