1971 CFL season

The 1971 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the eighteenth season in modern-day Canadian football, although it was officially the fourteenth Canadian Football League season.

CFL News for 1971
The Grey Cup Championship was played on artificial turf for the first time in Vancouver. The BC Lions also wore special "CCC"-logo helmets to commemorate the Canadian Confederation Centennial of British Columbia, the province having entered into Canadian Confederation a hundred years earlier, in 1871. The flower in the centre of the "CCC" logo is the pacific dogwood, the official provincial flower of British Columbia.

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


 * Bold text indicates that the team clinched a playoff berth.
 * Calgary and Toronto had first round byes.

Conference Finals

 * Calgary won best-of-three series 2–0, advancing to the Grey Cup Championship game.


 * Toronto won two-game total-point series 40–25, advancing to the Grey Cup Championship game.

OFFENCE

 * QB – Don Jonas, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 * RB – George Reed, Saskatchewan Roughriders
 * RB – Jim Evenson, BC Lions
 * RB – Leon McQuay, Toronto Argonauts
 * TE – Mel Profit, Toronto Argonauts
 * SE – Jim Thorpe, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 * WR – Bob LaRose, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 * C – Bob Swift, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 * OG – Jack Abendschan, Saskatchewan Roughriders
 * OG – Granville Liggins, Calgary Stampeders
 * OT – Bill Frank, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 * OT – Ed George, Montreal Alouettes

DEFENCE

 * DT – John Helton, Calgary Stampeders
 * DT – Jim Stillwagon, Toronto Argonauts
 * DE – Jim Corrigall, Toronto Argonauts
 * DE – Craig Koinzan, Calgary Stampeders
 * LB – Wayne Harris, Calgary Stampeders
 * LB – Mark Kosmos, Montreal Alouettes
 * LB – Jerry Campbell, Ottawa Rough Riders
 * DB – Dick Dupuis, Edmonton Eskimos
 * DB – Frank Andruski, Calgary Stampeders
 * DB – Garney Henley, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
 * DB – Marv Luster, Toronto Argonauts
 * DB – Dick Thornton, Toronto Argonauts

1971 CFL Awards

 * CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award – Don Jonas (QB), Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 * CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award – Terry Evanshen (WR), Montreal Alouettes
 * CFL's Most Outstanding Lineman Award – Wayne Harris (LB), Calgary Stampeders
 * CFL's Coach of the Year – Leo Cahill, Toronto Argonauts