Winnipeg Rifles

This article is about the football team. For the military unit, see The Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
Winnipeg Rifles
City Winnipeg, Manitoba
League Canadian Junior Football League
Division Prairie Football Conference
Founded 1999
Colours Blue and Black and Gold and White
Home field Investors Group Field

Winnipeg Rifles are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Rifles are members of the Canadian Junior Football League and play their home games at Investors Group Field, home of the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

History

Canad Inns Stadium, where the Rifles played until 2012

Junior football in Winnipeg dates back to the 1920s, with the formation of the Manitoba Junior Football League. In 1953, teams from Winnipeg began playing in the CJFL, the most successful being the Winnipeg Rods, who won three championships. Those teams would eventually fold or merge. The Winnipeg Hawkeyes were the last Winnipeg-based team prior to the Rifles, folding in 1996.

In 1999, an effort to bring back a team to Winnipeg was headed by James Ladd (Manitoba Football Hall of Fame inductee). The team began play in the CJFL in 2002, playing out of Canad Inns Stadium. Beginning in 2013, the Rifles began to play out of Investors Group Field.

The team is named after the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment that was founded in 1883.

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