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CFL Player Restrictions

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"CFL Player Restrictions"

Last updated 📅 2025-07-04

The July 4, 1968 Ottawa-Citizen provides our Newspapers.com Football History Headline of the Day when it posted its commentary of:

Time to drop import rule
The article discusses the plight in Canada where Canadian football players were raising their prices based on supply and demand in the CFL. At the time each of the Canadian Football League franchises were to have no less than 18 Canadians on their active roster. Ottawa Rough Riders head coach at the time, Frank Clair was quoted saying, "I predict that if prices of Canadian players continue to rise then the import rule will go." According to the CFL.CA website the current import rule reads, "Each team may have a maximum of 46 players, including 2 players who shall be identified as quarterbacks and 44 other players, of whom not more than 20 may be American players."

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