1960 CFL season The 1960 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 7th season in modern - day Canadian football , although it is officially the 3rd Canadian Football League season . CFL News in 1960 . The IRFU changed its name to become the Eastern Football Conference . The CFL allowed unlimited blocking on interception returns . The Calgary Stampeders moved into McMahon Stadium on Monday , August 15 , after it took only 103 days to be built . On September 14 , four of the six directors of the Montreal Alouettes abruptly resigned their positions . The resignations of Lucien Beauregard , Morgan N . Johnston , David C . McConnell and W . Heard Wert left only owner - president Ted Workman and general manager - coach Perry Moss on the board . Rosters were reduced from 40 players to 34 on September 15 . Ottawa ' s Ron Stewart rushed for 287 yards on 16 carries in a game in Montreal against the Alouettes on Monday , October 10 . He rushed for four touchdowns , one in each quarter , on runs of 39 , 51 , 51 and 37 yards . He broke the single - game record of 217 yards held previously by Hamilton ' s Gerry McDougall . The Winnipeg Blue Bombers honored their 11 - year veteran guard with " Buddy Tinsley Night " at half - time during their Thursday , October 13 , 1960 game versus the BC Lions . The Winnipeg crowd of 16 , 773 was delighted when Tinsley lined up at fullback and took a hand - off from quarterback Kenny Ploen over from the BC one - yard line for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter . At league meetings during Grey Cup week , Western teams dropped their insistence on sharing in the lucrative television rights payments received by the Big Four ( Eastern ) teams as a condition of accepting an interlocking schedule . It was agreed to begin a partially interlocking schedule in 1961 , with travel costs to be offset by an across - the - board surcharge of 25 cents on the price of every ticket sold ( each team , every seat , every game ) . The CFL played an unbalanced schedule of Exhibition games . Four teams ( Ottawa , Toronto , Winnipeg and Hamilton ) played their annual split - squad scrimmages at the conclusion of their preliminary training camps . 25 players received skin burns during an Edmonton - Calgary game played at Mewata Stadium in Calgary on July 20 . Two Eskimos , Roger Nelson and Jim Shipka , were treated in a Calgary hospital . Two Stampeders , Doug Brown and Ernest Warlick , filed damage claims with the City of Calgary . The lime used for field markings initially was suspected as being the cause , although laboratory tests later determined it was fully hydrated and should not have been the culprit . Fertilizer also was suggested as a possible cause of the skin burns . On July 28 , the Saskatchewan Roughriders played the London Lords of the Senior Ontario Rugby Football Union in London , Ontario , and beat their hosts 38 – 0 . On July 29 , the BC Lions played the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Cedar Rapids , Iowa . Part of the local appeal was the presence on three former University of Iowa stars , Kenny Ploen and Ray Jauch of the Blue Bombers , and Willie Fleming of the BC Lions . After playing ( and losing to ) the NFL Chicago Cardinals in 1959 , the Toronto Argonauts hosted the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers at CNE Stadium on August 3 and lost 43 – 16 . Both teams used 12 players , with a handful of NFL rules ( blocking , punt returns ) blended in to the Canadian game . Toronto also played host to an NFL exhibition game between the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants , at Varsity Stadium on Monday , August 15 . Top ticket price was $ 10 , which was the most ever charged for a non - Grey Cup game in Toronto . George Halas of the Bears , who also served as chairman of the NFL ' s expansion committee , admitted that in 1961 the NFL would have 14 teams , an awkward number , and that 16 teams would be more convenient for scheduling . It was suggested that this game was a trial balloon for a possible expansion team in Toronto . Chicago defeated the Giants by a 16 – 7 score , but the paid attendance was only 5 , 401 , handing the promoters a $ 30 , 000 loss and effectively ending any chance of an NFL team north of the border . Coaching Changes Calgary General Manager Changes Edmonton Regular season standings . Final regular season standings . " Note : GP = Games Played , W = Wins , L = Losses , T = Ties , PF = Points For , PA = Points Against , Pts = Points " < / div > Grey Cup playoffs . " Note : All dates in 1960 " < / div > < / div > Grey Cup Championship . < / div > 1960 Miss Grey Cup . < / div >