Just stumbled upon an interesting bit of CFL trivia in the wikipedia article of former Roughrider QB Frank Tripucka:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tripucka
Apparently for the last two games of the 1959 season, the Roughriders were unable or perhaps — being 1-13 and well out of the playoff picture — unwilling to field the required minimum number of non-imports and therefore forfeited (but still fielded a team and played in) these final two games.
So my question is, does this represent the most recent forfeiture of a CFL game, or ha(s/ve) there been (an)other(s)?
As a further note of trivia, league archives at cfl.ca indicate that these two games were played in close proximity, as was not unusual in that era: just two days apart on Sat Oct 24 (at home vs Edm, they lost 20-19 anyway) and Mon Oct 26 (at Wpg, where they won 37-30 but it went into the standings as an L, and they finished at 1-15).
Most recent forfeiture of a CFL game?
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