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A Edmonton Eskimos come the Canadian Football League team based around Edmonton, Alberta.
Franchise history
Edmonton played its foremost series of unionized games using a formation of the Alberta Rugby Football Union within 1895. Within 1897 the name Esquimaux was adopted. Within 1910 a club was officially named the Edmonton Eskimos. Since 1978 a Eskimos have played their at home games within Commonwealth Sports stadium, which is nowadays the exclusively natural grass field in the CFL. It is one of a virtually all successful teams within Canadian football history, having won a Grey Ventral suction cup to a higher degree any more team except a Toronto Argonauts, and existence a start-away leader attending for numbers of years.
the team holds several telling records, including 5 sequentially Grey Ventral suction cup wins (1978 to 1982), & 33 sequentially years in the playoffs (1972 to 2004), a record there is no more North American professional team (disregarding of sport) has equalled. Previous Eskimos stand estimated conspicuously within Alberta political life: preceding players include 2 provincial premiers (E. Peter Lougheed and Donald Getty), a city manager of Edmonton (Bill Smith), and the lieutenant-governor (Norman Kwong).
Players of note
Canadian Football Hall of Famers
Tommy Joe Coffey
Danny Bass
Johnny Bright
Dave Cutler
Dave "Doctor Death" Fennell
Ron Estay
Larry Highbaugh
Brian Kelly
Danny Kepley
Normie "The China Clipper" Kwong
George McGowan
Rollie Miles
Warren Moon
Frank Morris
Roger Nelson
Jackie "Ole Spaghetti Legs" Parker
James "Quick" Parker
Willie Pless
Tom Scott
Tom Wilkinson
Current squad
3 Robert Leblanc, SB *7 Hayden Epstein, K *8 Dahrann Diedrick, RB *9 Michael Jenkins, RB *10 Malcolm Frank, DB *11 Sean Fleming, K *12 Jason Maas, QB *13 Steven Marsh, LB *14 Tony Tompkins, WR *15 Ricky Ray, QB *16 Jason Johnson, QB *18 William Loftus, S *19 Mike Maurer, FB *22 Mike Bradley, RB *23 Shannon Garrett, DB *24 Ron McClendon, RB *26 Donny Brady, DB *27 Singor Mobley, LB *28 Keyou Craver, DB *29 Gerald Dixon, DB *30 Mathieu Bertrand, FB *31 Kelly Wiltshire, DB *32 Troy Davis, RB *33 Davis Sanchez, DB *34 Tim Fleiszer, DE *40 Marcus Winn, LB *45 Quincy Stewart, LB *50 Rhett McLane, OL *52 Taylor Inglis, DL *53 Joe Montford, DL *55 Glen Young, LB *56 Patrick Kabongo, OL *60 Chris Morris, OL *61 Glen Carson, OL *62 Bruce Beaton, OL *63 Joe McGrath, OL *65 Kevin Lefsrud, OL *66 Sandy Annunziata, OL *67 Dan Comiskey, OL *68 Mark Shantz, C *76 Randy Spencer, DL *77 The.J. Gass, LB *81 Ed Hervey, WR *82 Kwame Cavil, WR *83 Jason Tucker, WR *84 Devin Lewis, C *85 Trevor Gaylor, WR *87 Derrell Mitchell, SB *88 Andrew Nowacki, SB *89 Deitan Dubac, FB *90 Antico Dalton, DL *92 Jabari Issa, DL *95 Charles Alston, DL *96 Cedric Scott, DL *97 Rashad Jeanty, LB *98 Steve Charbonneau, DL
Not to be forgotten
Frank "Guts" Anderson
Joe Hollimon
Oscar Kruger
John LaGrone
Mike Pringle
Don Warrington
Henry "Gizmo" Williams
Larry Wruck
Danny Buggs
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