The Alberta Rugby Football Union was formed on September 25, 1911, and governed the newly emerging and evolving sport of football in the province for over 2 decades before it was disbanded in 1936.
[1] First the Calgary Rugby Football Union (CRFU) was created on September 29, 1908.
[2][3] The CRFU would play the champion from Edmonton to determine the winner of the Alberta Rugby Football League for 4 seasons from 1907 to 1910.
[3][4] Alberta Rugby Football Union teams won three WCRFU championships and lost two Grey Cup games in 22 years of competition.
That year, the AFRU champion Edmonton Eskimos (no relation to the modern team) won the WCRFU championship to become the first ever western team to compete for the Grey Cup.