The Toronto Rifles were a minor-league professional American football team active between 1964 and 1967.
When the Continental Football League (COFL) was established for the 1965 season with former UFL teams, the Quebec Rifles were admitted and transferred to Toronto to become the Toronto Rifles due to the lack of a suitable facility in Montreal.
In 1967, however, the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts signed away the Rifles' head coach, Leo Cahill, quarterback Tom Wilkinson and running back Joe Williams.
The team declared bankruptcy four games into the 1967 season and the league folded the franchise at the same time as the Akron Vulcans.
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