Hamilton Tiger-Cats

City:

Hamilton , Ontario

Founded:

1950

Team colors:

black / gold / white

Head coach:

Kent Austin

League (2014):

CFL / East Division

Greatest successes

Gray Cup

1953, 1957, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1972, 1986, 1999

Stadion

Surname:

Tim Hortons Field (2014)

Address:

75 Balsam Ave. North Hamilton, Ontario L8L 8C1

Play surface:

artificial grass

Capacity:

22,500 + 1,500 standing places

Contact

Internet:

www.ticats.ca

Data status

July 18, 2014

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian football team from Hamilton in the Canadian province of Ontario . They were founded in 1950 from a merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Flying Wildcats . The team plays in the Canadian Football League and there in the Eastern Division .

Club colors

The helmet design of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats consists of a black background with a jumping tiger , the club colors are accordingly black, gold and white. They played their home games from 1950 to 2012 at the Ivor Wynne Stadium , which had space for 29,600 spectators. The old stadium was replaced by a new building at the stadium location. As a temporary solution, they played their games in the 13,362-seat Alumni Stadium in Guelph in 2013 , until Tim Hortons Field was completed and opened in September 2014.

successes

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats were a total of eighteen times winners of the Eastern Division Championship , the first time in the founding year, and then won the Gray Cup eight times , the first time in 1953. Sometimes this statistic also includes the victories of the previous teams.

The Tigers from Hamilton around 1906
The Hamilton Tigers in 1910 against an unknown team from Ottawa
The old Hamilton Tiger-Cats Stadium (Ivor Wynne Stadium)
The BC Lions visit the Hamilton Tigers at Tim Hortons Field

Web links

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