{"id":745302,"date":"2026-06-18T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745302\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:19:10","slug":"blue-bombers-adding-legendary-coach-cal-murphy-to-clubs-ring-of-honour-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745302\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers adding legendary coach Cal Murphy to club\u2019s Ring of Honour \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will add former coach and general manager Cal Murphy to the club\u2019s Ring of Honour on July 30.<\/p>\n

Murphy, who died in 2012, helped guide Winnipeg to three Grey Cup championships during his tenure with the club from 1983-96, winning one as head coach and two as GM. He was twice named the CFL\u2019s coach of the year.<\/p>\n

He will be honoured at halftime when the Blue Bombers host the B.C. Lions at Princess Auto Stadium.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWinnipeg Blue Bombers coach Cal Murphy talks to fullback Duane Forde, left, and linebacker Elfrid Payton during team practice in Calgary on Nov. 24, 1993. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Dave Buston<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg-born Murphy finished his CFL career with nine Grey Cup championships, including five as a member of Edmonton\u2019s coaching staff and one as an assistant coach in Montreal.<\/p>\n

He was inducted into the Winnipeg Football Club Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2004.<\/p>\n

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A statue of Murphy was unveiled outside the stadium in 2017, and the club\u2019s annual Cal Murphy Heart of a Legend Award has been presented since 2001.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will add former coach and general manager Cal Murphy to the club\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-745302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}