{"id":853799,"date":"2026-08-11T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853799\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:20:10","slug":"alexander-puts-together-five-touchdown-game-in-cfl-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853799\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander puts together five-touchdown game in CFL showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Portland State quarterback Davis Alexander came up big during a showdown of the Canadian Football League\u2019s top two teams over the weekend, leading Montreal to a 48-30 win over Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander put the Alouettes up 7-0 with a 10-yard touchdown run late in the first quarter, and Montreal stayed a step ahead the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his early rushing TD, Alexander completed 22 of 28 passes for 352 yards and four passing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander hit Tyson Philpot down the middle for a 56-yard touchdown strike to put the game away 41-17 with 6:03 to play.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander led the CFL with 3,140 passing yards this season, while throwing for 18 touchdowns and only two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal leads the league with an 8-1 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Portland State quarterback Davis Alexander came up big during a showdown of the Canadian Football League\u2019s top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-853799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853799","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=853799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}