The Verdun Shamcats were a team in the Quebec Rugby Football Union

Quebec Rugby Football Union

The Quebec Rugby Football Union was a football league consisting of teams from Quebec and formed in 1883. Eastern Ontario teams like Ottawa City and Ottawa College joined in 1894.- League Formation and Play :...

 from 1950 until 1966. The team was formed in July 1950 by the amalgamation of five local Verdun junior teams originally created in 1945, into a single, more competitive team in the junior Quebec Rugby Football League. The bulk of the new team was drawn from the Verdun Shamrocks, which became the basis of the "Sham-Cats" team name. The team's initial coach was Gus McFarlane

CFL

Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

 great Tony Pajaczkowski

Tony Pajaczkowski

Tony Pajaczkowski was an award winning all star offensive guard in the Canadian Football League.Coming from the Verdun Shamcats in Montreal, Pajaczkowski would play 11 seasons with the Calgary Stampeders and 2 seasons with the Montreal Alouettes...

 of the Calgary Stampeders

Calgary Stampeders

The Calgary Stampeders are a Canadian Football League team based in Calgary, Alberta and named in reference to the Calgary Stampede. The Stampeders play their home games at McMahon Stadium...

 and Bob Geary

Bob Geary

Bob Geary, an ex-player and general manager of the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL, died on February 17, 2001. He was 68.After playing for the Verdun Shamcats in the Quebec Senior Football League, Geary began his professional career with the CFL Calgary Stampeders in 1955.Geary moved to the Alouettes...

 of the Montreal Alouettes

Montreal Alouettes

The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...

 played for the team. In 1958 they beat the Cornwall Emards

Cornwall Emards

The Cornwall Emards were a team in the Quebec Senior Football League in the 1950s. In 1958 they lost to the Verdun Shamcats in the league championship....

to win the league championship. The team, and the league (QSFL) folded after the 1964 season and was replaced by the Verdun Mustangs and later by the Verdun Invictus, in the Metropolitan Junior Football Conference in 1968, who moved up from the QRFU juvenile division.