Notre-Dame-de-Grace Maple Leafs - Demise

Demise

At the end of 1973, the Notre-Dame-de-Grace Maple Leafs and the Verdun Invictus were the last two surviving teams from the Quebec Junior Football League. The two teams merged in 1974, becoming the Verdun Maple Leafs, and played in the Canadian Junior Football League until 1980. The Maple Leafs were bought out by a group from the West Island of Montreal, who renamed the team the Montreal Junior Alouettes in 1981. The team changed names again in 1982, to the Montreal Junior Concordes, when the professional franchise, the Montreal Alouettes, changed ownership and name. The Concordes played from 1982 to 1984, when the team folded. They managed to reach the national junior football final in 1982, losing to the Renfrew Trojans by the score of 46 to 0.