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Opening Kickoff!
Jan 24th: This is a pretty dead time for amateur football but a recent discovery, which may be common knowledge to the rest of the world, has enabled me to remain busy making small changes to several parts of the site.
I never bothered to look too deeply into the archives section of Google News but it turns out that it provides access to newspaper articles dating as far back as the late 1800’s. I feel like a dumbass, to be entirely honest. What the hell else would “Google News Archives” offer?? It just never really jumped out at me.
The archives are not as thorough as the Ottawa Public Library, of course. The OPL offers local newspapers that are no longer in circulation. On the other hand, the Google archives allow for easier access to old articles from out-of-town newspapers. The Montreal Gazette in particular has been a great help.
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As a result of this epiphany, I have been able to find several Sooners and Ravens scores that I was missing, and I know there are far more where that came from. But more importantly, I have been able to add very obscure information to the “Other” page (my personal favourite on the site), the purpose of which is to record details about defunct programs at various levels. For example…
- The “cause of death” of the professional Ottawa Trojans from the 40’s, as well as the scores I was missing. In their last season, the Trojans won their league championship. The next year, they disappeared. What happened? Now we know.
- The addition of a short-lived team in the 1930’s called the Ottawa Rangers.
- Some details about the Ottawa District Football League, the first league in which the Ottawa Sooners played.
I’m still chipping away at that page so bear with me if some of it is difficult to follow. I also plan to use the Google archives to flesh out the Midget and High School historical information.
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Site updates
(Big and/or small)
Jan 24th- The 2003 Nepean Redskins roster, that year's NCAFA Midget championship team, has been copied.
Jan 14th- Added some scores at both ends of the Rough Riders results page ; 1914 and 1955.
Jan 10th- The Bel Air Norsemen page gets a bit of a cleanup. The 2009 scores had not all been posted (my bad). They now are, as are the 2004 ones.
Jan 9th- Scores from the 2004 season have been added to the Nepean Redskins page.
Jan 3rd- The early focus is on the first few Jr Riders seasons today. There's a new page for the 1997 team in particular and scores from the 1998 and 1999 seasons have been added to the History page.
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2009 NCAFA Midget
Canterbury Mustangs
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2009 High School Tier 1
St. Peter Knights
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2009 Junior (Ontario)
Ottawa Sooners
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This Just In
Feb 7th: Earlier this week, the Empire Football League, former home of the Bootleggers and Deacon Demons, announced that they were ceasing operations in Canada. Read more about this on the Ottawa Invaders blog.
Feb 5th: The OUA schedule is out! The University of Ottawa opens at home on Labour Day (September 6th) against Western.
Jan 30th: The CIS recruiting blog lists Merivale High School's Cameron Stewart as a Saint Mary's recruit.
Jan 30th: In case someone out there is interested in how the locals are doing in the USA Vs The World game but are unable to watch it, I'll be blogging about it throughout. Go here.
Jan 25th: The Northern Football Conference has released its 2010 schedule. The Invaders' is copied here, though please note that there future changes could still be made between now and the May 29th home-opener.
Jan 20th: The Ottawa Invaders have announced that former Rough Rider Ken Evraire will be the team's first Head Coach.
Jan 20th: The Team USA vs The World website has added brief biographies for its participants, including Tyler Sawyer, Soonbum Cha and Tyler Crapigna.
Jan 18th: Former Gee-Gees QB Josh Sacobie will be joining the Cegep de l'Outaouais Griffons coaching staff. This was reported on info07, blogged and tweeted by the Pony Express, and re-tweeted by Allez Les Bleus. God, I love the internet! ;-)
Jan 14th: Neate Sager provides some background on Myers Riders and Sooners kicker Tyler Crapigna for the Ottawa Sun. You can read that here. The original is linked as well.
Jan 14th: Registration information for the OVFL Myers Riders clubs has been posted on the Around Town page, as lifted from EMC (Perth).
Recent Scores
Nov 25th: St. Peter 37 vs Crestwood 22, National Capital Bowl
Nov 21st: St. Peter 33 @ Holy Cross (Kingston) 27, OFSAA semi-final
Nov 12th: St. Mark 00 vs St. Peter 03, NCSSAA High School Championship
Nov 7th: Chateauguay Raiders 20 @ Ottawa Jr Riders 19, QJFL Championship
Nov 7th: Month Bleu 18 @ Le Carrefour 07, ARSEO Juvenile AA Final
Nov 1st: Edmonton Wildcats 31 @ Ottawa Sooners 03, CJFL
Oct 30th: Mews Orleans Dukes 11 vs Canterbury Mustangs 14, NCAFA Midget Final
On The Clock
May 21st - 23rd: Gridiron Academy
May 29th: Oakville Longhorns @ Ottawa Invaders
July 10th - 17th: Football Canada Cup
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2010 OUA Regular Season Standings
Queen's (2) 0 0 - 00
Laurier 0 0 - 00
Western (6) 0 0 - 00
Ottawa (8) 0 0 - 00
McMaster (10) 0 0 - 00
Guelph 0 0 - 00
Waterloo 0 0 - 00
Windsor 0 0 - 00
Toronto 0 0 - 00
York 0 0 - 00
Final 2009 OFC Standings
Ottawa Sooners 6 2 - 12
St Leonard Cougars 5 3 - 10
Hamilton Hurricanes 5 3 - 10
Windsor AKO Fratmen 4 4 - 08
London Beefeaters 4 4 - 08
Burlington Braves 0 8 - 00
Final 2009 QJFL Regular Season Standings
Ottawa Jr Riders 7 1 - 14
Châteauguay Raiders 7 1 - 14
Laval Devils 6 2 - 12
South Shore Monarx 4 4 - 08
St-Lazare Stallions 3 5 - 06
Cumberland Panthers 1 7 - 02
Joliette Pirates 0 8 - 00
Final 2009 AA Collegiate Standings (South East)
Collège Lionel-Groulx 8 0 - 16
Collège de Valleyfield 5 3 - 10
Collège André-Grasset 5 3 - 10
Cégep de Drummondville 4 4 - 08
Cégep de Lanaudière 2 6 - 04
Cégep de l'Outaouais 0 8 - 00
2010 Sr Varsity Standings (Wettges East)
Toronto Thunder 0 0 - 00
Ottawa Myers Riders 0 0 - 00
Cumberland Panthers 0 0 - 00
Oshawa Hawkeyes 0 0 - 00
Kingston Grenadiers 0 0 - 00
Cornwall Wildcats 0 0 - 00
Final 2009 NCAFA Midget Standings
Canterbury Mustangs 7 1 - 14
Nepean Redskins 5 3 - 10
Mews Orleans Dukes 5 3 - 10
Bel Air Norsemen 3 5 - 06
Ottawa Colts 0 8 - 00
Final 2009 NCSSAA Senior Tier 1 Standings
St. Peter Knights 6 0 - 12
St. Mark Lions 5 1 - 10
Ashbury Colts 4 2 - 08
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Lancers 2 4 - 04
St. Matthew Tigers 1 5 - 02
South Carleton Storm 0 6 - 00
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Photo Album Updates
(Click image at right or the "added" date to reach the "last uploads" section of the album)
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Jan 3rd: The 1959 Panda game recap (won handily by the Gee-Gees, 42-00) from the Ottawa Citizen has been added to the respective folder under the U. of O. category. As is often the case, it's tricky to read, so its highlights are included on the Panda Game page.
Apparently, it didn't take very long for Pedro-related antics to get going. The first Panda Game was in 1955, yet the article makes reference to Pedro going on road trips to other colleges and universities throughout the 1958 season.
And in 1959, Pedro was decapitated by the Carleton students! No doubt this was one of the incidents which caused Pedro to go from being a stuffed panda to a wooden (if memory serves) one.
To this point, for the most part, I would collect Panda Game articles as a I came across them while researching other aspects of Ottawa football. Going forward, I'll be tracking them chronologically in order to follow Pedro's adventures. This is one of those football traditions that I always enjoy reading about.
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