Monthly Archives: February 2010
OFA Evaluation Camp results
The Ontario Football Alliance recently completed its series of evaluation camps and have compiled the results. A couple of Ottawa area players have made their way onto the top 10. Sam Sabourin has not been hard to find. He played with the varsity Myers Riders last spring, then with the Jr Riders in the fall. [...]
Posted in Provincial / National / International
Tagged Jr Riders, Locals, Mother Teresa, Myers Riders
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U. of O. Recruits
Canada Football Chat lists the following recruits for the Gee-Gees. Renaud Labrecque – REC – (Cégep Levi-Lauzon) Jamie Stavropoulos – OL – (Donald A Wilson HS) Jack Morrison – OL – (Ottawa Junior Riders) Rob Shaheen – OL – (St.Peter’s HS) Dimitri Aramouni – LB – (Concordia Transfer) Pierre Yves Lavergne – LB – (Cégep [...]
Posted in University
Tagged Gee-Gees, Griffons, Jr Riders, Panthers (Sr Varsity), Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sooners, St. Peter
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Piché steps down as U of O football coach
Press release from the University of Ottawa: Ottawa, February 10, 2010 – Denis Piché has decided to step down as the head coach of the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees football team after eight seasons at the helm of the program. The 43 year old from Montreal, Quebec made the announcement earlier today after a team [...]
New Link: CFLDB
I don’t normally make much of adding a link to the blog, but I found this one pretty impressive and think people should give it a look. The Canadian Football League Database refers to itself as “a collection of Canadian Football League information, links, commentary and opinion”. I came across it as a result of [...]
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Opening Kick-Off, Feb 7th
I recently posted about Google News Archives, and how useful they are for locating past scores and historical data on local teams, even as far back as the mid 1800′s. I’ve used it a fair amount over the past two or three weeks to sort out the history of football locally from about 1881 to [...]
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“Big step for Wildcats”
Jayme mentions this in a comment to an earlier post. Hey, it’s quiet, so why not include it? Besides, it impacts the Cumberland Panthers. The (abbreviated) article is from Cornwall’s Standard-Freeholder and written by Todd Hambleton. The Cornwall Wildcats have announced they’ve been awarded a franchise in the highly-scouted Ontario Varsity Football League, with play [...]