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Invaders 03, Maddogs 10
Bruce Garrioch covers the Invaders playoff defeat from last night. The Ottawa Invaders’ inaugural run in the Northern Football Conference playoffs lasted just one game. After a three-week break since their last regular-season game, the Invaders weren’t able to get their offence going and dropped a 10-3 decision to the Toronto Maddogs Saturday night at [...]
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Invaders pre-season all-stars (sort of)
I sometimes neglect to mention the Invaders here because I am responsible for updating their website. Once that is updated, it feels like the work is done and I forget to do the same here. But here’s something that is probably more appropriate to this site than the Invaders one. It was inspired by a [...]
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A scheduling lament
Signs of spring: Flowers blooming, the sound of lawn-mowers, allergies starting to act up and bitching about schedules on CRF. In truth, I expect some conflict in regards to game times. I can’t very well make the case for Ottawa being a very active football market and not anticipate that some games will run simultaneously. [...]
New(ish) website for the Perth Blue Devils
Earlier today, I was attempting to fill the gaps in the Lanark Renfrew page’s list of past champions. My degree of success was rather modest but I did find a relatively new web page for the Perth Blue Devils during my search. Stumbling into this site was a pleasant surprise. While most amateur clubs have their own [...]
“Invaders gear up for first NFC season in Ottawa”
Tim Baines of the Ottawa Sun attended the Invaders’ press conference yesterday and the article below is the result. It seems that other media outlets in towns with NFC teams paid attention. The article found its way into at least two other papers; the North Bay Nugget and the Sault (Ste Marie) Star. While the [...]
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“Evraire invades coaching ranks”
Tim Baines of the Ottawa Sun covered the Invaders’ appointment of Ken Evraire as Head Coach yesterday. Ken Evraire has been out of the Canadian Football League for more than 10 years. But that didn’t dampen his love for the game, a passion that he’ll bring as coach of the new Ottawa Invaders semi-pro team, [...]
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“Semi-pro football back in Ottawa”
Because Martin Cleary’s mid-week article about the Invaders was posted on the team’s website, I neglected to add it here too. Here it is. Going forward, much like there was a page for the Deacon Demons on CRF (still is, in fact, but it’s a sub page to the Bootleggers), there will be one for [...]
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Ottawa Invaders officially accepted into the Northern Football Conference
Ottawa Invaders General Manager Sean Murphy sent the following message through the team’s Facebook group earlier today. GREAT NEWS! The Ottawa Invaders have been granted a franchise in the NFC for the 2010 season. We will be an eleven team league in 2010. Teams are: Toronto Raiders Toronto Maddogs Oakville Longhorns Oshawa Hawkeyes Milton Maurauders [...]
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Be a part of the Invasion!
On October 12th, I wrote about interest in restoring semi-pro football in Ottawa. With the Deacon Demons a thing of the past, a playing option beyond the junior age bracket was not available in 2009. I would occasionally see such interest expressed on message board and Facebook groups, whether by players, coaches or fans but [...]
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Revisiting semi-pro football in Ottawa
I was cleaning up the links on the blog, removing those that are no longer active or that are seldom updated, and while doing so I decided to revive a specific category. I removed the semi-pro category when the Deacon Demons met their end prior to the 2009 Empire Football League season. There did not [...]