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“NCAFA kicks off football season”
In an earlier post, I stated that local media did not cover last week’s NCAFA Midget games. Turns out that’s not quite true: The Sun had a write-up about the Association’s 2010 opening weekend including the first of the midget games (the second must have been past their bedtime). Here is that level’s blurb in [...]
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Taking a knee, Aug 23rd
When using a slightly different layout for the main site, I used to have an opening segment unimaginatively called “opening kick-off”. Going forward, “Taking a knee” will simply refer to being done with the weekend’s action and commenting on the parts that the local media has not touched upon. I have not come across any [...]
Growing the Midgets
The NCAFA Midget level will be getting the bulk of the attention this weekend. I had been waiting for the final week of the regular season to be included on the NCAFA stats page prior to copying them here. However, the only team that has its full stats on display is the Nepean Redskins (and [...]
NCAFA closes the regular season Sunday
When the NCAFA Midget-level schedule was made publically available, the late season contests were still lacking some details. Several did not specify the time of day the game would be played, for instance. I snuck over to the NCAFA site to plug those holes earlier today and found a couple of noteworthy modifications. The two [...]
Catch him if you can!
Time flies when you’re having fun. The local football season seemed to take forever to arrive yet today I looked at the midget standings and damned if the Canterbury Mustangs aren’t already halfway through their regular season. Granted, that’s partially because an odd number of teams makes for an akward schedule (the Dukes have only [...]
Hail to the 2005 Redskins!
Some time back, I began creating pages (and photo album folders) specific to “classic” teams such as the Gee-Gees and Sooners national championship teams. And this past weekend, while updating the midget page, I decided to do the same for the 2005 Nepean Redskins. There is no national (or even provincial) championship at the midget [...]
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1986 Midget Championship Game: Trojans vs Redskins
The gentleman who posted the below video on youtube was kind enough to draw my attention to it. It includes over nine minute of action from that specific game. I know he (Peter) says he wants to improve its quality but considering it’s over 20 years old, I think it’s surprisingly good. Enjoy!
Former Nepean Redskin joins UTEP
Nate Seager has drawn my attention to an article he wrote for the Sun about former Nepean Redskin Brander Craighead’s progression through the football ranks (so to speak). He had originally written this one and now provides us with an update. Brander Craighead dug deep to become a Miner. Yesterday, the Barrhaven native signed a letter [...]
Nepean Redskin accepted into Fork Union Military Academy
Story from the Ottawa Sun. Congratulations and best of luck. Brander Craighead’s football dream has gone from vague to specific. The 17-year-old offensive tackle, a towering 6-foot-6 and 280 lbs., learned last week he’s been accepted into Fork Union Military Academy, the prep school in Charlottesville, Va., that ships players to major U.S. colleges by [...]