1979: Colonel By Wins Their First Championship

On Wednesday, November 13th, Colonel By and Ashbury will meet at Minto Field for the Tier One senior football championship.

Ashbury has won championships in 1999, 2000 and 2002 but Colony By has only secured one, back in 1979. Information about that championship will come from both the Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Journal, starting with the latter.

(Colonel By) Cougars intercepted five of six passes thrown by Brookfield Blues quarterback Cam Collins, and tossed one of their own for a touchdown to win the Ottawa Valley high school senior football title 9-0...  

Cougars set the tone of the match early when Randy Trumpler intercepted a pass on the first Brookfield series. 

Cougars scored the game's only touchdown later in the quarter when quarterback Al Macartney linked up with Mark Branchaud on a 45 yard pass and run play. 

The Citizen (Doug Milton specifically) takes over here.

After that Tom Storey's defence was front and centre and at its larcenous best. They picked off no less than five Cam Collins and should have had a sixth except that Paul Duey was counting touchdown before he caught the ball. 

Randy Trumpler was the leading thief with three - two of them in the first 10 minutes of the game. First-year man Duane Doucette got the fourth and Paul Duey the fifth. 

Macartney...accounted for all the other...points. He converted the touchdown and kicked single points on two occasions.   

While Tom Storey is referred to above, he was actually the defensive coordinator. The head coach was Rod McGillis.

On Wednesday, the Cougars will attempt to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this championship in style, almost 40 years to the day.