The Long-Delayed 1933 EOSSA Championship Game

I've spent some time over the past couple of days fleshing out the early days of high school seasons in and around Ottawa. The results can be found near the bottom of the "high school" page above.

There have been two tricky aspects to this.

1) The lack of an actual playoff game. The champion was determined by achieving first place, not necessarily by winning their final game. In some instances, the champs might have defeated a team to go 6-0 while the next best team only had three wins. Finding that "clincher" game can be tough.

2) Moving beyond the city championship. For a while, the Ottawa winner would take on other teams from the region for the Eastern Ontario Secondary School Association crown. Results of a game played in Perth on a Tuesday or Wednesday can be hard to locate, for example.

There was one that was particularly challenging. The 1933 EOSSA championship game was played much later than one has any right to expect.

In 1933, Glebe sailed through the local competition.

You have to appreciate that points differential. Tech, on the other hand...

This is a good example of the first challenge. Glebe had this thing sealed up before the end of the regular season. They did so by removing any mathematical chance of anyone (meaning Lisgar) catching them in the standings when they trounced Nepean 35-05.

I'm not sure that "outgeneralled" would survive a spell check.

In any event, good stuff by the Glebonoids. Off to the EOSSA Championship playoffs! The first obstacle was in Pembroke.

Ha! Take THAT, Lumber Towners!

We're on to Carleton Place. And here is where challenge #2 takes place. Scheduling could be tricky so games would be moved to the middle of the week at a moment's notice to accommodate someone, etc. The junior title game was cancelled outright, for example.

The Glebe/Carleton Place game was initially scheduled for Saturday, November 18th. It was delayed by heavy snowfall. Then delayed again by more snow. It was delayed further until, on December 7th, a decision was finally made to play the game...right around Easter of the following year.

Wow.

At the very least, Glebe can not claim that the wait affected them in any negative way. They dominated the game in defeating Carleton Place 30-00, using a wide array of weapons, like the...huh...forward pass.

"Crashed the leather". I love that.

So a mere five months after the regular season came to an end, Glebe added the EOSSA championship to its trophy case. The delay would not deter them at all; they nailed down the city championship in 1934 as well.