Just Added: Wally Masters

The Rough Rider Coaches page displays win-loss records for most of the coaches throughout the team's history, even if some of the official data from the early years is somewhat questionable.

My plan was to provide a spotlight on the more accomplished gentlemen on the list (don't expect me to elaborate on Fred Glick much, for example). Unfortunately, the best accounts of one's career often take the form of an obituary.

Such is the case with Mr. Wally Masters. I did not originally intend to include any sort of more detailed biography about him, frankly, being more preoccupied with the Cup winners.

However, while Master never did win a Grey Cup as a coach, he is a member of the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame. Also, it is true that the page was meant to be specific to Rough Rider coaches but Masters' coaching of the 1947 Ottawa Trojans to the ORFU championship certainly should not be discounted.

Read on, from the July 12th, 1992, Ottawa Citizen.

Just Added: 2007 Manson Cup, Ottawa Jr. Riders 29, Ottawa Sooners 27

With the addition of the 2007 Manson Cup recap to the Jr. Riders own page, all of their championship games as members of the Quebec junior football league are now included there or as standard blog posts.

The one below was a hell of a game. I recall some shock in the crowd when the Sooners chose to gamble on third down from about their own six-yard line.

The layout of the article made it tricky to copy but Sooners coach Mike McCarthy explained that had they punted from there, it is likely that they still would have been in Jr. Riders kicker Luigi DeLellis' range with a good chance of not having possession of the ball again. With that in mind, attempting to gain an inch or two to retain possession seemed like the way to go. 

 

I missed including it when cropping, but it should be pointed out that the article was written by Darren Desaulniers for the Ottawa Citizen. 

Also just added: results of the Ottawa Sooners 1976 season and a few scores for the Ottawa Deacon Demons semi-pro team that played for a few years in the mid 2000s. The latter info is on the "Defunct Teams" page.