Just Added: 1983 High School Results

Now that I have at least brief recaps of most of the high school championship games between 1927 and 2010 or so, I'm going to start filling out individual seasons with scores, standings, etc.  A football fan can find information about what the university teams did in any given year relatively easily but it is much harder to do so for the high school level so I want that recorded better.

It should help clear up some confusing result that have taken place along the way. We had two champions in 1983, for example. By then, the champions of the Carleton and Ottawa school boards had met numerous times to determine a city champ, but in 1983 field conditions were such that the final had to be cancelled. As a result, it seems that many records do not recognize an overall winner for that season but in reality, each school board had named a champion that year. Those two teams just never got to play one another.

Let's start with Carleton champion St. Pius. I have located all but one regular season score for them but we do know that they went 6-0 that year. They got away with one in the semi-final against Garneau though. Weather was involved in that result as well.

The result of their Carleton Board final game against J.S. Woodsworth was more decisive, however.

Meanwhile, Ridgemont put together a rather modest 3-3 regular season but rattled off three straight playoff wins to take the Ottawa board banner. Their championship game was played the day after Pius' but obviously weather and field conditions hadn't improved a great deal in just 24 hours.

I've added a championship to each team's total on the High School page with an asterisk. It's not like the teams chose not to participate, they simply weren't able to. I see no reason why they shouldn't be recognized then. My acknowledgement means absolutely nothing, I'm fully aware of that, but I at least want the information out there a little more.