Just Added: 1962 IJFL Game Summaries

The IJFL, the Ottawa Journal and the Ottawa Citizen made it relatively simple to gather some info about every game played in the four-team junior league that year. 

The league set its schedule so that all four team would play on the same days, usually on Sundays. As a result, the two newspapers at the time would cover both games in one article. I didn't have to find the Sooners game versus Gatineau then hunt down St. Bonaventure vs Hull, they were both in the same place. Handy!

I've tracked down and copied the articles which I felt did the better job of providing a detailed recap for each set of games, right from the first week of the season through to the two-game final, won in dominant fashion by the Ottawa Sooners.

I do wish they'd have included more photography. They only seemed to do so after the first weekend of action but on the upside, it offered a rare look at the St. Bonaventure Rough Riders.

St. Bonaventure was an interesting little team that sadly did not last long. The Sooners were the dominant club in this league but from time to time, St. Bonaventure would rise up and punch them in the mouth. In 1962, the Sooners posted a 9-1 record and the loss was by 14-12 to these Rough Riders. Being that the Sooners only began play in 1960, St. Bonaventure is probably the first true rival in their history.

The Rough Riders would change their name to Ottawa Trojans and play two more season before fading away. Because of a mention of them under the Trojans name in a previous post, the tag over on the right column under "Teams" for them is "Ottawa Trojans (Jr)".