1982: J.S. Woodsworth 37, Confederation 12

The high school football page continues to grow as the eventual champions' regular season scores are added when found, as are all playoff results. 1982 is getting the attention this evening.

Many game summaries are quite brief, little more than a sentence or two, but the Carleton board championship warranted a bit more attention and detail. Here it is below. 

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.

Just Added: The 1985 AIA Seniors Game

To be accurate, since posting about this game earlier this month, I've created a page specific to it (see above) and added scores for all the games between 1975 and 1986 and recaps for most of those.

I found 1985's recap interesting because it is the shortest one of any of those games to the point that I've reached, yet it would prove to hold the most future star power. It names only two players and both turned out to be huge deals.

Mark Brown that was inducted in the Carleton Ravens Hall of Fame in 1996. If that link fails, it points out that Brown set Ravens records for yards gained in a game, season, and career and he was named the school's male athlete of the year in 1986 and 1987, among many other awards.

Chris Flynn, meanwhile, was a three-time winner of the Hec Crighton trophy while at St Mary's University, given to the most valuable player in Canadian University football. He took St Mary's to the National Championship game twice. He was with the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1996 and entered the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2001. Both men played with the Ottawa Bootleggers. 

I'm sure if the writer and his editor had known that the guys he was watching would go on to be so decorated, the game would have warranted more than four paragraphs of coverage. 😉