Midget Page Updates

The Midget page has gone through something of a clean up for a couple of its seasons. Most of the attention was given to 1996 and 1999.

A number of the game summaries I'd located were printed at the library years ago then scanned from those prints. They were of terrible quality and have been replaced. 

In the case of 1999, at the time I'd only been able to locate a few paragraphs from the Ottawa Sun in regards to the championship game. The Citizen summary was far more detailed. It has replaced the Sun's article on the Midget page and is being shared below.

I'd had a similar issue with 1996. The championship game article scan was poor and badly cropped. That's been fixed and a team celebration picture that I'd been unable to fit now does and is included.

There have been a number of other updates too small to spotlight, such as the addition of game results for the three local junior teams of the late 2000s, the Sooners, Jr. Riders and Cumberland Panthers. There had been gaps in the local coverage but I managed to locate those scores using the Gazette newspaper in Montreal since the rest of the team in the QJFL are located there (or nearby). In some cases, the home team is not identified, unfortunately. 

Finally, in looking for information about 1996 in particular, I came across this graphic of Jesse Palmer regarding his recruitment to the university of Florida. I can't tell you that I'm a huge fan of the guy, for all his successes, but I like that his statistics as a Rider are included. 

May 19th, 1988: West Defeats East in the OMFL Grads Game

I hit a wall at 1988 while gathering results for the Athletes In Action high school senior game some months ago. Being that I've been collecting scores from right around that time period for a bunch of other teams, I thought I would give it another try.

I don't know how I missed the 1988 and 1989 game articles the first time. The Citizen had full-page ads for them!

In truth, I think it's because the emphasis on Athletes In Action is not present by then. Whatever the cause, the recaps for those two contests are now included on the "AIA Game" page above. The Citizen was a very supportive partner of this endeavour for a few years. 

In tracking those down, I found something completely unexpected; a Midget All-Star game in 1988 featuring players from the four Ottawa teams competing at that level at the time.

The following year, the teams went with Red / White identification rather than a regional one.

Coverage of the Midget level gets very spotty as we enter the 1990s but I'll make a point to continue looking for summaries of these all-star games played in the spring.

"Get Excited!" (For the OSFL's Myers Riders Roster)

I first saw the Cumberland Panthers announcing commitments to their Ontario Summer Football League program on Instagram but Myers Riders have been doing it for a while now as well. Cumberland's efforts were mentioned here so it seems only fair to do the same for Myers.

I love seeing a little hype being generated for the coming season while making some of these names feel more familiar. Keep it up, everyone, please.

Let's get to know Ethan's game a little better through his Hudl profile.  

Myers' Instagram account can be found here and Cumberland's here.