Just Added: 1963 High School Championship, Ridgemont 33 vs. Laurentian 00

I've tracked down most (perhaps "all", it's difficult to tell with high school seasons sometimes) of the scores from Ridgemont's 1963 season and added a fairly thorough game summary of the championship contest.

I had to laugh as I began to read it. The very first sentence points out that Ridgemont's QB's last name is often spelled incorrectly and sure enough I had it wrong on the High School page. I must have come across an article which made that very mistake and copied that error myself. Oops. 

Just Added: Ridgemont's 1962 Results and Championship Game Recap

In continuing with my little mission to add much more info to the various past high school seasons, Ridgemont's been more or less randomly selected for the spotlight today.

The Spartans were not a dominant team in 1962. They entered the playoffs with a 4-2 record.

One of those losses game in the final game of the regular season against Fisher Park, who ended up being their semi-final round opponent.

They dispatched Fisher by a score of 14-06 then entered the final against the other team to which they lost in the regular season, Laurentian. They convincingly avenged that loss as well.  

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.