While not everyone may yet have heard, this year marks the 100th birthday of the Grey Cup. It has from its donation by the then-Governor General Earl Grey been intended to recognize football supremacy in Canada. What many people in the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s family may not realize is that the Tricolour won the Grey Cup three times 카지노 게임 컬렉션 in 1922, 1923, and 1924. In so doing, the team set several Grey Cup records that still stand today. Is there a story here? You bet!
It starts with a determined recommitment to football after WWI led by Engineering professor Lindsey Malcolm and strongly supported by the 카지노게임사이트카지노 게임 컬렉션s administration under Principal R.B. Taylor and by its alumni, particularly the Richardson family.
Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s had enjoyed considerable pre-war success dating particularly from the 카지노게임사이트카지노 게임 컬렉션s first Dominion championship in 1893 involving the legendary Guy Curtis among others. But with the exception of several intercollegiate championships in 1900 and 1904, it had lost serious ground to Varsity and McGill up to and through WWI. Two abysmal seasons immediately after the war had stung the school카지노 게임 컬렉션s collective pride, and Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s moved to once again become competitive.
In less than two years it reorganized the administrative and financial control of athletics; obtained $50,000 from the Richardson family for a new stadium(finished by October 1921); built a practice field beside the stadium (adjacent to today카지노 게임 컬렉션s Tindall Field); hired a full-time Athletic director (George Awrey) and trainer (William 카지노 게임 컬렉션Billy카지노 게임 컬렉션 Hughes); and recruited some new players, most notably Frank 카지노 게임 컬렉션Pep카지노 게임 컬렉션 Leadlay, BSc카지노 게임 컬렉션25. These moves produced immediate results.
The 1921 season was a big improvement over the two previous ones 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the Tricolour finished with a two-and-two record after going winless in four games in 1920 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and by 1922 the Tricolour was ready to roll. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Active recruiting카지노 게임 컬렉션 had also brought to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, among others, Harry 카지노 게임 컬렉션Red카지노 게임 컬렉션 Batstone, BCom카지노 게임 컬렉션26, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션32, star of the previous year카지노 게임 컬렉션s Grey Cup for the Argonauts of Toronto.
Over the next four seasons the team from this small school in a provincial city in Ontario went on to win 23 of 25 games, four intercollegiate championships, and three Grey Cups. Strong institutional backing, money and hard work make the most sense as explanations. George Awrey essentially copied the American college football system of the time as he understood it, and enjoyed the same success such a focused effort usually brings. (The Laval football program is perhaps another example in more recent times of just such an approach and of the results it brings.)
But what about those Grey Cups, you may wonder?
Well, in 1922 Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s beat Varsity in a playoff to win the Intercollegiate championship, then beat the champions of the Eastern city league, the Toronto Argonauts, 12-11, to secure the Eastern Canadian championship. Finally, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s beat the Western champs, the Edmonton Elks, earlier and later known as the Eskimos, in Kingston on December 2, 1922 on frozen ground after a snowstorm, 13-1, to win the Grey Cup. The 카지노게임사이트, and the city, went wild in ways reminiscent of the first Dominion championship in 1893. Full-page stories in the Whig, speeches, and parades were the order of the day. Awrey, Hughes, and the players had delivered.
In 1923 the team defeated the (Ottawa) Rough Riders and the Argos in exhibition games; trounced McGill and Varsity twice each in the regular season; beat the Hamilton Tiger Cats at Kingston for the Eastern Canadian championships; and rolled over the Regina Roughriders on December 1 in Varsity Stadium in Toronto to win the Grey Cup. It was this Grey Cup victory, won by a score of 54-0, that left its mark in the Grey Cup record books 카지노 게임 컬렉션 most points in a Grey Cup game (this in an era when a touchdown was worth only five points), most touchdowns, highest shutout score (a record which Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s also holds in Vanier Cup play, 31-0 versus St. Mary카지노 게임 컬렉션s in 1992), and so on.
The team rolled on through the 1924 season virtually unchanged in personnel and certainly untouched by the opposition. For several reasons, the West decided not to challenge for the Cup that year so the Tricolour카지노 게임 컬렉션s 11-3 victory over Balmy Beach, was considered the Grey Cup, and Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s had its third championship in a row. It was the second team to that point to win three consecutive Cups, (Varsity having accomplished the same feat 1909-11), and having outscored its opponents, 78-4, also a record that still stands.
That ended the run. Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s would never again play for the Grey Cup, despite getting to the Eastern Canadian championships in 1925, 1927, 1929, and 1935, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s came up short on all four occasions. It had been quite a time.
The names of the stars of the Grey Cup championship teams are familiar to everyone who knows Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s football. In addition to Pep Leadlay, and Harry Batstone, there were the famous Kingston boys, Drs. Johnny Evans, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션24, and 1923 team captain William A. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Doc카지노 게임 컬렉션 Campbell, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션24. Their teammates George 카지노 게임 컬렉션Curly카지노 게임 컬렉션 Lewis, Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션22; Orrin Carson, Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션23; Presley McLeod, BA,'21, MD'26, and 카지노 게임 컬렉션Red카지노 게임 컬렉션 McKelvey, BA카지노 게임 컬렉션23, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션26, LLD카지노 게임 컬렉션54, all became doctors, too. Throw in Dave Harding, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션28, Eric 카지노 게임 컬렉션Bud카지노 게임 컬렉션 Thomas, BCom카지노 게임 컬렉션26, Norman 카지노 게임 컬렉션Liz카지노 게임 컬렉션 Walker, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션28, Charles 카지노 게임 컬렉션Chick카지노 게임 컬렉션 Mundell, BCom'24, MD'30, and Bill Muirhead, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션26, every one of whom were league all-stars at their positions at one time or another, and one gets the idea it must have been quite a cast indeed.
While a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s team never again played for the Grey Cup, selected players down the years have, of course, been involved. Some in important ways. One thinks of Leadlay카지노 게임 컬렉션s three other Grey Cups with Hamilton and Batsone카지노 게임 컬렉션s two with Toronto; four each for Ronnie Stewart, Arts/PHE카지노 게임 컬렉션57, and Tom Beynon, Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션65; Bob Howes, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션66, and Stu Lang카지노 게임 컬렉션s, Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션74, astonishing eight and seven respectively with Edmonton. In recent times Rob Bagg, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션07, with Saskatchewan and Mike Giffin, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션08, twice with Montreal. Doubtless there are others who could also be mentioned. (If you know of someone who should have been included in that list, please write or email the Review and let us know.)
With all of the hoopla around the Grey Cup카지노 게임 컬렉션s 100th anniversary, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s important to remember that there카지노 게임 컬렉션s both a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s chapter in the Cup카지노 게임 컬렉션s history as well as some additional important footnotes in there amongst all the hype and commercialism that the game has become. And it카지노 게임 컬렉션s a record-setting, honourable one, too, something you can bet that the spirits of especially those 1920s lads will be rattling on about wherever they might be getting together to celebrate the occasion. We should do no less. Cha gheill!
Note: For the full story of the Tricolour카지노 게임 컬렉션s three consecutive Grey Cup wins, 1922-24, please see pp. 49-54 of Merv Daub카지노 게임 컬렉션s 1996 history of the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s football program, Gael Force. The above article also owes a debt of gratitude to Shannon Ballard, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션00, Director of Marketing for the CFL, whose assistance and enthusiasm made the article possible, and to Larry Robertson, consulting statistician to the CFL, whose statistical contributions helped document the record.
