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Author: Stephen Brunt Publisher: McClelland & Stewart ISBN: 0771017464 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 226
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This country and its people are made of the same hardy stuff that makes our game and our league. The Grey Cup has helped unite our country for 100 years now. And it has revealed us, built our pride and our sense of Canadianness in annual tributes to effort, sweat and toil. But what does 100 years of history and cultural relevance add up to? When we Canadians look at the Grey Cup, we see far more than a gleaming football trophy; we see a reflection of ourselves. After its first years as an amateur challenge cup, the Grey Cup would go on to be awarded to the best football team in Canada, with Western challengers traveling back east to fall at the hands of the more established Toronto teams. That is, until a group of frustrated Winnipeggers paid an enormous sum during the Depression to buy up star players and bring the cup west for the first time. Following this, the games became about the pride of the country, East versus West, the national identity fought over the gridiron, all chronicled dutifully by bestselling author Stephen Brunt. From the birth of the modern CFL in 1958, through the dynastic Edmonton Eskimos and into the nineties, attempted USA expansion, franchise re-birth in Montreal, 100 Grey Cups has it all: behind-the-scene anecdotes, never-before-seen photographs, and unprecedented access to the CFL archives. It is a must-have for all fans of this national tradition
Author: Stephen Brunt Publisher: McClelland & Stewart ISBN: 0771017464 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
This country and its people are made of the same hardy stuff that makes our game and our league. The Grey Cup has helped unite our country for 100 years now. And it has revealed us, built our pride and our sense of Canadianness in annual tributes to effort, sweat and toil. But what does 100 years of history and cultural relevance add up to? When we Canadians look at the Grey Cup, we see far more than a gleaming football trophy; we see a reflection of ourselves. After its first years as an amateur challenge cup, the Grey Cup would go on to be awarded to the best football team in Canada, with Western challengers traveling back east to fall at the hands of the more established Toronto teams. That is, until a group of frustrated Winnipeggers paid an enormous sum during the Depression to buy up star players and bring the cup west for the first time. Following this, the games became about the pride of the country, East versus West, the national identity fought over the gridiron, all chronicled dutifully by bestselling author Stephen Brunt. From the birth of the modern CFL in 1958, through the dynastic Edmonton Eskimos and into the nineties, attempted USA expansion, franchise re-birth in Montreal, 100 Grey Cups has it all: behind-the-scene anecdotes, never-before-seen photographs, and unprecedented access to the CFL archives. It is a must-have for all fans of this national tradition
Author: Graham Kelly Publisher: Full Court Press ISBN: 9781926677859 Category : Canadian football Languages : en Pages : 384
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Grey Cup 100 features the trials and triumphs of Canada's national classic since its beginning in 1909. Sportswriter and football aficionado Graham Kelly brings to life the passion and excitement of the finals of Canada's own game.
Author: Frank Cosentino Publisher: ISBN: 9781770871915 Category : Canadian football Languages : en Pages : 256
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The Grey Cup has been an integral part of the growth, development and story of football in Canada. When Governor General Lord Grey donated the trophy which bears his name in 1909 the phrase "Dominion of Canada Champion" was in vogue. This year in fact will be the 104th year since the cups inception but the 100th Grey Cup game played. Unlike the Olympics which number the Olympic years to include those in which the Games did not occur (1940, 1944), Canadian footbal ignores them (1916, 17, 18, 19).This even though there were stories to be told in that second decade of evolving Canadian football. Each decade since 1912 has its own story, its own moments to remember, its own Grey Cup lore. This book captures those memories. It transports them from our past, illuminates our present era and points to our future.In these pages you will find the Greats of the Game (including author Frank Cosentino and intro writer Matt Dunigan); unforgettable plays, team dynasties, rivalries, and outstanding performances; behind the scenes anecdotes and escapades in the various cities that have hosted the 100 times that the Grey Cup has been played.
Author: Michael Januska Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1459704509 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 266
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The biggest single sports and television event in Canada marks its 100th championship in 2012. The Terrible Tripper of 1957, the 1962 Fog Bowl, Vic Washington’s Fabulous Fumble in 1968, Tony Gabriel’s Classic Catch in 1976, Henry "Gizmo" Williams’s Wild Run in 1987, and Dave Ridgway’s Magnificent Kick in 1989 are some of the legendary moments leading up to the 100th Grey Cup game in November 2012 in Toronto. You’ll find all of them in Grey Cup Century and much more. Canadian football has had a long and storied history dating back to the 1860s. In 1909, Earl Grey, the governor general of Canada, donated a trophy to honour the best amateur rugby football club in the country. The first team to win a Grey Cup was the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. In 1954 the Canadian Football League, a professional organization, took over sole control of the Cup. Since then gridiron giants such as Sam Etcheverry, Norm Kwong, Jackie Parker, Russ Jackson, Ron Lancaster, Lui Passaglia, Doug Flutie, and Michael "Pinball" Clemons have dazzled fans in an annual championship that now attracts as many as six million television viewers.
Author: Gerald R. Gems Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group ISBN: 1614728232 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 378
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American football is the most popular, and controversial, sport in the United States, and a massive industry. The NFL’s revenues are over $13 billion annually. The Super Bowl is watched by half of US television households and is televised in over 150 countries. Touchdown: An American Obsession is the first comprehensive guide to the history and culture of the sport, covering US college football as well as professional football worldwide. The editors and authors are among the world’s leading sports scholars. They cover race, ethnicity, religion, gender, social class, and globalization, as well as recent scandals and controversies, the importance of television, and the art and aesthetics of the game. Touchdown: An American Obsession is a readable, authoritative guide for Americans as well as an introduction for people around the world.
Author: Ernie Hildebrand Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1039120326 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 214
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A personal account of a life lived on the Canadian prairies from the 1940's until 2020. Starting with recollections of earliest memories on the family farm and the dreams of a boy establishing his own farm. While he thought he would spend his whole life farming, which was a family pattern, life ended up being much more complicated. Early chapters include stories of student life, carpentry ventures, sheep farming, as well as courtship, marriage, and children. A major decision is made to leave the farm and pursue a change of vocation. A career in church ministry takes the family into several rural communities covering two provinces. A second major decision results in the return to the farm and the home community. There had been little certainty that the two major decisions, when they were made, would turn out to be so positive. However, the conclusion that the author and his wife reached in retirement, was that their two best decisions they made were to leave the farm, and to return to the farm! They now reside on an acreage less than a mile from his boyhood home.
Author: Canadian Football League Publisher: PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING ISBN: 1624670652 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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Celebrate the 100th Grey Cup and The Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders battle for the honour of being called Grey Cup champions!_x000D_ _x000D_ To celebrate this momentous occasion, leading sports publisher CCMC, the Canadian Football League and Premier Digital Publishing are publishing a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative magazine to honour the rich history of Canada’s premier sports event._x000D_ _x000D_ This “special” magazine was more than a century in the making and featuring more than 100 pages of articles, and classic historical photography, the Grey Cup 100th Anniversary Program will be a collector’s item for CFL fans and history buffs from coast to coast._x000D_ _x000D_ This eBook also includes the Game Day program with rosters, stats and all of the storylines of the 100th Grey Cup! _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Célébrez la Coupe Grey et 100e Les Argonauts de Toronto et les Stampeders de Calgary bataille pour l'honneur d'être appelés champions de la Coupe Grey!_x000D_ _x000D_ Pour célébrer cette occasion unique, CCMC, un chef de file de l’édition sportive, et la Ligue canadienne de football publient un magazine commémoratif rendant hommage à la riche histoire de cette grande manifestation sportive canadienne._x000D_ _x000D_ Ce magazine «spécial», fruit de plus d'un siècle de gestation, comprend plus de 100 pages d’articles et de photographies classiques. Le programme souvenir du 100e anniversaire de la Coupe Grey sera une pièce de collection pour les fans de la LCF et les férus d’histoire d'un océan à l’autre.
Author: Matt Dunigan Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company ISBN: 9781550174489 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 302
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"Put aside the fact that it ended my playing career, punched holes in my memory and put life as I knew it on indefinite hold, it wasn't that tough a hit." Thus begins Goin' Deep, Matt Dunigan's gritty, often startling memoir of his 14-year journey as a Canadian Football League quarterback, a career brought to a shattering halt on an afternoon in Hamilton in 1996 in a game he still cannot remember. It is a story that takes readers where football fans cannot go--down the stadium runway into the dressing rooms--where injury is a fact of life, injections can put agony on temporary hold, and the tough-minded live by the credo that "Pain is mind over matter. If you don't mind the pain, it doesn't matter." But Goin' Deep is more than a football story. The concussion suffered in that game against the BC Lions marked the end of Dunigan's brilliant Hall of Fame career in the no-quarter world of professional football--and the beginning of another journey still in progress, where some days start third-and-long and memories can be shrouded in a drifting, frustrating fog that may or may not clear. "You play the hand you're dealt," he says. "There are good days and bad days. Sometimes putting sentences together can be a struggle. Some days Kathy will say 'Remember when such-and-such,' and I can't. But these are my cards, and I'll play 'em." The way he's played and continues to play them as a TSN football CFL analyst makes Goin' Deep a riveting, heart-warming read.
Author: Martin Avery Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312333006 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 528
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"You're going to die," the doctor said. But Canadian author Martin Avery laughed and walked away. Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten tells the story of a man who was told he would never work or walk again, in Canada, but lived to get a better diagnosis of "jing-chi-shen" in China.
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