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The Oshawa Times, 27 Nov 1959, p. 13

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" EVERY RUSH A NEW RECORD £ 0 FOR THE #9eRs, Wis CREDITED WITH Meh OF THEIR SENSATIONAL SHOWING WW THE FIRST HALF OF 74F SEASON BUT THE OFFENSE HELPED, 700, as H VE. WITH THE grr .. OF THE SAN " FRANCISCO : 49R4 THE BAlLLq GAINED 6549 yos. UP 70 TH)S YEAR A754 JARDS PER cL/P= FOR FIRST HALR 2 L5.L YARPS PER TRY. 11 Ku Finn Wonturan Runiioate Special Grey Cup Winnipeg Trains TORONTO (CP)--Toronto will be exposed to the hi-jinks of foot- ball fans Friday and Saturday when thousands of them arrive by train and air for Saturday's Grey Cup game. And among the most vocifer- ous of the visitors will be some 2,000 from Winnipeg coming to cheer the Winnipeg Blue Bomb- ers, trying for their second suc- cessive Grey Cup win: over the Hamilton Tiger - Cats, Eastern Canada representatives. | Two special CPR trains called| the Blue and Gold Specials--| colors of the Bombers -- will ar-| rive Friday at 7 am. and 7:20 a.m. with some 400 fans. They will be met at Union Station by 45 junior board of trade mem- bers, bearing special gifts and badges. On the same day and at the same time the CNR's Continental will arrive with another batch of | fans from the west Aboard this train will be the Winnipeg po-| lice pipe band and rooters from the West, other than Winnipeg. BIG CONTINGENT The main contingent of the Winnipeg fans, moire than 1,000 will arrive in a 16-car CNR spe- cial Saturday at 7 a.m. | The CNR says regular trains from Montreal and Ottawa are| booked solid. These trains will TWO CHEERING FANS IN TORONTO WINNIPEG (CP) -- Two important members of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers cheering section -- one pretty and the other not so--will be among fans enjoying Grey Cup festivities. They are Judy Cox, Miss Blue Bomber of 1959 and Teddy the chimpanzee--the official team mascott. Teddy and his owners, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Page and family, leave today for Tor- onto, Teddy, Mrs. Page says, is a real football fan. He will perform at the game Sat- urday. She said Teddy "watches on television all the time--loves to see all those people running." GOALER HURT NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CP) -- Goaler Norm Defelice of the] Eastern Hockey League's Clinton Comets suffered possible nerve and bone injuries Thursday night when he was cut by a skate in a league game won 11-4 by New Haven Blades. Defelice, 36, a na- tive of Schi~--her, was slashed on the left arm. MILD -COOL EVEN BURNING VoGuE * CIGARETTE TOBACCO IN THE CONVENIENT 285¢ PACKAGE *Suggested Price arrive Friday eveuing and Sat- arday morning. And on. the morning of the big game, a roaring crowd of 1,000 Ticat supporters from Hamilton will invade Toronto by special train. Trans-Canada Air Lines has 10 extra flights arranged to bring more than 500 fans from the West, Ottawa and Montreal. In addition recular flights are booked solidly. Hotels have been booked to capacity A giant "pep rally" send-off for the Tiger-Cats is planned in Hamilton Friday night. It will begin with an explosion touched off by firemen to an- nounce the start of a downtown parade by the Ticat band, drum majorettes and supporters. Footbal! players will ride in convertibles at the parade centre. The procession will wind up at a downtown hotel for offi- cial send-off ceremonies. After the affair, Ticats will head for their country hideaway reported Grey Cup Game Goes Into World MONTREAL (CP)--The Grey Cup football game Saturdav will be broadcast to Canadian armed forces in Europe, to Canadian naval ships and to the far north, the CBC's International Service announced Wednesday. TORONTO (CP) -- Punch im- lach, general manager of Tor- onto Maple Leafs, says he is definitely interested in obtaining Gerry James for the last few months of the National Hockey League schedule. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers halfback has said he's interested in playing hockey after the Winnipeg-Hamilton Ti- cats game Saturday. He hasn'i played hockey since spending the 1957-58 season with the Leafs. CALGARY (CP) -- Since 1948, Don Mackay in his ccpacity as mayor, has led the Calgary con- tingent on horseback in the Grey Cup parade. This year, defeated at the polls, he is in Toronto for the game and is writing about the week's activity in a column in The Albertan. WINNIPEG (CP)--A 92-year- old Winnipeg lawyer who was an athlete in his youth, will be among the hundreds of fans heading for Toronto this week for the Grey Cup. Isaac Pitblado, a Blue Bomber fan who often takes in the national classic, said Wednesday he has a ticket for the game and plans to fly to Tor- onto today. Football Bleachers Come Under Fire Intercollegiate Hockey Opens TORONTO (CP) -- The inter- collegiate hockey season opens at| Varsity Arena here Friday night | under the Canadian Amateur| Hockey Association rules, Laval| University will play the Univer-| Western Interprovincial Foot- ball Union cities. Bright, the fourth Edmonton player to win the award since it was started in 1953, beat out quarterback Bernie Faloney of Hamilton Tiger-Cats who came to Canada in 1954 from the University of Maryland, The voting was conducted by a lig- uor company. Eastern players have won the award three times. Quarterback Russ Jackson of Ottawa Rough Riders was chosen this year's outstanding Canadian player. Runner - up to him was Edmonton quarter- back Don Getty. a Roger Nelson, 27 - year - old tackle with the Eskimos and | formerly with Oklahoma Soon- ers, won the award as the out- standing lineman. He won out over Hamilton's John Barrow, 23-year-old tackle from the Uni- versity of Florida. Bright received a $1,000 Can- ada savings bond, the Schenley Trophy, a diamond tie bar and a plaque. Jackson and Nelson received $500 bonds. sity of Toronto Blues, The Canadian rules, and subse- quently the Canadian 'style of play, were dropped last season in favor of international rules. The Canadian rules were re- instated at a meeting of the ad- ministrators of the Ontario-Que- pec Athletic Association last spring. Main difference in the two sets of regulations concerned body checking. Under international rules body contact was limited to defending players on their own side of the red line, Instead of keeping the contests on a clean and gentlemanly level, college officials felt the rules produced clutch and grab| tactics that caused an unneces-| sary rash of cheap, game-mar- ring penalties. Football Awards Selected TORONTO (CP) -- Johnny Bright, 220-pound fullback with Edmonton Eskimos was named | Wednesday night as- the out- standing football player in Canada. 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