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Posted By Brock Harrison, Kingston Whig
Standard
It was 11:20 p.m. before the first vehicle of the night was overturned. And even then, it was only a 12-foot sailboat. At the foot of Aberdeen Street, where an intimidating human barricade of Kingston, Toronto and provincial police officers stood, a yellow boat appeared in the midst of the sea of partyers. Some said it came from a nearby backyard. It landed on the concrete with a grainy thud. Almost on cue, a chant of "Flip the boat! Flip the boat" went up from the drunken crowd. Sure enough, about a dozen revellers mounted the vessel and began jumping on its wet surface to the obvious delight of the party. The familiar rally song "Ole, ole" reached a crescendo as more students piled on. But, in the beer-fuelled mayhem of yet another Aberdeen Street Homecoming bash, the conquering of this yellow sailboat was about the rowdiest occurrence during a night when police made a lot of arrests and doled out hundreds of tickets but were never forced into crisis mode. In fact, even a few cops looked on with bemused half-smiles before they intervened to extract the boat from the crowd. "This is nothing out of the ordinary," said Neil Finn, earlier in the night, summing up what would turn out to be a big, but fairly unremarkable, bash. |
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Posted By Claude Scilley
In a season to remember, Mike Giffin has run over people while carrying the football. He's run around opponents, run past them and run too fast for them to catch him. Saturday, the Queen's Golden Gaels running back was too fast for his own shoes. "I couldn't believe it," Giffin said Saturday, after twice finding himself running down the Richardson Stadium field with one bare foot after losing a shoe. Despite the footwear mishaps, Giffin became the first player in Queen's football history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. He broke the modern school record for yards in a season, 937, set in 1992 by Brad Elberg. |
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Posted By Claude Scilley Whig-Standard
Saturday
When Mike Giffin checked into the training camp of the Queen's Golden Gaels in August, it was evident that he had changed. He'd lost weight. He'd changed uniform numbers. With a 102-yard performance in the Homecoming football game today, he will change one more thing: The entry in the Queen's record book for rushing yards in a season. With such a milestone looming, anyone who knew Giffin in his high school days might be surprised to learn that Thursday night, the night of the week's final, pivotal practice, the talented running back was nowhere to be found. He was excused from practice to write a mid-term exam. Such is the magnitude of the transformation of Mike Giffin, "This is not the Mike Giffin we all knew and loved," cracked Queen's coach Pat Sheahan back in training camp. |
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Serious concerns started to set in once the
Homecoming weekend hangover
abated.
It might just be the nervousness that comes when a favourite team is heading somewhere it hasn't been in a while. The Queen's Golden Gaels rolled up a 45-0 rout of the Waterloo Warriors at a packed Richardson Stadium on Saturday, clinching third place in the OUA, yet still it came with worries. Waterloo is who we thought they were. The Gaels' defence gave up only seven first downs and 87 total yards, which is exactly one-third of what uber-back Mike Giffin gained by himself. Joe Paopao's Waterloo offence with its plethora of screen passes to 180-lb. wide receivers who aren't very fast didn't stand a chance. |
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The nationally ranked Golden Gaels are
coming to the brand new football stadium at
U of T to take on the University of Toronto
Varsity Blues this Saturday Oct. 20.
Come join us celebrate one of the oldest football rivalries as the Golden Gaels celebrate their 125th year of football Game time is 1pm and the Pregame party
will begin at 11 am at Gabby's just down
Bloor Street from the stadium.
The restaurant is reserved for the event and the festivities will include: - Complimentary appetizers and cash bar - Performance by the Queen's Bands and Boo Hoo the Bear - 2 for 1 Ticket vouchers for the Oct. 27 Toronto Argonauts/Winnipeg Blue Bombers game - A draw for 2 passes to the Grey Cup Molson Canadian Party Series featuring April Wine, Loverboy, David Wilcox, Trooper, the Trailer Park Boys featuring Hinder, Thornley, and Mobile, Great Big Sea, Spirit of the West, and Lowest of the Low. - Reserved seating in the Queen's section close to midfield. Tickets to the game and the Pregame party
are $10 for adults and free for those under
12. The Bands will lead us to the stadium
(just down the street!) where we have
reserved a
Queen's section close to midfield.
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School chief hopes to make changes that
will help beleaguered football team down the
road
JAMES MIRTLE October 13, 2007 In a game that involves, more often than not,
grunting and cursing on the gridiron, it's not all
that often a Rhodes Scholar is called to
intervene. And even if he were, one imagines
he'd be tackled on the spot.
But David Naylor is not just any academic. A distinguished Oxford-educated medical researcher, he chaired the National Advisory Committee on SARS in 2003 and last year was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada. Tough tasks, in other words, aren't anything new. But the one thing the genial University of Toronto president has yet to witness in his two- year tenure is a win by school's woebegone football team, which today will likely set the Canadian university futility record with its 48th loss in a row. And that's a problem. "Frankly," Naylor said, "I like winning." |
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Saskatoon native Aaron Ifield kicked a 51-yard
field goal on the last play of the game as the
visiting Calgary Dinos (2-4) upset the No. 5-
ranked Saskatchewan Huskies 20-19 in
Canada West football action, on Saturday.
Bishop's running back Jamall Lee rushed for
266 yards on 31 carries Saturday in a 42-17
win over Acadia to set a new Quebec
conference single-season record with 1200
yards on the ground.
Read all the game summaries here. |
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