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Josh Alessandro @jjsa1985.bsky.social · Dec 29

Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 1d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 10, 1931 – Halfback Bill Darling (L) caught a pass from halfback Teddy Morris to complete the team's first-ever legal forward pass in a league game, a 12-7 road loss to the Hamilton Tigers at the HAAA grounds on Charlton Street.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 1d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
100TH ANNIVERSARY ALERT
OCT 10, 1925 – Coach Mike Rodden's Argonauts, scoring all their points in the third quarter, beat the Ottawa Senators 13–5 at Varsity Stadium in the first Argo game broadcast live, "play by play", on the radio – by none other than Foster Hewitt.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 1d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 10, 1922 – Argonaut captain Lionel "Big Train" Conacher, an accomplished amateur boxer, faced world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey in a one-round exhibition bout at Christie Street Veterans Hospital for a crowd of local "war amps".

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 2d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 9, 1926 = The Argos played their first home game at the new Maple Leaf Stadium, losing the season home opener 13-8 to the Montreal Winged Wheelers. Fans' reluctance to follow the team from Varsity Stadium to the new facility sent the team back to the university in 1927.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 2d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 9, 1915 = Reigning league MVP Glad Murphy, who captained the Argos to their first Grey Cup win in 1914, sustained neck and spinal injuries making a tackle in the third quarter of the 1915 season opener against Hamilton. Murphy died in hospital in February 1916.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 4d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 7, 1899 = D'Arcy McGee (older brother of hockey's famous Frank) and Pud Kent (pictured) scored second-half touchdowns to pace the Argonauts to an W 11-7 win over the Hamilton Tigers at Toronto's Rosedale Field, the very first league win in the club's history.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 4d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 7, 1922 = Backup QB Allan Arless (L) of the Montreal Winged Wheelers suffered fatal neck injuries during a 16-7 loss to the Argos at the MAAA Grounds. Much to Lionel Conacher's dismay, the false story that Arless was injured tackling him became part of Conacher lore.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 4d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 7, 1933 = Star kicking halfback Ab Box suffered neck injuries and facial fractures in the Argos' home opener against Montreal. The damage was pronounced season-ending and career-threatening, but Box returned to action for the playoffs wearing custom-made head protection.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 5d

It was actually against the rules for non-locals to play for any Big Four team. But by the Thirties, only the Argos were still abiding by that rule, and Hamilton, Ottawa and Montreal all had American QBs.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 5d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 6, 1907 – 2 days after a game in Montreal, all 14 Argos players in the game had their amateur status revoked by the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union. Why? Because Montreal's Ernie Russell (below) had been stripped of his status, and the Argos had not refused to face him.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! Although Stukus played a season with the Argo juniors in between (unlike his brother Bill, who jumped straight from school to the Argos).

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 6d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 5, 1935 – Coming off the bench for an ineffectual Andy Mullan, rookie QB Annis Stukus (L) led the Double Blue to a 15–12 comeback win in Ottawa in his Argonaut debut, in large part thanks to a pair of field goals by tackle Tommy Burns (R).

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 6d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 5, 1907 – Captain Pete Flett (L) kicked a field goal (worth 4 pts that season) and 4 singles, but coach Billy Wood's (R) Argos fell 17-8 to the Montreal Winged Wheelers at the AAA Grounds in the very first game played by the Interprovincial RFU (or "Big Four").

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 8d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 3, 1929 – University of Toronto head football coach Jimmy Douglas died of appendicitis-related septicemia at age 30. Douglas played middle wing for the Argos from 1921–27 – a very long career in that era – and his passing stunned the whole Toronto football community.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 9d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
Les Ascott, who died in 2013, was born on October 2, 1921.
A 2-way lineman, he played 11 seasons in Double Blue, retiring in 1953 as the all-time club leader in games played. Named an All-Time Argo in 2004, Ascott's 26 playoff games played is a club record that won't be broken

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 9d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 2, 1994 – Rookie QB Marvin Graves came off the bench at the end of the third quarter, with the Argonauts trailing Hamilton 36–11, and led a stunning, 4-touchdown comeback resulting in a 39–36 win. Here is video from Paul Woods' YT channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnya...

Marvin Graves leads greatest fourth-quarter comeback in Argo history -- part 1

YouTube video by Paul Woods

www.youtube.com

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 9d

Has anything ever been said about the Williams injury? That's three months on the sidelines from a head injury.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 9d

Deion Sanders did it with NFL/MLB soon after Bo did; and did Bo one better by playing both ways (DB and WR) for the Falcons.
And of course, Danny Ainge played for the Celtics (NBA) and Blue Jays (MLB) in the early 1980s.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 9d

A random web find, I think.

Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 9d

Yup. Gerry James.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 9d

Only 40 followers here, but the other account started from zero too.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 9d

I can't think of any. Bo Jackson cultivated an image resembling Conacher, but that was mostly hype. Nowadays we lose our minds when someone is good at batting and pitching in baseball.

However, Conacher was far, far from unique in his own day (although his talent-level was unusually high).

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 10d

It left the other app for a couple of months, gradually returned to dip its toe into that app, and left it again. It didn't get a lot of attention the first time round, but happily is getting some now.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 10d

and boxing!

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