Depends on whether the club website wants it. They have a busy couple of weeks coming up! And there's another one in the queue ahead of it. I should start a substance or blog or something I guess, but I'm too stupid to manage the technology.
I don't get the big deal being made of this. Does it mean he gets a bonus he'd otherwise have lost if released? Clearly it prevents other teams from bidding on him, but he'd be under no obligation to listen. What am I missing?
Johnny Copp, a star UofT football player, was shot and killed in a home invasion in Toronto on December 3, 1933. The crime was never solved. The Blues began awarding a trophy in his honour in 1935. The first winner, quarterback Bobby Coulter, played 3 seasons with the Argos. Congrats Chris Joseph!
Black History Month - #Roughriders #CFL
Note: Calgary Stampeders protest of Gabe Patterson (and Stan Stasica) was about whether or not they were signed by the CRU deadline of August 26, 1947. The CRU confirmed they were & issued them player cards.
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I've got one focused on him that might or might not be following this one.
The anniversary of Dick Shatto's death on 4 February 2004 passed without recognition here until now. It's a fool's errand to select a GOAT for a club that's been around for over 150 years. But if you /had/ to select one, to save your life, it would be hard to make a stronger case than Shatto's.
Every person mentioned in this story would be a household name, not just in Toronto, but in Canada, if it was about the Leafs rather than the Argos. It was more than 40 YEARS after the Argos fielded their first black player - who was a local athlete - that the Leafs iced theirs.
There's a plan afoot to modernize the facility for soccer and football, I believe.
Canadians of my generation remember Red Storey mainly as a hockey commentator and "old-timers" game referee. But before he made his name as a NHL referee, Big Red immortalized himself in a remarkable 15 minutes' work during the 1938 Grey Cup game.
What can I say? This account exists to promote and celebrate the richness of Argonaut history, including the bits that hurt.
Morris went on to coach the Argos to 3 straight Grey Cups in 1945–47, and served as their chief Canadian scout from 1956 until his death in 1965. In terms of total contribution to the Double Blue as player, coach and executive, I think Pinball Clemons is his only rival in 153 years of club history.
Congratulations to Coach Mike Miller, who, depending on how one counts, today becomes the 52nd (if old-style captain-coaches are excluded) or the 65th head coach of the Toronto Argonauts in their 153-year history.
[N.B. 2026 marks exactly 50 years since the job was last held by a Canadian.]
The East York Argos were financially supported by the CFL club, for which they acted as a farm team fed by the city's junior clubs. Their quarterback in 1962, Gord McTaggart, attended Argonaut training camps for years but never got his chance with the big club.
Enjoy the game, Don.
Here's hoping for a walk-off rouge!
TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
NOV 16, 1997 – The Argos won the club's fourteenth Grey Cup with a 47–23 victory over Saskatchewan at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium, winning back-to-back Grey Cups for the first time since 1947 (and the last time to date).
TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
NOV 16, 1946 – The Argos won their eleventh Big Four league title with a 12–6 playoffs win over the Alouettes in front of 23,700 spectators at Delorimier Stadium in Montreal. Joe Krol led the way with a 35-yard TD pass to Royal Copeland and a 4-yard rushing TD of his own.
TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
NOV 16, 1901 – Two punt singles in the second half by Percy Hardisty gave the Double Blue a 2–1 win over the Rough Riders at the Varsity Oval in Ottawa, clinching first place in the Ontario RFU senior league and the first league title in club history.
We need to expunge these plays from the game to generate more excitement.
Zounds! Actual, fine-tuned data!
Kickers with seasons fractionally as good as Lirim Hajrullahu's 2025 season have won the CFL special teams award hands down in the past.
That is all one can say.
They traded for Jackie Parker instead, which made sense in 1963, but Parker was a has-been by then, and Lancaster - well, what might have been.
