{"id":930,"date":"2018-04-16T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/?p=930"},"modified":"2018-04-16T18:51:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:51:46","slug":"a-piece-of-nt-sports-history-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/a-piece-of-nt-sports-history-comes-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A PIECE OF NT SPORTS HISTORY COMES HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our archives now have a new piece of memorabilia. <\/span>Bill Williams<\/b> (\u201954) brought in the football used in the 1952 championship game between North Toronto and Riverdale. For the Norsemen, t<\/span>he football used in the 1952 Red Feathers Tournament.the game capped an undefeated season, which also included the Red Feathers Tournament, then the unofficial Ontario championship. The ball has been inscribed with the scores of all the games of that memorable season.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1952<\/a>
Inscribed right on the football, the scores of the six games in the season.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the notable players on the team coached by <\/span>Bob Coulter<\/b> was <\/span>Eric Nesterenko <\/b>(\u201953), who couldn\u2019t play the final games as he was playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. He later played for the Chicago Blackhawks. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another notable team member was <\/span>Walt Radzick <\/b>(\u201953), who went on to play in the CFL for Calgary, Toronto and Hamilton, winning rookie of the year and a Grey Cup. <\/span>Jim Rowney <\/b>(\u201953), who later came back to teach and coach at his alma mater, NTCI, also played on the 1952 championship team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The football used in the 1952 Red Feathers Tournament.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our archives now have a new piece of memorabilia. Bill Williams (\u201954) brought in the football used in the 1952 championship game between North Toronto and Riverdale. For the Norsemen, the football used in the 1952 Red Feathers Tournament.the game capped an undefeated season, which also included the Red Feathers Tournament, then the unofficial Ontario … Continue reading A PIECE OF NT SPORTS HISTORY COMES HOME<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}