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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 29m

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 16, 1965 = In the last home game of his hall-of-fame career, Dick Shatto rushed for 110 yards and the Argos beat Montreal 24-21 on "Dick Shatto Day" at Exhibition Stadium. At Shatto's insistence, all team revenue from the game was donated to the Hospital for Sick Children.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 37m

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 16, 1960 = Tobin Rote threw 3 TD passes and Dave Mann and Dick Shatto scored 2 TDs each as the Argos beat Ottawa 37–13 in front of 32,624 spectators at Exhibition Stadium, the fourth time that season the Double Blue had set a new club and league attendance record.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 44m

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 16, 1954 = On the day after Hurricane Hazel's overnight devastation of Toronto, the Argos beat Ottawa 27–11 at Lansdowne Park, where the storm blew down the scoreboard. A decision to call off the game was reversed when the overdue Argo equipment truck arrived just in time.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 57m

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 16, 1948 = In a post-game interview following a 41-6 loss at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, Argonaut head coach Ted Morris gave a blistering assessment of his team, calling them "20 prima donnas who aren't trying", a moment marking the unofficial end of 1945-47 dynasty.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 3d

Moss: "It was a stupid decision; the kind a coach should be fired for. But what the hell. I've only got three more weeks. The guys all worked very hard ... [and] deserved a better fate . But I was sure he could kick the ball in the stands. How stupid I was."

Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 3d

No, an attempt to kick it out the back of the end zone that was fielded 22 yards behind the goal line. It was fielded by Montreal's punter, who hoofed it out to save the point.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 3d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 13, 1974 = Fans in Montreal watched in disbelief as Argonaut coach Joe Moss, with the ball on the Alouette 16-yard line and the score tied 13-13, sent his punting unit out to attempt a last-play rouge rather than a field goal. The punt was 3 yards short and a tie resulted.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 3d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 13, 1958 = Halfback Dick Shatto scored 4 TDs, the Argos' defence intercepted Hamilton QB Bernie Faloney 7 times, and the 1-8 Double Blue beat the 8-0-1 Tiger-Cats by a score of 37-0 on Thanksgiving Day at Varsity Stadium.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 3d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 13, 1947 = Bashin' Byron Karrys scored the Argos' only touchdown in a 6-6 tie between Hamilton and Toronto at Varsity Stadium. Unbeknownst to all, this was the very last game between the Argonauts and the Hamilton Tigers, almost 75 years after their first contest in 1873.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 3d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 13, 1923 = Halfback Dunc Munro scored 2 TDs, the defence added 2 safeties, and 8,000 people watched the Argos beat the Montreal Winged Wheelers 17-0 at Varsity Stadium. The game gave Toronto fans their first look at the "huddle", the Wheelers' latest Yankee innovation.

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Josh Alessandro @jjsa1985.bsky.social · Dec 29

Great read! @pxw13.bsky.social

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 12d

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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