The first four are from a private collection of vintage, game-worn Bomber jerseys that I was allowed to photograph a few years ago.
Tom Casey
Robert McNamara
Leo Lewis
Nick Miller
Leo Lewis 1958 Grey Cup
Saturday November 21st, 1953.
Grey Cup Semi-Final
Toronto Balmy Beaches at Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Under the old playoff format, after disposing of both the Roughriders & the Eskimos in the Western playoffs, the 3rd place Bombers had to host the ORFU Champion Beaches in this one-game sudden death playoff.
Excerpts from the program.
Full program scanned cover-to-cover in jpeg format (90mb).
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1965 Blue Bombers - "Return To Glory".
A review of the '65 season, mostly in pictures.
Scanned cover-to-cover, 48 pages, 300 dpi, 241mb, jpeg format.
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Would be nice to pin this thread to the top of the Bomber forum.
You could but the entire thread is just a Tinypic crash away from being toast.
Photobucket was always a more stable and prominent pic hosting site but now that they want cash to host pics…they’ll be out of business in two years, tops.
Great looking pics! There was a 1966 Blue Bomber season in review published as well (not sure if there were any others).
Welcome my friend, nice to see you here.
I’ve re-upped those two Bomber mags for another week, don’t think I’ve seen the mentioned 1966 issue.
Not a good year. 4-12.
The last kick at the cat for two of the All-Time Bomber greats (Kenny Ploen & Frank Rigney).
I believe that two of the signatures on the back are of players that weren't on this team.
Chuck Harrison & Jim Phillips both joined in '68.
I've got a copy of the 1966 review. I'm happy to share. Any suggestions?
Scanning these programs usually takes me two days per issue. It ain’t fun & it ain’t quick but the nice part is, once it’s done the magazine doesn’t need to be handled ever again.
You learn something new every day:
[url=https://twitter.com/Stats_Junkie][b]Stats Junkie[/b]?@[b]Stats_Junkie[/b][/url] [url=https://twitter.com/Stats_Junkie/status/1005797467705696256]2h2 hours ago[/url]On this day in 1983, @NHLJets Mark Chipman dressed as a WR for @Wpg_BlueBombers in an exhibition game against Calgary. Chipman was released after just one game ending his brief #CFL career.
This means that two owners of the Wpg Jets are former Bombers. Ben Hatskin played on the 1939 Grey Cup winning team.
Fabulous thread overall!
Why do you say that Carruthers Grounds has been “forgotten”? Simply because there’s no “known” photo? Surely there’s a record of when and where it stood?
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I believe it was where the Winnipeg Transit bus station now sits at Main & Carruthers.
And yes, please post a photo when you find one.
1956-08-02 Blue & Gold Game.
Not much football content in this issue, only 4 of the 36 pages aren't advertisements.
Nonetheless, scanned cover-to-cover, 36 pages, 300 DPI, 128mb.
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Wow! Fritzie Hanson! He was before even my time, but he certainly put the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on the Canadian rugby football map.
The 1956 Blue-Gold game was held on August 2, 1956
1956 Blue-Gold - Wpg Tribune
Re: Carruthers Park
Carruthers Park was built in 1920 by Manitoba Athletic Grounds Ltd. It was primarily used for Soccer - hosted every national soccer final between the wars except 1932 & 1937. Floodlights were installed in 1933 & removed in 1940.
Carruthers Park was privately owned by Manitoba Recreation Ltd. It was closely linked to the Dominion Football Association & Sgt. Sam Davidson. It appears to have been located at the northwest corner of Carruthers Ave. & Salter St.
When World War II broke out, Sgt. Davidson locked up the grounds and left town (ca. 1940). The City of Winnipeg took Carruthers Park as compensation for back taxes owed. The city engineering department deemed the grandstand unsafe and it was ordered to be torn down (ca. 1944). With the stadium gone, Matheson Ave. was extended.
….Very familiar with Carruthers Park....lived up the street from it on Matheson Ave. across McGregor...Good old stomping grounds for myself and my Dad back in the day...when the North End was a respectable place to live as well as West Kildonan....Fritzy Hanson was talked about by my father a lot ...he idolized the guy...Said he ran like a rabbit and not many could catch him on the field...Terrific little player
That’s something.
My grandmother lived on Matheson across McGregor for close to 60 years.