October 28, 2010

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Mona Bernales!

125 years ago
1885

Born on this date
Per Albin Hansson. Prime Minister of Sweden, 1932-1936; 1936-1946. Mr. Hansson, a Social Democrat, was Prime Minister for all but three months of the 14-year period from 1932-1946. An uneasy parliamentary majority forced his resignation in June 1936, but he formed a coalition with his adversary, Farmers' League chairman Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp. Mr. Hansson's government was known for a foreign policy of neutrality and domestic policies that created a welfare state and social corporatism. He died of a heart attack while stepping off a tram in Stockholm on his way home from work late at night on October 6, 1946, 22 days before his 61st birthday.

120 years ago
1890

Baseball
World Series
Louisville Colonels 6 @ Brooklyn Bridegrooms 2 (Best-six-of-ten series tied 3-3-1)

The Colonels defeated the Bridegrooms 6-2 before just 300 fans at Washington Park. Red Ehret pitched a complete game to win for the Colonels, while Tom Lovett went the distance in taking his second loss of the Series. With poor attendance and poor weather, the Series was called off after this game, with no champion decided.

110 years ago
1900

Olympics
The Olympic Games, which had opened in Paris on May 14, closed.

70 years ago
1940

On the radio
Two years after Orson Welles had broadcast an adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds for Mercury Theater on the Air, the two men met in San Antonio, Texas, and appeared together in the broadcast studio of KTSA for an interview.



War
The Empress of Britain, a Canadian Pacific Steamships Line passenger liner serving as a troopship, already damaged by bombs from a Luftwaffe FW-200 Kondor long-range bomber on October 26, and under tow toward the Firth of Clyde, was sunk by torpedoes fired by U-32 Oblt Hans Jenisch, northwest of Bloody Foreland, County Donegal, Ireland. At 42,348 GRT, the Empress, was the largest ship sunk by German U-boats in World War II. After Greece rejected Italy's ultimatum, Italian forces invaded Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II. In their longest flight to date, British Royal Air Force bombers hit German munitions plants in the Bohemian-Moravian Protectorate. Chinese forces recaptured Nanking, former capital of the province of Kwangsi.

Mexican federal troops engaged Almazanista rebel forces in the state of Chiapas.

60 years ago
1950

Hit parade http://50.6.195.142/archives/50s_files/19501028.html
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Quicksilver--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (8th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Goodnight Irene--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra and the Weavers (Best Seller--11th week at #1; Jukebox--10th week at #1); All My Love (Bolero)--Patti Page (Disc Jockey--1st week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Goodnight Irene--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra and the Weavers (9th week at #1)
--Frank Sinatra
2 Mona Lisa--Nat "King" Cole
--Victor Young and his Orchestra (Don Cherry, vocal)
--Art Lund
3 All My Love (Bolero)--Patti Page
--Percy Faith and his Orchestra
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
--Bing Crosby
4 Sam’s Song--Gary Crosby and Friend
--Joe "Fingers" Carr and the Carr-Hops
5 Our Lady of Fatima--Richard Hayes and Kitty Kallen
--Red Foley
6 Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No!)--The Ames Brothers
7 La Vie en Rose--Tony Martin
--Bing Crosby
--Edith Piaf
8 Harbor Lights--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra with Tony Alamo and the Kaydets
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
--Ray Anthony and his Orchestra
9 Bonaparte’s Retreat--Kay Starr
--Gene Krupa and Chicago Jazz
10 Play a Simple Melody--Gary Crosby and Friend
--Jo Stafford

Singles entering the chart were Beloved, Be Faithful by Russ Morgan and his Orchestra (#29); In My Arms by Mitch Miller and his Orchestra (#32); and A Bushel and a Peck, with versions by Perry Como and Betty Hutton; and Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely (#37). Football
CRU
IRFU
Montreal (5-6) 18 @ Hamilton (6-5) 29
Ottawa (4-6-1) 7 @ Toronto (6-4-1) 30

ORFU
Sarnia (4-4) 10 @ Windsor (2-5) 13

WIFU
Semi-Final
Edmonton 24 @ Saskatchewan 1

Mike King rushed for 2 touchdowns and Lindy Berry passed to Rollin Prather for the other to help the Eskimos defeat the Roughriders before 8,000 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Annis Stukus added 3 converts and 2 field goals for Edmonton. This was the first playoff game won by the Eskimos since rejoining the WIFU in 1949, and the first playoff win by an Edmonton team outside Alberta since 1922. This was the final game for Fred Grant as coach of the Roughriders.

50 years ago
1960

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel)--Roy Orbison (3rd week at #1)

On television tonight
The Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight’s episode: A Thing About Machines, starring Richard Haydn

40 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Black Night--Deep Purple

Diplomacy
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban in an address to the United Nations General Assembly, stressed Israel’s insistence that Egypt pull back missiles from the cease-fire zone along the Suez Canal before Israel would rejoin peace negotiations.

Politics and government
Gerald Regan took office as Premier of Nova Scotia, 15 days after leading his Liberal Party to victory in the provincial election.

Japan’s governing Liberal-Democratic party re-elected Prime Minister Eisaku Sato as the party president for a fourth teo-year term, assuring his continuance in office as the head of government. If Mr. Sato served out his term, his eight years as Prime Minister would set a record for Japan.

Law
A U.S. federal judge in Washington permanently banned official government publication or distribution of a House of Representatives committee report listing "radical" campus speakers. However, the judge approved private distribution of the list.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (9-7) 10 @ Saskatchewan (13-2) 34

R.C. Gamble, recently released by the Eskimos, rushed 16 times for 90 yards and 2 touchdowns in his first game as a Roughrider. Silas McKinnie also rushed for 2 touchdowns as Saskatchewan built a 31-0 halftime lead. The Eskimos finally got on the scoreboard early in the 3rd quarter when Dave Cutler, with a 30 miles-per-hour wind behind him, kicked a 59-yard field goal, 1 yard longer than the previous record, set by Bill Mitchell of the Eskimos in 1964. Rusty Clark, who took over from starting quarterback Don Trull to begin the 3rd quarter, completed 14 of 20 passes and rushed 1 yard for the Eskimos’ only touchdown in the 4th quarter, converted by Dave Cutler. The Eskimos drove to the Saskatchewan 1-yard line late in the game, but Mr. Cutler was stopped in an attempt to run the ball over for a touchdown on the game’s final play. It was the closest that he ever came to scoring a touchdown in his 16-year CFL career; the field goal remained the longest of his career, and stood as a league record for more than a decade. Saskatchewan’s Jack Abendschan converted 3 of the Roughriders’ touchdowns and added 2 field goals and a single. Only 10,696 fans attended the game at Taylor Field in Regina on a cold Wednesday night. It was the 6th straight win for the Roughriders, who ended the Eskimos’ 7-game winning streak.

30 years ago
1980

Abominations
The Canadian federal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced the National Energy Program, a program of confiscating through taxation revenue from oil that, according to the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930, legally belonged to the province of Alberta. The NEP would ostensibly increase national ownership, restrain energy costs, and make the country self-sufficient in energy by 1990. The announced policies did grant a concession to the western provinces by abandoning a proposal to tax gas exports to the United States, which would have cut directly into provincial revenues.

Baseball
Nippon Series
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 4 @ Kintetsu Buffaloes 3 (Kintetsu led best-of-seven series 2-1)

20 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): To Sir with Love--Ngaire

#1 single in Switzerland: It Must Have Been Love--Roxette (3rd week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Tom's Diner--DNA featuring Suzanne Vega (4th week at #1)
2 Ich hab' geträumt von dir--Matthias Reim
3 I've Been Thinking About You--Londonbeat
4 Naked in the Rain--Black Pearl
5 Blaze of Glory--Jon Bon Jovi
6 La luna lila (Purple Moon)--Luisa Fernandez & Peter Kent
7 I am from Austria--Rainhard Fendrich
8 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini--Bombalurina
9 Close to You--Maxi Priest
10 It Must Have Been Love--Roxette

Singles entering the chart were The Invisible Man by Dance with a Stranger (#14); Nah Neh Nah by Vaya Con Dios (#26); Cult of Snap! by Snap (#29); and I'm Your Baby Tonight by Whitney Houston (#30).

Politics and government
The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic held the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history.

World events
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein cancelled the rationing of gasoline and fired his oil minister, saying he had made a miscalculation. Some observers thought that the original announcement was a ruse to make it appear that sanctions were working so that a military attack on Iraq would not be necessary.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (11-6) 18 @ Ottawa (7-10) 27
Toronto (9-8) 31 @ Saskatchewan (9-8) 33
Hamilton (6-11) 15 @ Edmonton (10-7) 25

The Rough Riders recovered 3 Blue Bomber fumbles and made an interception as they improved their chances of making the playoffs for the first time in 5 years. Reggie Barnes rushed 21 times for 85 yards--including a 3-yard touchdown in the 1st quarter--and caught 3 passes for 44 yards to lead the Ottawa offense. Damon Allen completed 15 of 28 passes for 221 yards, including a 46-yard completion to David Williams in the 2nd quarter for the other Ottawa touchdown. Mr. Williams led the Rough Riders with 101 yards on 5 receptions. Dean Dorsey added 2 converts and 4 field goals, and Terry Baker punted 82 yards for a single to complete the Ottawa scoring. Tom Burgess completed a 31-yard pass to Eric Streater in the 1st quarter for the first Winnipeg touchdown, and Robert Mimbs rushed 2 yards for the other Blue Bomber touchdown with 42 seconds remaining in the game. Trevor Kennerd converted the first touchdown and added a field goal and 2 singles. A 2-point convert attempt on the last touchdown was unsuccessful. Mr. Mimbs rushed for 68 yards on 18 carries to lead the Blue Bombers, while Perry Tuttle gained 85 yards on 2 pass receptions. Mr. Burgess completed 14 of 29 passes for 239 yards, while backup quarterback Danny McManus was just 1 for 8 for 24 yards. 18,216 fans showed up at Lansdowne Park on a wet day.

Dave Ridgway’s fourth field goal of the game, a 47-yard kick on the last play of regulation time, gave the Roughriders their win over the Argos before 26,139 happy fans at Taylor Field. The winning kick came just 43 seconds after Toronto had tied the game on a 6-yard touchdown pass from Rickey Foggie to Jeff Boyd and a 2-point convert pass from Mr. Foggie to Mr. Boyd. Toronto head coach Don Matthews was upset by a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness called against his team that kept the Roughriders’ final drive alive. The Roughriders twice had 10-point leads in the game--10-0 and 30-20, while the Argos led 20-13 at halftime. Saskatchewan quarterback Kent Austin opened the scoring with a 1-yard touchdown run in the 1st quarter. Mr. Ridgway converted and added a 47-yard field goal before Lance Chomyc got the Argos on the scoreboard with an 11-yard field goal on the last play of the quarter. The Argos went ahead in the 2nd quarter on a 64-yard touchdown pass from Mr. Foggie to Randy Marriott and an 8-yard touchdown run by Mr. Foggie, both converted by Mr. Chomyc. Mr. Ridgway kicked a 22-yard field goal with 1:57 remaining in the quarter, but Mr. Chomyc kicked a 17-yard field goal on the last play of the half. The Roughriders did all the scoring in the 3rd quarter on a 40-yard touchdown rush by Orville Lee and a 20-yard touchdown pass by running back Lucius Floyd to Don Narcisse. Mr. Ridgway converted both majors and added a 12-yard field goal in the first minute of the 4th quarter to give Saskatchewan a 30-20 lead. Mr. Chomyc kicked a 35-yard field goal to make the score 30-23, setting the stage for the last-minute excitement. Mr. Austin directed a balanced attack, as the Roughriders rushed for 200 yards and passed for 220. Milson Jones led the Saskatchewan ground game with 100 yards on 15 carries, and Mr. Lee added 58 on just 4 carries. Ray Elgaard led the Roughriders’ receivers with 6 catches for 47 yards. Mr. Austin completed just 18 of 39 passes for 170 yards and 2 interceptions. Mr. Foggie completed 13 of 29 passes for 235 yards and rushed 9 times for 121 yards. Mr. Boyd led all receivers with 81 yards on 4 receptions. The Saskatchewan defense held Argos’ star Mike "Pinball" Clemons to 16 yards on 4 rushes and 6 yards on 1 pass reception. Mr. Ridgway’s performance gave him two single-season CFL records: 57 field goals and 223 points, with 1 game remaining to add to his totals.



The Edmonton defense held the Tiger-Cats to 7 first downs and 190 yards net offense and made 3 interceptions as the Eskimos ended a 4-game losing streak before 27,434 fans on a sunny Sunday afternoon at Commonwealth Stadium. Ray Macoritti kicked 5 field goals, a convert, and 3 singles as the Eskimos came back from an 11-3 2nd-quarter deficit. Edmonton quarterback Tracy Ham directed an offense that amassed 28 first downs, 268 yards rushing, and 463 yards net offense, but could manage just 1 touchdown--a 22-yard pass from Mr. Ham to Keith Wright at 4:35 of the 4th quarter. Hamilton’s touchdown came in the 2nd quarter on a 75-yard pass from Mike Kerrigan to Earl Winfield on the first play after Mr. Macoritti had kicked a 27-yard field goal to reduce the Tiger-Cats’ lead to 4-3. Paul Osbaldiston converted Mr. Winfield’s touchdown and added 2 field goals and 2 singles. Michael Soles led the Eskimos’ rushing attack with 104 yards on 19 carries, while Mr. Ham rushed 14 times for 101 yards and Blake Marshall added 47 on 13 carries. The Eskimos limited the Tiger-Cats, to just 13 yards on 13 rushing plays. Mr. Winfield led all receivers with 127 yards on 4 receptions, while Craig Ellis led the Eskimos with 7 receptions for 111 yards. Mr. Ham completed just 14 of 34 passes for 195 yards and an interception, but he still had a better day than Mr. Kerrigan, who played the entire game despite completing just 8 of 32 passes for 177 yards and 3 interceptions. The Eskimos controlled the ball almost twice as long as the Tiger-Cats did--the difference in time of possession was 39:13 to 20:47. Hamilton’s attack was limited by the absence of 2 key players: running back Derrick McAdoo, who didn’t make the trip to Edmonton, and wide receiver Tony Champion, who was scratched from the lineup after being taken to hospital the night before the game with an inflamed gall bladder. David Adams, who replaced Mr. McAdoo, left with a pulled hamstring in the 1st quarter after rushing 3 times for 4 yards and catching 1 pass for 6.

10 years ago
2000

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (5-11-1) 54 @ Edmonton (10-7-0-1) 52 (4 OT)
Hamilton (8-9-0-2) 22 @ British Columbia (7-10-0-1) 28

Paul McCallum kicked a 52-yard field goal with 42 seconds remaining in regulation time to tie the game 30-30 and then kicked a 43-yard field goal on the last play of the 4th possession of overtime to give the Roughriders their second win of the season at Commonwealth Stadium, the first time since 1969 that Saskatchewan had won 2 games in Edmonton in the same season. Marvin Graves, replacing the injured Henry Burris at quarterback for the Roughriders, completed 13 of 24 passes for 229 yards and touchdowns to Curtis Marsh, Chris Szarka, and Dan Farthing, with the last 2 coming on the 2nd and 3rd possessions of overtime. Mr. Graves also rushed 6 times for 28 yards, including a 1-yard touchdown on the 1st overtime possession. Linebacker Trevis Smith scored a Saskatchewan touchdown on a 13-yard fumble return early in the 4th quarter, and Demetris Bendross scored later in the quarter on a 91-yard kickoff return, tying Eric Blount’s single-season CFL record with 2 touchdowns on kickoff returns. Mr. McCallum added 6 converts and 4 field goals. Saskatchewan running back Darren Davis chewed up the Edmonton defense for 220 yards on 20 carries; Mr. Bendross led the Roughriders’ receivers with 72 yards on 3 receptions. Edmonton quarterback Nealon Greene continued his fine late-season play, rushing 11 times for 116 yards and completing 25 of 36 passes for 341 yards and 3 touchdowns. Kez McCorvey and Terry Vaughn caught touchdown passes from Mr. Greene in the 4th quarter, and Mr. McCorvey caught another touchdown pass on the 1st possession of overtime. Mark Nohra rushed 22 times for 101 yards and 2 touchdowns--a 1-yard run in the 2nd quarter and a 20-yard run on the 3rd possession of overtime. Shawn Daniels scored the other Edmonton touchdown on a 1-yard rush on the 2nd possession of overtime. Sean Fleming added 6 converts and 3 field goals, but his 30-yard attempt on the 4th overtime possession was wide for a single, enabling the Roughriders to win the game with Mr. McCallum’s last kick. Mr. Vaughn led all receivers with 12 receptions for 162 yards; Mr. McCorvey, whose touchdowns were his 14th and 15th of the season, caught 7 passes for 111 yards. 34,218 were in attendance to see the final game in the Hall of Fame career of Henry "Gizmo" Williams of the Eskimos, the greatest punt returner in CFL history. He returned 2 kickoffs for 63 yards, but strained a hip flexor while returning a punt for 13 yards in the 2nd quarter, and left the field for the last time. Mr. Williams played professional football for 16 seasons, 14 of them in the CFL--all with the Eskimos. His 26 touchdowns on punt returns remains a CFL regular season record.



Damon Allen completed 26 of 35 passes for 345 yards and 3 touchdowns and passed Ron Lancaster to become the CFL’s career leader in passing yardage. Mr. Allen’s touchdown tosses covered 52 yards to Jimmy Oliver in the 1st quarter; 45 yards to Alfred Jackson in the 2nd quarter; and 14 yards to Simon Baffoe in the 4th quarter. The touchdown pass to Mr. Jackson was the play that gave Mr. Allen 50,580 yards passing in a 16-year career. Sean Millington rushed 1 yard in the 2nd quarter for the other B.C. touchdown, all of which were converted by Lui Passaglia. Paul Osbaldiston’s 4 field goals accounted for all of Hamilton’s scoring until the last minute of the game, when backup quarterback Cody Ledbetter completed a 19-yard touchdown pass to Mike Juhasz and then threw to Darren Flutie for a 2-point convert. Mr. Passaglia conceded a safety touch on the last play of the game to complete the scoring. Mr. Millington led all rushers with 70 yards on 15 carries; Ronald Williams led the Tiger-Cats with 10 caries for 36 yards. Mr. Oliver caught 6 passes for 112 yards, and Mr. Jackson 5 for 94. Mr. Flutie led the Tiger-Cats with 7 receptions for 83 yards. Hamilton starting quarterback Danny McManus had a terrible game, completing just 5 of 18 passes for 38 yards and an interception. Mr. Ledbetter was 12 for 20 for 153 yards and 3 interceptions. Mr. Lancaster was on hand to see his record broken, since he was head coach of the Tiger-Cats. B.C.’s win eliminated the Saskatchewan Roughriders from playoff contention. Attendance at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver was 21,303.

CIAU
Regina 28 @ Alberta 10

This was supposed to be the second half of a football doubleheader at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, but the University of Alberta screwed things up in typical fashion, and the game was played at Varsity Stadium at exactly the same time as the Eskimos’ game, thus preventing those of us with tickets for both games from seeing both games. This was the final football game played at Varsity Stadium.