November 27, 2012

100 years ago
1912

Football
CRU
ORFU
Final
Toronto Rugby & Athletic Association 11 @ Hamilton 24

Two fluke touchdowns helped the Alerts defeat the Torontos in a poorly-played game before 2,000 fans at the Cricket Grounds. Toronto was leading 1-0 in the 1st quarter when Everett Smith of Toronto R&AA made a bad lateral; Red Harper returned it for a Hamilton touchdown, and the Alerts remained ahead for the rest of the game, with quarter leads of 10-1, 10-7, and 17-7. In the 3rd quarter, referee Silver Quilty awarded the Alerts possession of the ball at the Toronto 2-yard line. According to The Toronto Daily Star of November 28, Toronto had been stopped on second down, but Mr. Quilty apparently lost count of the downs, and awarded possession of the ball to the Alerts after just 2 downs. Ross Craig then rushed for a Hamilton touchdown to put the game out of reach.

Baseball
Philadelphia Phillies' president Horace Fogel was permanently banned from the National League for questioning the integrity of the game, particularly the umpires. Mr. Fogel had questioned the integrity of the umpiring after one of his players, Lee Magee had been called out at home plate in an 8-1 loss to the New York Giants in the first game of a doubleheader during the 1912 season, and had also questioned the honesty of umpire Al Orth during the second game, won by the Giants 4-2.

75 years ago
1937

On television tonight
Louis Hector and William Podmore starred as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively, in The Three Garridebs, the first television broadcast of a Sherlock Holmes story. The performance integrated film with scenes shot in a television studio at Radio City in New York. The audience consisted of members of the American Radio Relay League. The dramatic presentation wasn’t the only event on the program; Sylvia Bruce sang in the studio, as did another musical act known as Lucille and Lanny. Newsreel film footage of the recent Yale-Harvard and Fordham-St. Mary’s football games was also shown, and received the most positive comments in The New York Times on November 28.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Finals
Ottawa 1 @ Toronto 10 (Toronto won 2-game total points series 21-16)

Bob Isbister, playing with a painful side injury, threw a 20-yard pass to Wes Cutler for the game's only touchdown in the 1st quarter, made a great defensive play to knock down a potential touchdown pass late in the 4th quarter, and made several punts of 50-60 yards as the Argonauts defeated the Rough Riders before 12,300 fans at Maple Leaf Stadium. Bill Stukus converted Mr. Cutler's touchdown to give the Argonauts a 6-0 lead in the game and a 17-15 lead in the series. Tiny Herman scored the only Ottawa point in the 3rd quarter when he missed a field goal and the kick went for a single. In the 4th quarter, Ted Morris of the Argonauts scored a single when he blocked a punt into the Ottawa end zone, and Stan O'Neill of the Rough Riders got to the ball first, preventing a touchdown, but giving Toronto an 18-16 lead in the series. Annis Stukus then kicked a field goal to close the scoring. Mr. Herman was ejected in the 4th quarter for fighting.

Canadian university
Yates Cup
Final
Queen's 7 @ Toronto 6 (OT)

Cam Gray missed a 26-yard field goal attempt in the last minute of overtime, the kick going for a single point as the Tricolor held on to defeat the Varsity Blues at Varsity Stadium. Toronto led 3-0 after the 1st quarter on a field goal by Mr. Gray. Johnny Munro of Queen's punted for 2 singles to bring the Tricolor within 3-2 at halftime. Mr. Gray added 2 singles in the 3rd quarter to give the Varsity Blues a 5-2 lead, but the Tricolor tied the game on a field goal by Mr. Thornton late in the 4th quarter. The teams played two 10-minute halves of overtime; Mr. Munro punted for 2 singles in the 1st half to give Queen's a 7-5 lead, which appeared safe until a Toronto march late in the 2nd half set up Mr. Gray for the potential winning field goal.

70 years ago
1942

Born on this date
Jimi Hendrix. U.S. musician. Regarded by many as the greatest guitarist in rock history, Mr. Hendrix was born in Seattle. He died in London on September 18, 1970 at the age of 27.

50 years ago
1962

On television tonight
The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Come and Kill Me

40 years ago
1972

World events
Sean McStioffain, chief of staff of the provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army, was transferred to a military hospital in Curragh the day after eight gunmen disguised as priests and doctors had failed in an attempt to rescue him from Mater Hospital in Dublin. Mr. McStioffain had begun a hunger strike after being arrested in Dublin on November 19, and had been sentenced on November 25 to six months in prison for belonging to an illegal organization. The government of Prime Minister Jack Lynch
cancelled all police leaves and placed 1,000 soldiers on alert for possible riot duty in Dublin, and Mr. Lynch sought emergency powers to jail suspected IRA terrorists and end the outlawed organization’s terror campaign.

30 years ago
1982

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K.: I Don't Wanna Dance--Eddy Grant (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Truly--Lionel Richie

U.S.A. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Gloria--Laura Branigan
2 Truly--Lionel Richie
3 Up Where We Belong--Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
4 Heart Attack--Olivia Newton-John
5 Maneater--Daryl Hall & John Oates
6 Who Can it Be Now?--Men at Work
7 Steppin' Out--Joe Jackson
8 Mickey--Toni Basil
9 The Girl is Mine--Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney
10 Muscles--Diana Ross

Singles entering the chart were Heart to Heart by Kenny Loggins (#71); Allentown by Billy Joel (#79); Heart of the Night by Juice Newton (#83); Love in Store by Fleetwood Mac (#84); Right Before Your Eyes by America (#86); Nowhere to Run by Santana (#87); Twilight Zone by Golden Earring (#88); Bad Boy by Ray Parker, Jr. (#89); and Put it in a Magazine by Sonny Charles (#90).

Canada’s top 10 (RPM)
1 Up Where We Belong--Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
2 Gloria--Laura Branigan
3 The Look of Love--ABC
4 Da Da Da--Trio
5 Steppin' Out--Joe Jackson
6 Down Under--Men at Work
7 Dirty Laundry--Don Henley
8 It's Raining Again--Supertramp
9 Truly--Lionel Richie
10 Shock the Monkey--Peter Gabriel

Singles entering the chart were Heartbreaker by Dionne Warwick (#44); Don't Pay the Ferryman by Chris deBurgh (#47); Love Come Down by Evelyn King (#48); Der Kommissar by After the Fire (#49); and Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen (#50).

Politics
Yasuhiro Nakasone, newly-elected leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was installed as the country’s new Prime Minister, and formed a cabinet containing six supporters of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

25 years ago
1987

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): You Win Again--Bee Gees (6th week at #1)

Died on this date
Babe Herman, 84. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Herman played right field for a minor professional team in Edmonton before embarking on a lengthy major league career with the Brooklyn Robins (1926-1931); Cincinnati Reds (1932, 1935-1936); Chicago Cubs (1933-1934); Pittsburgh Pirates (1935); Detroit Tigers (1937); and Brooklyn Dodgers (1945). In 1,552 games Mr. Herman batted .324 with 181 home runs and 997 runs batted in. His best season was probably 1930, when he hit .393 with 35 home runs and 130 RBIs. Mr. Herman was frequently derided for his defensive abilities, which is probably the main reason he's not in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

20 years ago
1992

Hit parade
#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Sweat (A La La La La Long)--Inner Circle (10th week at #1)

Politics and government
Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper (NDP), whose refusal in the Manitoba legislature to give unanimous consent to approval of the Meech Lake constitutional accord in 1990 had helped to scuttle the deal, announced that he would be leaving provincial politics and would possibly try to obtain a seat in the House of Commons in the next federal election. Mr. Harper had been a member of the Manitoba legislature since 1981.

Hockey
NHL
Chicago 8 Edmonton 1

10 years ago
2002

Terrorism
U.S. President George W. Bush appointed former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as chairman of a commission to investigate possible intelligence and security flaws prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.