Canadian Football League

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Former Canadian Football League Great Passes Away

Eagle Day, a quarterback at Mississippi in the 1950s whose first college pass went for a 63-yard touchdown, died. He was 75.
Herman Sidney Day died Friday at his daughter's home in Nashville, Tenn., after a short unspecified illness, the university said.
He played two seasons with the Washington Redskins as a punter. Day spent 12 seasons in the Canadian Football League, where he was All-Pro in 1961 and 1962.
Day was an all-Southeastern Conference quarterback who went 28-5-1 and won two league titles under coach John Vaught from 1954-56.
He was dubbed "The Mississippi Gambler" after setting up Ole Miss' 14-13 victory over TCU in the 1956 Cotton Bowl with a 25-yard scramble late in the game that helped the Rebels earn their first major bowl victory.


Day also pitched for the Rebels baseball team and took Ole Miss to the College World Series in 1956. He was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1981, the Ole Miss Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame in 2003.
Survivors include wife JoAnne, two sons, a daughter and two grandchildren.
Services will be held March 1 in Jackson

Sunday, February 17, 2008

2007 Canadian Football League Players Association All Star Team

A complete list of 2007 CFLPA All-Stars is available below:
2007 INTERGOLD CFLPA PRO PLAYERS ALL STAR TEAM
POSITION PLAYER JERSEY # TEAM
OFFENSE:
QUARTERBACK KEVIN GLENN 5 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
OFFENSIVE TACKLE DAN GOODSPEED 64 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
OFFENSIVE TACKLE PATRICK KABONGO 56 EDMONTON ESKIMOS
OFFENSIVE GUARD ANDREW GREENE 68 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
OFFENSIVE GUARD SCOTT FLORY 57 MONTREAL ALOUETTES
OFFENSIVE CENTER MARWAN HAGE 62 HAMILTON TIGER CATS
RUNNING BACK CHARLES ROBERTS 1 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
FULLBACK CHRIS SZARKA 33 SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS
SLOT BACK TERRENCE EDWARDS 82 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
SLOT BACK MILTON STEGALL 85 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
WIDE RECEIVER DERICK ARMSTRONG 83 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
WIDE RECEIVER KAMAU PETERSON 8 EDMONTON ESKIMOS
DEFENSE:
DEFENSIVE END JONATHON BROWN 97 TORONTO ARGONAUTS
DEFENSIVE END CAMERON WAKE 91 BC LIONS
DEFENSIVE TACKLE DOUG BROWN 97 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
DEFENSIVE TACKLE ADRIANO BELLI 78 TORONTO ARGONAUTS
LINEBACKER BARRIN SIMPSON 51 WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
LINEBACKER ZEKE MORENO 9 HAMILTON TIGER CATS
LINEBACKER JOJUAN ARMOUR 32 HAMILTON TIGER CATS
CORNERBACK BYRON PARKER 28 TORONTO ARGONAUTS
CORNERBACK JORDAN YOUNGER 26 TORONTO ARGONAUTS
HALF BACK KOREY BANKS 24 BC LIONS
HALF BACK RYAN PHILLIPS 21 BC LIONS
SAFETY BARRON MILES 9 BC LIONS
PLACE KICKER NICK SETTA 13 HAMILTON TIGER CATS
PUNTER DAMON DUVAL 15 MONTREAL ALOUETTES
HEAD COACH KENT AUSTIN SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS
SPECIAL TEAMS DOMINIQUE DORSEY 34 TORONTO ARGONAUTS


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