University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football Team - Action
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- [ca. 1960]
Action shot of a Huskies football game at Griffiths Stadium at left. Student shenigans at right. Fans in bleachers in background.
University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football Team - Action
Action shot of a Huskies football game at Griffiths Stadium at left. Student shenigans at right. Fans in bleachers in background.
University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football Team - Action
Huskies in action in a game at Griffiths Stadium. Fans in bleachers in background.
University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football Team - Action
Huskie player Doug Rozon runs for a touchdown during a game against the Regina Rams at Griffiths Stadium. Fans in bleachers in background.
University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football Team - Action
Action shot of a Huskies vs. Calgary Dinos game.
University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football Team - Action
Huskies football team on offence in a game at Griffiths Stadium. Fans in bleachers in background.
University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football Team - Group Photo
Huskies football team stands in front of a Saskatoon transit bus; Physical Education building in background.
Action shot of University of Saskatchewan Huskies football game at Griffiths Stadium during Frosh Welcome Week. Fans in bleachers in background.
College of Medicine - Football Team - Group Photo
Posed image of members of the football team sitting in bleachers; six football helmets lined up in foreground.
College of Commerce - Inter-Faculty Rugby Football Team - Group Photo
Indoor posed image of the inter-faculty touch football runners-up from Commerce: Rose, H., Owen, J., Lake, L., Tomney, J., Daiken, R., Ellery, R., Katzman, M., Milansky, H., Calver, D., Richards, R., Finlayson, J., Cameron, T.
Bio/historical note: In 1948 a new touch rugby scheme went into effect. The game was faster, and the heavy back-fielders totally lost their popularity. The main emphasis was on passing, kicking, and quick end runs. All worked from the "T" formation.
College of Arts and Science - Rugby Football Team - Group Photo
Inter-Faculty touch football winners from Arts: Horner, B., Downey, K., Towel, V., Neatby, P., Kernan, J., Ligget, B., Lowden, A., Turple, D., McKercher, Hordern, C. Robert (Bob), Mathews, N., Milansky, S.
Bio/historical note: In 1948 a new touch rugby scheme went into effect. The game was faster, and the heavy back-fielders totally lost their popularity. The main emphasis was on passing, kicking, and quick end runs. All worked from the "T" formation.
College of Arts and Science - Foot-Ball [Soccer] Team - Player Photos
Individual photographs of Arts and Science team members grouped. Names: John Ross Vant, W. Ramsay, C.H. (Del) Wheatland, Thomas Wilfred Hunt, I.R. Taylor, Walter Whittaker, J.J. Mildenberger, T.R.C. Dodd, Charles Neil Cameron, Sidney Moore Bayles, Ernest Charles Dunlop, George Aubrey Dobson.
Head and shoulders image of Bob Laycoe, Huskie football and wrestler.
Bio/Historical Note: Robert (Bob) Laycoe and his parents, Hal and Marjorie, and the Laycoe family were amongst a group of Canadians who came to Portland in the summer of 1960. Hal Laycoe coached the new Portland Buckaroos hockey team for 9 years. Laycoe attended Cleveland High and played football and wrestled. Linfield College in McMinnvill, Oregon, and played football and wrestled. Upon graduation in 1968 he moved to Vancouver, earning an MA (1969) in Kinesiology and playing another year of football for the Thunderbirds at the University of British Columbia. He also won 4 Canadian titles in wrestling. Laycoe was an assistant coach with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football and wrestling programs from 1969-70 to 1971-72 and was head coach of both teams in 1972-73. Laycoe served as interim athletic director at the U of S when Don Burgess was on sabbatical in 1971-72. He coached football with Frank Smith at UBC from 1973 to 1987, winning two Vanier Cups (national championships). Laycoe was in Vancouver while his father coached the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL. Eventually Laycoe went to Toronto to coach the University of Toronto Varsity Blues from 1988-2002. He won a third Vanier Cup in 1993. When Laycoe’s neurological disorder forced his early retirement, he moved to the Okanagan in British Columbia. Hall of Fame awards followed Laycoe from Cleveland High to Linfield College, to the University of British Columbia and to the University of Toronto. The Frank Smith and Bob Laycoe Varsity Training Facility was established at UBC. Bob Laycoe died suddenly 28 December 2020 at age 73 from complications from cumulative traumatic encephalopathy and secondary Parkinson’s disease which developed over decades.
Benefit Football Game for Doug Tilden
Action shots of the Engineering football team playing the Eagles, a combined team of Commerce, Law and Education, in a benefit game for Doug Tilden, who became ill with polio and had been a University of Saskatchewan Huskie football team member.
Bio/Historical Note: Douglas Iver Tilden was born 7 March 1931 in Ettington, Saskatchewan. He enrolled in Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, playing Huskie football for two years, during which Tilden was stricken with polio in 1950. He earned a BEng in 1953 from the U of S, and later obtained an MEng from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Tilden accepted a job with Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama. He was involved in the race to the moon, working on the Saturn/Apollo Vehicle and the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Tilden was awarded the Astronaut's "Snoopy Award" for his role in the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the Apollo 15 moon mission. Tilden retired from Boeing in 1993, concluding his career by working on the International Space Station ‘Freedom.’ Tilden died on 5 January 2011 in Seattle, Washington.
Head and shoulders image of Barry Roseborough, instructor, School of Physical Education, Huskie football coach, and former Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback.
Bio/Historical Note: Barry W.ayne Roseborough was born 30 April 1932 in Saskatoon. He played college football at the University of North Dakota during the 1955 and 1956 seasons. Roseborough played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1956-1958 and won a Grey Cup in 1958. After his CFL career he coached the Saskatchewan Huskies football team at the University of Saskatchewan from 1960 to 1962. Roseborough also attended the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University, earning his PhD. He died 14 March 1992 in Michigan at age 59.