Time capsule
THE YEAR
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1984 The Gryphons football squad was an underdog in Canadian university competition in 1984. But after winning the coveted Vanier Cup as the best varsity team in the country, the red and gold were thought of as a team of destiny. The Gryphons beat four-time Vanier Cup winner Western Mustangs to win the Yates Cup, becoming champs of Ontario. Then, on Nov. 24, U of G rallied to defeat the Mount Allison Mounties 22-13 at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium, in front of a crowd of 19,842. Gryphon receiver Parri Ceci, who went on to a professional career in the CFL, was the game’s MVP. He made two receptions in the game, both for touchdowns. One was carried 89 yards, the longest in Vanier Cup history to that point.
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ON CAMPUS
OFF CAMPUS
+ Burt Matthews, an OAC grad, became U of G’s fourth president. + New head football coach John Musselman replaced Tom Dimitroff. Musselman would coach the Gryphons to a Vanier Cup victory. + Macdonald Stewart Art Centre got the go-ahead to begin landscaping work on the expansion of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park. + The J.D. MacLachlan Building was named after U of G’s first president.
+ The Soviet Union boycotted the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, in retaliation for the U.S.led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games. + The space shuttle Discovery’s inaugural flight lasted Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. + China and Britain reached agreement to return Hong Kong to China. + Canadian film director James Cameron released his critically acclaimed film The Terminator, starring bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger. Fall 2020 PORTICO | 37
