{"id":4243,"date":"2020-06-11T11:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2020-10-28T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:40:01","slug":"time-capsule-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/2020\/06\/time-capsule-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Capsule: 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe worked so hard that we couldn\u2019t lose, even though we weren\u2019t supposed to win,\u201d Jeff Volpe, a player on the winning team, said years later. \u201cWe had a feeling of destiny, the feeling that you were part of something bigger than yourself. That, in essence, is what a team is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Varsity Stadium, in front of a crowd of 19,842.<\/p>\n<p>Gryphon receiver Parri Ceci, who went on to a professional career in the CFL, was the game\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>ON CAMPUS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Burt Matthews became U of G\u2019s fourth president. He earned his undergraduate degree at OAC. A soil chemist, he spent 20 years here, beginning as an OAC lecturer.<\/li>\n<li>New head football coach John Musselman replaced Tom Dimitroff, who returned to the Ottawa Rough Riders of the CFL. Musselman would coach the Gryphons to a Vanier Cup victory.<\/li>\n<li>Macdonald Stewart Art Centre got the go-ahead to begin landscaping work on the expansion of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>OFF CAMPUS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Soviet Union boycotted the Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles, in retaliation for the United States led boycott of the 1980 games held in Moscow.<\/li>\n<li>The space shuttle Discovery had its maiden flight, which lasted from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5.<\/li>\n<li>An agreement was reached to return Hong Kong to China.<\/li>\n<li>Canadian film director James Cameron gained international fame with the release of his critically acclaimed The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Do you have a memory to share from your time at U of G? 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