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Terry Dooner recalls being a 10-year-old boy in Ottawa in 1960, attending Rough Rider games at Lansdowne Park, where his idol, Bobby Simpson, carried the Red and Black to a Grey Cup championship.
“I certainly remember his sleeper play against the Argos, that allowed the Riders to go to the Grey Cup and win it that year,” Dooner says of Simpson, who died in 2007. “I remember how great that made me feel.
Dooner’s other gridiron heroes — Russ Jackson, Tony Gabriel, Gerry Organ — were all great players, he adds, but Simpson stood out. “He was old-school, and would get the nod as my favourite.
“The reason I liked him was because he was an all-star on offense AND defense, and he stayed around Ottawa after he retired. He was always part of the community and he was popular. He owned a tavern and restaurant for many years. He was an extremely likeable man.”
Menu from Bob Simpson’s Locanda Tavern collected by Ottawa Rough Riders fan and collector Terry Dooner.
Dooner clipped and saved a full-page congratulatory ad from the Ottawa Citizen following the Riders’ 1960 Cup championship, unaware of the lifelong obsession then just stirring within him. Other memorabilia followed — cards, photos, buttons and the like — but it really wasn’t until the mid 1980s that Dooner took stock of the situation and realized that yes, he had become a collector.
Today he boasts what he believes is the largest extant collection of Rough Rider paraphernalia, with well over 2,000 rare and everyday items that he estimates are worth about $14,000.
On Sunday, Dooner, who now calls London, Ont. home, will have a few hundred Rider-related artifacts — most of them duplicates from his vault — on display at the Sports Card and Comic Book Show at Walkley Arena, where fans can perhaps find the Whit Tucker or Tom Clements card or photo they’ve long sought.
As for the main bulk of his collection, Dooner, now 66 and a decade retired from his job at Industry Canada, figures the time has come to pass it along, too, but he wants it to remain intact, and so hopes to find a collector or organization that will preserve it, add to it and display it.
“I’m not interested in selling it to a dealer. If someone from a Hall of Fame or an archives came along with a proposal to protect it and present this so people could see it in the future, then I’d be interested in that. It’s not just the price or money here.”
About half of his collection consists of sports cards, including a 1952 Parkhurst set of 100 cards — 17 or them Rough Riders — that Dooner says is the first set of Rough Riders cards, and which he estimates is worth $665. Other sets include various Topps, Jogo and O-Pee-Chee seasons, and a rare Nabisco Shredded Wheat set from 1956 (minus Riders Hal Ledyard and Bob Pinhey), with a $1,050 price tag.
Another rarity is an autographed Russ Jackson card from one of only 1,200 four-cards sets commissioned by La-Z-Boy for the 1992 Toronto Furniture Show.
“I love these corporate things, where a business did some short-production run of something that’s really rare. It might be Colonial Furniture, the Ottawa Police, CFRA or the Citizen. This Toronto Furniture Show card of Jackson — I’ve only ever seen one, so I’m really glad I bought it.”
Apart from cards, Dooner’s collection includes game tickets, photos, milk caps, programs, newspaper and magazine articles, books, crests, pins, stickers, clothing, autographs and other collectibles. His favourite is a team-autographed program from a 1951 Grey Cup victory banquet held for the Riders at the Château Laurier.
Perhaps the most curious game ticket in the collection is from a match played in 1958 in Philadelphia — the first CFL game played on U.S. turf — where 15,000 fans, including 3,000 who bused in from Canada, hardly made a dent in the airy 102,000-seat Municipal Stadium as they watched the Riders drop a 24-18 decision to the Hamilton Ti-Cats. Local news outlets reported that the U.S. fans in attendance were largely “bewildered” by the Canadian rules.
Elsewhere in Dooner’s aggregation is a pair of Rider-themed underwear (boxers) from the Glieberman era; a deck of playing cards bearing the Riders’ horse logo; team Christmas cards from the 1980s; Globe & Mail press plates of Riders photos; a 1976 Dairy Queen sundae helmet; temporary tattoos; an ashtray; a business card from former Rider quarterback Condredge Holloway, when he was general manager of the Huntsville Channel Cats hockey team; and a pack of matches and autographed menu from Locanda Tavern, the Laurier Ave. W. restaurant owned by Bobby Simpson.
“That’s part of the charm of the collection,” insists Dooner. “It gives you a glimpse of advertising over the years, why certain businesses would want their names aligned with the team, some of the language used, the marketing… it really gives you a glimpse of Ottawa over the last century.”
The Sports Card and Comic Book Show takes place Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Walkley Arena. Visit capitaltradeshows.com for more information. To see more of Terry Dooner’s collection, visit https://www.facebook.com/Terrys-collection-of-Ottawa-Rough-Rider-memorabilia-459494934248137/
bdeachman@postmedia.com
1957 Canadian football schedule booklet collected by Ottawa Rough Riders fan and collector Terry Dooner.
Photo of cheerleaders given to Ottawa Rough Riders fan and collector Terry Dooner by one of the players.
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“I certainly remember his sleeper play against the Argos, that allowed the Riders to go to the Grey Cup and win it that year,” Dooner says of Simpson, who died in 2007. “I remember how great that made me feel.
Dooner’s other gridiron heroes — Russ Jackson, Tony Gabriel, Gerry Organ — were all great players, he adds, but Simpson stood out. “He was old-school, and would get the nod as my favourite.
“The reason I liked him was because he was an all-star on offense AND defense, and he stayed around Ottawa after he retired. He was always part of the community and he was popular. He owned a tavern and restaurant for many years. He was an extremely likeable man.”
Menu from Bob Simpson’s Locanda Tavern collected by Ottawa Rough Riders fan and collector Terry Dooner.
Dooner clipped and saved a full-page congratulatory ad from the Ottawa Citizen following the Riders’ 1960 Cup championship, unaware of the lifelong obsession then just stirring within him. Other memorabilia followed — cards, photos, buttons and the like — but it really wasn’t until the mid 1980s that Dooner took stock of the situation and realized that yes, he had become a collector.
Today he boasts what he believes is the largest extant collection of Rough Rider paraphernalia, with well over 2,000 rare and everyday items that he estimates are worth about $14,000.
On Sunday, Dooner, who now calls London, Ont. home, will have a few hundred Rider-related artifacts — most of them duplicates from his vault — on display at the Sports Card and Comic Book Show at Walkley Arena, where fans can perhaps find the Whit Tucker or Tom Clements card or photo they’ve long sought.
As for the main bulk of his collection, Dooner, now 66 and a decade retired from his job at Industry Canada, figures the time has come to pass it along, too, but he wants it to remain intact, and so hopes to find a collector or organization that will preserve it, add to it and display it.
“I’m not interested in selling it to a dealer. If someone from a Hall of Fame or an archives came along with a proposal to protect it and present this so people could see it in the future, then I’d be interested in that. It’s not just the price or money here.”
About half of his collection consists of sports cards, including a 1952 Parkhurst set of 100 cards — 17 or them Rough Riders — that Dooner says is the first set of Rough Riders cards, and which he estimates is worth $665. Other sets include various Topps, Jogo and O-Pee-Chee seasons, and a rare Nabisco Shredded Wheat set from 1956 (minus Riders Hal Ledyard and Bob Pinhey), with a $1,050 price tag.
Another rarity is an autographed Russ Jackson card from one of only 1,200 four-cards sets commissioned by La-Z-Boy for the 1992 Toronto Furniture Show.
“I love these corporate things, where a business did some short-production run of something that’s really rare. It might be Colonial Furniture, the Ottawa Police, CFRA or the Citizen. This Toronto Furniture Show card of Jackson — I’ve only ever seen one, so I’m really glad I bought it.”
Apart from cards, Dooner’s collection includes game tickets, photos, milk caps, programs, newspaper and magazine articles, books, crests, pins, stickers, clothing, autographs and other collectibles. His favourite is a team-autographed program from a 1951 Grey Cup victory banquet held for the Riders at the Château Laurier.
Perhaps the most curious game ticket in the collection is from a match played in 1958 in Philadelphia — the first CFL game played on U.S. turf — where 15,000 fans, including 3,000 who bused in from Canada, hardly made a dent in the airy 102,000-seat Municipal Stadium as they watched the Riders drop a 24-18 decision to the Hamilton Ti-Cats. Local news outlets reported that the U.S. fans in attendance were largely “bewildered” by the Canadian rules.
Elsewhere in Dooner’s aggregation is a pair of Rider-themed underwear (boxers) from the Glieberman era; a deck of playing cards bearing the Riders’ horse logo; team Christmas cards from the 1980s; Globe & Mail press plates of Riders photos; a 1976 Dairy Queen sundae helmet; temporary tattoos; an ashtray; a business card from former Rider quarterback Condredge Holloway, when he was general manager of the Huntsville Channel Cats hockey team; and a pack of matches and autographed menu from Locanda Tavern, the Laurier Ave. W. restaurant owned by Bobby Simpson.
“That’s part of the charm of the collection,” insists Dooner. “It gives you a glimpse of advertising over the years, why certain businesses would want their names aligned with the team, some of the language used, the marketing… it really gives you a glimpse of Ottawa over the last century.”
The Sports Card and Comic Book Show takes place Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Walkley Arena. Visit capitaltradeshows.com for more information. To see more of Terry Dooner’s collection, visit https://www.facebook.com/Terrys-collection-of-Ottawa-Rough-Rider-memorabilia-459494934248137/
bdeachman@postmedia.com
1957 Canadian football schedule booklet collected by Ottawa Rough Riders fan and collector Terry Dooner.
Photo of cheerleaders given to Ottawa Rough Riders fan and collector Terry Dooner by one of the players.
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