1978 Argos

[Will]

https://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GU...=TOR&year=1978

Beyond my desire to get a Royal Retros custom, there is a question about the arms. Some players had the double stripes and some have one stripe. What's with that?

[paulwoods13]

https://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GU...=TOR&year=1978

Beyond my desire to get a Royal Retros custom, there is a question about the arms. Some players had the double stripes and some have one stripe. What's with that?

I have a couple of game-worns from that period, circa 1977-78: a white 12 and a blue 14 that I believe was worn by Kelvin Kirk. It appears to me that some players cut part of the sleeves off -- presumably they found them too long.

I'd love to know what the uniform site uses as source material for its database. The only thing I can think of is newspaper photos from games, albeit they would have been black-and-white back then.

[paulwoods13]

Also, one thing that is NOT accurate on that site is the upper socks. They show only two options for 1977 and '78: Oxford blue and white. But they wore stripes back then, at least on the white socks.

[Will]

https://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/contact.shtml

You can contact the site here.

[OV Argo]

Ah yes; the 78 Argos - with a disappointing last place East finish; even though they had some very good talent: Terry Metcalf's 1st Argo season + Mark Bragonolo at RB; big TEs (back when they were a force in CFL offences) in Peter Muller & ML Harris; some top notch American talent on D in Bruce Clark at DT & Eric Harris and James Marshall at DB (all went on to play in the NFL), plus Canadians like Rick Sowieta & Paul Bennett. I guess coaching smarts plus the QB duo of Chuck Ealey & Alvin White were limiting factors ?

Still recall coming home from being taken out to dinner on my (21st) birthday that year, and as i came in the house, howling that the tv was not on to show the Argos game - cause there was a surprise birthday party with friends and family awaiting. The good old days. ;o)

[ArgoRavi]

Ah yes; the 78 Argos - with a disappointing last place East finish; even though they had some very good talent: Terry Metcalf's 1st Argo season + Mark Bragonolo at RB; big TEs (back when they were a force in CFL offences) in Peter Muller & ML Harris; some top notch American talent on D in Bruce Clark at DT & Eric Harris and James Marshall at DB (all went on to play in the NFL), plus Canadians like Rick Sowieta & Paul Bennett. I guess coaching smarts plus the QB duo of Chuck Ealey & Alvin White were limiting factors ?

Still recall coming home from being taken out to dinner on my (21st) birthday that year, and as i came in the house, howling that the tv was not on to show the Argos game - cause there was a surprise birthday party with friends and family awaiting. The good old days. ;o)

Well, that televised game was undoubtedly a loss, OV, as I don't believe any of the four wins for the Argos in 1978 were televised.

[ArgoFan1]

I have a couple of game-worns from that period, circa 1977-78: a white 12 and a blue 14 that I believe was worn by Kelvin Kirk. It appears to me that some players cut part of the sleeves off -- presumably they found them too long.

I'd love to know what the uniform site uses as source material for its database. The only thing I can think of is newspaper photos from games, albeit they would have been black-and-white back then.

Black and white back then ??? How old are you ??
Colour photography had been around for decades at that point.

[paulwoods13]

Black and white back then ??? How old are you ??
Colour photography had been around for decades at that point.

Sure, but not in newspapers. Colour pix made only the front page, and even then not very often (and not at all in some papers like the Globe and Mail). Colour pages throughout the entire paper did not arrive until the 1990s.