A high school in Châteauguay, Que., is getting ready for some high school football. After five decades, the Blazers are back.
As a matter of fact, the last time Howard S. Billings sent a football team on the field, they weren't even called the Blazers. "Kids are running up to me 'Coach, coach, coach.
Is it true? Is it true? Is it true?'" said Luc Pelland, who will guide the school's first football team since way back when Pierre Elliott Trudeau was prime minister and gasoline cost about 39 cents per gallon (Canada didn't change to the metric system until a year later).
Pelland is used to the x's and o's of coaching, having held a whistle for both McGill and Concordia universities' football teams among others, but he says organizing a team from the ground up is new to him. "It's an exciting challenge.