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Moe The Toe’s memoir ready to launch.

By Sports Energy Staff High School and shockingly, the
Ottawa Rough Riders. Moe The Toe-

fter the final chapter of Moe Never My Dream will be available
ARacine’s football career was at Coles at Cornwall Square and at
written with his induction to the several retailers throughout the city.
Canadian Football Hall of Fame in
September, his son Thom is set to Excerpt From Chapter 2
release his father’s memoir. Moe SPORTS AT ST. LAWRENCE
The Toe - Never My Dream was pre - HIGH SCHOOL
released at the We Three Girls Trunk
Big John Bove had played with
Sale and Pamper me Party at Marlin
Orchards on Sunday November 2nd - the Rough Riders for two years and
But the Official Launch is scheduled retired after the 1957 season. He

ended up having two separate playing
for the end of this month. “My dad
launched a few football’s skyward careers. He took a few years off to
coach the Intermediate Emards team
over the years, but its a fact, he
never dreamed of playing football in Cornwall, then John went back to
growing up in Cornwall’s east end Ottawa in 1960 and retired for good
after one more year—and a Grey Cup
and a book, well that would never
have been considered.” said his win—with the Rough Riders. Moe and Doug Billings (22) Wrapping up a high school career.

son Thom. This is Thom’s second Everyone figured I would be a sure Racine Family Collection

book and like his first writing effort, bet to make a college team and John
Constable Davey-A Future Lost, his Bove told me he believed that I could
dads memoir is a trek back in time play pro one day, but as the summer
to a world that seemed so simple, yet neared, it became evident that, if I
the games so important to the legions were going to attend a college or
of fans who looked forward to their university, it might not be until the

football fix every weekend. The book following year, the fall of 1959. After
takes us through the early years when a few Emards practices, Big John
his brother’s Bernie and Gilles were urged me to go to Ottawa and attend
a big part of his life, to St. Lawrence the Rough Riders main training camp,
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1959 CFL draft and, more importantly,
Contact Jennifer 613-861-0394 School was over and life was about to
the Rough Rider coaches. It would
Klassifi ed Sports Ads are a free listing courtesy of Kia of Cornwall. We do not assume also be an experience, he told me, one settle into a routine...or so I thought.
responsibility for the products offered. Sports Energy reserves the right to edit, revise or that would help me when playing on As history shows, less than a month
decline any klassifi ed ads submitted. his offensive line with the Emards for later, in July 1958, seemingly out of
KIA “We Understand The Value the 1958 season. the blue, I had left home and became
a professional athlete when I signed a
OF CORNWALL Of A Good Trade!” So with that in mind, by mid-June contract to play for the Ottawa Rough
1958, I had a course of action for the Riders.