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From: tmcintyre [mailto:tmcintyre@lametalworks.com]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:42 AM
To: Dan Fearon; Len Gervais; Mike Pellerin; Mike Upward; Mike Young;
Norm Seguin; Phil McGarvey
Subject: 2002 PeeWee Volunteer of the Year Nomination

New Brunswick Minor Football Council

Capital Area nominee for the PeeWee Volunteer of the Year Award is Chuck
Proudfoot, Head Coach of the Albert Street Eagles.
Chuck is a former football player with the U.N.B. Red Bombers. He first got
involved with Capital Area Minor in 2001 as a coach with the West End Rough
Riders of our Mosquito League.

In 2002 Chuck took on a very big challenge; start a new PeeWee team,
virtually from scratch! For a number of years Capital Area Minor had operated three PeeWee teams
that played an interlocking schedule with teams from the Fundy Minor
Football Association. At the end of 2001 season the Fundy Association
informed Capital Area that the interlocking arrangement would not be
continued. This left Capital Area with a desperate need to find a fourth
PeeWee team in order to ensure the viability of its PeeWee program.

The South Side of Fredericton was home to one of the PeeWee teams and was
considered the best hope for creating a second team. The two middle schools
in the area were approached about an affiliation arrangement. They both
agreed and thus the George Street Crusaders and Albert Street Eagles were
formed. The previous South Side PeeWee team had drawn the vast majority of
its players from George Street Middle School. Albert Street students had
been reluctant to participate in the past. Consequently, Coach Proudfoot had
a big job ahead of him.

He and his associate coaches took on the challenge with gusto. They
immediately were able to get the enthusiastic support of the Albert Street
principal, vice-principal and athletic director. They made many visits to
the school in an attempt to interest enough athletes to form a team.
The result was a 23 member team, the vast majority of whom had never played
football before. However, from the get go the Eagles showed that that they
were a team to be reckoned with. The coaches included former Acadia Axemen
player, Sheldon Downe as well as Doug Richardson and Albert Madsen.

The Eagles began to reel off victory after victory and got stronger as the
season progressed. They would go through the 9 game regular season undefeated and then dispose
of the Geoge Street Crusaders 28-0 and the Oromocto Leopards 32-0. This
earned them a berth in the New Brunswick championship game against the three
time defending champion Sackville Titans. A first year team had made it all
the way to the provincial final.

The Eagles would demolish the Titans 56-6. Five different players would
score a total of seven touchdowns. The team's kicker would convert every one
of them. The novice Eagles had won the first ever provincial PeeWee
championship for Capital Area Minor Football.

The win advanced the Albert Street Eagles to the Maritime Championship game
against the powerhouse Truro Blue Bombers, winners of five Nova Scotia
championships in seven years. The Bombers were supposed to come to N.B. to
play. When a snowstorm cancelled the game Truro decided to put its gear away
for the year. The Eagles offered to go to Truro to play and the Blue Bombers
agreed. The Eagles trailed 14-8 at halftime but the Truro team owned the
second half in rolling to a 41-8 win.

Regardless of this result the Eagles had one heck of a year. Coach Proudfoot
and his associates had done a remarkable job!

Terry McIntyre, President
Capital Area Minor Football