In last week's Ladder Challenge it was Walter A. Brown defeating Gino Cappelleti with 65% of the vote to remain at #35. This week 1984 Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie (#21) attempts to move into the Top 20 by taking on former Bruins Hall of Famer Milt Schmidt (#15). As impressive as Flutie's credentials are, and he is a native of Massachusetts, it's impossible to ignore Schmidt's Hall of Fame playing career and 40 years of service to the Bruins....and for that Milt Schmidt gets my vote this week. So who has your support in this week's Ladder Challenge? (and remember, most votes in the comments section is the tie-breaker, so be sure to voice your opinion!)
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MILT SCHMIDT
Currently Ranked: 15
Challenge Record: 0-0-0
Beat: Nobody
Lost: Nobody
Tied: Nobody
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*Played entire 16-season career (1936-42, 1946-55) with the Bruins.
*Helped Bruins with 2 Stanley Cup Championships (1939, 1941).
*Won 1951 Hart Trophy as NHL MVP.
*Played in 4 All Star games.
*Named 1st Team All-NHL 3-times (1940, '47 & '51) and 2nd Team All-NHL once (1952).
*Career regular season totals: 776 games, 229 goals, 346 assists, 575 points and 466 penalty minutes.
*Career playoff totals: 86 games, 24 goals, 25 assists, 49 points and 60 penalty minutes.
*Led NHL in assists in 1940 (30).
*10th in franchise history in assists (346).
*Coached Bruins for 11 seasons between 1954 and 1966.
*Coaching record for Bruins: 245-360-121 (regular season) and 15-19 (playoffs).
*Bruins GM from 1967-1974, winning 2 Stanley Cups (1970, 1972).
*Inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961.
*The Bruins have retired #15 in his honor.
DOUG FLUTIE
Currently Ranked: 21
Challenge Record: 0-0-0
Beat: Nobody
Lost: Nobody
Tied: Nobody
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*Moved from Florida to Natick (MA) at age 14.
*Was all-league selection in football, basketball and baseball at Natick High School.
*Was QB at Boston College from 1981-84.
*1984 Heisman Trophy winner.
*Won Walter Camp Award, Maxwell Award and Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award.
*Also named Player of the Year by: UPI, Kodak and The Sporting News.
*Consensus All-America as a senior.
*Led BC to 3 Bowl appearances, including Cotton Bowl win over Houston his senior year.
*Led BC to #5 final National Ranking his senior year.
*Holds BC record for most passing yards in a game (520), season (3,454) and career (10,579).
*Ended college career with 11,318 total yards, most in NCAA history.
*His "Hail Mary" pass, a 48-yard TD to Gerald Phelan as time expired, is one of the greatest plays in college football history and helped upset Miami (FL) 47-45.
*Played 4 seasons for the Patriots (1987-89 & 2005).
*8-5 record in 13 career stats for the Pats.
*Totals for Pats: 148-305, 1,871 yards, 11 TD, 14 INT & 65 carries for 308 yards and 1 TD.
*Elected to College Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
*Boston College has retired #22 in his honor.
If I voted with my heart alone Flutie would probably get my vote, but Schmidt worked for the Bruins in some capacity for nearly half a century while helping them win 2 Stanley Cups as a player and another 2 as GM. Not as tough of a vote as I was expecting it to be.
Wasn't Schmidt on the "Krout" line? No PC police then, evidently. Would that be the Bavarian line now?
Anyone see this story about Brady's [criminal] record being checked illegally something like 900 times?!
(I put this here cause this is the closest to being a football post currently up)
Mid-Week Miscellaneous coming later today Luke....I'll open it up there (and delete these posts).
Word em up.
I was not around when Schmidt was playing, but I find it hard to believe that he had even close to the same effect on hockey in the hub that Flutie had on college football around here.
Before Flutie nobody cared about football. BC's stadium was smaller than Brockton High I think, maybe smaller than Natick High.
The atmosphere was truly electric when he played at BC. The anticipation each week to watch him play is hard to describe. He was magical and what happened with him was bigger than sports.
I gotta go with the Flute purely for being able to transform a city single handedly.
my most vivid memory of flutie is being a strike breaker. that is pretty tough to root for
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