Bauer, who is from Switzerland, has lived in France, French Polynesia and Washington, and said discovering sport has been a way to discover society.
Sports bring everyone together and everyone apart at the same time with all the different teams and types of sports.
In Bauer's class, students will compare and contrast the Montreal Canadiens and other religions.
the devotion to a team over time and never giving up or stop believing in your home team has direct correlations to religion.
"When we learned about the 100th anniversary, we thought it was a good time to talk about the relationship between sport and religion
Sports seem to bring people together and take pride in things more than faith does sometimes.
The Richard Riot is generally considered the firstexplosion of French-Canadian nationalism, the beginning of asocial and political dynamic that shapes Canada to this day
Crazy to think that this one major event shapes a whole country. The other huge impact I can draw on would be 911 for Americans and how life was never the same after. Just how the riot shaped the French-Canadian social and political dynamic to this day.
His rare defeats were their defeats.And no defeat was as personal, as galling, as the suspensionthat NHL president Clarence Campbell had handed Richard the daybefore all hell broke loose.
Maybe some more rules and enforcement on him could've prevented the riot or made it a little less chaotic.
No athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal
This shows just how powerful Richard was and how his influence from the game of sports was more important that politics and other things in Canadian's minds.
On March 11, 1996, almost 31 years to the day after the Richard Riot, the Habs are leaving the Forum. They are moving a dozen blocks north to a new building with more seats, corporate boxes and a Jumbotron. But before they leave, moments after the Tricolore defeat the Dallas Stars in the last game played there, they honor the past in a special ceremony.
Shows even after 31 years how much hockey meant in Quebec's culture and how much of their identity it truly is.
Twelve policemen and 25 civilians suffered injuries. The police arrested 62 marauders, though many more get away, of course. The damage estimates ran into the tens of thousands of dollars. By about 3 a.m., the mob had spent itself and emptied the streets.
Really sad to see the innocent or maybe people who didn't really have the heart for hockey get hurt in the cross fires.
Another man talked his way through the cordon of ushers and walked up to Campbell with his hand outstretched. Campbell hesitated, then reached to shake the man’s hand. The man slapped him. Campbell pushed the man away with his foot. Jimmy Orlando, a former Red Wing seated nearby, collared the man and dragged him away.
The fact someone could just sneak through to get face to face with Campbell, truly shows what technology and security has improved to today because that would never happen.
Without Richard, they might lose their lead and with it home-ice advantage for the playoffs, which could, ultimately, cost them the Stanley Cup
Hockey is a team support and every team has their leader, however without Richard that should've given the team fire to fight for the win.
He called for a hearing with the players, coaches and officials on March 16 back in his Montreal office. He would then decide Richard’s fate.
Took the league long enough after he was the leagues most fined player and had other nicknames on how he played.
The singular and sudden pandemonium that shatters the Forum, like thunder and lightning” was “many decibels above in volume” the applause for any other goal, Herbert Warren Wind wrote in Sports Illustrated. “There is no sound quite like it in the whole world of sport.”
This just shows how passionate the French - Canadians were about hockey and how much a singular sport can do for a community of people.
He hits him with such force across the shoulders that his stick splinters. Laycoe sheds his gloves and rushes at Richard, who drops his gloves. The two thrash at one another with their fists.
In any other sport this would never be allowed but Fights in hockey were "normal".
Since then, larger thinkers on the Quebec scene have argued whether this was the beginning of Quebec's Quiet Revolution
I believe this was the cherry on top to start the Quiet Revolution. After reading the essay and seeing how passionate Canadians were about hockey, this riot is something that probably still hurts to some when thought about today.
Out on the street, the largest riot since Conscription was passed in 1944 (bringing in the draft for the final year of the Second World War) broke out along a seven-block length of Rue Ste. Catherine, featuring overturned cars, smashed windows, a shot fired from somewhere and 137 arrests.
Sports to this day have influenced thousands of emotions to angry online posts to death threats to owners and commissioners. It is sad to see that in 70 years some things still haven't changed.
Ted Lindsay had been dispatched for four games after punching a Toronto fan. Therefore, there was precedent.
This shows a little case that maybe he wasn't being treated this way and punished because he was a French - Canadian. Instead he was getting a similar suspension as another player.
it was crucial to know how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.
The game still is violent, Adam Johnson who played on the Pittsburgh Penguins. died after his throat was slashed by another player's skate during a game on Oct. 28
Early in May, news comes from Three Rivers and Montreal that famine prevails there. There is also great scarcity at Quebec; but the Jesuits are able to aid the people there, with "more than 40 casks of grain," for seed and for food
This must have been a very hard time for them, forcing them to do what they have to for survival
Although he did not witness this tragedy, he obtained full particulars of it from the Christian Hurons taken captive by the Iroquois, who were present throughout the horrible torments inflicted upon the unfortunate Jesuits.
It's interesting that the reader is expected to trust all of the information in this even though he didn't actually witness any of it
A number of Hurons come down to three Rivers and Quebec to spend the winter; they are aided by the Jesuits with food, blankets, etc.
Their aid must have helped them a lot during this hard time
Father Daniel, in charge of that mission, is killed while encouraging his flock to resist the enemy,
He was very brave, doing all that he could while knowing the possibility that he could die
Another ship had, in March, left France for Canada; but, as it has not arrived, it is accounted lost; the Jesuits thus incur a loss of 4,000 livres.
This is such a tragedy, 4,000 lives is so many
Summer here is a very inconvenient season for instructing the Savages. Their trading expeditions and the farms take every one away, men, women, and children—almost no one remains in the villages. I will tell you how we spent last Summer.
It makes sense that everyone leaving would affect being able to instruct them
Hell, a place where no blessing comes, and where ills of all kinds abound; that it is a fiery furnace, in the midst of which the damned would be forever tormented, and burned without ever being consumed; [18] that they must now consider to which of these two places they preferred to go some day, forever, and to do this while they were still in this life, because the matter was decided so far as it concerned all the dead for whom they had made or were going to make feasts; that all those who had slighted God and broken his commandments had followed the path to Hell, where they now were tormented by punishments that could not be imagined, and for which there was no remedy. I told them that, if they wished to go to Heaven, we would teach them the way
They seem to be using fear to manipulate them into following their religion by scaring them with the details about hell and then saying but we can save you from that if you do what we say
"the beliefs, manners, and customs of the Hurons,"
This paragraph explains a lot about the culture and beliefs of the Hurons which is very important to understand who they are and what's important to them
Brébeuf recounts the many perils of the journey hither, and the annoyances and dangers to which apostles of the faith are continually exposed among the savages; but he offers much encouragement and consolation to those who are willing, nevertheless, to brave all obstacles, and to devote themselves to the conversion of the natives
The missionaries are spoken about as though they are greatly superior to the natives and the way the Hurons are spoken about is always degrading
Brébeuf devotes a chapter to the peculiarities of this tongue
This supports the discussions we've had in class about the importance of culture and language for people's identity
exhort the tribesmen to follow the teaching of the missionaries, and embrace Christianity; to emphasize this advice, and in accordance with the custom of the country, he " presents to the assembly a collar of twelve hundred beads of Porcelain,
It seems like Christianity was being forced onto them and that they didn't really have a choice. They even bribed them with Porcelain beads