The College Game

The College Game is a Canadian sports television series which was shown on CBC Television from 1977 to 1978.

The College Game
Genre	Sports
Presented by	Doug Saunders
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	19
Production
Producer	Michael Lansbury
Running time	2 hours
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	24 September 1977 (1977-09-24) – 19 March 1978 (1978-03-19)

Premise

This series featured college-level sports events produced by Jim Spalding. Initial episodes were of football games culminating with the broadcast of the Canadian College Bowl championship on 19 November 1977. Play-by-play was announced by Steve Armitage with commentary by Whit Tucker.

The remaining six broadcasts featured basketball matches produced by Cec Browne. Announcers included Jack Donohue (the national basketball team coach), Ted Reynolds and Don Wittman.

Michael Lansbury, later of TSN, was the series producer.^[1]

Scheduling

This two-hour series was broadcast on Saturdays at 2:00 p.m. from 24 September 1977 to 19 March 1978.