Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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it. In the five game winning streak that resulted, we revenged our earlier loss to UCC quite convincingly 67-47 and won a close game against Ridley on the merit of our good foulshooting. We beat TCS again but didn ' t play well, consistently leaving us vulner- able to a good team which would take advantage of such lapses. Such a team was SAC and we weren ' t able to come back from a dismal first quarter that found us down 24-8. We eventual- ly lost 56-48. This season was a break from the tra- dition of past seasons as we won as a team and lost as a team. There was no dependence on one or two men for scoring, thus putting opposing defences at a disadvantage. When we won, it was because of a well-balanced effort by everyone in the game. When we lost, we usually lost badly due to a breakdown of the whole team and not because of only one man. All in all it was a very rewarding season for the players as we improved steadily during the year and compiled the best record for the First Basketball Team at Appleby in many years. The success of the team is due almost entirely to the dedicated coaching of Mr. White whose practice sessions enable a player to improve tenfold during a season if he attacks them en- thusiastically. This, combined with his preparation of the team for games, was the major factor behind our suc- cessful season and we give him our hearty thanks.

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1st Basketball Team SEATED: Tate, Collins, Casperd, Mann 1, Choy. STANDING: Mr. Larsen, Havill, Hwang, Jennings n, Kaunas, Roberuon, Polakowski, Mr. White. At the beginning of the year we didn ' t expect to have a great season. We had about three or four exhibition games and they did not do much to garnish any optimism, but the team kept plugging away in the hopes of improve- ment. We had no real planned offense going into the first league game against TCS so we tried to compensate with a pressing, but more importantly hustling, defense. The defense of the entire team kept TCS off the board and also gave us opportunities for easy shots, most of which, fortunately, we made. At the end of the game the team realized that it had potential and it brought the morale of the team up sky- high. We won our first three games by large margins and the team was playing well together and looking forward to other league games. Then the team went into a dismal shooting slump. It wasn ' t the result of overconfidence but rather just bad timing as it coincided with three league games all of which we lost. Throughout all this, the defense, which had been strong, continued as such and kept the scores down. The only excuse for losing the UCC game was appalling shooting, as the low 24-17 score would indicate. Against Ridley we shot well enough to lead 25-16 at the half but later were out- hustled by an inspired Ridley team who held us to one point in the entire second half. The third loss was to a good SAC team whom we would have had trouble beating even if we had played well. That was our last loss for sometime. After that game, Mr. White designed an offense that enabled us to create weaknesses in a defense and then take our pick of ways to attack m W! ' k i -m ' HiltHH ' H V mC w t f - ' wkSu ■I ' lEP ' fY ' - -- --cs m

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2nd Basketball Team FRONT ROW: Jennings II. Havill, Polakowski. BACK ROW: Gall I, Cheng, McMurchy II, To, Mr. White Mr. White, in trying to build a team this year, worked on fundamentals more than intricate plays. His hope was to prepare us for next year. The season could not be described as a successful one (4 wins-7 losses) because the team was often defeated by inexperience. The loss of Elgin McMurchy, our starting center, after the second game left our offense somewhat less potent than it had been. John Gall took over the posi- tion and for a newcomer to basket- ball, filled it quite well. Though the opposition often gave us more trouble than we expected, our de- fence at times was surprisingly good. We would like to thank Mr. White for his coaching but especially for his patience. MEMBERS OF THE TEAM: HavUl, Jennings II, Co-Captains; Gall I, Van Tighem I, To, McMurchy II, Cheney, Cheng, Leung, McMurchy 1.