Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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I thank you for a job well done under trying circumstances. On defence we found a new body every game which can often have disastrous results. John Rosseel (our captain), Mark Gaskin, David Suchanek, Fraser McKenzie, Mike Sutherland, John Peart, Paul Bateman - a cast of thousands on defence - this was part of our problem. A constant juggling of forward lines consisted of Tom Lytle, Don Green, Lang Moffat, Barry Durrant, Lyndon Fournier, Ross X-«3 « w Large, Graham Stuart, David Gib- son, Jim Wetmore, Bruce Peart, John Keates, Dan Hebert and some who also played defence. We never played two games with the same personnel - a factor which is bound to hurt. I have purposely not singled anyone out for being out- standing, principally because our season was not! I would like to thank Bruce Gibson, Frank Merrill, our managers, and Ashley Kishino, our alternate goaltender for their unselfish ef- forts. To the whole team, thank you for what turned out to be an interesting season. D.M.

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Seconds FRONT ROW: Merrill, Smith I, Large, Peart I, Rosseel, Wetmore, Durrant, Green II, Mr. Manbert. BACK ROW. Mckenzie II, Gaskin, Sutherland, Keates I, Bateman, Stuart IV, Moffat, Suchanek, Fournier, Lytle, I was somewhat skeptical as this year ' s hockey season began, not because I was only losing a few players to the Firsts and after last year ' s success, this was en- couraging, but I realized that the Northern Campus and sickness (which are bound to occur) might possibly negate a promising season. We had only a week ' s practice before our first game against T.C.S. which we won quite handily and it appeared, af- ter tying Lakefield and beating them soon after, that we were off to a good start. I thought that a good test of our strength would be U.C.C., our last game before the Christmas holidays. We were behind going into the third period, after a rather rough beginning. Nevertheless, we bore down and won the game 5-3. Af- ter Christmas, we continued on our winning way, by beating Hillfield 6 - 4; however, the roof was about to fall in! Our record to date was 4 to 1. Over the next 11 games, we only won two, tied 1 and lost the rest. We were hit severely by flu, the Northern Campus, improved play by our opponents and generally a lack of scoring power on our part (we were outscored 64 - 53 on the season). At one point, in a game against Ridley, we had a grand total of seven players - hardly enough to play the game. I don ' t like the idea of sharing goal tenders, as it never gives a team a feeling of unity, but un- fortuantely there was nothing we could do. To both Stuart Smith and Steve Harrigan

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Thirds FRONT ROW; Hickling, McBride II, Heberl II, Wilson II. Peart II, Stevenson, Toles I. CENTRE ROW: Hamilton II, Harmer, Day, Beckett I, Webb II. Coxon, Wright II. BACK ROW: Mr. Landry, Stafford, Keates II, Cartotto. Three plagues, in the form of flu, the Northern Campus, and lack of depth contributed to this year ' s mediocre 5-7-3 record. Although the squad played brilliantly on occasion, it was just as apt to play distressingly on others. The season, especially in the latter half of February, became excruciatingly long, and although we continued to enjoy ourselves, no one was par- ticularly sad to see the campaign come to an end, least of all the coach who was felled once by pneumonia and on another oc- casion by the flu. It is a pity that hockey has to be played in such cold, damp buildings! It is difficult to say much about our forward lines, since we rarely employed the samecombinations on two consecutive occasions. The red line was composed of