Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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I week of continual rain, the game was postponed. It was during this week that the coast guard was called out to rescue the entire defensive squad which was drowning behind the Head- master ' s house. At this point, we had been practicing for five weeks without playing a game. This prompted Mr. Smith to say to the team you birds must be going squirrelly. We were. We had done nothing but hit bags, dummies, and each other. We had done porpoises and rim plays until we found our- selves doing them in our sleep. It was at this point that we hit on the idea of taking out our frustrations on the local high schools. Perdue and QEP came in handy in what the coaches liked to call scrimmages! They saved our sanity. On the Road Soon, though, we were on our way to SAC for the first game of the season. The field was firm and the weather perfect. As always SAC fielded a strong team and, consequently, the first quarter was a scoreless defensive struggle. By half-time, though, we had scored twice, with a 65 yd. split-end bomb and then a slashing off-tackle run by Tim Pike from thirty-five yards out. The second half saw one of the best moments of the season. Doc Halliday, our stalwart middle guard, found himself in possession of a deflected screen pass and, after he realized he wasn ' t dreaming, screamed into the end zone. When asked, after the game, why he hadn ' t spiked the ball, he replied, If I had done that, people would have thought that I only rarely get touch- downs. Despite a comeback by SAC we went on to win 27-21 after Don Green scored on a thirty yard run. We sealed the victory when Keith Morrison blasted a punt from our twenty which was lost in the clouds for a full thirty seconds, thus enabling even our specialty team to provide reasonable coverage. The Gods - For or Against? The second game was away at Ridley. We took the second possession and rolled eighty yards in twelve minutes on a classic drive to score. From then on it went from bad to worse. Bad penalties by us and an inspired forty-yard field goal by Ridley took them to an 18-17 win. Games like that are best forgotten and, since it was the first of three games we had to play in eight days, we soon did. Wonderful Wednesday it will be called in future. When we beat UCC it was sweet. The first quarter saw the game see-saw back and forth between the 35 yd. lines. In the second quarter the game leaned more towards our goal line. Then Powerful Pork Gaskin sneaked in for a touch- down after a split-end bomb (caught with the aid of the gods) had taken the ball to the UCC three. Later, in the second half, Tim Pike scored on an off-tackle play which he broke outside for a long touchdown run. The defense played very well in this game, especially the secondary whose safety Ian ■ .fi ' Giroday picked off three in- terceptions. He was aided by the line who harried their quar- terback all day. The final score was a beautiful 16-8.

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FRONT ROW: Benson I, Halliday, Gaskin, Hall, McCarter, Suchanek, Morrison. Moffat, Withey. SECOND ROW: Baines. Green 2, Woolley, Giroday, McBride, Yustin. SeU, Mull, Leggat, Piatt. THIRD ROW: Merrill. Benson 2, Stott, Thomson, McKenzie, Manbert, Logan, Thompson, Grimes, Ochitwa, Maxwell. BACK ROW: Mr. Larsen, Hugo, Hickling, Shafran, Stoneham, Mr. Smith, Keates, Coxon, Wannamaker, Forsythe, Bruce, Mr. Abbott. First Football Tough Beginning This year, for the f irst time, a football camp was held at the school during the last week of the holidays. It drew a large number of players and, since it was a success, it will probably become a regular feature. Presimiing, that is, that the novelty of attending a camp and the desire to play football outweighs the want to lie aroimd the house and savour the dying warmth of the holidays. Asleep? Anyway, since the majority of the First team attended the camp, almost everyone was fit and prepared to play the Old Boys in the first game of the season. What we weren ' t prepared for was a field of mud and a sky of rain, such as we faced that day. These conditions were more favourable to the carthorse - like Old Boys than the thoroughbred Firsts, and they won 9-0, scoring on an in- si ' dious sleeper play. We were scheduled to play UCC the next Saturday, but, after a

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tff fHlflSHHtt Our Greatest Loss The last game of this eight day period was played away at Hillfield. In the first half, we scored every time we had the ball, bar one. Tim Pike on two beautiful break-away runs and Graham Leggat on one not so beautiful broken play pass. Bill Benson proved why he used to play tight- end when he leaped to intercept a Hillfield pass from the defensive end position. One of the coaching staff was reputed to have later said, in a moment of frustration, If our receivers could catch as well as our defensive line we ' d have it made! This game was marred by only one thing. That was the loss of our statistician Sean Baines. Un- fortunately Sean missed the last two games of the season with a mysterious injury. His absence was especially mourned by the quarterbacks who were 100% passing that game and wanted THAT recorded. The last game of the season was against TCS, the championship favorites. It was a very physical game and injuries badly hurt the team (not to mention the hapless injured). TCS scored a pair of lon g, unexpected touchdowrns in the first half which we merely chalked up to experience, daring them to try it again. Un- fortunately, they did try again, and succeeded, trampling us 40-1. (Thanks for the single. Reef, it saved a bit of face). Beautiful So, when everything was totalled the only thing that the statistics couJd say for all our blood, sweat and tears was that we had tied for second in the league. All the effort and emotion just to come second. It seems like a waste of time. But it wasn ' t, because the season was great. Thanks, sirs, Zuk, Pork, JB and everyone who made it beautiful, winning or losing. Graham Leggat