Oakwood Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (Toronto Ontario, Canada)

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SENIOR BASKETBALL FIRST ROW: Bruce Gleeson, Al Ruben, Ted Pickles. SECOND ROW: Mr. McKlnney, Robbie Allen, Doug Price, Dick Beamish, Ion Ross, Ken Sketchley. Pre-season exhibitions did no justice to the quality of our seniors. All the pre-season games went down on the record of defeats. The boys lost five games. Still in their slump, the seniors were defeated 53-43 by Humberside. Sparked to life, they bounced back taking a • ' 56-.52 overtime victory from Harbord, and then Bloor went down by a score of 65-60, and clob- bering Central Commerce, their old enemies, by a score of 89-48. Meeting Parkdale in the last regular season game, the boys seemed to have lost some of their grip. The Parkdale team emerged victorious, win- ning the game 62-43. Meeting Jarvis in a home and home, total point series for the quarter finals, the Oakwood team lost the first game at Oakwood 52-41. This put Jarvis up 11 points on the series. The next game played at Jarvis was more like it. The sen- iors settled down to the tough game they knew they had to win. fiut though they tried hard, they went down to defeat. It was a good try. STRE-E-E-E-TCH 74

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BANTAM FOOTBALL FIRST ROW: George Taylor, Neil Stevens, Stanley Tagasaki, Brian Toll, Horry Mahler, Gus Falcioni, Whitey Varep, Eddy Jurczak, Jeffrey Moe. SECOND ROW: Mendel Kurtzman, Jim Serba, Wayne Browning, Ted Fulton, Ron Davison, Robert Bohnen, Joe Weinstock, Mike Shier, Mike Hasek, Bill Gries. THIRD ROW: John Brent, Malcolm McLeod, Tony Cowan, Tony Tomek, John Barbowski, Norm Cortney, Arnold Marcus, Mr. McKinney, Ken Sketchley. This year was Oakwood ' s first attempt at fielding a bantam football team. Mr. R. McKinney, the coach, prepared his boys for a season that would answer a lot of questions about the future of bantam football at Oakwood. The bantams had an exhibition game, a hard fought battle which ended in a 7-7 tie. Many of us still had no idea of how our team would com- pare with the others. Western was the first team to come to grips with our scrappy little bantam team. Our battlers made short work of the hopeless Western team, running through, over and around them and piling up a score of 26-0. Going into their second game the bantams had a lot of confidence, perhaps a little too much. The Jarvis team won 6-3 in a dramatic game in which the score seesawed up and down. A chance to get back came to the boys against as distinguished a football team as Harbord s. Harbord got a good trouncing, losing the game to Oakwood by a score of 12-0. Meeting Central Tech in the next game, the boys went right to work and posted a 2-6 victory. In the quarter finals, the bantams got a chance to reap sweet revenge for the other teams. Meet- ing Malvern on our field, they gained a hard fought9-0 victory, and an entry to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, the farthest that an Oak- wood team had gotten in a good number of years, the boys met North Toronto, the defending cham- pions. The hard fought game, with North Toronto getting the breaks, ended with a 14-0 North Tor- onto victor -. Thus came to an end a season in which the coach and players can take great pride. 73

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JUNIOR BASKETBALL FIRST ROW: Paul Duke, Jim Browning, Sid Ackerman, Jerry Jordan, Lome Solish, Doug Tsuchida, Bob Anfonyshyn, Bruce Attikin. SECOND ROW: Gord Sturgess, Marv Morten, Cliff Nelson, Vic Moncarz, Al Giachino, Mr. Gordon. Those terrific juniors. This year was one of the best for our team. Mr. Gordon ' s hard work with the teams, both last year ' s and this year s, finally paid off. The season started with a series of exhi- bition games. The boys dropped the first two, 35-45 to Humberside and 36-38 to Bloor. Getting into stride the Oakwoodites came back, lacing North Toronto 65-35 and Northern 79-44. Vaughan Road went down 37-32 under our guns. By losing a 49-48 squeaker to Forest Hill and taking U.T.S. 43-34 and Vaughan 55-39 the juniors ended their exhibition series. The regular season wasn t too hard for the boys. After losing a tight 31-30 to Humberside, they came back and trounced Harbord 58-19. Bloor ' s victory put blood in their eyes and the boys ended the season by clobbering Western, 44-20; Central Commerce, 53-28; and Parkdale, 42-31. In a playoff for the league standing the jun- iors met the Parkdale squad. The boys from Park- dale bounced back to life and scored a 53-25 victory. This left Oakwood in fourth plac e, ready to meet the first place team in the quarter-finals. The home and home total point series against Northern saw a 49-40 Oakwood victory in the first game. The second game, at Northern, was a 22-20 Northern victory. The Oakwoodites there- fore won the series 69-62. Parkdale was the opposition in the semi- finals. We went right to work taking the first game 48-25. The second game was a 41-26 Parkdale victory. The boys won the series 74-66. The city finals were upon us. Meeting Bloor on our floor we racked up what seemed a com- fortable 9 point lead by winning 40-31. But the Bloor team had other ideas. A terrific battle of giants took place at the packed Bloor auditorium. When the smoke cleared a 34-24 Bloor victory was evident. It is now history, but the Oakwood team lost the championship by one lone point. The f inal score was 65-64. heart-breaking way to end a tremendous season. 75