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

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IS.S.A.A. BANTAM CHAMPS First Row: Bob Kaiser, Gary Brown, Peter Sellitto, Steve Amsel, Nigel Cordon, Phil Lake, Gino Angeloni. Second Row: Mr. Wilson, Ron Murata, John Brownlee, Luciano Conte, Mike Seguin, Wayne Yatabe. First Row: Rob Fleming, Geoff Parker, Fred Nichols, Eldon Lehr, Brad Harper, George Rozanski, Kevin Judge. Second Row: Mr. Wilson, Kevin Davie, Jeff Barnes, Ken Powell. (Absent; Nick McCombie, F. Faico, R. Kitt). This year ' s Bantam Team proved to be the best ever produced in the T.S.S.A.A. The season opened with a roar, as the Bantams crushed Bloor Collegiate in a decisive 26-0 victory on touch- downs by Brownlee, Seguin, Wayne Yatabe, and Bob Kaiser. In the next game, Oakwood made history as they surprised a weak Castle Frank team 45-0 with repeated T.D. ' s by the same scores as against Bloor. In the third game the undefeated Bantams proved themselves masters over the unsuspecting Western Tech crew. Seguin and Davie scored in this 13-0 win. Seguin and Barnes on a sui-prising end run in the dying minutes of the game produced a 14-0 win over a determined Central Tech. Now the league play was over and all of Oakwood began to take notice of the Bantam team. After all the final tally was Oakwood, 98 and all other opposition, 0 . In fact the Bantams were considered so good that they were given a by-pass into the semi-finals. Now in their first home game of the season, Oakwood met a well-coached Monarch Park team. Oakwood seemed to be in trouble until quarterback, Luciano, recovered his blocked kick and ran for a first down. A long pass to Mike Seguin set up the only score of the game. A last minute attack by the opposition was held off by men such as Peter Selito on defense. In the final game Oakwood was in trouble from the start as North Toronto took a quick 7-0 lead. Then Brownlee took the ball over for a major but it was not converted. After another touchdown by North Toronto, Seguin retaliated with Oakwood ' s second major. With the score 13-12, Conte kicked a single point in the last minute of play to tie the game and go into overtime. In reply to a field goal by North Toronto Oakwood produced a major on a 40 yard pass to Bob Kaiser. Thus, Oakwood won 19-16. All Bantam players put their best foot forward in the game and are to be congratulated for having step- ped over the opposition. To Mr. Wilson praise should be given for grooming his second consecutive Bantam championship.

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JUNIOR FOOTBALL First Row: Stuart Campbell, Ron AAatsugu, David Knox, Marv Katz, Don Saliani, Bob Hewitt, Mike Don- nely, John Swanson. Second Row: Mr. R. Q. McKinney, Mike Wolfe, Walter Lopazansky, Jack Fyfe, John Clarke, Pete Lucie, John Spauls, Bill Hutchinson, Attilio Marcocua, Laurie Stevenson (Mgr.), Bill Cardell (Mgr.) First Row: Larry Ruzhisky, Gary Longstaff, Wayne Rowe, Tim Turner, Steve Relyer, Felix Ruben, Doug Pearse, Hugh Malaney. Second Row: Mr. McKinney, Tom Schwartz, Dan Kushner, Chris Parris, George Pappik, Allan Hedderwick, Bill Cuddy, Bob Sniderman, Laurie Stevenson, Bill Cardel (Mgr.) Oakwood could expect much from her Juniors because they were Oakwoodites and because Mr. McKinney was their coach. With all of Oakwood ' s spectator stands (?) filled to capacity, the Juniors easily defeated Bloor 22-13. The team displayed a well-balanced offense and defense which culmin- ated in touchdowns by Wolfe, Hutchinson and Swanson. In their second victory this time against Park- dale the Juniors displayed a very strong ground attack. Hutcheson and Lucie, scoring twice, both men scampering around the ends for long runs. It was obvious that the opposing team had much respect for Oakwood ' s aerial attack under the cap- able leadership of quarterback, Peter Lucie. The third game was a disappointing 19-16 loss to Humberside. High hopes were completely shat- tered as Campbell and Wolfe displayed fine offen- sive w ork. Smarting from this defeat, Oakwood easily dis- posed of Central Tech in a 20-2 win on two touch- downs by Lucie and one by Schwartz. Now Oak- wood was in the right frame of mind for the play- off season. Carrying Oakwood ' s glory on its shoulders they lifted it above their heads for all to see as they defeated Malvern 25-14 in the quater-finals. Scor- ing, were Lopozanlssy and Wolfe. They then met North Toronto, highly rated to defeat all opposition, and thus Oakwood lost this semi-final match 15-6. But, as Mr. Lobb said, the Oakwood team did play well and was always try- ing, as shown by Hutchinson ' s lone touchdowm on a long pass, but the North Toronto club was a well- polished football team. It was no disgrace losing to them by only nine points. In tr ue Oakwood fashion, the Juniors played the game, won the glory and lost without disgrace. Special congratulations go to John Swanson as Most Valuable Player, and Mr. McKinney, a truly wonderful coach in the eyes of all his players and in the eyes of all Oakwood students. 87

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HOCKEY Front Row: Chris Evans; John Swanson (Capt.); Bill Gries; Frank Moore; Garry Boyles; John Carnio; Mr. Cooper Back Row: Rick Mateer; Tim Turner; Phillip Bade; Ivan Morten. Absent: Walter Boag, George Coull, Ted Fulton, Garry Ross, Steve Turbey, Alex Weeks, Mike Wolfe. HOCKEY TEAM Dedicated to all our Hockey Spectators Many things could be said of Oakwood ' s Hockey Team of 1964-65 and if one were to examine the statistical aspect of the story, one would not be too impressed. There are however, only two sides to every story and since the numerical side doesn ' t render itself available for very much elaboration I shall deal mainly with the more human aspect of our experiences. If I were to say that one gets a great deal of pleasure from losing, I would of course, be lying. Losing in itself is not very enjoyable. There is, however, a great deal of dignity to be derived from losing when one is certain that one has given of himself the utmost to further the pursuits of the team as a whole. This in my opinion was the es- sence of playing for the Oakwood Hockey Team. On this team (which beat Nichols School in Buffalo for the first time in eight years) there played a group of men who, unselfish in their be- haviour both on and off the ice, contributed to making losing a somewhat dignified occurrence. You may be wondering now, why we didn ' t win more games. My only answer to that is that for all but three members of the team the rem aining, including myself, were all rookies : first year men, who lacked experience in playing school hockey and who also lacked the consistency that players achieve by playing together for a season or so. (We beat Harbord then lost to them.) In spite of this, the entire team was always in the highest spirits, both before and after a game, win or lose, and this, I feel, is where a hockey player, or a player of any sport, for that matter, shows his true worth. We did not, however, do it all on our own. A great deal of credit must be given to our most capable coach, Mr. Cooper. This man, a giant in more ways than one, was responsible for much of the height that our level of morale obtained. By displaying complete confidence in the team, before and after a game, he transferred some of his strength of character to us. In closing, I shall stick my neck out and predict that next year shall be our year to achieve a great height on the statistical scale as we did this year on the scale of morale since all, but three players, will be back. And then we will have men, experienced, con- sistent and just as spirited as ever to bring honour to the Oakwood Hockey Team and to you, the members of Oakwood Collegiate. Frank Moore (goalie on hockey team) 89