St Johns Ravenscourt School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Back: Kiddell, Sanders, Gall, Gardner, Mr. Bredin. Front: Campbell, Magnus, Honeyman, Everett, Williams. This year the Midgets were in a private school league, consisting of St. Boniface, St. Paul’s, Assiniboia, and ourselves. The school began very well, playing nine games in all, winning five and tying three, and giving us second place before the playoffs. Unfortunately we weren’t able to enter them because Easter exams were too close at hand. Honeyman was outstanding in front of the net, the only rookie goalie of the year to score a goal. Kiddell, Magnus, McCallum, and Brekke were also outstanding, both off the ice and on. We thank Mr. Bredin for his coaching. SJR vs. Assiniboia .3-0 SJR vs. St. Paul’s.4-2 SJR vs. CSB.3-0 SJR vs. Assiniboia .2-1 SJR vs. St. Paul’s .0-0 SJR vs. CSB.1-1 SJR vs. Assiniboia .4-7 SJR vs. St. Paul’s .3-2 SJR vs. CSB.4-4

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Back: Mr. Hammond, Lamb, Matthews, Bourk, Everett, Boult, Weir, Cousins, Roper, Graham, Mr. Bredin. Front: Hartley, Hammond, McBeath, Hunter, Funnell, Bell, Moncrieff. This year the Senior team entered a four-team league consisting of Assiniboia Residential School, St. Boniface College, St. Paul’s College and ourselves. Because of cold weather at the beginning of the season, the team was able to get a week of practise u nder Mr. Bredin at two exhibition games before the Christmas holidays. After the holidays, the league got into full swing. After an initial tie with SBC, the team seemed to have difficulty putting anything together, and consequently lost quite a few games by one goal. The team worked hard to improve, but we unfor¬ tunately hit our peak in the final game against St. Paul’s, where we lost the two- game total point playoff by one goal in overtime. The team played its final game against the star-laden Old Boys Squad, and after a very close, hard-fought game, they managed to squeak out a win in overtime. All in all, it was quite an enjoyable season, with the team being helped by Bob Roper, our top scorer, A1 Graham, with his tomahawk slapshots, Paul Bell’s nu¬ merous shots from just inside the blueline or 185 degrees to the net, and Peter Hammond’s fairly solid body checks. In closing, we would like to thank Mr. Hammond for his support during the games, and Mr. Bredin for his work in practise, teaching the team many skills which we lacked, but by the end of the season, managed to obtain, with the aid of his teaching.

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Back: Mr. Ainley, Myers, Semans, Boult, Smith. Front: Riley, Little, Leatherdale, Morton, Kiddell. The Bantam A team started off with three ties and a loss. The loss was expected as the first place team was being played. All three of the ties would have been wins, but goals were scored against us in the dying minutes of each of the games. However, a win against Tuxedo put us in a strong enough position to give the team a chance to get into the city finals. Two losses weakened our position, but a win¬ ning game against River Heights gave us back our old spirit. Only one more point was needed to get the team into the playoffs; but a home game was lost to Fort Garry, and that was the end of another season. The team played only one exhibi¬ tion game, against the Oriole Community Club. It looked like the game was ours, but in the last five minutes, they scored three goals. Peter Bowes led the scoring race, with Jamie Little, Dennis Riley and Doug Kid¬ dell close behind. Paul Leatherdale, the goalkeeper, did a fine job. In closing, the team would like to thank Mr. Ainley and Bill Ramsay for coach¬ ing and managing the team this year. Many thanks go to Mrs. Ainley for the team dinner. 42