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

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S tioi iou - 6ou it uf BACK ROW: Mr. Ainley, Rankin, Schludermann, Fraser, Mr. Glegg. FRONT ROW: Kirby, Jackman, Dunstan, Gargett. The cross-country team dashed off to an enthusiastic start this year, but the pace was just a little out of reach. However, the team ran well against some really stiff opposition. The meets were held at St. Vital Park, Niakwa Park, and St. John’s-Ravenscourt. In 1964, S.J.R. managed to set the toughest course in Winnipeg, but Glenlawn Collegiate took the honors this year with a gruelling trek across ploughed fields at Niakwa Park. The S.J.R. team took their revenge calmly, running its best race of the year. The climax of the season was the provincial meet at Neepawa on November 30. The relief of the team at finding that the course would not include below-freez¬ ing weather, ice-cold streams, thick brush, and barbed wire fence, as the previous year, turned to anguish when an abundance of steep hills was found to be the substitute. Despite the difficulties, everyone ran a good race. Bob Dunstan, the star of the team, finished fourteenth out of over one hundred participants. $ wm - CoiuttM Junior Cross-Country was a new inovation this year. A Junior Cross-Country team was formed to run against some outside teams. The first run was in the St. Vital Park where we had some runners place high in the lists. In later races, runners once again did well. The big reason for not placing as well as we might have was because of the short period to train in and a lack of races. Once again our thanks go to Mr. Wellard. BACK ROW: Mr. Wellard, Hutchings, Tamblyn, Wright, Payne. FRONT ROW: Thraser, Campbell.

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BACK ROW: Klassen, Magnus, Rankin, Fraser, Gargett, MacBeth, Lemon. MIDDLE ROW: Mr. Ainley, MacDonald, Stovel, Schludermann, Greeniaus, Naiman, Mr. Glegg. FRONT ROW: Kirby, Sheen, Schmidt, Dunstan, Harasym. Two years ago, a senior soccer team, representing with the halves and, more especially, the halves backed St. John’s-Ravenscourt in inter-high school soccer, was up the forwards. Generally, having a good defense line, formed. Generally, since then, the team has done the the team has had to build up it’s finishing drive: the school some good. Although it cannot be said that our ability to score goals. team has raised the S.J.R. athletic image, everyone in In saying that the team is the best yet, I should state our league knows that we are always outthere trying.” some results. We did not score many goals, but there However, paradoxical to my introduction, it is my was no recurrence of the past year’s no wins, all opinion that this year we had quite a competent team; losses.” This year we won an outside game and tied the best team yet. one, having only tied one before (that’s a record). What I mean is that the team has always had some However, we failed in trying to beat the masters again good individuals, but only during the last year has it (with an unbaised referee, this time). The score was begun to take the form of a team. The defense worked tied. Socwi This year’s only undefeated team was Junior Soccer. We finished the year with four wins and no defeats. A junior soccer team is a relatively new idea and as yet does not get much support. Much better things are hoped for next year. The team was comprised mostly of grade eights and a few grade nines. A lack of games was the big difficulty along with the short season. Our thanks go to Mr. Wellard and Mr. Gieth. BACK ROW: Fraser, Hutchings, Thraser, Mr. Wellard, Payne, Tamblyn, Dallas. FRONT ROW: Jacques, Allison, Wright, Campbell, Knowlton, Wood.

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S ' ut-%M JooticJi The purpose of six-man football is to prepare for future competition, and todevelopfootballfundamentals and good sportsmanship. The first week of school the boys were issued equipment and given instruction in tackle football fundamentals. The second week, they were divided into four teams called by modernistic names of The Saints,” The Angels,” ThePlayboys,” and The Surfers.” A four week round robin ensued to choose opponents for the Father and Sons’ Day football classic. As a result the top two teams: The Surfers” and The Angels” played for the trophy while The Saints” and The Playboys” battled it out to decide last place. The Surfers” culminated their two overtime period stalemate with an electrifying 65 yard touchdown by Doug Spaith to make the final score 30- 24. The Playboys” escaped the cellar by downing The Saints” 28-14. In spite of their lack stature, it was quickly made up by their enthusiasm and the time spent was made profitable by their rapid improvement. Only one series was played between the three teams, considering that the weather conditions made further progress impossible. Richardson House proved to be overpowering which forced Young and Hamber to call off the senior house soccer games for fear of complete annihilation. However, Richardson first faced Young to obliterate them by a score of 6-1. Young did not take this lying down and came bouncing back to defeat Hamber 3-0. Greatly embarrassed Hamber tried to re¬ store it’s face by facing the Richardson team, only to lose full confidence when defeated 4-0. Thus Richard¬ son House once again proved it’s superior strength to the world by easily capturing the position of first place. BACK ROW: Thomas, Hefflefinger, Truelove, Dallas, Shandro. MIDDLE ROW: Payne, Spaith, Chan, Campbell, Thraser. FRONT ROW: Pinn, Richardson, Harasym. BACK ROW: Junker, McKnight, Richardson, Kobrinsky. FRONT ROW: D. Spaith, Chan, Jacklin. moi Horn Socm This year the school entered two teams into the Hi School Bonspiel. They did better than any other of the school teams entered before. The team skipped by Bruce Young won three of its’ five games while the team skipped by Paul Schmidt won four of its’ six games. Unfortunately the two teams came up against each other and thus one was eliminated. There was also a team entered into the private and secondary schools league and they would of done very well except Gall managed to trip over the winning stone and thus they lost the crucial game. BACK ROW: Rankin, Campbell, MacKay, McCarten, Gall. FRONT ROW: Schmidt, Young.