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

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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.

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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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9tdmwlu)te ' hukdall The intermediates were a new” team in the sense that they had never played together before. As a result, some of their games were well played, while others were rather scrambly. They competed with some of the best senior teams Winnipeg junior-high schools, one against St. James’ Collegiate’s varsity squad which featured a near-7’ giant, and a game with the S.J.R. masters, the final score of which seems to be in some disagreement. For the first time, we sent our inter¬ mediate team against high school freshman competition, winning two out of four such games. The season was climaxed with an almost brilliant victory over Mennonite Collegiate freshmen. Season’s record: 8 wins-4 losses. BACK ROW: Fulton, Sprague, Jewell, Mr. Petrencik, Brace- well, Dunstan. FRONT ROW: Black, Newbound, Ross, Ramsey, Dallas. fmi n ' %ukd dL In their second year together, this year’s juniors were probably among the best in their age group in Winnipeg. They were undefeated in games against teams of similar age, their only losses coming against senior teams of junior high schools. In the Y.M.C.A. league, in which they were entered, they finished in first place without a loss. Throughout the season, most of the boys showed a keen enthusiasm. In some games, they displayed remarkable skill and control. If the boys remain together, they should remain equally impressive next year and develop a serious challenge to the dominance of Mennonite Collegiate in the in¬ dependent schools’ league. Record: 11 wins — 4 losses. BACK ROW: Wright, Bracken, Mr. Petrencik, Spooner, Richardson. FRONT ROW: Morris, Wyatt, Hefflefinger, Chan. (JtlklfU This year the volleyball team was in a league with St. Paul’s College, United College and M.B.C.I. All but the latter were thoroughly beaten by our team which consisted of Honeyman, Cousins, Brook, Fraser, Younge, Lemon, Jim and Doug MacDonald, and Bruce Young. Had there been finals, I think we could have given M.B.C.I. a good fight for their money, but since they went undefeated in the regular schedule, they were automatically given the division title. Our sincere thanks to Mr. Petrencik and Mr. MacKenzie, who put a great deal of time into the team. Good luck next year!