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

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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!

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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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BACK ROW: G. Carter, G. Smith, G. Hill, B. Spaith, C. Lount, D. Riley. FRONT ROW: Mr. Bredin, T. Taylor, P. McCreath, R. Flintoft, C. McEwen, B. McKnight, E. Myers. Strengthened by several new boys and several Bantam A players, the Midget team enjoyed a fair hockey sea¬ son. The first game was played against the Junior at School at their St. Boniface rink. The game was not too promising as we lost by a score of 6-0. A second game proved much better as we beat College St. Boniface 6-2. These first two games were played before the Christmas Holidays. Beginning after the Christmas holidays the team did not do quite as well as was expected. The first game at St. Paul’s Collegiate ended in a 3-3 tie although we dominated most of the game. Our next game against Assinaboia was played under extremely cold weather conditions. The Indian boys proved to be adapted to it and easily beat us 4-1. This game completed the first round of games in the league. The second round was against Junior at and this time at Ravenscourt we put up a much more determined effort. We went ahead 2-0 in the first period, but in the end, lost 6-4. Next game was again played at Ravens¬ court against CSB whom we beat 5-1. Our last league game against St. Paul’s was certainly our worst as we lost 3-0. It was one ofthose games where nothing just seems to go right. This ended the league season and we ended up in third place with 5 points. In the play-offs we faced off against Assinaboia at the Indian school and lost 9-1. The second game proved much better than the first as we won 5-4 on a spectacular goal by Peter Bowes from the faceoff. The puck went straight up in the air and dropped in the Assinaboia net, much to the surprise of the Indian goalie. The third game ended 5-0 for Assinaboia and our hopes in the play-offs. Thus it was not too bad a hockey season for this year. The team would like to express their appreciation to Mr. Bredin for his coaching and advice.