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

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- ; mWm 1 i ' ' v 1 BACK ROW: Mr. Bredin, Gardner, Honeyman, Cousins, Kiddell, Little, Sheen. FRONT ROW: Williams, Campbell, Kiddell, Leatherdale, Flammond, McBeath, Magnus. This year, the Senior team had a rather bad season. Although the team practised even during the Christmas Holidays, we finished the season with a record of two wins, seven losses, and two ties. The season afforded the team a chance to play in a hockey tournament in Minneapolis. In the tournament, the team had two losses and one tie. However, this weekend was most enjoyable. In the semi-finals, the team, led by John Kiddell, tied CSB. In the second game of the two game total point series, CSB won. The team was led by Dave Megaphone” MacBeath and John Kiddell. The de¬ fense was strong with rib-shattering body checks by Peter Hammond and Kent Cousins. The team was aided by constantly brilliant, pro-style goal tending by Don Honeyman. Our spirits were greatly boasted by Dr. MacBeath’s cries of, Come on Big Green!” The vastly superior senior team crushed the tottering Old Boys, led by Bob Ramsey and Jock McDonald, in their first encounter. However, in the rematch, the reinforced Old Boys salvaged an overtime win. All in all, it was a most enjoyable season and we would like to thank Mr. Bredin for his hard, sometimes frustrating work in practice and Mr. Girard for his man¬ agerial support.

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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.

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BACK ROW: Campbell, McEwen, Kiddell, Gray, McBeath, Williams, Sheen, Smith, Bowes. FRONT ROW: Mr. Bredin, Cousins, Kiddell, Flintoft, Honeyman, Little, Hammond, Myers. It was 7:00 AM, Friday, February 18, and a group of boys milled around impatiently in the front hall. The bus, which w as due at 7 o’clock failed to appear. Soon the boarders arose and settled into the daily routine. It was 8:30 when the bus finally arrived, to the relief of all those waiting. Overnight bags and hockey equip¬ ment were speedily loaded; the St. John’s-Ravenscourt hockey tour was on it’s way. The tour was part of a sudden-death, round-robin hockey tournament to take place at Blake School in Hop¬ kins, Minnesota. There were two Canadian teams: S.J.R. and Rainy River, and two American teams: Blake and Minnehaha. After an extremely tedious nine-hour bus trip, Hopkins, a suburb of Minneapolis, was reached. Wow! Look at that Corvette!” yelled Megaphone” who went car-crazy when he saw all the hot” machines in the city. It was 6:40 when the bus arrived at Blake School, giving the team twenty minutes to dress for the game against Minnehaha. Although exhausted from the bus trip, S.J.R. played a hard game, tying Minnehaha 1-1. John Kiddell scored the goal. The team was prepared for a warm indoor rink, and were surprised to find that the Blake rink was indoors, but unheated in fact, it was colder than the air outside. The team discovered that Blake School is a private school similar to S.J.R. except that it does not have boarding facilities. The school is much wealthier than S.J.R., having an indoor hockey rink as well as outdoor rinks, an indoor swimming pool, a large gymnasium, spacious fields, and other facilities. After the Minnehaha game, Blake provided the team with hamburgers while the billeting was organized. Blake also played a game that night; they defeated Rainy River. S.J.R. hockey players were billeted with Blake players for Friday and Saturday nights. On Saturday morning, everyone was free to do what he wanted. At 1:30 S.J.R. played Rainy River. Although S.J.R. played well, they were edged 1- 0 by Rainy River. Don Honeyman proved himself to be the greatest asset to the team by his efforts in goal. Afterwards, everybody watched Blake defeat Minnehaha 9-1, and wondered how well S.J.R. would do against Blake’s terrific team. The exciting game between Blake and S.J.R. was played. Although the team realized soon after the game started that they could not defeat Blake, they continued to play their best hockey. Spectators commented on the S.J.R. spirit. The final score was 6-0 for Blake, but even Blake admitted that S.J.R. was a tough, spirited team. Don Honeyman, goal keeper for S.J.R., was hailed as the most outstanding hockey player in the tournament, and was really the backbone of the team. Since the game was the last in the season for both Blake and S.J.R., everyone was in a celebrating mood. However, spirits were slightly dampened when Mr. Bredin, S.J.R. coach, announced that the bus was to leave Hopkins at the early hour of 8:00 o’clock on Sunday morning. Everyone managed to get up in time, and the long return journey began shortly after 8:00. The hockey tour weekend had turned out to be a successful and enjoyable experience for everyone.