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

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Stum Horn JoolLH Once again this year senior house football claimed the attention of the Upper School. The series consisted of three games, leaving Young the undisputed cham¬ pion. Although Young House was the lighter team, they were faster and more organized than either Richardson or Hamber and lost no time in defeating them both. In the first game Young beat Richardson 18-0. Richardson was no luckier in the second game, this time losing to Hamber 1-0. With all their hope resting on Wyatt’s shoulders, Hamber took on Young but were promptly defeated 21-1. Even Gay Lord” couldn’t breech Young’s alert defence. Hamber man¬ aged to come in second with Richardson bringing up the rear full of sound and fury signifying nothing.” BACK ROW, Left to Right: B. Williams, D. Everett, J. Little, C. McEwen, P. Bowes, D. McKelvie. FRONT ROW: J. Murray, R. Kennedy, G. Smith, D. Kid- dell, D. Brown, P. Leatherdale. This year was an exception to former years due to the fact that the tide of past Hamber victories was broken by a determined Richardson squad. A strong line and good team work enabled us to defeat Young House 32-0, and Hamber House 18-0. Hamber then defeated Young 40-0 in the third and final game. Extremely cold weather conditions hampered all teams, although I am sure everyone enjoyed themselves im¬ mensely. Home Joctiall BACK ROW, Left to Right: N. Kabrinsky, K. Edwards, J. Campbell, S. Tulloh, R. Verner. FRONT ROW: B. Mitchell, K. Manzuick, D. Spaith, J. Beach, J. Briggs. As usual, Young House once again ruled the soccer field this year. Despite freezing temperatures all teams played in superb fashion, meeting each other in gruel¬ ling clashes. In the first game played Richardson de¬ feated the Hopeless Hamber squad 3-0. Young House, in it’s first 2 games tied Richardson 1-1 and crushed winless Hamber 1-0. Finally in the crucial play-off game Young undermined Richardson 1-0. Another great finish to a soccer season. fltutm Houie Soceee Stmt Houie Soocee Junior House Soccer was dominated once again this year by Richardson House. Each of the participating three houses played two games. In the first match Richardson humiliated Hamber by the count of 3-0. The next game pitted hamber against Young; the battle of the underdogs. It resulted in a tense, hard fought duel which ended in a 2-21 deadlock. The final game pitted mighty Richardson against the underdog Young. Although Young fought violently, Richardson House demolished them as expected, 5-0. Although the weather proved to be an obstacle, I am sure all those con¬ cerned, including the referees, enjoyed themselves.

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Horn Ttyotk Honda Hem In order to introduce a little variety into the house competition, Hamber condescended to let Richardson eek through to victory last year. This year, although it may seem monotonous, Hamber has resumed its winning strea of two and three years ago. (No Horsing around in 1967). In the football season, Hamber put on its usually courageous show against tremendous odds. The senior team was aided by a tough Yankee rookie brought up from the VEG leagues who had a Thing” about him. He scored all ol the game’s points in our 1-0 upset over Richardson. Hamber made a fine showing in cross-country and soccer in the fall. In the cross-country, however, unsportsman¬ like protests were made concerning Hamber’s fleet four-footed friend imported from Ralston Downs. The Hamber junior teams set the pace in volleyball and basketball and the senior teams might have done better had they not been short handed on several occasions. The usual strength of Hamber was exhibited in house hockey. The A team might have done even better had our goalie not insisted on wearing his mother’s army boots in the net, and nose-checking the opposition as they crossed the blue line (from the net, yet). No doubt Hamber’s championship form in both scholarship and sports will continue to reep rewards until the end of the year. We are looking forward to track and field when Hamber’s big hope for the shot put will get his oppor¬ tunity to disprove comments that he is senile and full of blarney. In closing, I would like to thank all the staunch Hamberite supporters who showed up at games whether they knew how to’ play them or not. I especially thank Mr. Waudby, our retiring housemaster whose thirty odd years of leadership has been the spirit of Hamber’s victories, and Mr. McLoed, Mr. Olsen, and Mr. Stewart for all their support. — Mark Jackman Hem Canada’s Centennial year promises to be a very good year for Richardson House. Last year we won the Master’s Shield and we are heading for another victory. House competition is enhanced this year by the new experimental system, whereby all houses are divided into tour groups, A, B, C, and D, according to age. These groups are smaller than before, and to be successful, everyone in the group must participate. Because of the increasing house spirit in Richardson, they have done admirably. During the fall term, we won Junior soccer, Junior football, and Intermediate cross-country. This term, under the new system, we have won A basketball, B basketball, and are leading in C hockey. With a good turn out for track and field next term Richardson stands an excellent chance to win the shield again. Our sincere gratitude is extended to all the people who have worked for the house this year. It would not be fair to single out individual boys since there are so many who have tried hard. We would, however, like to thank our Housemaster, Mr. Wellard, and Mr. Glegg and Mr. Mackenzie, to whose time, effort, and unfailing support we owe much of our success. — David Sprague, Simon Truelove ((fomuj Horn Young House started off well this year. We won Senior Football and fared quite well m Senior Soccer. Our Junior squad has been fighting valiantly for the cause against tough odds. As we write this the new House Sports System is under way. All four Young House groups are showing great prowess in the three winter sports: hockey, basketball and volleyball. Our A and B hockey teams are confident of winning their series, while our C and D teams did well m Academically Young House is faring no worse than the other houses. As always Young House is looking forward to the third term and Track and Field. We hope to once again win the majority of events and recapture the Masters’ Shield We would like to thank Mr. Ainley, our Housemaster; Mr. Leonard, and also Peter Sheen, Jamie Little, Paul Leather- dale, Clive McEwen, Eddie Myers, Rob Kennedy and Bob Dunstan for their active support. — Bob Williams, Doug Kiddell 47

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Smoi Jootkll mmvm BACK ROW: M. Jackman, G. Black, B. Williams, R. Kennedy, M. Stethen, P. Leatherdale, D. Boult, J. Murray, P. Bowes, C. McEwen, D. McKelvie. MIDDLE ROW: D. Kiddell, D. Everett, J. Little, G. Hill, L. Simmons, R. Little, J. Lawson. FRONT ROW: Mr. Bredin, G. Smith, H. Verges, B. Clemis, C. Fudge, D. Sprague, D. Brown, J. Macdonald. This year the Senior football team was much smaller than past teams, both in number and in size, and so by design was kept to a minimum of games and a maximum of practice. This partial sacrifice of one year was necessary so as to teach many of the boys the fundamentals required for a future team. Although there was no twelve man team, three six man teams were drawn up and set loose on each other. In the end, McEwan’s team finished first, closely fol¬ lowed by William’s team, with Stethen’s team coming third. The reason for the team to start at the six man level was so that the coaches could see how everyone played, for in six man, unlike twelve man, everyone’s ability or inability could be easily noticed. Near the end of September, after numerous laps and windsprints, hours of play running, and about three hundred side tackles, we were ready for nine man. Two teams were drawn up, acting as both offence and defence. With the possibility of several games, things settled down for a while. Our first game was against St. Pauls, and turned out disasterously. We were bigger and faster, but we still lost by twelve points. The game would have been closer if we hadn’t had a sixty yard pass and run T.D. from Williams to Leatherdale called back on a holding penalty. Smith managed to choke on another touch¬ down pass, this time from Kiddell, but McEwen did even better, for somehow he threw five perfect inter¬ ceptions. Yea Clever”. Our next game was against Pine Falls, who, after beating us soundly, 18-7, stayed on for dinner. On Fathers’ and Sons’ Weekend, we played St. Pauls again and this time there was no doubt who had the better team. Williams started our team on the way by turning, what was supposed to be an off tackle dive play, into a quarterback keeper, romping seventy yards for a T.D. No sooner had we gotten hold of the ball again when Bowes managed to scramble thirty yards on a broken play for another T.D. With Jackman getting another touchdown, we easily won by a score of 21-6. Our next scheme was to play some twelve man games against other schools’ B squads. These plans fell through though when the other teams refused to play us. Was this a compliment or an insult to our playing ability? Before closing we would like to thank Mr. Bredin, whose patience and quiet words of advice improved our precision, and Mr. Broderick, who took great pleasure in sadistically drilling us in cal. 49