Alberta Normal School - Aurora Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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AURORA, 1941-42 69 Left F.; Z. Sadoway, F.; Mr. Kirkpatrick. (Back) J. owsky, G.; W. Hansen, C.; A. Card, G. BOYS ' BflSKGTBALL Our boys’ basketball team enjoyed a highly successful season. In spite of a late start, due to lack of a gymnasium, Kirk soon had the team organized and raring to play. The chief assets of this year’s squad were co-operation, team spirit, fight, and considerable skill in ball handling and shooting. Its chief liabilities were lack of sufficient practice time and consequent lack of condition. That the assets considerably outweighed the liabilities is shown by the following record. Twenty games were played, of which E.N.S. won 15 and lost 5. The team scored 778 points for an average of 39 points per game against 681, or an average of 34, for all opposing teams. This spring the school entered our team in the Alberta Intermediate Basketball League. We became the Northern Intermediate Champions by defeating the L.D.S. in a very close two out of three series. This gave us the right to play Cardston, the Southern Champions, in the Intermediate finals. Our team won the first game 43-42, but Cardston took the next game 42-31, and with it the championship. In both games a fine brand of basketball and good sportsmanship was displayed by both teams. PEN SKETCH OF THE TEAM Bill Hansen—Captain and Centre. Fine team player, great on defense and can scori Aaron Card—A fast, reliable and effective guard. One great weakness—milk. Jim Menzies—Guard. Good on rebounds and does not throw away the ball. Bob McIntosh—Exceptional eye for the basket. Good floor player. Jack Murray—Forward. A hard worker and a fine team player. Kenneth McConkey—Guard. Needs only experience to hold his own with any team. Paul Karashowsky—Next to Kirk the tallest man on the team. Specialty—defensive •7 - o-j i forward. The speed artist c Mr. Kirkpatrick—Kiri playing coach, who taught us than the skills of the game.

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EDMONTON NORMAL SCHOOL TH E SPORTS PROGRfldl In times like these it becomes necessary to retrench in all our activities, whether business, social, or sports. The Sports program in our school had to be adjusted this year tO ' meet a new set of conditions, characterized by greatly restricted facilities, a considerable reduction in available time for athletics, and a shifting student personnel. At the same time, there was a brighter side to the picture in the substantial increase in funds available for athletics. A strong intramural program requires a full supply of quality equipment, and we have this year been able to add substantially to our supply. Our pur¬ chases included rugby footballs, soccer balls, basketballs, volleyballs, baseball gloves, bats, track shoes and badminton racquets, as well as more perishable equipment. There can be no doubt that the intramural league in any sport is the real “Major League” with respect to its educational values, because of the lar¬ ger number who participate. This does not mean, however, that school teams are unimportant, or that inter-school competition should be permanently aban¬ doned. Both school teams and intramural teams have a real part to play in the life of a school, and their functions are complementary, not opposed. It is to be hoped that in normal times inter-school competition will be resumed. The “Ham and Egg” basketball league proved very popular with no less than twenty girls’ teams and five boys’ teams taking part. Everyone who wished to play was given an opportunity to do so. Each team played at least three games, and the regular schedule was followed by playoffs to de¬ termine the school champions. Miller’s Minorcas from Class D won the girls’ section, and McIntosh’s Grunters from Class A won the men’s section. No small part of the success of this league must be credited to those ‘minor League’ players who piloted their charges, if not to victory in all cases, at least to a better understanding of the fundamentals of the game. Their work is evidence of the valuable contribution that members of school teams may make to the whole sports program in a school. In volleyball a knockout tournament was held, in which a winner in each class was first determined. These winners competed for the intramural championships. Class B boys and Class C girls were successful in their respective divisions. At the date of writing, no further intramural competitions have been completed, but we plan to have a softball league for both boys and girls, a baseball league for boys, and some form of intramural track competition for both. In addition to the intramural league, Club activities such as badminton, tumbling and boxing, and school teams in basketball and track athletics have contributed in no small measure toward making this year an enjoyable and profitable one for many students in the school. Any article on the sports program would be incomplete without some recognition of the chief characteristics which marked the play of all who took part namely, good sportsmanship and a great capacity for enjoying the game while playing your hardest. On many occasions I went home feeling like a man who has just been paid a big dividend, because I had seen some student take a particularly hard bump or an adverse decision without complaint and with¬ out loss of temper. Keep up the good work, and pass it along. J. B. Kirkpatrick.

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70 EDMONTON NORMAL SCHOOL Left to right, 2nd row: F. 1st row: V. Hosford, F.; P. McCready, F.; E. Turner, G.; N. Sluzar, G.; Hurlburt, F.; M. Wroblowsky, G.; V. Kingsep, F.; T. Thompson, G. ird 1-ow: W. Hansen, Coach; M. Irwin, C.; G. Hanna, C.; A. Card, Coa V. Israelson, F. ; M. Miller, F. GIRLS ' BflSK€TBRLL Another score! Marion Irwin, our snappy centre, is on tonight. The capacity crowd of three or four shout to the top of their voices. In spite of this lack of support our team always came out fighting. Marguerite Miller kept up . her speedy playing along with Violet Kingsep, Victoria Israelson, Patricia McCready and Violet Hosford as team mates on the forward line. Our steadfast guard line, Myra Wroblowsky, Eva Turner, Nadia Sluzar, and Thelma Thompson held off the brunt of the attack by the opposing team, right up to the finish of every game. Our two tall centres, Marion Irwin and Gretta Hanna, displayed wonderful ability in keeping the team together and helped them in many closely con¬ tested finishes. Pearl Hurlburt and Nan Cameron also showed great aptitude in basketball. These players, at first, were not all skilled in the art of basketball, but they learned it so rapidly that they merited the honor of representing old E.N.S. in many interesting games. The girls made excellent progress during the year, under the able coaching of our Physical Instructor, Mr. Kirkpatrick, who was assisted by Bill Hansen and Aaron Card. The team had a profitable year, playing a total of eleven games. They didn’t win them all, but they were always in there fighting and, with a little more luck and finish around the basket, might have won many more games than they did. They all had plenty of spirit, made great progress, and showed the best of sportsmanship. “Three cheers for our Girls’ Basketball Team—‘Hip! Hip! Hurrah’!”