Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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The Open Rugger Team FRONT ROW: Hodge I, Chuck, Cantle, Rosseel I, Wilson I, Maslon, McKenzie. CENTRE ROW: Crosbie I, Timmins, Gudewill, Slattery I. Cheney, Hawthorne, Falco I. BACK ROW: Mr. Larsen, Labrie. McAlister, Waterfield, McMurchy. Stuart I, Mr. Washington. From the start of the season the Open Rugger team showed the spirit that has characterized it in the past few years. However tne team did not have the experience of other years. After a couple of busy weeks a game was played at Ridley. High winds prevented both sides from playing a good game and, in fact, only one try was scored, that by Ridley. In our second game, we again lost narrowly, 12-8. However much valuable experience was gained by those who had never played in a game before. Appleby won the next two exhibition games against U.C.C. (8-6) and Bloor Collegiate (8-3). The forwards played two very good games, hitting clean and hard. The backs, although they had at that point not regained their smoothness from last season, moved the ball quite well. Our first League game was against Trinity. The team was starting ' to click ' . The forwards worked as a strong unit in the scrum, the backs contained T.C.S. and prevented them from scoring any points. The final score was 15-0 for Appleby. In another exhibition game we met our strongest opposition, Brantford Collegiate. They were big, strong and experienced. Both sides played a good game but in the end the score showed Brantford on top, 10-6. Everyone on the team was having fun playing the game and, as a result, we started playing much better. St. Andrew ' s came down for our next game. The forwards had another good game, winning the scrums and line outs. The backs moved the ball exceptionally well. However the game was not 110

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The ground fielding and throwing was excellent, with special mention to McLaughlin, Lytle and Strudwick. Batting seemed to be the weakest part of our performance, but potentially we should have done much better in this depart- ment. Suchanek, Morrison, Webb, Harrigan and Lytle flat- tered to deceive. Lytle and Gaskin, our opening batsmen did well in tiring out the opposition ' s opening bowlers, but were slow in scoring. Overall there was a great im- provement in the team ' s per- formance and with a little more experience and sense of pur- pose, we would have gone through the season undefeated. Most of all we would like to thank our coach Mr. Revill for the time he spent in developing the The Third Cricket XI FRONT ROW: Reid, Stafford I, Peart II, Harnden, Dekovachich, Day, Toles I. BACK ROW: Lewis, Thomson I, Stuart IV, Wilson II, Burchmore I, Mr. Large. second cricket team. Indoor practises of early April finally gave way to outdoor sessions in late April and we then thought we were ready for Ridley. However with a much stronger batting side against us, in spite of our opening score of 92, Ridley amassed 112 for 4. A few days later, against a much weaker Lakefield team, we won by 8 wickets. On a sunny Wed- nesday afternoon in Aurora we more than met our match at St. Andrews. They had a first class team composed of many West In- dian students who played strongly all day. S.A.C. - 108, Ap- pleby - 56. The best was yet to come! Upper Canada by 7 wickets and T.C.S. by 132 for 6 declared, were in- deed results to be proud of. In fact we held U.C.C. to 23 runs and T.C.S. to 38. Some superb bowling against U.C.C. by David Burchmore, who took 6 wickets and by Mark Wilson against T.C.S. with 7 wickets while he peronsally added 63 runs to our count, gave us decisive victories. Our last match of the season was a return engagement with the strong Ridley side. Results: Ridley 124 for 3 while we fought valiantly for adraw with 58 for 9 as time ran out on Ridley. Well done to a spirited and en- thusiastic third team and thanks to our captain, Brad Thomson for his help during the Season. Results: Won 3 Lost 2 Drew 1 109

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an easy one and on one or two occasions only the superb tackling of the backs prevented S.A.C. from travelling the last 10 yards to score. The final result however was an impressive 23-0 win. The long, hot trip to Lakefield did not detract from the drive of the first fifteen. The team played well as the final score, 21-0, indicates. We showed U.C.C. that we had learned a few things since our last meeting when we went there in late May. The backs were able to contain the opposition and the forwards managed to get the ball out to our backs. The score proved to be the best to date 24- 0. As neither Appleby nor Ridley had lost a league game, the match between these two teams would be the championship. This would be the hardest game of the season, we thought. The half time score found us in the lead by a couple of points. At half time we were not very happy with our play. In the second half, the team started to play as they had never played before. Working together, the forwards and backs ran-in four quick tries. Ridley answered with only one. The championship IHHV was ours with a score of 31-10. When a team plays together as closely as the Open Rugger did this year it is difficult to pick out individuals. All gave 100% There are however a few who should be singled out: Scotty Hawthorne, for his performance Wj 111