Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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It has been a very good year, in many respects a vintage year! This is not only because the teams have been successful, but because the boys have been very willing to train. Much of this has been due to Christopher Martin; his determination has exerted a positive influence on the others. As usual the competitions were packed into a short period at the end of October. First came the Brock High School race in which we came seventh out of thirteen schools, our best-ever performance. Toby Bronson was our first to finish in thirty- first place just two seconds ahead of Christopher Martin. Our next two were FRONT ROW: Mann, Martin, Bronson. MIDDLE ROW: Williams, Genereux, Thompson, Nightingale, Mr. Nightingale. Nicholas Nightingale and Michael Genereux. Stephen Mann and Kevin Thomson also ran bravely vrithout much training behind them. Two days later, on a balmy Saturday, we hosted the Independent Schools ' Meet. As in previous years we were convincing winners in both the under-12 and the under-14 divisions. Christopher Martin, Michael Genereux, Toby Bronson and Stephen Mann, well-supported by Kevin Thomson and Greg Williams, all ran well to give us a clear victory in the under-14 over Crescent and Ridley. The under-12 race was almost embarrassing, for not only did our ' A ' team win easily, but our ' B ' team almost came second, just beaten by Crescent. Nicholas Nightingale won the race and he was strongly backed by Christian De Josselin De Jong, James Mairs and Duncan Ross. The ' B ' team led by Todd Cooper, included Richard and Robert Archer and Ian Batty. The inter-tribal competition was dif- ferent this year, because there was one meet in which every boy competed, and a second in which only selected tribal teams took part. The overall winners of the first meet were Cayugas followed by Oneidas and Senecas with Mohawks trailing. Mohawks, however, can take comfort from the fact that their juniors led by Peter Mann, Wayne Morris and John Becker were clear winners in their division. The senior event saw a very good race for first place between Christopher Martin and Toby Bronson. Toby won convincingly although his time was considerably slower than the record. The final event of the year was the inter- tribal team race. Once again Cayugas proved that they were the best, but Mohawks and Oneidas tied for second and the Senecas brought up the tail. Although there was great interest in all the races with John Dovimie winning the Junior and Nicholas Nightingale the Intermediate, it was the Senior race which was the most interesting because of Christopher Martin ' s determination to outrun his old rival, Toby Bronson. Theirs was a cagey duel over the first lap, but Toby showed his strength, stamina and determination to pull away on the second lap to victory in a new record beating the old mark by eight seconds. In coming second Christopher had run his fastest race of the season, a triumph for him even in defeat. Few were surprised when Christopher and Toby were awarded their colours. Thus the season ended, but the future looks promising for there are many up-and- coming runners, Nicholas Nightingale, Greg Williams. Christian De Josselin De Jong and James Mairs among them, who should continue to provide the school with strong teams next year. Mr. Nightingale

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4th S occer Our team played very capably this year. New recruits like Evans, Mairs, and Home gave us added speed and endurance while Buysschaert and McMenemy showed considerable talent. At best, our goaltending was adequate and the same could be said of our defense. We did try, however, to keep the ball well up the field and our tactics on throw- ins worked very effectively. Two of our numbers worked especiaUy hard throughout the season and gave of themselves unstintingly - Dawood and Nightingale. Our captain was Simon Lee. Mr. Boyd FRONT ROW; Buysschaert, Mairs, Lee, Evans, Home, Crawford. BACK ROW: Mr. Boyd, Graham, Nightingale, McMenemy, Bruce, Schooling, Dawood. 5th S occer - During September and most of October this team played very well. It was soon clear that the half-back line and defence would be strong. Both Evan Wood and Dan Moses made excellent defence players, while K.C. Bascombe kept goal for all but the last match. Scott Miller and Rob Schneider developed into at- tacking wring halves, who could also be relied on to hustle back quickly to help the defence, George Mann, at centre half, had his on and off days, but always played very hard. On the forward line, Paul Petersen was the main threat to the opposition; however he spoilt too many plays by failing to control the ball or cross it back away from the goalkeeper. In the other positions, Jed Gardner, Geoff Anderson, Mark Follows and Peter Mann all improved steadily as the season went on. Unfortunately, in late October, the team went into a slump , and after losing closely (2-1), to a strong Crescent team, they again FRONT ROW: Schneider, G. Mann, Millar, Moses, Harlow, P. Mann, Follows. BACK ROW: Gardner, Anderson, MatUmoe, Wood. Petersen, Mr. Rudgard. lost (1-0) very surprisingly to U.C.C. However they pulled themselves together for the last match and played very well against Hillfield to win deser- vedly, 4-0. SEASON RECORD GP 9 W 6 GF 25 GA 6

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First Hockey As the ' 7 7- ' 78 hockey season began, the team had its sights set low. Few people believed that we would win a game. But when the season was over, we had proved all our sceptics wrong. After two dismal exhibition games, the team started to show some promise even though we lost our next two by small margins. In our first two games of the I.S.A.A. season we put forth a halfhearted effort losing both. Next game we overwhelmed Ridley, winning by a romping 6-0. With a bolstered team we met L.C.C. from Mon- treal, vanning 7-4. In the next game we tied 3-3. For the second time we met Lakefield, a grade nine team, and again we fell easy prey to them. Next it was S.A.C. where we won 2-0 with goals in the late stages of the game. Ashbury was our next foe and in two thrilling games we proved ourselves the better, winning 2-1 in both games. In probably our best game of the season we lost to T.C.S., again a grade nine team, but not without battering them up severely and forcing them to score in the dying minutes of the game. We defeated Ridley once more and tied S.A.C. in a game where we did everything but score. We failed to live up to the task against U.C.C. in our next game losing 6-0 to a much better team. We ended the season on a high note, riding to easy victories over a poor Crescent team and a slightly over- confident L.C.C. Our record ended up 8 wins, 5 losses, and 2 ties - not bad for a team that was not ex- pected to wrin a game. I am not going to mention any one person for playing out- standing hockey. The key to our success was a team effort and I believe that ' s the way it should stay. Greg Fournier - Captain ■ FRONT ROW: Moffat, Mann, Fournier, Freeman, McNab. MIDDLE ROW; Guthrie, Piasecki, Barr, Bruce, Appleby, Vernon, Senst, BACK ROW: Mr. Singer, Petersen, Rogers, Benson. f