Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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U-15 Soccer At the start of the fall term, the under 15 squad looked like a large group of individuals - some with big boots, some with deking skills and some with the ability to put the ball in the goal. After several weeks of practice, we still weren ' t clicking, making game-losing mistakes and just not grasping the idea of teamwork, it was at this point that we went to the Under 15 Soccer Tournament at Ridley. With the help of some Junior School boys, we easily made it to the finals where we wearily lost to Hillfield. This was the turning point. In the following practices, Mr. Washington again made a concerted effort to mold us into a team. After some hard work, it was evident that it was working. We defeated U.C.C. who had tied us earlier in the season, and beat T.C.S. and Hillfield. In a final match against an aggressive S.A.C. side, we came from behind three times to finally beat them 3-2. FRONT ROW: Gordon, Bryant, Allen, Richards II, Fournier. SECOND ROW: Strucken, Du Toil, Yanoshita, Volterra, Ross II. THIRD ROW: Chapman, McCleary, Richardson, Gregory, Fretwell, Thompson 111. Special thanks must be given to Mr. Washington whose optimistic attitude and usually calm in- structions led us to a very successful season. Adam Gordon

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The second soccer team this year. was a team ot ' determination and spirit. We had the best season since the start of the team back in 1975. We won five games and lost four. Although these statistics of wins and losses don ' t look impressive, the actual games were impressive. At the start of the season, the second team had the reputation of winning only one game in the past two years. But this year every person on the field wanted to change that, and did. With one hundred percent effort given by everyone, we won our opening match against U.C.C., 4-3. This first game showed promise of a good season. At the forward positions we had Toby Follows, Steve Fife, Dwight Waters, and Peter Meredith. Small in size they may have been, but our forwards had the skill and drive of a much larger front four. The halftacks played good heads up ball all season. Fairly fast, and very mobile, they con- stantly fed the ball up to the strikers. Roger Cole, Bart Sam- brook, Paul Sustronk and Michael Appleby shared these duties. Several times our halfbacks proved their worth in defensive play as well as offensive. As well as serving this dual purpose, they instilled con- fidence in our goalie, Gord Richards, who could be heard saying phew more than once! Our fullbacks seemed to be the guys with the biggest kicks. One case in particular was shot-gun . FRONT ROW : Mr. Day, Henriques 11, Follows 1, Meredith, Dursi. SECOND ROW: Waters. Sambrook, Appleby 1, Reid, Baggaley, File, Tan. THIRD ROW: Richards I, Holland, Samuel, Hueton, Goddard, Discelmeyer, Anderson, Hop- pener, Sustronk. 2nd Soccer Always willing to throw their bodies, legs, knees, ankles and sometimes heads, into the ball, the backs constantly kept the play out of our end. Several times, good plays by the backs helped boost the spirits of the coach and the rest of the team. The fullbacks consisted of lain Hueton, David Holland, Fred Shotgun Reid, and Martin Baggaley, Captain. Finally, on behalf of the second soccer team, 1 would like to thank Mr. Day for his coaching, refereeing and endless perseverance to turn us into soccer players. His constant shouts of Come to it! or Get your head on it! made us all try a little harder. Thanks for an en- joyable season. -1i j .«r-. — ' m v ■ f

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This year, no long standing traditions were actually broken nor did the school achieve any out-right victories but there are definite signs that this may be beginning to change. Although cross-country running is still losing out to the more glamorous football at the intermediate and senior levels, the under-fifteen team achieved fourth position in the very tough Brock Invitational meet with two runners finishing in the top 10 - an all time high. In the Senior ISAA Cham- pionships the Appleby Under- 15 team won their division and the school finished third overall. Their good results earned an an- nouncement at lunch which is quite the achievement for Cross-Country. A new event on the calendar this year was a large meet at Downsview against Toronto schools. Appleby ' s finishing position was hardly memorable but the meet provided valuable individual experience. The monotony of training runs between Appleby and Cornation Park has been relieved by practice in different terrain at Bronte Provincial Park, Rattlesnake Point and McMaster University. This all helped to maintain the enthusiasm and dedication of Kent, Newell, Linton and O ' Driscoll of the seniors, Johnson, Stuart, Corley and Merrill of the intermediates and Ross, Wanklyn, Genereux as well as help from Bronson (Junior School) of the juniors. The team has a long way to go in order to reach perfection but it was only a couple of years ago that the team didn ' t even have a coach. Andretf Ross