Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SIX THE ASHBURIAN FIRST FOOTBALL FIELD 'UND F01 YI'lS.XI,I, FIICLD

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THE ASHBURIAN 29 RUGBY 1946 L OOKING in retrospect over Ashburyis football season 1946, we find we have a season to be proud of even if we did lose our matches with Lower Canada College and Bishopls College School and, consequently, the B.C.S. Old Boys' Cup. Being the victor is not the only source of delight in our tasksg this oft repeated statement is definitely true as far as last seasons football is concerned. We started off the football season with a good deal of con- fidence in our hopes of winning the Old Boys' Cup. N o team could have had a better coach than we did and added to this we were able to start practising three weeks before L.C.C. and B.C.S. as their school re-opening was delayed on account of polio. Although most of the stars of our 1945 team had left, new players seemed to be developing fast. Howie Clark and Walter Scott were elected Captain and Vice-Captain respectively, happy and logical choices. The first few football practices were hampered by extremely hot weather and the first two weeks were spent in light kit running through the plays, most of these were developed from the more successful of those used in 1945. Passes and the middle bucks dominated our offensive plays. We had about a month of practising before our first game. lt was very difficult to arrange for any teams to play Ashbury since our exhibition games had to be played on week-days and other local schools had a regular schedule to be played on week-ends. and even some we were able to arrange were literally washed out by rain. We were, however, able to arrange two games with the kind co-operation of Eric Roy g the 'first of these we won 10-0 and the second we lost 7-6. In the first of these games the touchdowns were scored by Dreyfus and Clark. The calling of the plays by Scott, Weavers long passes, bucks by Clark and Sosa and general good tackling were all features of this game. The first game was played a little more than two weeks before the game with Bishop's College School. Mr. Glass wanted two more exhibition games before the 'tclassicf' so the next week-end we played two games. On October 25th the Ashbury football team surged ahead to one of its most impressive victories. The opposition. the Lower Town Terrors, was overwhelmed by a score of 40-0. The team gained a lot of confidence by winning this game, even though we knew that the opposition we would meet in future games of the