Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE THIRD FIELD RUGBY TEAM First row — left to right: Drew, McCulloch III, Baer, Beavers, Angrave I, Echlin Second row. Finlay, Hodgins, Wijkman, Wilson, Ballantyne Third row: Gold, Ryan, Lawson II Rear row: Colonel Brine, Shirley, ' ells II JUNIOR SCHOOL RUGBY THE THIRD field again had a successful season. We were lacking any outstanding players this year but the team managed to give a good account of themselves when matched against teams of equal weight and age. In our more important matches we called upon some of our stalwarts of last year who were still within the age require- ments, and we tliank David Scott, Ned Rhodes and Chris. Nowakowski for their able assistance. We split our two games with Sedbergh, winning here and losing away. One of the features this year was the playing of a twelve years and under team in a match against Lindenlea boys. This game we won by a large margin due in no small measure to the really splendid running of Peter Murphy, and it showed that we had other players of considerable promise for the future.

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THE ASHBURIAN 29 minutes of the game, Roberts made another 4()-yard run but was stopped short. In the last few seconds we scored a rouge, making the score 17-0. ASHBURY vs BISHOP ' S OUR first game against Bishop ' s was rather a disappointment as we had started off with rather high hopes, only to be defeated 30-0. The superiority of the B.C.S. team was soon apparent, especially in the blocking and running, and in the fourth play of the game they scored their first touchdown. The Ashbury team played well, though, in spite of the score, but the opposition had evidently the edge on us at all times. One of the greatest differences we found in our two styles of play was the absence of huddles and the smoothness of their number calling system. So, taking this to heart, we spent the next week prac- ticing our own little system devised by A4r. Powell. On our next game we were greatly improved, and it was a very good game. They scored a rouge in the first quarter, but we tied it up quite soon. Then they got ahead with a touchdown and convert, climaxing a steady advance down the field. It was in the second quarter that the star play of the game was made for Ashbury. The ball was snapped to the quarterback and then for several seconds, no one knew who was supposed to take it or where. Jimmy Finlay took the initiative and the ball for a forty-yard dash down to the five- yard line, and we scored our touchdown on a quarterback sneak by Parsons. When we converted this touchdown, there appeared to be some hope, but this was dispelled by two more touchdowns for Bishop ' s. Another rouge by us left the score 17-8, but it was a very good game. The only serious injury was a broken wrist for one of the Bishop ' s players.

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THE ASHBURIAN 31 Billy Baer was elected captain and gave of his best throughout the season. Again we were much encouraged by the attendance at our games of parents and members of the staff. E.G.B. HOUSE GAMES ON November 15, a cold and somewhat wet day, the Inter-House football match took place on our first field. WooUcombe seemed to be the leading edge all along, for only a few minutes after Con- naught ' s starting kick-off, Sumner retrieved a fumble, and this gave Woollcombe their downs. On their kick. Gill II received the ball behind the Connaught goal-line and Price tackled him for a rouge. The first touchdown was made by Price on a quarterback sneak, and the convert being good, Woollcombe now had a 7-0 lead. Another rouge for Woollcombe made by Mclnnis and a touchdown by Prit- chard, together with a successful convert brought the score to 14-0. Andy injured his foot badly in the touchdown play and had to be escorted off the field. He was not hurt before he kicked the ball out of bounds past the Connaught goal for one more point, however. The last touchdown was made by Sobie I in the last quarter and although the convert was unsuccessful, Woollcombe had now achieved a 20-0 score. The house games always inspire plenty of spirit between the contesting teams and they are unfailingly full of interest for the on- lookers, for, in football especially, one can usually expect unorthodox plays and methods to be employed. For example, in this particular game Woollcombe had the advantage of having the first field back- field in opposition to the Connaught team composed almost entirely of lineman players. Hence success was practically ensured. However, Connaught made a good comeback in that they seemed to specialize in the performance of tricky pass-interception technique.