Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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 FIRST SOCCER TEAiM First row — left to right: Jackson, Grimsdale, Abbott, Ricci Centre row: Younger I, Clark II, Schacher, Urbanowicz, Majoli Rear row: Heney I, Mr. Drayton, Clark I (Captain), Dalrymple SOCCER, 1949 THIS YEAR the Ashbury soccer XI played three games against Sedbergh School. The first game played at Ashbury ended with no score for either team. The two teams seemed to be evenly matched, first one team having the advantage and then the other. The Ashbury team was handicapped to some extent due to the size of their forward line. However, though much smaller than the Sed- bergh line, they put up a good fight— as can be seen from the result of the game. The two teams were served refreshments in the school dining-room after the game. For the second game Sedbergh played hosts to Ashbury. This game, like the first, seemed as though it would end with no score, but in the last half Pete Kirby broke through the Ashbury defence and scored, making the final score 1-0 for Sedbergh. At the suggestion of Kirby, the Sedbergh captain, it was decided to play a short game,