Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE ASHBURIAN 31 supporters and we had the advantage of already beating them 4-U. The game was fast and furious and was tied at l-l in the first period. with a final score of 2 to I in favour of lfastview. Ashbury advanced to the semi-finals against Nepean, the first team in the XVestern section. 8. Before playing Nepean we met Stanstead on the XYesthill lligh School Soccer field. The pace of this game was slower than most of our games with the only goal being scored in the first few minutes of the game by Cooper on a free kick. Now came the game the team had been waiting on pins and needles for, the semi-finals against Nepean. This game was played at Brewer's Park under almost perfect conditions. The pace of the game was fast and furious and the only goal scored, by Nepean, came after the Ashbury team had been rearranged due to an injury to the center half. The out- come of the game came as a great disappointment both to the team and coach. Even though we lost the game it filled us with determination to do well in our last few games. We then played the annual double-header against Northwood School from Lake Placid, New York. Northwood always puts up a good fight and this year was certainly no exception. In the Hrst game of the double header Ashbury managed to defeat the Lake Placid team 3-0. Two goals were scored in the first half one each by Mcflaughey and Riddell. McGaughey scored again to round out the scoring. After resting our aches and pains for a night, we again took the field against Northwood. It looked as if this game was going to end in a scoreless tie, however, with just five minutes remaining McGaughey recovered the ball just over half way, dribbled through the whole North- wood defence and put the ball and the goalie in the net. This was the first time since Ashbury and Northwood have played that Ashbury has swept a doubleheader and the team was understandably proud of itself. To take some of our self assurance away Mr. Anderson arranged a game against Carleton University. Ashbury won the toss and took the end with the wind and field advantage. This proved to be our XYaterloo as Carleton scored three goals against us when we had the advantages. yet in the second half when they had the advantages they could not score, unfortunately neither could we. The Hnal score was 3-O for Carleton. Then came the game against Bishops, this game was played at Bishops in detestable conditions, as it either rained or snowed all the way through the game. For the first half the play was mostly for us and the score after the first half was 1-1. The play in the second half was com- pletely dominated by Ashbury as the team scored five unanswered goals.

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30 v 3. 4. 5 6. 7. THE ASHBURIAN the game and so, it was reinforced with Messrs. Anderson and Han- cock and last year's captain Rusty Davidson. This was a hard fought game, with Ashbury coming from behind twice to even the score and having a very debatable goal disallowed. However, as usual experience triumphed over youth, the final score was 3-2. Hancock and Riddell tallied for Ashbury. The second game of the year was a league game against Ridgemont High School. The team having played Ridgemont before knew it would have to be in its top form to beat this relatively inexperienced but full-of-drive team. The Hrst half of the game was indecisive with the action being split evenly, however right from the face off in the second half Ridgemont's offence surged through our defence and scored. There was no further scoring until half way in the period when two quick goals, one by Johnston, the other by Cooper salted the game away for Ashbury. The team's next game was another league game, this time against Hillcrest. This was really a pushover for Ashbury, and conditions kept the score from being a lot higher. McGaughey collected Ashbury's two goals. XVe played an exhibition game against Eastview on Ashbury ground 2 days after our last game. The outcome of the game was very surprising to our coach Mr. Anderson who had picked us to lose. Again Ashbury dominated the play for most of the game. Mc- Gaughey scored all four of our goals, two in each half. XVe travelled next to Kemptville for a game against the Kemptville Agricultural School. Last year we had soundly defeated this team and the knowledge of this plus the overconfidence bred by our good start this year almost led to our downfall. Kemptville had im- proved immensely since last year and held us to a 3-2 victory which we had to fight like grim death to hold on to. McGaughey again scored all three goals. After our mediocre showing against Kemptville, Mr. Anderson had drilled us a bit harder than usual for our league game against Rideau. XVe had suffered a humiliating defeat to Rideau last year and the members of last year's team now had a chance to revenge themselves. They took the chance, defeating Rideau 6-0. After scoring five goals in the first half Mr. Anderson gave some younger boys a chance to play for the second half. The goal scorers were McGaughey with four, Riddell and Birou with each singletons. Now came the big game of the year, the game against Eastview which would decide who came first in our section of Ottawa. They had the advantage of playing on their own ground backed by their

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,3 THE ASHBURIAN The goal scorers were McGaughey with 3, Johnston, Riddell and Birou with singletons. Now came the Qfriendly?j game against the masters. Even though the masters had outside help, their rheumatism and arthritis brought about by old age kept the game from being close. McGaughey and Riddell scored for Ashbury and Mr. Batts managed somehow to put the ball in the net for the masters. In the last game of the season against the Old Boys, the team was determined to put up a good fight. This game was a good game as far as we were concerned as we defeated the old boys to the tune of 5-2, as well as having three goals called back. The goal scorers were Mc- Gaughey with 2, Johnston, Birou and Riddell with singletons. The season was capped off with the Sports' Dinner at which the following awards were given. Most Valuable Player went to Daniel N'IcGaughey for his outstanding play during the year, Most Improved player to Brian Johnston, Colours were reawarded to McGaughey and Cooper, and new colours were awarded to Mulaner, Riddell, Johnston and Zaporski. lst SOCCER RESULTS O.Y.C.C. 3-2 Lost Home Ridgemont 2-1 Won Home Hillcrest 2-0 Won Home Eastview 4-0 Won Home Kemptville 3-2 Won Away Rideau 6-0 Won Home Eastview 2-1 Lost Away Sitanstead 1-0 Won Away Nepean 1-0 Lost Away Northwood 3-0 Won Home Northwood 1-0 Won Home Carleton 3-0 Lost Away Bishops 6-1 Won Away Masters and Staff 2-1 Won Home Old Boys 5-2 Won Home SCORING STATISTICS The Team Y rs. on Team Position Goals Dan McGaughey CCapt.D 5 C,F, 23 B. Cooper CV. Capt.D 3 C.H. 2 Birou 2 R,W, 3 Collyer 1 R.I. 0 Johnston 2 L,VV, 3 Leving l L.I-I. 0 Livingstone 1 R,H, 0 Mulancr 2 G. 0 Riddell 2 RJ, 6 Roberts 1 R,D, 0 Schwartznian 2 R,H, 0 Taschereau 1 LI-I, 0 Zaporslci 3 R11 0