Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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24 THE ASI-IBURIAN High School League Games In a home-and-home series with each of the other three teams in the Division, Ashburv easily outscored both Eastview and Commerce. XVith Gloucesterf a new team in the League last year, the story was different. In the first contest at Ashbury grounds, Gloucester, with assistance from penalties which all but nullified Ashbury gains, brought the vaunted Green Machine to a virtual halt. Evidently well-briefed on the power running of twin fullbacks Rawley and IVennberg, and warned about the Chantler-Berry end-to- endn pass play which had accounted for three touchdowns in the team's first two games, the Gloucester defence gave little ground. Then, with Ashbury contained, Gloucester capitalized with a held goal and three singles to provide the winning 6-O margin and hand the Ashburians their only League defeat of the season. The return game, which the team and the coach had anxiously awaited, was played on a soggy Gloucester Held. At stake in this final League contest was sole possession of first place. A victory for the Gloucester squad would ease them into a tie with Ashbury for top spot. On the first play from scrimmage, Allmark at quarterback, rolling out behind good blocks thrown by XVennberg, Berry and Gamble, pitched the ball to Rawley who was 20 yards deep on the sideline and who then out-slogged surprised Gloucester defenders to complete the spectacular 90-yard TD play. IVhile the Spunky Gloucester-men bounced back with a TD and a single, unrelenting efforts by the Ashbury defence finally wore them down. Big Shoup, up from the Seconds and playing only his second game with the team, was a defensive standout. His ample 6'5 frame filled the centre of the line and with his long reach he snared many a ballcarrier in the Gloucester backfield. To wrap up the game, XIcPhail, filling in at fullback for the injured Rawley, bulldozed over the goal line giving Ashbury its winning 12-7 margin. ln the Intermediate League Semi-Final Playoff, held the week fol- lowing the final Gloucester contest, Ashbury suffered its only decisive defeat of the 1964-65 season. i Showing an almost unbelievable improvement over their September effort 11g2lll1Sf Ashbury in the Pigskin Parade, St. .Ioseph's of the IYestern Division blanked the team 39-O. Exbilzitimz Games Ashbury came up with its most spectacular effort of the season against Stanstead on the I,.C.C. grounds in Montreal. It is doubtful that

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FIRST FOOTBALI . TICAXI Bavlc Rout R. N. Tifft, R. Dodds, ll. A. Shaw, A. ll. Xlacdougall, Xl. lfxans, P. Castonguay, R. P. XVennberg. Third Row: j. P. Dawson, I-I. B. lfwing, S. Xl. Chance, l.. O'Brien, XY. -I. Hogarth, P. E. NlacPhail, B. G. Allmark, R. B. McNair, R. B. Sourham. Second Row: J. Nl. Cotton, R. S. Chantler, B. Berry, Vice-Capt., K. H. Rawley, Capt., A. XV. Anderson, Vice-Capt., A. P. Gamble, T. L. MacDonald. lfrom Rofw: G. R. Benskin, F. A. Ault, F. P. Ford, ID. rl. .XlcQuaig, UI. Steenbakl-zers, L. V. NlcAninch. Absevltz Xl. Vickers, Llsq., Coach, XY. Southam. FIRST FOOTBALL A divisional crown in Ottawa high school competition, along with the league's scoring title won by Captain Kim Rawley, were among laurels reaped by a well-balanced, if not deep, Ashbury First Football Team last fall. Coasting to top spot in the Eastern Division Intermediate rankings with a 5 and 1 record, Ashbury, in only its second year of League action. scored an impressive total of 128 points in six games while limiting op- ponents to 26. Rawley, a two-way standout at offensive fullback and defensive corner-back over the entire season, ran away with the league scoring title. IYith a total of 54 points on nine touchdowns during the six-game schedule, he was 30 points up on his nearest competitor. In League play Ashbury boasted an average game-offense of 20 points, with Rawley contributing an average of nine of these. De- fensively, Ashbury topped all teams in the three Ottawa Leagues. allow- ing an average of only four points per game. However, while faring well in League play the team sutfered a mysterious letdown in the high school playotf and was subjected to a severe drubbing. Against Stanstead, Bishops, and the Old Boys, Ash- bury missed victory by a narrow margin.

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THE .-ISIIBURI.-IN ZY an Ashbury football team has ever fought so hard, . . . or with such vigour. The match was a tremendous two-way battle with Cotton, Berry, Chantler, NlcPhail and Rawley leading hostilities. Along the line, tackles Anderson and Gamble along with centre Cotton, played outstanding football against a Stanstead front wall which outweighed the Ashburians by more than 20 pounds per man. Castonguay and Allmark, alternating at quarterback, directed an effective attack, running Rawley off tackle and on tight end-sweeps, and passing short to Berry, Chantler and Chance. Carrying what appeared to be a safe seven-point lead into the final quarter, the team was jolted when Stanstead registered a quick TD and convert to tie the score. Finally, on the game's last play, Stanstead, within punting range, kicked for a tie-breaking single. In a tense moment for Ashbury, Nlc- Quaig fielded the ball and returned the punt out of the end zone, ap- parently saving the day. However, a roughing call against Ashbury gave Stanstead the oppor- tunity to try once again for the tie-breaking point. This time they made no mistake. XVhile Castonguay returned the kick, the oflicials ruled Stanstead had punted the ball over the deadline in the short LCC end zone, thus earning the point and a 13-12 decision. It was a tired Ashbury team, fresh from its final League victory over Gloucester, which met Bishop's at Lennoxville. After a good shiowing in the Hrst half, Ashbury wilted visibly in the second. lfntering the final 30 minutes with a TD lead, the team gave up a single and a TD which provided Bishops with the winning one-point lead and a I+-I3 victory. In the dying minutes, Castonguay, connecting with Berry and Chantler, masterminded a comeback which just fell short as time ran ollt. The Hnal game of the season was played against the Old Boys. Hardly an inspired performance, it was won by the Old Boys, 6-0, with the coach receiving his lumps on the Ashbury line. All things considered, it was a satisfactory season. Though the team displayed a puzzling 'will to lose' in the playoff with St. .Ioseph's when a win was a 'must', the same attitude fortunately did not prevail during the regular season. ln fact, quite to the contrary. the team built and maintained a solid unity and 'esprit'. ALLMARK: Barry's accurate passing was a great asset to the Ashbury offence. His negative attitude and lack of confidence, however, often hindered both his and the team's play. AU1.'r: A popular team member, arrived from Nepean too late to compete in League games, but in the exhibitions he made up for it with solid play at his guard and inside linebacker positions.