Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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311 THE ASHBURIAN mond made sure of the game by blazing a shot which defiected in off an llastview defender. Exactly a week later we encountered Rideau H.S. in our first League game. Our team won this game by 2-0, with Raymond and Birou scoring. The highlights of this game were not the goals scored, but the goals that should have been scored as innumerable opportunities were missed. Dave Nlulaner registered his first shutout of the season. On Oct. 3 we played against Chateaugay, a High School from Mon- treal. lYe got off to a brisk start, Collyer scoring on a corner kick at the ten-minute mark. Ashbury sustained its strong attack and kept Chateaugay penned in its own half. Collyer scored on a cut-in to complete the half's scoring. In the second half our confidence took the sharpness from the defence, and as a result the play was more evenly divided. Mulaner had to make some dazzling saves to cover up for some equally dazzling defensive errors. Despite these lapses Ashbury, or rather Collyer, scored again to make the final score 3-0. Collyer scored the season's first hat trick and Dave Mulaner earned a well-deserved second shutout. Ashbury's next league game was against Gloucester, a team which had entered the league this year for the first time. lf there had been better weather instead of freezing temperatures and snow, we might have enjoyed this game as we won it 9-O. Ashbury scorers were led by Ray- mond with four goals, and singles were earned by Birou, Cooper, Collyer, Taschereau and Kambona. Nlulaner registered his third shutout. On Oct. 15 we played Eastview again, this time in a League game. The team rose admirably to the occasion winning 3-O, and thus assuming sole possession of first place in our division. Koussaya scored all three of the Ashbury goals, becoming the second Ashbury player to do so this season, and Xlulaner recorded his fourth consecutive shutout. The following Saturday the team played against Stanstead, which was one of the best Quebec HS. teams. Ashbury once again got off to a brisk start, with Raymond scoring a few minutes after the opening face-off. From then on Ashbury was kept scoreless for the rest of the half due to its own ineptness. Right off the second-half face-off lioussaya scored a fast goal, which caused everyone to become com- placent. Stanstead came back with a fast goal, and its offence gave Ash- bury a few anxious moments around the goalmouth. However, Ray- mond salted the game away for the team by scoring his second goal of the game. Our last League game outside the playoffs, was against Lisgar H.S. The team couldn't get started in this game. Mid-way through the game, Lisgar scored a picture goal. This aroused us from our complacency and within one minute we had tied the score. From that point on, even

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Eiwm M' 3' H- at W 355 ,, ' Z :gfa-511931117911 iii V. W Q... ' f A ETL! ' Wil-ima 0 71 ' ,D g vit '-1534 '22 'tg fb 03,5222 C, FIRST SOCCFR TITAN! Bark Ro-ze: l. C. Alaclienzie, Ci. Raymond, Al. Birou. IJ. ul. Xlulaner. j. .l. Read. I. Xl. Levine, H. Parker, R. j. Anderson, lfsq., Coach. Front Row: R. A. Koussaya, A. B. Kambona. C. l.. Collyer, B. j. Cooper. Capt. Xl. A. Taschereau, Yice-Capt., G. B. Livingstone. A. Patton, j. G. Xlacl-aren. FIRST SOCCIQR The First Team had a fine season this year winning nine games. tying two and losing four. lt advanced as far as the City Championship in its League and even though it lost that game, it has nothing to be ashamed of as its record shows. The First Eleven started its season with the Annual Ciame against the Ottawa Valley Cricket Club and was once again shown that experi- ence, plus ball control and skill at play-making will defeat conditioning plus enthusiasm, as we were defeated 2-l. However, the play of the team was encouraging as it showed that we were beginning to think and trying to play good soccer. Birou tallied once against O.Y.C.C. to spoil their shutout. We then played in an exhibition game against our toughest oppo- nent in the Eastern Division from last year, liastview. Our team func- tioned as a single unit in this game and aside from a few errors. caused by our enthusiasm and inexperience, played well. Cooper opened the scoring on a free kick. llis goal was shortly followed by Collyer's. which was scored during a scramble in front of the net. lfastview scored once in the first half, and opened the scoring in the second half to tie the game. This was the spark that set Ashbury on fire and from there on it dominated the play. scarcely allowing lfastview In clear the ball from its own end. Cooper scored from a penalty kick. and Ray-

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THE .-ISHBURIAN 31 though we completely dominated the play, we didn't score, as through over-eagerness we shot poorly. Then the team travelled to Northwood School, Lake Placid, to play our annual double-header. XYe lost the first game 4-2 because we were out-hustled by the Northwood team. Raymond and Patton scored our goals. In the second game we also went down to defeat to the score of 3-2, Koussaya and Raymond, scoring and all we can do now is wait until next year. After this catastrophe we played Rideau l ligh School in the quarter- finals of our League's playoffs. XYe were determined to win this game to make up for .our poor showing at Northwood, and we did. Cooper opened the scoring on a penalty kick and Raymond and Koussaya added single counters to the score. Nlulaner made his fifth shutout of the year. With this victory We advanced to the semi-finals against Nepean. This was a rough, hard-fought game. Birou, back in our forward line after suffering a broken nose in the Hrst game at Northwood, scored the game's only goal, to give us victory and a berth in the final against Technical H.S. Before we played Tech in the Hnal we had a game against Bishop's. The winner of this game receives the Governor's Cup, and we won it for the fourth consecutive year - every year since it has been awarded - by defeating Bishop's 3-0. Our Hrst goal was scored by Raymond in the first half, and the other two were scored during the second half by Birou and Cooper. The big game was against Technical for the City Champion- ships. The team played well but not well enough, as we were defeated 3-0. To be fair to the team, it must be said that two of the goals were against the run of play, that leaves one goal, however, and that one goal was enough to defeat us. After this great disappointment the team had to play the Old Boys the next day. Hopelessly dashed by our defeat at Tech's hands, we couldn't rise to the occasion and were defeated l-0. Our last game of the season was against the Xlasters, and to save them from loss of face we allowed them to tie us 3-3 this year. The First Eleven goals were scored by Cooper who had two, and Koussaya. For the Masters, Mr. Batts scored twice and Mr. Anderson once. This game, which is an annual fixture, was enjoyed by both the players of the teams and the students, who turned out in vast hordes to watch. I would like to express my thanks to the team for the co-operation and spirit that they showed and played with during the year. and would also like to thank, on behalf of the team, our coach Xlr. Anderson. For,