Danforth Technical School - Tech Tatler Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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TECH THTLER ABOVE: Danforth's City Gymnastics Champions LOWER LEFT: A glance at the Field Day March Past LOWER RIGHT: The 1949 Senior Basketball Squad

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50 TECH TFITLER THE BOY HND THE GHTTTE GYMNASTICS Number one spot for the '48-49 local sports picture must go to the Danforth Tech Gymnastics team. Coaches VVendorf and Crighton pushed them through to the T. S.- S.A.A. Championship and possession of the coveted Don Barton Memorial Trophy. W'e should emphasize here the extraordinary physical-cultural value of gymnas- tics. Combining as it does the timing, co-ordination and balance of diving, the competitive thrill of a track meet, the deftness of fencing, and the muscle-building qualities of weight-lifting, gymnastics produces an all-round physical development that is a perfect foundation not only for all other sports but for adult life itself. Not enough credit can be given the P.T. instructors responsible for the tremendous comeback staged by gymnastics here in our east end bailiwickg from nothing they have within a period of three years produced Toronto's top squad. All kinds of credit, too, to the hard-working team members whose persistent prac- tice has produced such splendid results. Earl Pfaff is senior member of the outfit and three times winner of the Phillips Shieldg Don Bartle is a natural gymnast who makes the most difficult movements look easyg Lorne Mawhinney runs through the movements with unrivalled smoothness and graceg Dick Hales excels particu- larly on the high barg and VVarrington Ellicott, who last year came through to cap- ture the junior city title. concocts apparently impossible movements to prove a tower of strength to the squad competitively. f RUGBY NVhi1e we hit the jackpot in gymnastics this year, we had to be content with making a good showing in football. An exceptionally young junior outfit marched courageously through the season without a single win to console them. 'We feel certain that the intestinal fortitude they so abundantly displayed in getting out there, week after week, and taking it on the chin should stand them in goofl stead in rugby next year and in life always. As a tribute to their season's work wt- feel that we can really appropriately quote Grantland Rice's famous VVhen the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, l-Te writes not that you won or lost But how you played the game. The Seniors. while they failed to make the city semi-finals. had quite a contrast- ing record. Sparked by experienced players like Clive Bynoe, Ken Slobod, Ken Lye, Bill Calder, Don Bartle, and Bill Dimoff thev won three of their five tussles. A jittery opener against Tarvis set them behind the well-known eight ball right at the beginning of the '48 campaign. A strong, hard-charging line and a smooth-fund tioning backfield then carried the Red and XVhite to one-sided whitewash victories against Lawrence Park, Malvern, and North Toronto, only to blow an early lead in the final set-to against Parkdale and pass out of the 1948 play-off picture. CROSS-COUNTRY The Annual Danforth Tech Cross-Countrv Run held October 21 provided an ex- cellent springboard for our entries in the T.S.S.A.A. 1948 championships. The local event took our boys over a course which provided a good enough mingling of flat and hill country to be a real test of stamina. Irwin Ledlie repeated his triumph of '47 to take the senior laurels with Hugh Quance and Allan Nicholson close on

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