Gordon Bell High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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(Ba kjdbalL The Senior team started competi¬ tion this year during the Christmas holidays in the St. James Invita¬ tional Tournament. They defeated Silver Heights in their first game and this enabled them to advance to the final. Unfortunately though, they lost to St. James by a narrow margin of four points. During the season they played several other exhibition games against Vincent Massey and Westwood winning all of them. In the league they began by beat¬ ing Grant Park by a decisive margin. They lost to Daniel Mac and St. John’s but came back strongly in the latter part of the league to defeat Churchill, Elm¬ wood, Kelvin, Sisler and Tec-Voc. This record of six wins and two losses gave them a tie for second place. The Senior team would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Morton for all the time and effort she put in coaching us. (JimwA. (BaAksdbalL Jqjcwl This year the girls’ junior basket¬ ball team started the season by losing an exhibition game against Miles MacDonell’s combined junior and senior team. We then began our schedule with a loss against Grant Park by a slim margin of four points. We failed to win our second game at Daniel Mac., but continued on to defeat Churchill 29-10. Pro¬ ceeding through the schedule, we played against Elmwood and St. John’s and were victorious. With raised spirits we met Kelvin and Tec-Voc, but were unsuccessful in defeating either team. This com¬ pleted the season. We would like to take this oppor¬ tunity to thank Miss Johnson for her help at the beginning of the year and to give special thanks to Miss Morton for teaching and coach¬ ing us during the season. 58

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(JaA ih (JolkijbalL For the second time in as many years G.B. has entered a team in the volleyball tournament. This year Gordon Bell hosted the tour¬ ney. Eight teams divided into two divisions took part. In their first game G.B. was matched against Elmwood. Inability to spike cost Gordon the game and they ended up on the short end of a 15-6 score. Next day Gordon was matched against Grant Park and Kelvin. Flawless play at the net and desire proved to be a tonic and G.B. beat Grant Park 15-8 and 15-1. Although Elmwood had won the division Gordon took the floor and beat Kelvin 15-3 and 15-9. It seems too bad that the one bad game that the boys played cost them a spot in the playoffs. Congratulations to Mr. Mutchmor and the boys for a job well done. JhsL SwiwL tfluJb A meeting was held in the fall and the response was so great that the Swim Club was forced to split up into two sections. Joe Mitchell was re-elected for a second year as over-all President of the Swim Club. Under Joe in the Senior High divi¬ sion was Allan Dahlberg, President and Clayton J. Yeo, Vice-President, while in the Junior High Division Carolyn Cooper was elected Presi¬ dent and Motria Haywoski, Vice- President. A great deal of thanks must go to the sponsoring teachers of the Swim Club. These are: Mrs. Macintosh, Mrs. Babcock, Mrs. Brown, Miss LaBarge, Miss Johnson, Mr. Brady and Mr. Moore. A vote of thanks is directed to Ted Cowton who gave up a great deal of his time to help instruct the Junior High members unable to We trust the smooth operations of the Club will continue in future years. 57

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Qwuia. (JnUsujbalL The junior girls’ volleyball team was coached this year by Miss Morton, a new-comer to Gordon Bell. The first game of the season was played against Tec-Voc, who beat out Gordon Bell, 49-40. Losing this game, Gordon was determined to win the next game, in which they beat Churchill High school, 64-45. Still determined to win, they beat out Daniel McIntyre, 44-42, but were not so fortunate in the next game in which Elmwood High won, 52-47. With a stroke of bad luck they lost to Sisler and Kelvin, also. In winding up the season, the girls defeated Grant Park High and St. John’s Tec. On behalf of the team, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Morton for all of her time and effort which she put into coaching this group of girls. SsmifA, SviIa! (JolhijhcdL This year the Senior girls’ volley¬ ball team got off to an early start around the middle of September. The first few weeks of practice were outside when the weather permitted and also at Mulvey. All of the home games were played at Mulvey because the new gym was not completed in time. Most of the league games were scheduled double-headers along with the Junior team. In their first encounter they were defeated by Tec-Voc but redeemed themselves by winning over Churchill, Kelvin and Grant Park. However, they had to concede a heart-breaking defeat to Sisler in their next game. Against Daniel MacIntyre and St. John’s the girls displayed some fine teamwork and were victorious in both contests. Unfortunately, they lost to a hard fighting Elmwood team and thus were excluded from the play-offs. On behalf of the team. I would like to thank Miss Morton for such an able coaching job with this group of girls. 59