Grantham High School - Olympian Yearbook (St Catharines, Ontario Canada)

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The Grantham Gators Grantham High School has not been known in the past years as a school that supplies winning football teams to the fall football schedule. This season, however, was a pleasant surprise to the stu- dents and faculty of Grantham and. quite possibly, just a surprise to the other schools. An insufficient number of warm bodies turned out for the Junior team this year and so the Senior and Junior teams were combined. This combined team, was the best football team that Grantham has ever seen. Using hindsight, the opening game of the schedule with Sir Winston Churchill could be said to be typical of the rest of the sea- son. The defence was the strong part of the Grantham team. Bob Hastings scored a 98 yard touchdown and the gang-tackling of the defensive team, along with the blitzing by Orrin Devries, Tom Lockhart, Ron Friesen. and Al Loroque held Churchill to 15 yards rushing and 5 completions in 19. Quarterback Geoff Brown finished off the job with a lot of help from John Sciamonte, Mike Eamshaw and George Chuchman. The close winning score (14-13) was in no way indicative of play. Again in the Collegiate game, the defense led the way for the 8-0 win. Bob Bryers, Ron Friesen, Nick Tymoszewicz, and John Harris, led the way for the defense, which caught the Collegiate offense again and again behind the line of scrimmage for a total loss of 25 yards. Wayne Dick and Mike Eamshaw, accounted for the points in the game. Eamshaw got the first point in the second quarter when he punted for a point. A 38 yard end sweep touch- down by Dyck and Earnshaw ' s conversion finished the scoring on the windy field. The defensive team was again very much in the picture in the team ' s third consecutive win (13-6) over Thorold. Ron Friesen scored the first touchdown by picking up a fumble on the two yard line. Brian Ashfield scored the second when he intercepted a pass in the last quarter. One of Mike Earnshaw ' s booming punts (40 yds.) accounted for the single point. Reg Baraniuk, Bob Bryers, Mike Dwyer, and Al Lorocque were some of the people who accounted for Thorold only gained 3 yards rushing. Grantham ' s fourth win was 21-0 over Merriton. Mike Earnshaw scored nine points in this game. The first point came on a 45 yd. punt into the end zone. His touchdown went from the 5 yd. line. The last two points were other punts into the end zone, and a convert. Eric Lepp scored the second touchdown early in the second half. Quarterback Geoff Brown threw a perfect pass to John Sciamonte who had no trouble getting over the line. The first Niagara District g jme can be summed up in one line from Craig Swayze ' s write-up: A return match and they couldn ' t find a big enough stadium. Niagara won by an 18-13 score and had to come from behind to do it. Eric Lepp and Mike McNulty scored the two touchdowns on passes from Geoff Brown and Mike Earnshaw ' s convert made it 13-6 at half-time. Penalties hurt the Grantham team con- siderably (75 yards to N.D. ' s 25). The fine line play with Nick Tymoszewicz, Tom Lockhart, and Ron Friesen going both ways opened many holes for backs, Eamshaw and Brian Browne. This game was a good preview of the second meeting of the two schools for the championship. The Dennis Morris game was played in mud and snow and it seems as if the Mud Bowl is a particularly apt name for the annual D.M. -Grantham clash. Grantham won the game 8-6, scoring the touchdown on a pass and run play from Q.B. Brown to Sciamonte who craftily waited until he was tackled before he lateraled to Eric Lepp who ran for a 60 yd. touchdown. George Chuchman sent a 53 yd. punt into the end zone which, along with Mick Earnshaw ' s wide field goal attempt accounted for the eight points. The Lakeport game ended the schedule with a win for the Gators 28-19. George Chuchman got the first touchdown and Mike Earnshaw not only got the convert, but kicked the ball from the fifty-five yard line so deep that a rouge ensued and the score was 8-0 . Eamshaw ' s touchdown and convert made it 15-0 . Dave Snider then blocked a punt and Orin Devries grabbed it on the run for a 57 yd. touchdown (21-0). Geoff Brown went over the line with a quarterback keep and the score was 27-13. With Mike Eamshaw ' s 66 yd. punt into touch made the game 28-13. Niagara District, Grantham, and S.W.C. wound up in a three-way tie for first place. Unfortunately the sudden-death play-off between the Gators and N.D. went to Niagara District 12-6. The Gators were unable to get on the scoreboard until there was only five minutes left to play. Grantham was in the game all the way. Gray Allen intercepted a pass which he ran back to the 17 yd. line. George Chuchman and Mike Eamshaw did some fine running which set up Chuchman ' s touchdown from the one yard line. Thu s, Grantham had nothing to be ashamed of. They missed the breaks in the final game and it could have gone either way. Their defensive team was recognized as the best in the city. When six members of the senior team were picked to the All-Star Team, it only reinforced this good opinion. Coach Walt Oprzedek, along with Mr. Pat Doherty, was the man who pushed Grantham to the muddy. heights. It was a very good year. ! ty h Larocque Tymoszewicz Dwyer