Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute - Acta Nostra Yearbook (Guelph, Ontario Canada)

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I 08 ACTA NOSTRA 115' 5 1 . in x. liliivfiill ' .ll .mia Quan? The Board of EducaTion for The CiTy of Guelph The Chairman and TrusTees of The Guelph Board oT EclucaTion wish To congraTulaTe The graduaTing class OT The Guelph CollegiaTe-VocaTional lnsTiTuTe '57 upon The success- Tul compleTion of Their courses. We lcnow ThaT you are anoTher class OT which The insTiTuTion may iusTiTiably be proud and our besT wishes Tor Tulure success and prosperiTy go wiTh you. We would also like To Tender our congraTulaTions To The ediTors oT AcTa NosTra upon The publicaTion oT anoTher volume which will provide iTs owners wiTh much enioymenT by recalling old memories oT pleasanT inTerludes and associ- aTions aT The Guelph CollegiaTe-VocaTional lnsTiTuTe,

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quarter trailed 45-40. The E.C.l. squad then shot ahead by 10 points only to have Guelph rally to within 5 points to make the final score read 56-51. Paul Booth. Skip Letheren and Frank Forster put in a trio of eleven points, while Merv. Bolton tallied nine. SENIOR BASKETBALL TEAM - 1956-57 MERV BOLTON-Merv is our big centre who can sink the ones that count. As goes Merv, so goes the team, and judging by the latter's success he had a great year. DICK NORTONwThis year's captain, Dick is the take-charge man , on the floor and cer- off. His aggressiveness and ball sense tainly pulled many a game out of the fire. FRANK FORSTER-An all-around ath- lete, Frank really came into his own this year. He patrolled right forward for the team. From this position he astounded many with his deadly one-handers . SKIP LETHEREN- Skip is the type of player who takes full advantage of every break. His several high-scoring efforts from left forward were ample proof of this. Skip should be a big gun in another champion- ship bid. PAUL BOOTH-The number five man on the team, Paul played left guard this year. He supplemented his lack of experience at this position with a true desire to win at all times. RALPH KLINCK - Ralph was our all- important utility player, whose excellent play this year gives promise of ever better things to come. No one will forget his spec- tacular shots that seemed to go in from every conceivable position on the court. LARRY WESSMAN - Larry is our big guard just up from Junior ball who should be a growing concern to the opposition next year. He rebounds well and can cer- tainly get his share of points, A strong link in next year's plans. DICK GUEST-When he's hot there's no stopping Dick Guest. His 26 point effort against John F. Ross was the season's high for a local player. He is also a very per- sistent checker. BOB MCVITTIE-Bob is the needler of the team. When he checks a man, that man just won't score points. Bob is returning next year to fill his position of guard again. DENNIS TESKEY- The Menace is a real comer. He can sink those jump shots and should be the apple of coach Burnett's eye in a short time. NOEL COULING-Noel channelled his talents this year to the basketball world and he does a good job at that too! A football player of some renown, he is another block in the building programme for next year. JACK BURNETT tCoach1fMr. Burnett is an awfully nice guy who gave us all he had and all he knew. He is the unsung hero of the team's success story this year. It was a ACTA NOSTRA IO7 great day for us when he left the O.A.C. athletic department to come to G.C.V.I. JACK MCGEE-Our tireless manager. Jack filled his capacity well by being subjected to all the dirty jobs , but his work was certainly appreciated by all the members of the team. -Paul Booth JUNIOR BASKETBALL GAMES 1I.R.L.1 PAULINE JOHNSON AT GUELPH A bit too much height and experience ac- counted for P.J.'s 22 point margin of victory over the Junior Gaels. However. the Juniors showed sparks of brilliance and promise of wins to come. Brian Ruddy was the high scorer for Guelph. Score 57-35. GUELPH AT EASTWOOD The Juniors put on a brilliant display of basketball winning by the convincing score of 52-33. They controlled the play most of the time and ended the half with a 14 point lead. Buddy Rogers 1191, Brian Ruddy 1181, and Art Birk 485 took care of most of the scoring. GUELPH AT KITCHENER Both teams blew hot and cold, blanking each other for about 10 points, and then getting whitewashed by the same margin. However, the Guelph team managed to eke out a 20-17 lead at half time and build it up to 35-27 victory. Buddy Rogers with 15 points and Art Birk with 10, sparked the team on to its second victory in a row. J. F. ROSS AT GUELPH Fear of losing this game to our inter-city rivals and the constant juggling of lines kept the score low as the Juniors won over J. F. Ross 39-16. The Ross men worked a weave that mystified Guelph, but erratic shooting spoiled their chances for points. Art Birk was top pointer, sinking 13 points. GUELPH AT GALT The Juniors dropped their second game of the season to a determined Galt squad that was aided a great deal by the smallness of the Galt gym. Down 9-0 at the first, the Gaels fought back to a 30-17 deficit. How- ever, in the third quarter they got to within three points of Galt but were beaten back so that the final score read 57-49. Birk and Ruddy led the team with 16 points apiece. BRANTFORD AT GUELPH The Gaels turned back the Brantmen in fine fashion 54-46. Outscoring their oppon- ents in every quarter except the last, the Juniors led 11-10 at quarter and 22-18 at half. The third quarter saw Guelph outscore Brantford 18-9 while the Brants outscored the Gaels 19-14 in the final quarter. Buddy Rogers whipped in 19 points, while Brian Ruddy hopped 15 points followed by Art Birk with 10.

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PLAYOFFS GUELPH AT PAULINE JOHNSON Although the Gaels outscored the P.J. team 14-10 in the second quarter and 10-9 in the final, they dropped the game 49-42. P.J. hopped into a 14-12 lead in the first and 16-6 in the third. Brian Ruddy potted 10 points while Al Fox and Art Birk. with 7 and 8 respectively, followed. THE JUNIOR BASKETBALL LINEUP TOM ANDERSON A Andy was always looking into the stands to try to find his girl friends but in between he managed to hoop a few points. ART BIRK-Long, tall Louie was always under the basket rebounding and shooting. Everyone will remember the grin on Art's face when he sank two foul shots in a row. LARRY COHEN-Larry was one of the hard-working guards who lugged the ball up the floor. Larry didn't score too often, but when he did he was spectacular. JOHN EADIE-John didn't even bother to go into his opponents' half of the floor to score. He just set his sights and let go. JIM FARLEY-Jim and Al Fox often for- got that they weren't playing football. but Jim made it interesting when he took the ball up court with Tom Anderson shouting Dive! Dive! AL FOX-Al really summed up the season when at half time in the last game he pant- ed, I'm all tired out from all this rumming about! I mean running about! BROCK GRANT-Brock was the other cloud-breather on the team besides Art. Brock polished himself up and was coming along quite nicely at the end of the season. BRUCE MCINTOSH-If you were quietly shooting in practice and something knocked the ball out of your hand, would you look into the face of a gremlin or goblin? No, you would look into Bruce's laughing eyes. JOHN ROGERS-Buddy always was Mr. McFadden's prime example of how not to pass. However, despite difficulties like this. Buddy made many of his passes and quite a few of his shots. MURRAY ROSS-Murray never seemed to miss shooting all the impossible shots and he never seemed to miss sinking them. BRIAN RUDDYfBrian was our captain and most consistent player. Brian never . . ACTA NOSTRA I09 seemed to stop moving or shouting encour- agement to the other fellows. EDWARD WOODS - Ted was a real smoothie and the only way you could check him in practice was to talk about girls-any girls. Besides this, Ted always scored bas- kets. MR. MCFADDEN-Coach was always tak- ing the ball and making an impossible shot tlike a hook shot under the legi, And of course he always got ribbed when he failed to make it. INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL GRADE IX In Grade IX basketball IXGH emerged champs with IXEF as runners-up. Co-cap- tained by Alvin Pembleton of IXG and Dave Flowers of IXH the team consisted of Pembleton, Flowers, Hawkins. Vickers, Fos- ter. Dodds, Suitter and Sullivan. GRADE X In a two game total point series XB de- feated XF by decisive victories of 11-4 and 18-6. The team was captained by Lionel Ward and managed by Doug McCorkindale. Other team members were Howard Kelly. John Keeling. Gary Couling, John Mac- Arthur, Grant Ferris, Wayne Pearson. John Snoddy and Heiti Jaason. GRADE XI Grade XI basketball produced real interest this year when XIC protested its final game. won by XIAB-12-3, on the grounds of poor refereeing. The protest held and the final game. refereed by Buddy Rodgers and Skip Letheren, both experienced along this line. saw XIC emerge victorious with a 14-3 win over hapless XIAB. Other team members were Strachan. El- liott, Reader, Richardson, Davis and Wyse. GRADE XII AND XIII With five wins and no losses Mrs, Goheen's XIIIA boys brought her great laurels in XII and XIII basketball. Decisive victories such as their 17-4 win over XIIAB and their 22-8 victory over XIID left no doubt as to who were champs. The senior team captained by Bob Wallace consisted of Pete Colley, Joe Bernardi. George lDincb Jamieson, Jim Button, Bill Rowan. Jim Davis, Paul Koch and George Sloan. -John Maclntyre XIID 8701! M 'I-I: gal o V 1 a U J