Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW -—— middle of October and contented them- sclves with playing exhibition games for the remainder of the season. The reason, a very sound one, was the great disparity in weight allowed by the league among teams of this class. Although they won no laurels, the Junior High School fielded a fairly ге- presentative aggregation under the able coaching of Rev. Father Breslin, S.J. The Bantams were even more successful. On the whole, High School Football last year scemed to be on the upward trend. The great problem of the past— the problem of proper coaching—was successfully solved. The performance of the Senior squad Mons that. Yet even that was not all that it might have been; a strange kink was uncovered in the final with Westmount. There is no doubt in the mind of this writer that the Loyola team was the better of the two, but they did not have quite the erfection of team-work demonstrated P. their opponents. However, the im- provement shown this усаг has been truly gratifying; let us hope for even reater success in that line for the uture. The hockey season could hardly be termed a huge success, and this through no fault of the teams. For some very obscure reason—or for no reason at all, very feeble interest is evinced in our national sport. The attendance, espe- cially at the Intermediate College games was really pitiable. Often it seemed that there were more players than spectators present. Small wonder, then, du the L.C.A.A. finds the financing of trips a very difficult matter when even the student body will not support their team in this concrete manner. If the brand of hockey displayed were parti- cularly terrible and unexciting, even then we should feel it our duty to en- courage our fellow students who are at least trying. Вис the hockey is not terrible,—it is good. Yet game after game we зее but a few familiar faces, «о well-scattered, and the situation is rapidly becoming worse. Loyola entered a promising team in the Intermediate Intercollegiate Hockey Union, which lost out for sectional honours by its first defeat, at the hands of McGill, after four wins and a tie. The team looked rather weak at the beginning of the season, but came up strongly as their record shows. In the Junior Q.A.H.A. loop at the Forum, Loyola's entry did not fare so well. However, the team was an im- provement on that of last year and the Opposition was rather strong, as seen from the record hung up by the Royals, winners of the league. The Senior High School hockey squad was unable to win any of their league ne a decided improvement was seen ater, however, in four post-season exhibition games in which Loyola came through with three wins and a tie. A Sport Carnival, jointly sponsored by the Alumni Association and the L.C.A.A., was held in the Stadium on October 28th. This was the largest affair of its kind ever held at the College and proved to be quite a drawing card. A less successful raffle was conducted around Christmas time. y» u oy INTERMEDIATE INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL HE Loyola Campus saw the close of the 1932 football season for Loyola on November 19, when the Loyola entry went down to defeat Бс- fore the O.A.C. aggregation from Guelph. This game and one other share honours as the highlights of the season. It will long be remembered as the day that Eo on the worst field ever seen here, met the strongest and smooth- est team in its history. According to many competent observers the Aggies were worthy of Senior rating; to this the Loyola players can abundantly testify. From the first whistle the ТЕ

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Ма Loyola College Athletic M Association the follow- РИ ing officers were elected | to carry on the activities Md for the year 1932-1933: ) President, W. Daly; Vice- Pres., W. Shea; Secretary, G. Burman; Arts Councillors, L. Carroll, E. Gough, G. McGinnis, L. McKenna, and G. Aubut; H. S. Councillors, W. Morley, E. Bronstetter, and W. Holland. Mr. F. McElligott, S.J., was appointed Moderator of the Association. The past season did not bring forth any spectacular successes in any of the various sports. We have no beautiful cups or shields to show for our season’s activities; none the less our teams were far from fa ilures, as a record of their performance shows. In the Intermediate Intercollegiate Football field Loyola again captured sectional honours despite a very dis- couraging start. This should have brought us—since it was our turn to draw the bye as set down in the rotary schedule of the C. I. A. U.—immediately into the Dominion Finals with the winner of the Central-Western Sections. Due to a delay in declaring the winner of the Central section, however, it was decided that the Western Champions should travel to meet Loyola, the Eastern Sectional winners, in a sudden- death playdown. The former team turned out to be the Ontario Agricul- tural College of Guelph, which fielded the most polished Intermediate aggrega- tion ever seen on a Loyola gridiron. Losing to this far superior team by the score of 18-0 was no disgrace, especially since O.A.C. walked through to the Dominion Championship with an over- whelming victory at the expense of Varsity. Our Senior High School team in the Senior Interscholastic Football league was one of the smoothest squads ever to represent Loyola in that division. In the playdowns D'Arcy McGee and West Hill were successively disposed of; this brought the team into the City Finals with Westmount High, in which sudden-death encounter Loyola came off on the short end of an 11-5 score. The Intermediate High School team withdrew from their league about the {52}

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW -+ visitors dominated the play with a heavy line, a fast backfield and a long series of puzzling plays. The fact that Loyola was able to hold the score down to 18-0 is a tribute to the fighting spirit of the men, who refused to throw up the sponge even against such opponents. The other highlight of the season was the final game against Bishops on the local campus. The winner was to be declared Sectional Champions, and В1- shops fielded the strongest team in years. This writer is not alone in the opinion that Bishops, as a football machine, was superior to our own. Loyola's win in that game was due to sheer fight and the жей иы to defeat our ancient rivals from Lennox- ville at any cost, and says much for the spirit of the team. In consideration of that game alone could the team of 1932 validly claim to have maintained the highest traditions of sportsmanship which have become so well established at Loyola. A number of candidates were on hand for early practice before the official opening of the College; on September 15 an even greater number presented them- selves. We were again fortunate in securing the services of Paul Haynes, who kindly consented to act as coach. Too much credit cannot be given this true sportsman for the success of the team, nor can we of the College show sufficient gratitude for the unselfish manner in which he devoted so much of his time to training the men. In general the year was a tolerably successful one. After a very bad start, Loyola came through successfully to clinch the Sectional Championship for the seventh time in nine years. Sept. 24th. C.N.R, (10) at Loyola (0). As was customary in previous years this pre-season game was arranged to enable the coach and players to discover the weaknesses in the team’s play. This year, due to an advance in the date of ee вэ the schedule’s opening, this game caught the team a week earlier in its stride. It could hardly be termed a fair indication of the team’s true strength, since there was time only for a ten- minute signal drill before the game. The CNR. men showed that a team playing the breaks can win a game, costly fumbles by the Loyola ball- catriers paving the way for the C.N.R. points. The kicking of Clem Bucher was the outstanding feature of the Loyola squad, while Bond, Gill and Brown starred for the Nationals. Bond scored a touch on a blocked kick while Gill and Bond shared the remaining five points, making the score at the final whistle 10-0 in favor of C.N.R. Oct. 1st. Loyola (Г) at Bishops (8). For this, the first league game of the season, Loyola travelled to Lennoxville. The team as a whole was an inexperien- ced lot and this, coupled with a far from restful зарж showed us up badly in the first half through fumbles. In this period Bishops scored eight points to Loyola's one. А decided improvement was manifest- ed in the second half, in spite of Ray Shaughnessy's forced absence from the field with a sprained ankle. Segatore plunged like a man possessed, carrying the ball for first down time after time. The second half however, in spite of Loyola's frantic efforts, passed score- less. Final score: Bishops 8; Loyola 1. Oct. 8th. Westward (7) at Loyola (0). Before some 300 spectators, Loyola went down to its third consecutive defeat of the season in an exhibition tilt with Westward. From a spectator’s oint of view the game was one of the E exhibitions of football witnessed on the campus within the last two years, and was particularly thrilling in all departments. | The allround leading qualities of Buster McTeague were та