Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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With the opening of classes in the fall, most of the students had put on weight during their summer holidays in order to be able to tip the scales, as an essen- tial prerequisite for the Senior Football teams, and if you weighed over 170 pounds, any position was available. | always captured center scrim, at 195 pounds, and found it the best excuse | could devise to get out of study periods, for football practice, together with the hopes of a trip to Ottawa, Sherbrooke, and sometimes Toronto. In this activity, the famous ‘‘Shag , “the Doc’’, and of course ‘Wild Jim were the highlights, and were so main- tained by the spirit and wit of Mickey Hawkins. Some say the game has improved over the years, with the noble beginning of the fifty-five yarder by Pedro ‘'the Swan , his drop kick did not seem so much to me as the many manly qualities which he enjoyed, in and out of uniform, and in appreciation of the man, | have contacted him every year since 1926, on the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, and perhaps some day we may get together with all of our other friends, if not in body, at least in soul. 14 Football

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Our tennis courts were always at a premium, with both players and spectators, and most of us recall Johnny C. Gill, of Boston, outstripping most competitors, including those from down Mex- ico way, with the exception of Gabriel Nunez, who later be- came South American Champion. Our annual field day brought out the very best of the physical prowess of the student body. Jim Whalen in- duced me on one occasion, to sprint a mile with George Mill, and after my first quarter round | heard ‘'Hooks”’ call out: ‘He'll die of a heart attack ’, and so | did, but have since recovered, and George won the race. We had a Tony Wendling from Ontario, who was a brilliant one- hundred yarder, and carried away all the prizes, except the javelin and shotput, which was always captured by a heavyweight from Newfoundland, as the latter was alone in the events.

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I n honour of the golden anniversary of publication of the REVIEW, the editors and staff present this brief verbal and pictorial summary of what Loyola was like between 1915 — the year in which the REVIEW was born — and the late ’40’s. All photos have been photocopied from past yearbooks. The ‘‘letter story”’ was specially written by an alumnus of 1926. 15