Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine occasionally relieving with forward rushes, and Niven did some good tackling and kicking to save the Shawnigan line on two occasions. A strong attack by Shawnigan saw Campbell over on an individual dribble, a penalty try being awarded for pushing, not converted. Still keeping up the pressure, and causing University to touch down twice in quick succession, Dawson then cut through from the half-way line to score near in, kick failing. After some good rushes by the Shawnigan forwards, Reed cut through to score, not converted. Uni- versity then pressed and Sworder scored a try, which was converted. Shawnigan pressed hard, causing University to touch down, and kept up the pressure until the final whistle. Shawnigan Lake School: J. G. Niven, A. T. Rogers, J. D. Seaton, D. G. Harris, G. F. Mackie, D. A. Dawson, G. W. Reed, J. C. Whittle, W. D. Wood- ward, J. S. Humphreys, A. C. Campbell, V. G. Motherwell, T. A. Wilson, G. C. H. Tupper, R. L. Lake. Shawnigan Lake School vs. Wanderers Blues — Lost 0-8 The match between the School and the Wanderers, played at Shawnigan on December 8th, was the most exciting game of the term. All the scoring came in the last five minutes of the first half when the Wanderers twice crossed for a try, the second being converted. For the rest of the game play ruled very even with first one side and then the other setting up a series of vigorous attacks. The School forwards, though without two of their regular members, got their fair share of the ball in the scrums, but the Wanderers ' heavier pack were superior in the loose and brought off some good dribbles. The School outsides were a better combined line than their opponents and made many good passing movements, but found the Wanderers ' marking and tackling just too good for them. Reed, as usual, excelled in tackling and saving and combined well with Dawson, whilst in the second half Seaton played a good game. The touch finding on both sides was weak, but Niven improved as the game went on. The Wanderers ' full back played a good game, as did Farmer at scrum half. The Wanderers quickly had the School on the defensive, but once they settled down Shawnigan were always dangerous when their threes had the ball. Play was very even until, shortly before half time, a good dribble by the Wan- derers ' forwards led by Angus resulted in a try by Grinnell. From the kickoff Wanderers again attacked and quickly scored a try through Drummond which McConnon converted. After the resumption they kept up the pressure, but midway through the second half the School set up a strong attack during which they forced Wanderers to defend desperately. Eventually the Wan- derers ' forwards, by a good dribble, carried play to the other end and from then till the end play was mostly in mid-field. Shawnigan Lake School: J. G. Niven, A. T. Rogers, J. D. Seaton, D. G. Harris, G. F. Mackie, D. A. Dawson, G. W. Reed, J. C. Whittle, J. S. Hum- phreys, A. C. Campbell, V. G. Motherwell, G. C. H. Tupper, J. W. Reynolds, R. L. Lake, D . F. J. Mcintosh. Shawnigan Lake School 2nd XV vs. Brentwood College — Lost 6-0 On November 24th, in a close and exciting match, the heavier and more experienced Brentwood team defeated the Shawnigan Lake School 2nd XV, 6-0. From the kick-off Brentwood pressed hard and their efforts were rewarded when 19

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Shawnigan Lake School vs. Lord Byng High School, Vancouver — Lost 32-3 On the School ground on November 17th, the School suffered a rather severe defeat at the hands of Lord Byng High School by five goals, a dropped goal and a try to a try. Though Lord Byng were the heavier and faster also, they were undoubtedly the better team. The School outsides had their fair share of the ball but their movements lacked the thrust of the Lord Byng outsides, and there was too much running across the fields. The forwards, though rather outweighted, held their own in the set scrums and in the line out. The School touch finding was weak and it would have been better to sacrifice length to greater accuracy. Lord Byng was almost as weak in this respect, but having found out the weakness of the School fullback they were not slow to exploit it with long kicks down the middle of the field and quick following up. The School forwards started with a rush which carried the ball into their opponent ' s twenty-five and had all the game for the first ten minutes. Lord Byng then began to get together and from a go od three-quarter run Tremblay broke away and scored, Holman, whose excellent place kicking was a feature of the game, converting. There was then some rather muddled play with neither side gaining any great advantage, until a movement by the Shawnigan threes carried play to the Lord Byng line. At this point a pass was intercepted by Tremblay, who ran more than half the length of the field to score between the posts. Almost immediately after, weak tackling let Williams through for a try, making the score at half time 13-0. The second half was all Lord Byng ' s, who kept Shawnigan penned in their own half of the field. The saving feature of the School ' s display was the mag- nificent work of Reed, who seemed ubiquitous in his tackling and saving. He was very well backed up by Whittle, Humphreys, and Woodward, who led the forwards extremely well. Dawson occasionally relieved the pressure with hi s kicking, which on more than one occasion was lucky rather than well judged. Holman dropped a very good goal, Tremblay scored two tries and Williams one, Holman converting all three during this period. In the last few minutes Shawnigan made a last desperate effort. A breakaway by Campbell followed up by a clever piece of play between Reed and Dawson with Reynolds up in the right place for the pass led to a try by Humphreys in the last minute. The conversion failed and the game was over. Shawnigan Lake School vs. University School — Won 15-10 Played in Victoria on Saturday, December 1st. Shawnigan won by 1 5 points (5 tries) to 10 points (2 goals). This match was played on the University School ground under perfect weather conditions. University School kicked off and set up a strong attack, which Shawnigan did well to resist, but after some ten minutes of continued pressure, Berry scored a try, which was converted. Shawnigan, now having warmed up, made several attacks, both by good forward dribbles and three- quarter movements, scoring two tries, by Rogers and Humphreys, both kicks failing. University School started the long kicking game and Shawnigan had to touch down; again the forwards relieved the pressure. Half time came with Shawnigan pressing again. During the second half Shawnigan pressed fairly continuously, University 18

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Kidd scored between the posts. The kick failed. Shawnigan then opened the attack, but were soon in defense again. Tryon relieved the tension for a while with a fine run; but failed to score. Shawnigan then started the offensive and the first half ended with Tryon almost over. The second half was much the same as the first. Bush scored for Brentwood, the kick again failing. Then Shawnigan took up the offensive. For the rest of the game both teams were alternately attacking and defending. The final whistle came, leaving Brentwood the winners of a very even and hard-fought game, by six points to nil. Niven i, as fullback, played a good game for Shawni- gan, kicking accurately and tackling well. He was well backed up by the rest of the team. The Shawnigan team was: J. G. Niven, D. W. Burchard, J. F. Moore, A. R. Smith, R. B. Yuill, T. C. Tryon (Captain), D. Newton, H. G. Niven, R. L. Lake, I. Davis, D. P. Oakes, F. J. Mcintosh, J. H. Budd, J. A. Davis, and J. C. Smith. PROGRESS While eating dinner one evening at a country inn, I heard a heated argu- ment taking place on modern civilization. Three burly working men were aggressively upholding it and they were forcing all their statements down the throat of a small, unfortunate clerk, whose arguments against it must have been particularly feeble, as each of his remarks met with derisive laughter. Eventually the clerk rose to go and his departure was attended by a fresh outburst of laughter from his three opponents. I saw the poor man blush and make a feeble pretence at a smile as though trying to cloak his feelings of resentment. Two minutes later I heard a cry in the road outside the door. Running out into the street, I saw the clerk lying in a pool of blood. It appeared that he had been hit by a careless driver who had driven on in a desperate attempt to evade his just deserts. I could not help feeling that the clerk had provided the most striking argument I had yet seen against modern civilization. THE STEAM PLANT (With apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson) The black soot falls on white school walls And grey-green rooftops now turned nigger; The smoke clouds break above the lake, And the hated engine puffs with vigour. Belch, smoke stack, belch, set your dark mantle floating, Belch, smoke stack: answer, Hawksford, gloating, gloating, gloating. O hark, O hear! how loud and near The puffing engine always going! O thick and foul on sheet and towel The soot from power house densely blowing! Chuff, let us hear the doughty engine chuffing: Belch, smoke stack: chug engine, puffing, puffing, puffing. 20