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

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1st XV RUGBY ly the result of being pressured. From such a team effort it is difficult to single out players for special mention but there is no doubt that Peter Hinton, our New Zealand exchange student, added that little bit extra to the side. Just before term started we entered the S.M.U. International Rugby Festival in Victoria and got the season off to a good start by winning all four of our games. Our Independent Schools fixtures were all excellent matches and had we not given up a penalty in the very last minute of play in our home fixture with S.M.U. , we would have become Independent Schools ' champions. The team is going on tour in the sum- mer to New Zealand and Australia and should do well. 20 We had high expectations for the 1 st XV this season and they were fulfilled - almost. Twelve wins against two losses is a good record. Stuart Wright (scrum-half) was an excellent captain, both on and off the field, and he led a fine supporting cast. The backs were neat and skillful and strong defensively, but as a unit were not incisive enough in their running. Here we really missed the services of Canada Junior player, Andrew Murphy, who, due to a knee injury, hardly played at all. The for- wards developed into a good pack, excel- ling in the loose where John Krotez and Alan Campbell were outstanding. Those two, with Tom McPherson never far behind, gave us the best back row we have had for many years. Perhaps the main in- gredient to the teams success was in their togetherness . They all supported one another really well, backs and forwards alike, and were all good tacklers and strong defenders. They were quick to take advan- tage of opponents errors, mistakes usual-

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mm 2nd XV Era The 2nd XV were not a very strong team as their record shows, but were capable every now and again of playing really well. The forwards were a workmanlike lot, but behind the scrum things did not always g o smoothly despite the good intentions of each on the backs. All was not gloom and doom and there were many bright moments, and we saved our best efforts against our old rivals - Brentwood. Top Row: (L-R) Mr. D. Hyde-Lay, I. King, D. Earl, R. Swinton, N. Mayes, A. De Nardi, C. Goodall, G. Maier, T. Young, Mr. J. Davies Middle Row: (L-R) J. Amodeo, J. Turk, G. Robert, J. Hildebrandt, A. Baycetich, S. Halli- day, T. Vlahos, G. Bryan, C. Lindseth ■• 22