St Johns Ravenscourt School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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On the weekend of March 1-3, S.J.R. hosted a hoc¬ key tournament composed of four teams: Louis Riel, Assiniboia, Blake School from Minneapolis and S.J.R. Two years ago S.J.R. played in a tournament in Blake, and it is now hoped to be a regular annual event. Blake Players stayed at the school for Friday and Sat¬ urday nights after arriving by plane on Friday after¬ noon. It was hoped that Blakewouldsendup their A” team but, unfortunately they were already involved in a tournament at Buffalo, so their B team represented them instead. The First game was between Louis Riel and Blake. Louis Riel won the game 10-0 and it was then obvious that Blake had little chance, of doing well in the tourna¬ ment. The second game on Friday night saw the Indians play S.J.R. It was then decided that this game would be the first of a two game total point series to determine the finalists in the Private Hockey school league. Assini¬ boia led 3-1 going into the third period. The Indians goalie played brilliantly and S.J.R. forwards found it al¬ most impossible to put the puck in the goal. In the third period frustration got the better of the team, and consequently were bombed. The final score was 6-1. It might be noted that in the second game of the series S.J.R. tied the total score up, but lost in overtime and was forced to bow out of the league championship. Early Saturday morning S.J.R. played Louis Riel in what was one of their best games of the season. Strong skating and fore-checking led us to a 4-2 victory. Direct¬ ly after this game Assiniboia shellacked Blake 17-0. The final games of the tournament were played Satur¬ day night. In the first game Assiniboia beat Louis Riel 8-6, to win their third game and also the series itself. The last game saw S.J.R. beat Blake 7-3. Blake actually led S.J.R. 3-1 going into the final period, but with the chips down S.J.R. fired in six unanswered goals to take second place. The tournament as a whole was a great success and from all accounts another will be held at Blake next year. Good luck, then to our future senior A’s”. , v

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SECOND: Mr. Bredin, Lawrence, Myers, McCreath, Hutchings, Smith, Dampier, Kennedy, Boult, Saywell. FRONT: McKnight, Rowand, Knight, Hill MacDonald, McEwen. Although the team was eliminated in a rousing semi- at 7-7. An overtime goal ended the season for the team, final series, this year’s Senior A team was probably one but we were very proud at being able to bounce back of the best ever produced by the school. Playing in a after a five goal deficit in one game, league comprised of teams from Assiniboia, Louis Riel, Six exhibition games were also played during the Juniorat College, St. Boniface College, St. Paul’s High season, two against the Old Boys. The first was lost 7-3, School, and St. John’s-Ravenscourt, the team finished a but the second, on Winter Carnival Day, was won 4-1 very strong third on the basis of six wins, two losses against such ' Old Boys’ as Barry MacKenzie. Victoria and two ties. The year started with a rough game against was beaten 4-2, Cresentwood managed to escape with a St. Paul’s which was won 2-1, and a close checking 1-1 tie, Tuxedo was held to a 1-1 tie, and St. Jame’s game against Louis Riel which ended in a 2-2 tie. After High from Grand Forks was also tied 3-3. a relatively easy win over CSB, they managed to hold Throughout the year, both in league and exhibition on to tie Assiniboia 3-3. The next three games were play, including the Blake Tournament, Jim Rowand highlighted by Jim Rowand’s goalkeeping. There were played extremely well, recording three shut-outs, and a three straight shutouts over Juniorat, 2-0, St. Paul’s 2-0, goals against average of 1.81. He saved the team on sev- and CSB, 6-0. The next two games were heart-breakers eral occasions, and was perhaps the most consistent though, and ended in losses to Louis Riel, 5-4, and player on the team. Assiniboia, 2-1. Rob Mitchell, up from the B’s for the Anchored by perhaps the best defence on the league, Riel game, played strongly and could not be faulted for high-scoring forwards, managed to pump in more than the loss. In the last game of the season everything 70 goals over the year, fed by Alex Dampier, Gavin worked, and ended in a 10-2 victory over the Juniorat. Smith, Ed Meyers, and Greg Lawrence. The first semi-final game, against Assiniboia, was The team would like to thank Mr. Bredin, who prob- played at the beginning of the Blake Tournament, and ably enjoyed the year more than anyone else. His whis- was definitely the team’s worst game of the season, los- pered words of advice carried us through many tight ing 6-1. It being a two-game total point series, the team situations and as a result everybody on the team finished produced a superlative effort, and tied the overall score the season a better hockey player than when he started. 47

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Sum JootUl THIRD: Little, Wyatt, Macdonald, McCreath, Gardiner, Palmer. SECOND: Mr. Bredin, Lawson, DuFault, Orton, Anderson, Lewis, Thomas, English. FIRST: Lawrence, Searle, Stethem, McEwen, Saywell, Bookbinder, Verges. The Senior Football Team had a very successful year, in terms of overall accomplishment. After a very weak start, the team’s spirit sky-rocketed, and was halted with¬ in only one victory of the Manitoba Nine Man Football Championships. At the beginning of the seasonwewere thwarted by weak knees and boys not showing up for practise. As result, our first exhibition game against Assiniboia ended in a 35-14 loss. This game was invalu¬ able to us because our weaknesses were clearly demon¬ strated. Four days later we played our second game against St. Pauls. We played much better in this game. Our pass defence which had hampered us in the game with Assiniboia sparkled, only allowing two passes to be completed. The final score was 35-13, our first victory. At this stage in the season, there was no question as to whether the team would enter the nine man football playdowns. It was decided that the outcome of our second game with Assiniboia would indicate which it was to be. The game was played on a clear warm Satur¬ day morning, on our own field. The team all realized that this game was critical for the continuation of our league play. Our plays were crisper than they had been before and the hard running of our backs got us a quick touchdown, and we didn’t look back again. The final score was 45-0. This game assured us a position in the playdowns, and our next contest was to be a week later on the Father’s and Son’s Weekend. Our opponents were a team from Landmark, who had previously beaten Pine Falls to reach their position. Our pre-game strategy was to try to win the game by using only drives and sweeps. However, we found ourselves losing by one touchdown at the end of the first half, which forced us to pull out all the stops, and use some of our fancier plays. For¬ tunately these were successful and we won by the score 19-14. Our next game was to be on the following Monday, this time at Stonewall. The game was by far the most exciting. At half time we were winning by one point; however in the third quarter our starting quarterback, Clive McEwen, received a neck injury and was unable to finish the game. The injury was not only a blow to the team’s strength but also to our spirit. We fought gallantly but were outplayed. We lost by a converted touchdown, 19-12. Looking back on the season, we felt as though we had accomplished something, and had had fun in the process. I would like to thank Mr. Bredin for his time and effort in coaching, and Mrs. Lawrence who was a most loyal supporter. 49