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

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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

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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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Smm Socwi SECOND: B. Spaith, Cambell, Spooner, Dunstan, Mr. Glegg, MacBeth, Rowley, Wood, Mr. Penaluna. FIRST: M. Thomas, Lauder, Rowand, Wiswell, Donahue, Dallas, Payne. MISSING: Shandro. The senior soccer team had a mostproductiveyear this year. The team won three games and were not by any means pushovers in the other six. The team was led by Captain Andy Wiswell, John Macbeth, Kit Rowley, and Mark Dallas from last year’s soccer team and a number of surprising newcomers like former football players Sandy Shandro and Bob Spaith. The first game of the year was against Dakota Collegiate and we went down to defeat against the defending champs. Andy Wiswell scored with a few minutes to go and sent the game into overtime, but a few minutes before the end of the second overtime period Dakota scored. Jim Rowand and the goalie Brian Spooner were the stars in this game. The second game played in a gale against Silver Heights was won by S.J.R. 3-2 in a hard fought contest. Sandy Shandro was the star here, in scoring two goals. Other stars were Bob Spaith and Mark Dallas, and Jamie Campbell who scored the other goal. The third game against St. James was a disaster for Ravenscourt as they were bombed 4-0 on four first half goals. Eddie Myers, a lacrosse import, was the star here in a losing cause. The fourth game against Glenlawn was another hard fought contest but Glenlawn finally won after a colossal struggle 1-0. The stars in this one were Morgan Thomas and Danny Donahue. The fifth game and last game against Westwood, the eventual Champs of the league was fairly close and we lost 3-1 in a respectable game. David Wood in goal and Drew Lauder were the stars here, as well as John Macbeth. After the season we played two exhibition games against Fort Garry and won them both. The first one Payne rapped in two goals and was the star. In the second game, played on Father’s and Son’s Weekned, the score was 1-0 in a bitter battle for Ravenscourt. Sandy Shandro scored the winner while Kit Rowley and Andy Wiswell turned in fine games on defence. Although we had probably the best team that Ravenscourt has ever produced for inter-school competition, we were handed a solid 2-0 defeat at the hands of the masters on goals by Mr. Penaluna and Mr. Cowie. There are many players who will be back next year and the team should be as strong if not stronger than the 67-68 team. Last, but not least, on behalf of all the team, I would like to thank Mr. Penaluna, Mr. Harding, Mr. Ainley, and Mr. Glegg for their expert coaching and encouraging support. 50