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

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Mom SfoniA At the time of writing it is difficult to say whether the House System is still the basis for intramural athletic competi¬ tion. To date only seven afternoons have been devoted to House games and it is now nearly the end of March. It would, therefore, be unrealistic to devote much space in The Eagle to these games. As reports of other house activities may not appear in this yearbook the names of the House-masters and House-captains appear below: Hamber: Mr. Gordon D. McLeod .... David Boult Richardson: Mr. David Wellard .... Mark Stethem Young: Mr. Martin Ainley . . . . Eddie Myers Sam Horn JoMl Senior House Football was played in late October. Hamber lost the first game against Richardson but decisively won the second game against Young 19-6 in one of the best games of Rugby seen on the school playing fields this year. The final game between Young and Richardson was won by the latter. Jntemediate Horn JootM In Intermediate Rugby the first game was tied between Hamber and Richardson and the second a win for Richard¬ son against Young. In the final game Young won by a narrow margin over Hamber. $ um Horn Jodail In Junior Rugby this year Hamber House won the challenge cup after tying the very close game with Richardson 13-13 and winning their game against Young 8-6 in another very close game. These games at the junior level were extremely close and as a result were exciting to watch. Semi Horn Som Early in November house soccer ended with Richardson house coming out the victors with one win and one tie. In the first game Richardson defeated Hamber 3-0. Hamber put up a good fight. The next game Richardson had the bye and Hamber and Young fought it out to a 2-2 tie. The hardest fought game was yet to come for the following day played host to Young and Richardson. While Jolly Macdonald was stuffed in goal by Stethem, Eskimo painstakingly took off his parka and Benny did a native war dance. Shandro bitterly remarked that the field felt like garbage, however, most people were complaining of the cold. The game was fought hard by both sides and ended in a scoreless tie resulting in Richardson winning the house trophy by an extremely slim margin. $wtM Jiom Socm In Junior Soccer Hamber House cleaned up the field and won the Junior House Soccer Cup. Hamber House de¬ feated Richardson 2-0 in the first game and won the game against Young even more decisively 5-0. In the other game Young lost to Richardson — 1-0. The high calibre of the Junior Soccer was a pleasure to watch. It is a pity that the House Competition consisted of only three games. 62

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' Haiflmnd, yf Jiockaj THIRD: Harrison, Paterson, Weare, Elves, Tucker, Harris, Mr. Glegg. SECOND: Longstaffe, Gibbons, G. M yers, Saunders, Wallace, P. Dickson, Daunt. FRONT: Ferguson. In the Greater Winnipeg Minor Hockey League, we have done better this year than we have in the past several sea¬ sons. At the time of writing, we stand third in the league and have one game to go so we should make the play-offs. The team has generally played well but not as well as we could have played on occasions, We ought to have won both our tied games but seemed to lack the final drive and determination to get the final goal. The same can be said of our loss against Westridge. In goal, Gibbons played some good games, but must learn to anticipate shots better and move out of his net more. On defense, McMorris was our strongest player and one of the leading goal getters, but he will improve when he learns to pass more quickly. Tucker and Myers both played well, but their weakness on the point was apparent. The Saunders-Wallace-Harrison line scored most of our goals and should develop well, while the Ferguson-Daunt- Harris line were the most improved players during the year, particularly in backchecking. Other players who played reg¬ ularly were Elves, Patterson, Longstaffe, and Weare, all of whom need to improve their skating before they will become scoring threats. Generally this has been a good season with fine team spirit, and some very good games have been played. This squad should do well in the future. CuAJituj Jam Wednesday’s at Pembina Curling Club was the scene of S.J.R. curling this year. During the winter S.J.R. boys under the instruction of Mr. Stewart were taught the skills of curling, while the more experienced curlers were given opportunities to demonstrate these skills. This year S.J.R. was represented in the Zone 12 playdowns by Bud M cKnight, Skip; Kim Sherman, Third; Andy Wiswell, Second; and Douglas Nesbitt, Lead. Our game against M.B.C.I. ended in an unfor¬ tunate 9-4 loss. However, there is always next year with our promis¬ ing new curlers. ' Brooms up’ until next year. SECOND: Nesbitt, Sherman, Wiswell. FRONT: B. McKnight. 61

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