St Michaels College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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jfourtb 1RugbQ Ceam HB fall of 1914 brought to light the best little team of midgets that St. Michaels has seen for many a year. The call of King Rugby was heard by these embryo stars, and they made a noble response. By sheer pluck and hard practice they brought to the college their humble gift of glory. ball back to centre. A fumble cost us dearly, for Conny Doyle, their star player, seeing his opportunity, dribbled it across our line and fell on it. The quarter ended without further scor- mg. Midgets, 5, De la Salle, 5. Q11 September rith the annual meeting was held. Ollicers elected were: Chile', Tansey, captain, Mr. C. P. Donovan. coach, Mr. XV. McComber, president, and Nailsl' 0,Neil, water boy and general utility man. Competition for positions was so keen a meeting of officers had to be held to allot the positions. The fourth quarter started with Midgets in possession at their own twenty-live yard line. By the good work of Allore Radigan, Callahan, Richardson, McCrae, Keenan and Tansey we reached the centre with eight minutes to play. The ex- citement by this time had reached its highest pitch. Here were two teams struggling with might and main to reach the other's goal, and but eight minutes to accomplish this task, IS, 'f24, 36. Lawless, our sturdy little centre, went through for a gain of 6 yards, 7,', 9,,' Io, 4. An end run netted us five more. A fake buck by Chile put us within ten yards of their line, and but a minute and a half to go. Then we sprung our famous criss-cross tandem buck, which we had been reserving for such an occasion, and Kerwin went across the line. just as he fell the whistle blew and the side-lines echoed with cheers, for never had a crowd been treated to such a game as this. The merits of the team can be derived from a description of the last game, which gave us the title of undefeated junior Champions of Toronto. The coin was tossed and De la Salle took the northern goal. McComber kicked off and missed the crossbar by the smallest margin. De la Salle recovered and ran the ball back ten yards. After two unsuccessful attempts to break our strong line, Doyle of De la Salle kicked to Goulet, who ran the ball to De la Salle's thirty-yard line. By a number of combination criss-crosses. which completely baffled their line, our centre-half, C'Neil, placed the ball over the line. Tansey failed to convert. Our schedule during the year was short, not because we were not willing to play, but because we could find no oppon- Midgets, 53 De la Salle, O. Tn the second quarter the game was fought for bitterly, ents. It is as follows: both sides being within five yards of scoring, but neither cross- Midget? ' ' ' ' H North Toronto ' ' ' ' ' 6 ing the Hue. Midgets . . 22 Capitals .... . . . . 4 Midgets . . . .. 8 De la Salle . . . . . . 7 Midgets, 5, De la Salle, 0. Midgets . . . .. I6 VVest Torontos. . . . 6 Midgets .. . .. IO De la Salle ....... . .. 5 The third quarter started with De la Salle kicking off. Tansey secured the ball, and by an extension pass brought the -J. TANsizY H081

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3unior w.1b.El. HHN the First real wintry days come along, about the middle of December, and the rivers and ponds have frozen up. we instinctively begin to think of the great Canadian winter sport-hockey. lt is with pleasure, then, that we rescue our skates from the oblivion of the closet, hunt up our old shin-pads, and purchase a hockey- stick. St. Michaells was not wanting during the past winter in ardent adherents of this great sport, but had two teams in leagues, one in the .lennings Cup series, and the other in the Junior O.H.A., and both gave a good account of themselves. The Juniors were grouped with their old rivals, Upper Can- ada College, St. Andrews and De la Salle. and furnished some very interesting games, in spite of the fact that only three of last year's team were left, namely, Fitzpatrick in goal, Doyle at rover, and Feeney at right wing. Manager ,lim Reddin, how- ever, soon gathered around him a lot of promising material, Kelly, Dwyer, a left-wing man, and Drohan, a clever stick- handler and a good shot. Besides these regular men, Rathwell, Lowery and Gormley, when called upon, proved capable sub- stitutes. Although they lost the majority of their games, still they were all by small scores. and they were by no means outclassed. To this we must add the fact that they were handicapped in having to play only a few days after coming back from the Christmas holidays, and were consequently without practice. Moreover, they were up against some very good teams in St. Andrews and De la Salle. XYith the exception of Latchford, Drohan and Doyle all the players are eligible again for next year, and with a year's ex- perience under their belt they should cut a considerable hgure and picked a good close-checking defence in Latchford and in the College group of the klunior CDXH.,-X. -F. A. H. we 7 Z E lf! Mun im, ,,.,..... -W III' 'll' ,,, ar - --f4f... , ,,'. ...nhl Wriia 1 ? 49 l',v .- --------- -., In-N, ,,...... ' ' 1147: - ' '- --Il. ....., , , tv- f-- as-.. 'lt 1-1-r f ll In--. 5 Z7 If ...II f W 3 ,,...- JF ,A 'I-u. . E , ld' k wp .sfQfllllllu - ff HA- -c 1 if ft - li a - W 'is -glllhwg 1'-mmullifa I. 5 at , I 'I-un-wl ' -Q HH-iw .- eu.. nh. ,M IJ 'Hn -.. we- X. Ji O l