Stratford Central Secondary School - Collegian Yearbook (Stratford, Ontario Canada)

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COLLEGIAN, 1937. ' BOYS! BASKETBALL Basketball is a clean, fast game. Then, why is it so poorly attended? True, there is not much room for spectators, but is basketball losing its value in the field of sports? DOES IT NOT offer enough thrills? If it does, then it warrants a much greater attendanceg so next term patronize the games freely. The S. C. I. was represented only in the Junior W.O.S.S.A. competition this year. However these plucky youngsters fought their way into the semi-finals by winning three out of four games. They took two games from Kitchener-Waterloo and split even with Galt. In the play-offs with Galt the Stratford boys were not so fortunate because they were de- feated twice, 26-12 and 18-12. This put an end to their fight for the championship. The Team: lGuardsl Trethewey, Shivas. lForwardsJ Ingram, Nickel. CCentreD Evans. QAlternatesj Byrick, Preston, Shurrie, Lin- ley, Hamilton, Manning, Cree. STRATFORD, ONT. HOCKEY With three Junior teams in O.H.A. competi- tion material for the school team was limited. However the best teams that conditions per- mitted were put into the series. Senior Hockey. The seniors were hit the hardest by these conditions. In the first game with London they were defeated 7-1. Although elimin- ated by the number of goals scored on the round the players received much satisfaction by handing the London players a 3-2 defeat on their home ice. The junior team defeated the less experi- enced Ingersoll boys quite handily. They ad- vanced into the second round against London Technical School and again won both games of a home-and-home series by the scores of 8-3 and 3-2. They were now headed for their second championship in as many years. In the first game of the finals the S. C. I. team received their first defeat at the hands of a faster Windsor-Walkerville Tech. team by the score of 8i5. In the second game the S. C. I. C ls .I 2 X N96 as . . SENIOR HOCKEY TEAM Back row 4 Patterson, . W 1' e n nic k, Duff, Carr, Ingham. Jones, Fleisch- hauer. Front row-Mr. Bryan. Freeman, Morris, Demp- sey, Wallace, Dickson. JUNIOR HOCKEY TEAM Front 1'oW - J e f f e ry, Nichols, Killoran, Stewart, Mavitty, B. Shantz, Peck. Back row-Mr. Sinclair icoachl, Patterson, Car- negie, Myers, M. Shantz, Byrick, Marks, Schultz, Dent. tx Page Fifty-one

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COLLEGIAN, 1937 STRATFORD, ON SENIOR GIRLS' BB. TEAM 1936-37 Front row-Mabel Zurbrigg, Barbara Crane, Grace Cap- ling, Floris Zulauf, Gladys Hodge, Ruth Cookson, Edith Fitzgeorge. Back row-Velma Bailey, Jean Garner, Wininie Garner, Frances Dale, Dorothy Sym- onds, Lilian Murie, Gwen Parkinson. JUNIOR BB. TEAIVI F'ront row-Patterson, Cree Shurrie, Ingram, Preston Nichols, R. Trethwey. Back row-ByriCk. Liflley Evans, Hamilton.Manning, Treihewey, Shivas, Sinclair Ccoachb. GIRLS BASKETBALL The S. C. I. girls team was grouped with London Central this year. However, before their competitions started an exhibition game was held with the Stratford Normal School in which the Normal were defeated, the score be- ing 44-0. cTuesday, December 8.3 Kitchener's team had a slack year when all their basketball players had graduated and the oncoming juniors were not quite able to take their place. They played a good game but not quite good enough. The final score was 17-9 in Stratford's favour. fJanuary 29 Friday.j The first league game Stratford played was with London Central. Their team was ex- ceptionally good having defeated London Tech last year's W.O.S.S.A. winners. To watch the field work of the London girls was a treat and they showed themselves superior to the Strat- ford team. The score was 33-2 in London's favour. 1February 5 Fridayb in London. When London came to Stratford, February Page Fifty 12, the Stratford girls knew what to expect. They had done some serious practicing before their opponents' arrival and showed them- selves more equally matched. After an ex- tremely close and exciting game London came out on top with a 14-8 lead. With London's two successive wins Stratford was put out of the W.O.S.S.A. running, but that did not dampen the girls' enthusiasm for more basket- ball. A return game with Kitchener showed Stratford still superior, the final score being 14-7 in Stratford's favour. The last game the girls played this season was with the Normal School but competition was not very keen and Stratford came out on top with a 23 point lead. The Junior Girls did not enter W.O.S.S.A. this year but in a game with Kitchener they defeated their rivals 16-12. It was their only important appearance but it proves to anyone in doubt that there are some good Junior players that will make excellent senior material. T

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COLLEGIAN, 1937 STRATFORD, ONT SENIOR RUGBY TEAM Mr. Sinclair, Ingham, Murphy, Verner, McKeough, Wrenriick, McDougal, Evans, Shivas, W. Harris, A. Harris, Kilpatrick, Groves, Duff, Fraser, Lee, Killer, Smith, Trethewey, Pope, Johnston, Graham, Carr, Hanlon, Dent, Knechtel. Juniors came within one goal of winning the championship for the second time, but they were unable to hold the Windsor lads. The game ended in a 5-5 tie, but Windsor won the title by virtue of their 8-5 win in Stratford. The silver cup will no longer rest in the trophy case of the Stratford Collegiate-Vocational Institute. W.O.S.S.A. competition permits very few students to take part. However this did not stump the willing athletes. Practically every form was represented in the fight for the Interform Basketball Shield. These games give less experienced players a chance to show what they are made of. Here one can see the best players of each class and new material for our teams can be picked out. The various shields were won by 2B, 3C, 5B. Competition for the Reinhart Memorial Cup was very keen this year. The cup is awarded annually to the best hockey team in the school. This year it was won by Form 3C who also held it last year. RUGBY Rugby practice began in earnest in the sec- ond week in September. The students turned out in their old clothes for a chance to make the team. For three weeks the boys neither saw nor felt the pigskin as Coach Ray Sinclair was intent on building up a substantial body resistance. Junior Rugby: Players eligible for Junior competition greatly outnumbered the Senior players. With plenty of last year's team still in the school and a wealth of new material it was felt that Page Fifty-two this year the Red Devils from Woodstock might be handed a trouncing. Unhappily all our hopes were shattered as the Woodstock boys decisively disposed of our lads in three straight games. However badly the Juniors were defeated they deserve much praise be- cause they accepted defeat like gentlemen. iSnapD Pattersong iInsidesD Shivas, Grovesg C'MiddlesJ Trethewey, Pope, fEndsj Evans, Inglisg f,QuarterJ Furlongg fHalvesJ Crerar, Lamont, Hayter, Scorgieg K Altern- atesb Turnbull, Martel, Manning, Farrow, Schaus and Huras. The Senior team looked like a sure-fire silver cup winner. They found no trouble in eliminating the less experienced St. Jerome's squad by the large score of 80-0 on the round. Hopes ran high as the powerful St. Thomas team was defeated both at home and away. In the first game, after the score remained tied for three quarters of the time, the locals put on the pressure and scored two quick touch- downs to take the game 17-6. The second game ended in a 11-7 win for the S. C. I. All good things must have an ending and so the Seniors met their masters in the heavier K-W Collegiate squad. Kitchener squelched their way to a 19-8 victory on the Stratford gridiron. A two inch layer of mud made good playing impossible. After leading the Kitch- ener boys for the larger part of the second game, the Collegiate squad again tasted de- feat. Having suffered two defeats the Strat- ford team was now out of W.O.S.S.A. competi- tion. The Kitchener team was eliminated by Kennedy Collegiate of Windsor.