Stratford Northwestern Secondary School - Norwester Yearbook (Stratford, Ontario Canada)

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SPORTS ' 73 SENIOR FOOTBALL Probably the best Senior Football team Northwestern ever mustered together started last spring when Coach Bell and Coach Wright took over the reins. The season started with the Spring Clinic in May where the coaches looked over all prospective players. Then training camp opened on Aug. 28 with 11 players out. We started on fundamentals and prepared for our first games. We played 2 exhibition games, the first against Regina Mundi College of London. We were well prepared and all psyched up to win our first game and did by 13-0. But unfortunately we lost our second game to a very powerful Palmerston game. Offensively under Coach Wright the backfield was drilled on execution of the plays for our tough season ahead. Our passing game was extremely effective with the newly found talent in Herb Christmann and Larry Commerford. Our running game was very strong, especially up the gut with Doug Horst and Dave Mclntyre at fullback. Then there was Coach Bell ' s Interior 5, the men of the team, led by center Joe Klumper and tackle Blaine Luckhardt They made holes big enough to drive trucks through. Defensively we were unscorable on all our home games. Our 4-man line was very successful in handling the trench while the secondary sealed off the attackers passing game. Some of the highlights of the past year was that we came out with a 3 win and 4 loss record that no other N.W. Senior team reached. We blanked all of our opposition on our home field. One of them was a grueling defensive battle in which our safety Jim Monster Mitchell made a key tackle in the dying minutes and 2 interceptions to give us a 1-0 win over Clinton. Other wins were against Listowel 12-0 and St. Mary ' s 34-0. It was a very exciting and rewarding year and the coaches are looking forward to next year ' s team. JUNIOR FOOTBALL The juniors had their best year ever ending up in the finals of the Huron Perth Championship. Although they lost to Wingham, the team provided exciting football during the season and in the finals. The highlight of the year was the victory over South Huron Junior Champions for the last three years by the score of 10-0. Our juniors played an almost perfect game. On that particular day they could have beaten any junior team in the province. A football team is a group of individuEils working as a team achieve success. In every team there are certain individuals that stand out over the others. Doug Schippling, Norbert Christman, Don Blum and Doug Anderson were exceptionally good back- fielders along with Mark Hammer, John Player and Ross Mathison on the offensive line. Bill McArthur, our 255 lb. end along with our defensive backs, such as Blatre Dellair, Wayne Koebel and Jim Minifie, played exceptional ball on defense. Sixteen boys are returning next year. We are looking forward to another good season. GOLF At the Huron-Perth Golf Tournament held at Listowel on September 29, the Northwestern team placed 4th out of nine other schools in the competition. Northwestern was well represented by Ed Wilkinson, Bud Dixon, Mark Baun, and Jamie Pyper. Weather conditions due to heavy rains, made the playing difficult, but our boys never lost heart. The teams scores for the different schools were as follows: Listowel 333 Mitchell 359 Wingham 345 Central 361 Goderich 347 Seaforth 369 Northwestern 349 Exeter 371 349 Clinton Exeter 383 With any Luck, by next year Northwestern ' s Golf Team should again be in W.O.S.S.A. competition.

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SENIOR GIRLS VOLLEYBALL -by Diane Gatenby Volleyball was the name of the game And teamwork with spirit was our aim Half the time we put it together The remainder clouded by unpredictable weather. The season opened with an interesting split We were hangin ' in there and lookin ' fit Tourney number two yielded two out of three But the Listowel loss left us up a tree. The third tourney added to our streak Two more losses put us up the creek But you can ' t say we didn ' t have a paddle As we showed well, putting up a good battle. In the final round we didn ' t play well We were at a loss when ' Bakes ' fell Yet we managed one to end the season With four victories and a team with reason. Clearly, every cloud has a silver lining We came out ahead and even shining As Coach Harris and her sarcastic touch Were a sunny combination. Just too much! Our Thanx Bakes, Connie, Gates, Janine, Mouse, Myrtle, Rosie and Sandy. JUNIOR GIRLS BASKETBALL This year saw the Junior Huskiettes split their basketball season, taking five and dropping four. Initially, this season saw some hardwork produce satisfaction. The team was able to put it together in the first part, chalking up a four-one win-loss record at mid-season. However, once known as a ' third-quarter ' team, the latter half of the season frowned on slow starts. Thus, we missed a play-off spot by one game, three points short on the scorebosird. Nonetheless, several tall points were experienced this season, and we have Coach Harris to thank. Sometimes good things do come in small packages! SENIOR BOYS VOLLEYBALL The senior team this year had a very respectable season. The scheduling was set up in the form of four mini tournaments in Perth County and the same in Huron County. The top three teams from each county then competed in a final tournament for the championship and the right to go on to WOSSA. During the mini tournaments our team was very strong losing only to Listowel and hence ending up in second position. In the final tournament we played all the other five teams with the following results: (a) OUR SCORE (b) (c) 15 15 15 15 (d) (e) Listowel OUR SCORE 15 8 15 4 St. Mary ' s 15 11 15 8 Exeter 1 6 Goderich 13 13 Clinton 11 15 5 15 We lost to St. Mary ' s in this series whereas we had beaten them every time previously. This eliminated our team from WOSSA. (St. Mary ' s went on to win WOSSA). The boys had a very successful season showing good team effort and sportsmanship. This team has set a good precedent for other volleyball teams to try to match.