Sydney Academy - Record Yearbook (Sydney, Australia)

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CURLWG I Foovenu. O i -fx Bnsxe 7. emu. 1L. mCK Hoc KEY Z '- For the last half decade, the 'Sydney Academy has virtually dominated the majority of hi-gh .school athletic activities in Cape Breton and Nova Scotia. No further proof of this is needed than a glance at the records. NVith the turn of the half-century Sydney Academy hoopsters will be aiming for their seventh consecutive Provincial basketball title, 'led by 'coach PAT PATTERSON and the genial managing of MR. JOE OHAISSON of the Academy teaching staff. Such a recvord is something to be applauded, and we know it never could have been established without the excellent guidance of MR. PAT PATTERSON, who is responsible for the development of some of the Maritimes best basketball players. Out on the diamond a power-packed Academy baseball nine walked off with the Cape B-reton High School championship with convincing wins over teams from the Northside and Glace Bay respectively. This was the first year in which Academy went all out to assemble a top-notch team and came up with the cream of the crop. The team was well looked after by Mr. John Johnstone and Mr. John Gillis, o-f the Academy teaching staff. In the first annual 'Curling Bo-ns-piel held at Truro, the Academy rep- resentatives were runners-up to a well-balanced quartet from Truro in a round robin series. As we go t-o- press, the Senior Interscholastic hockey team has been crowned Cape Breton champs and are ready to begin defence of the Provin- cial title which tlhey have held for the past two seasons. The Intermediates are not far behind. Having already eliminated Sydney Mines and New Wat- erford, they have clinched the Island title and are ready to be-gin defence of the Island title, and are ready to begin defence of the Nova Scotia champion- ship which they have won the last two years. T'he Academy Juvenile team, which won Nova Scotia honors last year, reached the Sydney Minor League finals, and bowed out to SHIPYARD after giving the undefeated Yarders a few very interesting games. MR. BOB OHAFE has been the mentor behind Academy hockey for the past few seasons and has done a very exceptional job of assembling the te-ams and giving them sound coaching. 49

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f tb ll cene the Academy has had more than its share of suc- O th oo a s , cess in rleceiiet years. This year the Senior footballers were defeated in the ' h ' hi s the two Provincial finals after they had won the Nova Scotia c' anrpions p previous years. The Intermediates were defeated in the first round by Mor- rison High from Glace Bay. MR. CHARLES McEiACHEN was again coaching the ruggers and he was ably assisted by MR. FRASER a.nd MR. D. MacADAM also members of the school teaching staff. Such tremendous success in the Acade-my's athletic activities has been the result of hard work and sacrifice on the part of such men as Messrs. CHAS. MacEACHEN, ROBERT CHAFE, PAT PATTERSON, JOE CLHAISSON, VIC FRASER, D. MacADAM and J. GILLIS and J. JOHNSON, the latter two having assembled the schools' first champion baseball team. It's people like the above mentioned, and a few others like these who make high school life interesting. They give their spare time and untiring -efforts to assist the stu- dents, both scholastically and otherwise. -'Gi-0-lib ' FOOTBALL - SENIOR Senior Interscholastic English Rugby became a two-team affair in Cape Breton last Fall, with Sydne-y Academy 'and Glace Bay Morrison High open- ing the 1949 season at Ashby Diamond on October 19. The winne-rs, to be de- clared by the first week in November, was decided by a fo-ur-game series. The Academy team, coached by Mr. MacEachen, a teacher and former all-round athlete, who was assisted by Messrs. Fraser and. MacAdam, began defence of the laurels it had vvion the two- previous years, without a single holdover. The series opener was no indication of what was t-o follow as the thir- teen from Morrison High overwhelmed the Academy 8-3. The second game ended in a 3-3 -draw at Glace Bay, and returning to Ashby Diamond the Acad- emy team scored a convincing 7-0 victory. A scoreless- tie followed that one, and the series went into an extra game which was played on Ashby field. With the chips down the 1947-48 chamfpions came through in admirable fashion and sent Morrison High hlome on the short end of a 5-0 score, showing their super- iority and retaining their Cape Breton championship. The jaunt to the Mainland was not as successful, although the Academy gave a respectable showing. New Glasgow High provided the opposition and in a sudden death match dethroned Academy by a 6-0 score. The Sydney team was minus two of its star players, Hughie MacQueen and Alex Mac- Swe-en who were out with injuries. SENIOR TEAM : A Full-back: Cyril Dalton, three-quarters: Dave Walker, Bob Muise, Bunty Forde, Hugh MacQueen, Lawrence Street, stand-off: J. H. Campbell, Ccaptainjg half: Dave Rogers, forwards: Bud Chiasson, Alex MacSween, George Leonard, Gerald Hardy, Albert Rfhymes, Jerry Burke. ..,g.f,-Q-ig... Teacher: Can a woman ever get to be President of the U. S.? J ohnny: No, teacher, because they never seem to reach 35. 50