Sydney Academy - Record Yearbook (Sydney, Australia)

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INTERMEDIATE In scholastic football B section five teams were entered from Cape Breton, one from each of the New Waterford schools on the one part and Syd- 11ey Academy and Morrison High composing the other. In New Waterford, Central High won out as usual while Morrison High knocked off Sydney Acad- emy in a hard-fought -series which went the limit to decide a winner. After each team had won, lost and tied, ia game, the final was played at Glace Bay. Morrison High won on their home field by scoring a single try. The Glace Bay entrants then lost to New Waterford Centrals who in turn failed in an atte-mpt to take the Provincial championship. This marked the first in many years that neither football title came to Cape Breton. Full-back: Hugh Livingstone, three-quarters: Vince Isaac, Jim Mona- han, Bill Penny, Jim MacDonald, Malcolm Maclnnisg stand-off : Guy MacKen- zie, half: Harvey MacArthur, Ralph MacLean, forwards: Richard VValsh, Jim Hollahan, Ian MacKinnon, Peter Russell, Gene Binns, J. MacDonald, .ag-g-i.3,- BASEBALL The Cape Breton Interscholastic Baseball championship was decided by an elimination series, constituting four teams, Sydney Academy, Morrison High, North Sydney High and St. Al1Il67S. In the Semi-finals Sydney Acad- emy and Morrison High defeated Northside and St Anne respectively. The powerful Academy nine got behind the fine hurling of south-paw Ray MacDonald and blasted a meagre Nortlhside entry 16-1. This win sent them into the Finals against Glace Bay Morrison High, a good team who boasted a highly-rated pitcher in Vince Lowe. The game opened with the usual tensi-ty, but it wasn't half over when the Sydney boys showed their power. Backed by some mighty hitting through the whole batting order, left-handed Murray Fewer pitched an exceptionally good game to halt Morrison High, 12-3. Murray was steady all the way and was never in very serious trouble. The strong Academy batting attacks kept him well ahead through most of tlhe game. Due credit must be given Messrs. J. Gillis and J. Johnson of the Academy teaching staff for their efforts with the school baseball team. Pitchers-Ray MacDonald, Murray Fewer, catcher: John H. Campbell, lst. base: Arnold Alexander, 2nd. base: Bunty Forde, short stop: Ray Pierry- nowskig 3rd. base: Bo-b Muise, outfielders: Vince Muise, E-d. Bereta. --as-o-an CAPE BRETON HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD MEET On a crisp, autumn day, Tuesday, Octolber 4, 1949, 132 athletes and stu- dents from seven different schools assembled at the Cape Breton Sports Centre for the Fourth Annual Cape Breton High Sclrool Track and Field Meet. The twenty-nine event program was capably run off in three hours. 51

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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

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The schools competing in the meet were: St. Anne 's High, Glace Bay Morrison High, Glace Bay Notre Dame High, Sydney Mines Sydney Mines High, Sydney Mines L-ouisburg High, Iifouisb-urg Central School, New Waterford Sydney Academy, Sydney Notre Dame captured the Junior Division Cunder C165 with twenty- eight points, while Louisburg High placed second with eighteen points. Sydney Academy, coached by Mr. Chafe-, won the Intermediate Section Cunder 181 with thirty-five points, its closest competitor be-ing Morrison High with twenty-seven points. In the Senior ,Division Cunder C205 which also included the Open Events Morrison High emerged victorious over Sydney Academy by scoring fifty-two points to Acade'my's forty points. In the girl 's division, it was Morrison High all the way with twenty- four points, its inter-town rivals, St, Anne's, placing second with thirteen points. In the junior class, the individual high point winner was Hugh Mac- Dougall of Notre Dame High School wh-or won the 75 yard sprint and the 220, placed second in the broad jump and picked up 25 points on the winning relay team for a total of 153 points. Notre Dame came up with a one-man team in the Intermediate division the .sprinter Llorne MacDonald, who scored 15 points in winning the 100 yard dash, the 220 and 440. Lem MacPherson of Morrison High was the individual top scorer of the senior division and also top point getter of the track meet with 175- points. He skipped home ahead in the 220, 440 and mile and anchored the winning Mor- rison High team in the senior relay. The tofp individual girl scorer was Barbara MacDonald, a Morrison High entry, who won the 75 and 100 yard sprints and was on the winning re- lay team. That gave her 114 points. In the junior division, Guy MacKenzie of the Academy placed' fo-urth in the 75 yard dash as did Malcolm Maclnnis in the 440 yard dash. The point collectors for Sydney in the Intermediate division were: Gor- don Swan, Sid Mifflin, John Brown, Richard Walsh, Dave Walker, Ted Snow, Bunty Forde and Jim Munroe. Gordon Swan placed third in the 440 yard dash, second in the 880 yard dash and was a member of the winning relay team. 52