Tillsonburg District High School - Tatler Yearbook (Tillsonburg, Ontario Canada)

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don District Athletic Association of VV.O.S.S.A. A competition. The first team, captained by Buzz Palmer, got off to a flying start when they won quite handily over Simcoe, another Senior A club, in exhibition by the score of twelve to zero. However, in the London District grouping the competition proved a little too stiff and the best the pride and joy of Tillsonburg could do was a thrilling tie with De La Salle. Possibly the best game of the year was played in 1.abatt's Park in London one dreary wet night against London Central. Although Tillsonburg lost, it was by only two points and in the last half of the game carried most of the play. It was the bril- liant work of the stalwarts on the line working in co-ordination with the clever back-iielders which threw a scare into the other teams in the league. The other teams constituting this league are London South, London Central, London Beck, Lon- don Tech, Arva and St. Thomas Collegiate. The scores are as follow: Tillsonburg-0 at St. Thomas-17 De La Salle-6 at Tillsonburg-6 Medway tArvaj-11 at Tillsonburg-5 Tillsonburg-6 at Central-8 South-18 at Tillsonburg-6 The second team which played a four- game schedule fared a little better, coming up with two wins and two losses. The future stars of Tillsonburg's senior ball club had the following scores in their games: Norwich-O at Tillsonburg-11 Tillsonburg-7 at Ingersoll-11 Tillsonburg-12 at Delhi-18 Tillsonburg-18 at Norwich-5 We congratulate Dave Richards on his selection as quarter-back for the Second All-Star Team of the district. 1 RUGBY BANQUET After the close of the 1949 rugby season, the T.D.H.S. gridders held a banquet in the Arlington Hotel to pay tribute to their coaches, Bob Phibbs and Mr. Hay. Almost the entire team was in attendance, and after the chicken for was it rabbit?j dinner, the team captain, Douglas Buzz Palmer, pre- sented gifts to Mr. Hay and Mr. Phibbs, on behalf of the team. Mr. S. Wightman, chairman of the Till- sonburg District High School Board and former principal, then introduced the speaker of the evening, jack Fairs. Mr. 50 Fairs, a former student of T.l-l.S. an Assistant Athletic Director at versity of VVestern Ontario, told about inter-collegiate rugby and its phases and coaching problems, and now the Uni- the boys many of illustrat- ing his talk with several interesting and humorous anecdotes. Following his pleas- ingly informal talk, Mr. Fairs showed movies of the Queens-XYestern game and several reels on American football. Principal VY. P. Kirkwood was a welcome guest at the banquet, but Bob Phibbs, owing to a Trojan basketball game, was regretta- bly forced to leave early. After a short period during which the speaker answered various questions, lien- neth XYebster thanked him on behalf of the team. And on behalf of the school, thank you, Messieurs Phibbs and Hay, for a thrilling, if slightly unsuccessful, season. BOYS' INTERI-'ORM BASKETBALL The interform games didn't seem to take so long this year as last, but on the whole, very good sportsmanship was displayed by all. As usual, first form was the first elim- inated. Second went next and fifth follow- ed in the tracks of its predecessors. leaving last year's champs, fourth, to battle it out with the upstarts from third. During the first two quarters of the play-off, fourth was leading 15-7 in a very tight game, but as time marched on, third miraculously tied the score making it 17-17. The game ended in favour of third form, Z7-21. The sea- son's top scorer was Clifford Russ and run- ner-up was Noel Mason. Play-Off Game Fourth: L21j-C. Russ, 3: j. Tanner, 6: G. Miller, 63 D. Palmer, 63 j. jones: R. I-leckadong L. Rodgers. Third: t27j-N. Mason, 8, C. 'Wilkinson 2, G. Fentie, 11: -I. Steele: A. Sharp, 23 R. Ingraham, 23 S. Mayorcsak, 23 G. Horlick: V. Harveyg C. Ronsong B. Truefitt 3 Fish: D. MacLennan, R. Mason. Clifford Russ, Xll. VOLLEY BALL T.D.H.S.'s dormant volley ball stars were given their golden opportunity this year when volley ball was revived. Although .there was no schedule there still is much dispute as to which was the winning team- - was it the junior Farmers or Pete's Prom- ising Pros? ' THE TATLER

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JUNIOR RUGBY STANDING: W. Franklin, V. Harvey, N. Mason, R. lngraham, G. Buckrell, K. Ross, E.. Miners, I. Aldworth, G. Miller, P. Gibson, Mr. Hay. KNEELING: A. Cain, G. Taylor, I. Horton, P. Jackson, W. Watts, J. Leach, R. Rokeby, G. Leatherdale, G. Fentie, R. Seres pole-vaulted for fifth place. In the race for the .luvenile championship XY. Newman garnered two firsts, one in the high-jump, the other in the hop-step-jump, while XY. XYatts took two fifths in the 100- yard dash and in the hop-step-jump. ,Xlthough not many of the 'l'illsonhurg athletes sported the attractive rihhons de- noting' first, second, third, etc. place hon- ours, we do commend them for their wins, their sportsmanlike attitude, and the fact that they did their utmost. MQOML FOOTBALL The hlack and gold gridders got off to an early start this year. Practices were held before school had even started in Septemher and- the training' tl might addl was quite rugged in order to put the hoys in tip-top condition. The coaching duties fell ou Mr. llay's shoulders tuaturally, heing' the rughy THE TATLER Mason. eoachl hut this year he was ahly assisted h l-loh Phihhs, a former Mustang star who Har, the rugged ex-Yarsity lineman, nn or less acted as line coach teaching hoth tht former and new memhers o 1 5 z f tht squtd tht proper hlocking, tackling, etc. Holm Phi took over the hack-field and did a magnifi cent Joh showing the gridders many neu plays. Klany thanks go to hoth lloh l'hil1hs and Xlr. llay for an interesting st l son. More hoys played football this year th in ever hefore, with approximately tiftv of tht duced two teams, a Iirst and a second team The Hrst team played in the XX',tl.S.S X grouping. while the second team play with some schools in the surrounding' dis 49 li is Nli achieved much fame on the gridiron. . hlms district stars taking part. 'Villsonhtirg pio trict. lqhi 's year saw our first year in the l,on

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GYMANDO CONTESTS The 11sual l11ll i11 school athleties hetweeu rtiglwy ancl eatlets was tl1is year tIlliCIl up by tl1e tiyuiantlo k.tlllU'SlS. These were tests of tl1e all-rouncl athletie ahihty of tl.c Ull- trants consisting of tl1e following' siinple tial exercises: ehin the har, frtint-over-har, skin-the-eat. hang halauee ton parallelsj, twenty Ill1Sll-11115, hanrl stand, heacl stantl, te11 consecutive haskets, thirty eoiiseetitive haskets i11 :1 Illlllllltx antl ten foul shots. These ortleals were helcl tluring P.'l'. periorls for tl1e henefit tor hospitalizationl of grades ltl antl ll. HOCKEY Too 111uel1 l1istory homework l l BASKETBALL 'l'l1is yt-ar's senior haskethall squad failecl to keep up tl1e l-lllt' reeorcl estahlishefl hy last year's XX'.U.S.S..X. H Cll1lllllJS. lu the new g'l'tllllDll'lg' of tl1e l.tlIltlUll District Ath- letie .-Xssoeiation of XY.U.S.S..1X. A eonipe- 1 titiou tl1e goltl antl hlaek hasketeers fouutl l tl1e opposers too tough ancl in league play eoulrl iuanage only Ollt' win, tl1at a tllflllillg' .I TRACK WINNERS 36-33 Will over Medway early in the season. G' M' ler' R' Puckett' P' G'b'o ' I' Horton' , . .. ' ' Absent: C. Thomas. lhe first game of league play was a 01.e lmlm hiv to 1' llmmlx culltgmtt T11 tht NVltll a season total of 63 points followed last nunute of the game, tl1e local Cage i 1 lsely hy tl. l,CZlf.llL'l'tlZllC, tl1e Captain, w' l stars Zllll1UllQ'll they hatl the leather split-rt K K lm - - . .' 62 counters, almost every seeoncl just eoulth1't find the hooli ancl as :1 result, lost 27-26. 0 ' ' - liven i11 the highest scoring ganie ot the -V the ll'.0.5.5.:X. play-Offs. ' season l.:1tly l.nek tlicl not smile on thy 'l'illsonhurgfan: tio111e on 'l'illso11hurg! 'l'.lJ.ll.S. quintet and 'l'eeh took a thrilling Sllllflwiell fan: uX'vllIlt'S 'lqlllSOIlllt11'g', a -l'l-47 victory over the loeal Sflll'ltlZll'fl-lTCZll'- fliSCHSC?l' 0,-S. Tillsonhiirg fa11: Must he. 'l'hey'rc 111ak- 'l'illsonhurg clitl make a fi11e sliowingf i11 ing yfllll' tCZllll look sick. the 11ew groiniing with .Xrva, St. rlilltllllfls, -- llt-ek, Tech, t'entral. South, ancl lie l.:1 Salle l7iCli l'01lU0CliZ l was left lialfbackf' and the .luniors who lost all of tl1eir ltilgfllt' H1121 llulllleri l was left fullback. gauies showt-tl prouiise of some real future Ntlel MIISUHZ l was left off tl1e team. stars. 'I'he otltl thing ahout the 'lilllSOlllJl11'Q lfVf'1'5'Hl1C lf1lHWS twe hopej tl1at Dave Senior haskethall team is that tl1ey never lQlt'llZll'tlS made the All-Star team as cu: r- . . l ' lost an exliilntion tilt. terhaek. llut we w1sl1 to present the l'ossihly next year witl1 hetter faeilities Cl'0SS4'fl'lJOHNS lfllflilim te Hill' MHSOU, Illltlll1t1l't'lllllt'ftl1'ITl'1lCtlCL', Iillsonhnrg Dis- whom we have chosen as thc hest water- triet will 111ake a Illllllt' for itself i11 the hoy in the league. Yea, liohl Yea, liohl search for top llUlltllll'S i11 tl1e haskethall lll'l1P.lll'l1P,Cll'l11l eourts. - The Sl'lll0l' team was ahly eaptainetl hy Steve Mayorcsak - tunclressing after a SllIll'Il-Slltbtlltxl' lliek lleaeoek who eonipletetl rughy ganiel-l've got Illl ugly hump o11 llly tl1e whole season with an amazing recorfl shoulder, of lll points. Mr. Hay-Yes, hut yon'cl look just as llon lleaeoek was tl1e Alunior top seorer silly without your heatl. THE TATLER 51