University of Victoria - Tower Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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TY VOLLEYBALL Both Men's and lVomen's Volleyball teams had a successful year in the intercollegiate division of the Canadian American Volleyball League. The men's team took first place in the division, winning six- teen of the eighteen games played. They also claimed the distinction of winning all eight of their exhibition games, two each against Oregon and Oregon State and two against Simon Fraser. In six tournaments the team ehalked up three Hrsts, one second, a third and a fourth. The women's team, in four tournaments, placed one Hrst, two fourths and a iifth. .qvT I a . 3' in a. . BASKETBALL The Varsity basketball team, UVie,s 'CVikings', had a successful season. Playing a total of 30 games, including the Home-Coming Grads, game, they won 17 and lost 13. No ties were recorded. nn

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TRACK AND FIELD The Cross-Country team was re-formed in 1967-68 after four years' absence from university athletics. The full team entered in six races, and won four, including the Vancouver Island Open Champion- ship. It has established itself as the leading cross- country team on the Island, consistently beating Spartans Athletic Club, Nanaimo Track and Field Club, Royal Roads, CFB Esquimalt and the High School teams. The two losses were against main- land clubs. In the Admiral Nelles Trophy at Royal Roads, the University placed second to UBC out of seventeen teams from the Island and the Main- land. At the Courtenay Road Race, the University were beaten by Vancouver Olympic Club into second place from nine teams. A member of the team also won an individual championship, this was Charles Thorne, the team's leading runner, who won the Vancouver Island Junior Champion- ship. These results were achieved in spite of a late start to the season. Dr. Ellis, of the Biology Department, was appointed Amateur Coach in October, and had the team into competition by the end of the month. About twelve runners were initially in- volved, with eliminations reducing the number to tive by the spring term. VIKINGS ROWING TEAM The Rowing Club, entered in the North American League, entered six regattas. In June 1967, at the Shawnigan Regatta, the ueightf' under coxswain Richard Wright, won the B.C. Championship Cen- tennial Trophy. On July l, they finished third in eight at the Pan-American Trials. . .. ggi- ,ll . e, ,, , 1 W ,...,... . ., ' 6 I V'i's'3- - 1 W Vi-frwczf'--wi Hamel.-. .. . . ,.-...-. ' 1- 'f '

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DRAMA AT THE PHOENIX The Phoenix Theatre and Drama students at UVic had an active and productive year. The productions of the many readers' theatres, workshops, and visit- ing troupes, were highlighted by two feature cam- pus productions, Bacchae, and Eugene O'Neill,s Long Days journey into Night. The first was per- formed by the Drama Club, the second by theatre students under the direction of Frederick Edell.