Walkerville Collegiate Institute - Blue and White Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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BLUE AND WHITE SENIOR RUGBY TEAM BACK ROW: J. Macl.achlan. P. Abramoff. I). Bell. D. Montrose. I.. Marlo-.ve. K. Kornacki. P. Mrakovich. 3rd ROW: J. Dowhaniuk, R. Montrose, I). Holmes, X. Grahb, X. MacPhee, G. Hope. H. M archand. 2nd ROW: S. Yanchtik, V. Kulman. I. Wilkie, (Capt.), Mr. Forman, VY. Bell, H. Aston, R. McBride. FRONT ROW: I). Gibson, S. Cipparonc, L. Ross, K. Crispin. Absent: Wilf Day. Page Seventy-Five

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BLUE AND WHITE BOYS’ ATHLETIC SOCIETY Honorary President.Mr; X. Ball President...........Lyle Ross Vice President...—.... Wright Bel! Secretary.Harry Marehand Treasurer. .Mr A. C, Brown Assistant Treasurer Harry Longmuir The above executive was elected by the W.C.I, boys by ballot in September, 1945. Because of the many activities in which these officers of the society take part regular meetings have not been held, but a meeting has been called whenever there was a matter to be decided. Posters were obtained to advertise the W.S.S.A, games, cheer leaders were secured for the foot¬ ball games and the ticket sales for all games have been handled by the society. House leagues have been operated for soccer, football, basketball and hockey A search for a larger school trophy case, begun last year, was continued this year but without success and now a built’in case is to be supplied by the Windsor Board of Education. The W,C,L Injured Athletes ' Fund was revived last year and the proceeds of one of the semi-final play-off hockey games, and of a Senior Boys vs Teachers basketball game were added to the benefit fund this year. FOOTBALL This year ' s football team was a team of which Walkerville can well be proud. Starting out the season as the underdog this team went as far as the finals in the city championship series. A great deal of this success was due to the spirit that the fellows on the team showed—time after time the Walkerville Tartans came from behind to win the game. Another and even greater factor in the success of the team was the wonderful job of coaching done by Mr. Forman. There is no doubt about it, Mr. Forman did a remarkable job of rounding out a good team, for. unknown to a lot of people, Walkerville Collegiate had about the smallest squad, numerically, of any school in the city. Very often Mr. Furman found himself without enough players at practice to run a scrimmage. LYLE ROSS (centre half). Lyle was our big gun this year, lie did most of the plunging and kicking and was a moun¬ tain on defence. Lyle was selected lor this year ' s All-City Team, RODNEY (ROD) MONTROSE (cen¬ tre). Rod was line-captain this year and he was both a defensive and an offensive player. DONALD GIBSON (middle), Don was one of the best tacklers on the team and was always a thorn in the side of the opposition breaking up play after play. Page Seventy-Four

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BLUE AND WHITE He missed the All-City Team by only one vote. SAM CIPPARONE (right half). Sam had an educated toe and was the highest scorer on the team because of his accur¬ ate kicking from placement. WRIGHT BELL (left half). Wright was the fastest man on the team and he showed the opposition he could use bis speed to full advantage. WILE DAY (end). Wilf is a little fel¬ low with a lot of spirit. He pulled down many passes for long gains. JOHN MacLACHLAN (middle and end). John was a real power on the line. Defensively and offensively Johnn y rank¬ ed among the best. DON (200 lbs.) BELL (inside). Don was the heaviest man on the team and let the opposition feel the full force of his weight. Don will be a lot of help on next year’s team. HARRY ASTON (end). Harry was another of the small chaps on the team but size meant nothing to him. he would tackle anyone. He also pulled down many passes. HARRY LONGMUIR (quarterback). Harry was the smallest fellow on this team. He was speedy and shifty and always a player the opposition had to watch. SOLLY SIGAL (middle). A big fellow with a lot of drive. A fellow with a lot of fight and plenty of team spirit. IAN WILKIE (flying wing). Ian play¬ ed a steady game both on defense and offense. He was this year’s team captain. Other members of the team were: Ed. Kornacki. Doug. Montrose. Peter Abram- off, Glen Hope, John Dowhaniuk. Harry Marchand, Neil MacPhee. Peter Mrako- vich. Ed. Crispin, Larry Marlowe, Ross McBride, Serga Yanchuk. Nick Grabb. Dave Holmes. Vic Kulman, Bob Mapes. Stuart Johnston and Bill Hull were the best managers a team could hope to have. In one of the most thrilling football games in the High School league. Walk- erville defeated Assumption by the score 12-11. In the final game Vocational edged Pa e Seventy-Six alkerville out of the championship of the city. SOCCER Soccer was the first sport to bring home to W.C.I. a W.O.S.S.A. champion¬ ship. The team, under the able coaching of Mr. Young, went through a ten game schedule with only one loss. In the finals for the city, Walkerville nosed out a hard-fighting Patterson team by a score of 2-1. Then the Tartans defeated Chat¬ ham in the W.O.S.S.A. semi-finals bv a score of 3-0. London was the scene of the playoffs lor W.O.S.S.A. honours between Walk- erville and Hanover, a large, and ex¬ tremely well-padded team. Their extra padding was to no avail for they lost to alkerville by a score of 4-0. Throughout the season the team scored thirty-two goals and had only seven goals scored aginst it. These figures are indeed a tribute to the ability of the de- fence in protecting our goal and to the forwards for getting the goals. A great deal of the credit for the team’s showing goes to our coach. Mr. Young spent a lot of time and hard work- in turning out a winning team. Credit should also be given for the fine spirit and co-operation displayed by the boys during the playing season. GERALD NEELY — Outside Left. Hard working Gerry never quit trying and this type of player influences his team-mates. EARL KEYES—Captain—Inside Left. Besides being a good leader Earl is an excellent shot and a good team player— the best inside left in W.O.S.S.A. this year. We hope Earl will be back with us next year. GEORGE I RIM ESCU — Centre For- ward—George is one of our fastest de¬ veloping players — played his position almost perfectly and scored many a goal this year. George has another year with us. FRANK LONG—Inside Right. Quiet steady player, a handy man to have on a forward line.