Wallaceburg District Secondary School - Actiana Yearbook (Wallaceburg, Ontario Canada)

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SR. BOYS BASKETBALL .... Front Row - Donald Daley, Doug MacKenzie, Mr. Wallace: Coach, Gerald Henderson. Iames Suth- erland. Second How - Gary Cooper, Eddie Davies, Peter Ayres, lim Glasgow. Gerald Ayres, Nelson Labor. Dave Domanski, Ken Simpson. JR. BOYS BASKETBALL .... yy Front Row - Albert Schmidt, Bob Lewis. Mr. Douglas Thompson, BJ... fCoachJ. Craig LaPointe. 1CaptainJ. Terry Milner. Second Row - Gordon Webb, Bruce Hunter, Gordon Langstaft, Peter Hensel. Eddie Dewar, Iohn Miller. Tom McLaughlin. - 60 -

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CASE OF FRENZIED B. BALL COACH . . . The world's championship basketball game between undefeated C.C.I. and W.D.H.S. starts in less than an hour, and Wallaceburg's first line has been kidnapped. Mr. Wallace, the coach, calls in our hero, J. Edgar Heifer, detective Cprivatel to take the case. As the start of the game approaches, Wallace is getting frantic. He knows that if J. Edgar Heifer doesn't soon find his first stringers he will have to play the second line, which consists of Crooks Cooper, Sure Shot Suth- erland, Goose-on-the-Loose Labor, Easy Ed Davies and Simp the Fluke . And the coach has about as much in them as John K. Burnett has in the stu- dent council. Meanwhile, Mr. Thompson, the junior coach is viewing the proceedings from the gallery, when Bannister Bill Norman comes puffing toward him and says, Man, I'm pooped! I've been running around the gym for three hours! Well, the game's going to start right away, sir. Do you think Wallaceburg has a chance? Sure! replies Thompson. Watch and see. By this time the game is in progress and Wallaceburg heads 2-0. The Fluke fluked. That basket is all Wallaceburg needed to get under way, be- cause at half-time the second stringers head C.C.I. 43-0. Meanwhile, J.Edgar Heifer, private bull is still looking for the lost first line. Time marches on, and finally, our hero finds the lost players, who hadn't been kidnapped at all, but were in the visitor's dressing room, eating their oranges. By the time they got dressed and into the gym, there are only four min- utes left to play, and Wallaceburg leads by a score of 78-0. Wallace rushes the first line into the game and benches the second stringers. With the first line playing, the score quickly changes, and C.C.I.'s basket with three seconds of play puts them ahead 79-78. Wallaceburg calls time out. Mr. Wallace uses stfategy now, and puts in the second string again. It is Wallaceburg's ball at their end line. Goose-on-the-Loose passes it to Easy Ed , who whips it to Gooks Cooper who hands it off to Sure Shot and Sutherland lets one go! It soars up and through the basket at the other end, just as the buzzer sounds. W.D.H.S. defeats C.C.I. for the world's championship, 80-79! V Ken Simpson Qi . '44 if ix 92311 t . f,', E ' C 'X 5 X -J. I A my Ng sl g . JZ - 59 -

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SR. BOY'S BASKETBALL .... Practice began very early this season under coach Glen Wallace. There was a large turnout but it was whittled down to eleven players. Several types of defensive and offensive plays were practiced. Although the team has four players over six feet tall, control of the backboard was not always in their hands. The team's shooting was good but there was room for improvement in the long shots and particularly in the foul shots. The first game against Blenheim was a victory for W.D.H.S. at the score of 51-25. Our first defeat came at the hands of C.C.I. when a combination of fast breaks and accurate shooting gave them a 45-39 victory. W.D.H.S. won the next four games, de- feating C.V.S. 42-39, Ridgetown 41-31, Blenheim 34-27 and C.V.S. 37-29. In the next game C.C.I. whipped W.D.H.S. again with a last minute rally by a score of 34-30. The last game of the season was played in Ridgetown. This game was a very inept one and if we had won, which we didn't, we would have captured the WOSSA 'B' district championship and would have gone on to play Amhearst- burg. Since R.D.H.S. defeated W.D.H.S. 33-31 there was a tie. The tie-breaking game was played in Dresden with R.D.H.S. winning once more with a score of 29-27. Thus ended Wallaceburg's dreams of a boys' basketball title for the team. Our team consisted of G. Ayres, centre: J. Glasgow, forward, G. Hender- son, forwardg D. MacKenzie, guard, P. Ayres, guard. Substitutes-D. Daley, G. Cooper, K. Simpson, E. Davies. D. Domanski, N. Labor and our mascot, J. Lumley. JR. BOY'S BASKETBALL . . . The year 1954-55 saw a relatively successful season for the Junior Bask- etball team. The team did not win a championship but it did give a good acc- ount of itself and gained much valuable experience. Of this year's team, only one player had previous experience in inter-school basketball. Thus, the team that carried the laurels of the Wallaceburg District High School into Junior competition this year was a young and relatively inexperienced team. How- ever, time and hard work did much to compensate for the lack of experience. By the end of the season, the team was playing good sound basketball and had scored three victories- one over Chatham Vocational School, one over Bl r 1- heim and one over a powerful Ridgetown club. Next year, all but three of this year's team will be eligible for junior basketball. Thus, we are hoping that next year's team will chalk up a larger number in the win column. A year's exper- ience playing together as a team can make a lot of difference. The players of this year's Junior Basketball team are as follows: Craig Lapointe Ccaptainl, Peter Hensel Cassistant captainb, Gordon Langstaff, Bob Lewis, Gordon Webb, Bruce Hunter, Eddie Dewar, Tom McLaughlin, Terry Milner, Albert Schmidt and John Miller. -61-