SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS - from Phoenix 1965 [published July 1965]
FOOTBALL - JUNIOR ELEVEN
Owing to the absence on many occasions of various key members of the team, I was forced to reshuffle the line-up nearly every week.
Our record was as follows:
Played Won Drawn Lost
12 3 1 8
Special congratulations to McConnell, Schulz, Howes and Doherty for playing while only in the second form, and to Dodd and Farrell who are only in the first form. Also our thanks to Poland who netted nine goals and was absent on only one occasion.
The players would like to thank Mr. Thompson and Mr. Barker for refereeing our home games, the girls for catering services rendered, and other members of staff for supporting us on certain occasions.
A. PROBYN
NETBALL - UNDER 13 TEAM
The season was reasonably successful for the second year team. The main reason for this was some extremely good shooting from Sylvia Skates, who played attack for the first time, and some good defending by Norma Warren.
ELIZABETH COWELL (Capt.)
STAFF v. PUPILS HOCKEY MATCH 1965
Some guardian of public morals once urged us “to love the game above the prize”; it was surely in this spirit that those members of staff who hazarded their dignity, and any myths about their physical prowess, upon the hockey-field, set out to provide entertainment rather than secure success. Should the Muses choose only to celebrate G. Hullah’s two-fold victory (in the 28th and 32nd minutes of the game) they would be neglecting their best material, for many of the staff team chose to imitate ancient warriors by biting the dust in the best classical style. On that day fell the flower of the Geography, Zoology and Art Departments (were memories of American baseball still lingering?) However, the staff also displayed a real tactical skill on the wings, their strategy clearly flowing from the combined fountain-beads of Theology and History. Colours must be awarded post-humorously to Mr. J., whose return to the field in the second half was greeted with rapturous applause, and Mr. B., who had been well instructed in the art of troop movement; Shades of Grant (the general, not the physicist) and Sherman hovered around him as he intercepted a pass near the touchline with the memorable words, “Leave it to me”. A shade of Jackson visibly blanched as a voice from the crowd roared approbation: “Leave it to The General I” Their efforts should have been crowned with success, although a study of history teaches us to sustain defeat philosophically. Against such an array of personality and eccentricity the school could offer only efficiency, and one moment of misfortune when a player, suitably wearing L-Plates, volleyed the ball into her colleague’s back. (Even this incident, however, was well matched by the sight of a member of staff hitting himself on the knee with his own stick). But individuality, it seems, must always be suppressed by an efficient society, and a gloomy premonition aroused by the black kit of both members of the Physics Department was justified by the final score; they should have remembered, if we may paraphrase Chaucer’s advice-”goal in phisik is a cordial.” (Score: School 2 Staff 0).
SPECTATOR