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Lancaster House Report
1961 |
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CHRISTMAS TERM |
RUGGER: This term we had three groups of House Matches
which did not count towards the House Rugger Cup.
Seniors : Craven, 3-3, draw. York, 8-21, lost. York, 0-21,
lost.
Juniors :Craven, 3-20, lost. York, 6-18, lost. York, 21-5,
won.
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GYM GAMES.
During the term we had four sets of gym games.
October 1st, 1961-The teams consisted of boys from the Shell
and Remove Forms. Two teams represented Lancaster at
Volley-Ball and Handball. Both teams did very well to win
their games.
Volleyball: Watmough, Bushell ii, Snape, Denny, Eddy ii. v's.
York, won 27-11.
Handball: Baker ii, Lloyd, Sherwood, Bartle, Currie, Streeting.
v's. York, won 3-2.
In the final result we came second to Craven, who just managed
to beat us by a few points.
Saturday, November 12th, 1960.-The two teams to
represent the House were picked from the Lower and Upper IV
Forms.
Volleyball: Moss, Buckley, Edwards, French, Gibson.
Handball: Mico, Marshall, Wallbank, Knapper, Clark.
We came 2nd to York.
Saturday, November 26th, 1960.-The two teams consisted
of V and VI Formers.
Volleyball Bushell i, jones, Sayers, Morgan, Cram.
Courtball Bushell i, jones, Sayers, Morgan, Cram.
The final positions were: 1st Lancaster, 2nd York, 3rd Craven.
Saturday, December 10th, 1960.-The same teams
represented the House as did on October lst and the final
positions wore: lst Lancaster and York, 3rd Craven.
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ:
On Sunday, October 23rd was held the first round of the
General Knowledge Quiz. Two teams represented Lancaster,
from the Senior School, Embrey, Sayers, Crawley, R. R. ii
and from the Lower School, Streeting, Branson, Watmough,
McGuffie, French.
The second and final round was held about 4 weeks later and
was eagerly awaited by everyone. In the Senior School Sayers
and R. R. ii and in the Lower School Streeting and French
were the finalists.
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LENT TERM |
RUGBY: This term the House matches were played for the
House Rugger Cup. The team was selected from all forms other
than the V and V1. Altogether we played three sets of matches.
The team was captained by Moss who led the team in both v~ and
defeat extremely well. Although we were handicapped from the
start the team did very well and they managed to beat Craven
but York were just too strong for us.
Team: Moss (scrum half) McGuffle (full back) Turner i (left
wing) Pallister ii (right wing) Cousins (left centre) Wat~
(right centre), Knapper (stand off), Buckley (lock), Jones ii
Bridge (second row), Fawcett, Snape (props), jerorne (hooker),
Baker ii, Bushell ii (wing forwards).
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v. York. February 8th, 1961: We kicked off and attacked
with such force that we scored almost immediately giving us a
3 point lead. For the next 15 minutes the match was very even,
but finally York broke through to score their first try which
was converted. From this time York seemed to be inspired and
continued to score and by half-time were leading 13-3. In the
second half York started olf the scoring but we managed to
keep the scoring down and in the final minutes of the match we
broke through to score making the final score York 19,
Lancaster 6.
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v. Craven. 8th March, 1961: We again kicked off and
after about 15 minutes hard fighting Moss broke through to
score our first try. This was converted by Fawcett giving us
a 5 point lead. Craven then returned the attack and scored.
For the rest of the first half the match seemed to be fairly
even. After about 10 minutes of the second half we again
started the scoring. Buckley and Bushell ii each scoring a
try. Craven still fought back but our scrum was too heavy
and fast for them to hold. The last try of the match was
scored by Cousins and converted by Fawcet making the final
score Lancaster 16, Craven 14.
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MARATHON: The interhouse marathon was held on
Wednesday, 22nd March, 1961. It turned out to be a hot and
most unreasonable day for long distance running. Every member
of the House took part and ran extremely well. The most
notable runners were Sayers (4), Coupe (5), Moss (11), jones i
(6), Sayers (7), Hurst (10), who did very well to keep up such
a fast pace on a hot day.
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GYM GAMES: On Saturday, 4th February was held the first
set of Interhouse gym games. The teams were selected from the
IV Form downwards.
Volleyball: Moss, Bushell ii, Cousins, Gibbson, Branson.
Six-a-side football : Fawcett, jones ii, Buckley, McGuffic,
French, Watmough.
We beat both Craven and York.
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SUMMER TERM. |
This term so far nothing as yet has been played. We still have
the interhouse Sports Cup, the Cricket Cup and the Swimming
Cup to compete for.
The sports are on the 5th July and the Swimming on the 7th
July. The cricket matches which take longer will be played off
during the last week of Term.
As this report is going to be printed before I have the
results I can only say that we are going to do our very best
to win all three cups.
I have been House Captain now for two years and I would like
to finish my report by thanking everyone in the House for
making my last two years at Eshton memorable and enjoyable. We
have had many exciting encounters with York and Craven during
those two years, and I would like to thank the House Captains
of these two Houses for making all the Inter-House Matches
enjoyable in victory or defeat.
It is also hard to say how much the house will miss Embrey,
the only other School Prefect in the House, who has been a
great asset to the House throughout the whole year. Finally, I
would like to say that I hope the house will support the next
House Captain as well as they have supported me ; and I wish
Lancaster in the future, the best of luck.
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J.BUSHELL,
House Captain. |
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