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Soccer

This year the club's membership rose to near on fifty players, with the consequence that we were able to enter four teams in the local competitions-a marked change from several years back, in 1943, when with a great struggle we conjured up just the one team, and founded the club. It is significant also that this year our founder, N.B. Swinburne, was elected to represent us on the W.F.A.; and, as if to add honour to honour, Professor Gordon, Dean of the Faculty of arts, and a representative from the country where our sport is truly great, consented to be our patron.

The Senior Team, though far stronger than the team which won last year's University Tournament, has found the going fairly tough in the Senior A Division. The promotion has been good experience for us, though our successes have not been as frequent as we could have wished. Nevertheless, it is generally reckoned that we have been on the whole an extremely unlucky team and have in no way discredited the College. With this year's experience and next year's polish, great things are expected. It is appropriate to mention here that the services of an experienced coach would be of immense benefit.

The two 2nd grade teams have, for the greater part, consisted of inexperienced players trying their hand at the game. Their victories have not been frequent, but their enjoyment has nevertheless been unbounded.

The Third Grade team, we are glad to say, brought great honour to the club with an almost unbroken series of wins to its credit. At the moment of writing, it appears likely that this team will win the local third grade cup.

The chances of the representative team at tournament this year, we feel are good. We have some excellent new players and have strengthened up considerably in parts where we were last year weak. Probably. However, the most important factor is the good spirit that exists in the club, perhaps best expressed in the following misquotation from Wordsworth:—

"Thou Child of Joy,

Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Soccer-boy!"