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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review October 1907

Juniors

Juniors.

Second XI.

Matches played, 12. Won 5, lost 7. Goals : For, 42; Against, 45.

V.C. v St. Patrick's College Old Boys. Won, 4—2. Played at Miramar in the wind. Griffths played a sterling game, earning thereby promotion to the Seanior XI. Sergeant (2), Paterson, and Willis scored,

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V.C. v Wesley. Lost, 5—3. A poor exhibition. Castle, Patersom, and Sargent scored the goals.

V.C. v United. Lost, 4—2. Team greatly strengthened by inclusion of the "Fratres Prcusii," A really good performance against redoubtable opponents. O. R. Prouse notched both goals.

V.C. v Vivan. Lose, 7—3. Another poor exhibition. Forwards patchy, and lacked shooting ability. Niven the bright star on the rapidly receding gorizon of the backs. Willis and the Prouse Brothers goaled.

V.C. v Thorndon. Won, 8—3. Bravo, forwards ! Bravo, backs ! This game, played as it was in a sea of mud, should be handed down a monument of the vigour of a self-recuperated team. O. R. Prouse (3), Paterson (2), Willis, G. S. Prouse, and Broad were the enhancing factors.

V.C. v Y.M.C.A. Lost, 7—4. The best game of the season, and with a little luck we might have beaten one of the best of this year's teams. O. R. Prouse (3) and Paterson obtained the goals.

V.C. v Wesley. Lost, 5—4. Another excellent game. Good work done by backs, notably Wilkie, Eichelbaum, and Fitt. Paterson and O. R. Prouse, as usual shared the goals.

V.C. v Y.M.C.A. Lost, 3—0. The first game in which team failed to score. Although the forwards played a strenuous game, and the backs made only three mistakes, we had to acknowledge defeat at hands of superior team.

V.C. v Vivan. Won, 5—3. A very solid and even game. Fitt at full. Was magnificent, and Jones, in goal, played the game of his life. Paterson (2) and the Bogle Brothers (3) enhanced.

V.C. v United. Lost, 4—2. "Strenua nos exercuit inertia." Adjourned after two short spells, just in time to see the Kiwis defeat V.C. ladies. Two young played, Hoghen (Julius) and O' Leary, showed good promise, and Strack played well. Paterson and Hogben (aforesaid) smote the goals.

III. A.

Matches played, 13. Won 9, drawn 3, lost 1 (by protest). Goals: For, 73; Against, 13.

V.C. v Wellington. Won, 1—0. A most ridiculous game. We had our opponents defending almost without intermission, but could not score till, just on time, Fitt bustled the ball through.

V.C. v Vivan. Won, 15—0. The encouragement of the onlooking V. C. lady hockey enthusiasts urged our men to make a great effort. One or two of them did not score.

V.C. v United. Won, 9—1. The Capping Carnival of the night before did not seem to lesson our energy. Our forwards played with better combination than in any other match, and the inside forwards, Smith, Barnett, and Broad, shot very well. Monaghan played well at right half.

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M.H. Oram, Photo. HOCKEY III A TEAM, 1907.

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V.C. v Y.M.C.A. We scored 10 goals to our opponents' 2, but on a protest lost the match for playing unregistered players—Bogle Brothers, to wit.

V.C. v V.C. III. B. Won, 19—0. We had nine men against the B's eight.

Second Round.

V.C. v Thorndon A. Drawn, 3—3. A fast, even, and exciting game, in which numerous chances were lost on both sides.

V.C. v Thorndon B. Won, 4—2. The first spell was very even, but we had the better of the second. Macalister played well at bully, as did Hoult at full-back, and in the second spell Stuart and MacMorran were vigorous.

V.C. v Y.M.C.A. Won, 1—0. In the first minutes MacMorran scored the only goal of the match. Our backs played splendidly.

V.C. v Wesley. Won, 3—0. One sell only played, our opponents having only seven men.

Cup Tie Final.

V.C. v Thorndon A. Won, 2—0. A remarkably fast game. All our backs played excellently. Kibblewhite was perfection in stopping and hitting smartly and effectively. MacMorran and Monaghan were the best of the forwards; each scored a goal. A feature of the match was MacDougall's line-umpiring.

III. B.

V.C. v Y.M.C.A. Lost, 6—0. We fought like Saxons, but adverso Marte.

V.C. v Thorndon B. Lost. We played with eight men and a Y. M. C. A. emergency.

V.C. v Wesley. Lost, 11—2. Monaghan scored and saved our honour.

V.C. v V.C III. A. Lost again. Score forgotten.

V.C. v Thorndon A. Another loss, 7—0.

V.C. v Wellington. Lost, 11—2. Evens scored one of the goals, and a Y. M. C. A. played the other.

V.C. v United. Lost, 7—2. Played at Karori. Our team consisted of two III. B men, a Junior, a footballer, a United barracker, and a Karori native. Hogben and the Karori native scored.

V.C. v Vivan. We lost this game also.