RUGGER TEAMS WIN ONE AND LOSE ONE

The Douglas College first rugby team survived a brutal match
against a U. S. Army team at Fort Lewis on Saturday and emerged victors
by a score of 20-6. The Fort Lewis team are notorious for their dirty
roughneck tactics winning most of their games by brute force, late tackles
and putting the boot to various parts of their opponents anatomy when-
ever the opportunity presents itself. In the game on Saturday, Douglas
refused to be intimidated and stuck to their pre-game plan of out-finessing
and out-smarting the U.S. Army. Mid-way through the second half Douglas
were leading 8-6 on tries by Burt Kerby and Bill Hourston. At this point
Fort Lewis displayed thuggery at its worst on the sports field when one
of their players deliberately kicked Douglas fullback, Mark Andrews, in
the head, sending him to hospital for 25 stitches. Needless to say the
Douglas players were just furious and spurred on by their anger crushed
Fort Lewis in every department for the remainder of the game, increasing
the score to 206 by the official whistle. The final scoring for Douglas
was the result of two more tries by Burt Kirby, giving him a hat trick,
and two conversions by Dave Jagger.

The Douglas firsts are still unbeaten this season and are
perched comfortably at the top of their division.

The Douglas College seconds rugby team went down 11-7 to Port
Coquitlam in another League match on Saturday. The Douglas forwards
had a field day dominating the set scrums and loose rucks. But the backs
were badly beaten by their opposite numbers, especially Port Coquitlam's
Al Anderson who last year played on the Fraser Valley all-star team.
The score was 4-3 at the half in favour of Port Coquitlam and they ex-
tended this lead to 11-3 midway through the second half. Douglas
reduced the score to 11-7 and realizing a converted try would then win
it for them Douglas really poured on the pressure in the dying minutes
of the game. But Port Coquitlam withstood the onslaught and hung on
to win. Scorers for Douglas were Pat Johnson with a 40 yard field goal
and rookie Rob MacDonald with a try.

Gert van Niekerk

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