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After 9 months of relative inactivéty the rebirth of the soccer team
came about on Friday evening. Unfortunately the labour was rather long and
painful and V.C.C. capitalised upon the situation and defeated the college team
by four goals to one. The expectant father spent ninety minutes anxiously pat-
rolling the dde lines, but could do little to shorten the agony. It was the
_ first game of the season, and over-anxiety, enthusiasm and poor field conditions
did little for our skill level. vV.C.C. played well, as a team and deserved to
win; we meet them again on Friday 3rd. October.

On Saturday we played B.C.I.T. and on Sunday Malaspina at Nanaimo.
After these two games it was decided that we invite some of the health sciences
students along on their practicums. On Saturday one of B.C.I.T. players had
fourteen stitches above his eye and a broken nose, another player had a broken
nose and Fred Powell from D.C. had 3 stitches in a scalp wound. The college
were down three goals to one but fought back tremendously in the last twenty
minutes to tie at 3-3. The whole team played well, especially Buch Eakins in
nets, for the first time as our regular goal keeper had another game. Bruce
Filsinger, Ralph Stevens, Errol Alexandra all had strong games, and I must
congratulate the team on a tremendous display of team spirit and good soccer.

Sunday morning, 6.45 a.m. saw the coach walking round the parking lot
at Horseshoe Ray waking up students who had slept there following the dance at
Richmond. Glen Budden and Ralph Stevens had slept in a V.W. and unfortunately
we didn't manage to straighten them out until the return journey. Most of the
students had refused to give blood at the Surrey campus on Friday because of
the three games ahead, but it was feared that most would bleed to death if they
opened their eyes at all on Sunday.

The game kicked off at 10.00 a.m., Malaspina smarting from a defeat
by V.C.C. the day before, also smarting from a physical encounter in which one
player was ejected from the game. College scored in the first thirty seconds
with a cleverly disguised cross from Daryl Stager which bounced off the outside
of his foot in the opposite direction, fooling the goalkeeper, the defence, our
forwards, the coach, the referee and Daryl himself.

Unfortunately the referee did not arrive for the game, and a student
refereed - who at times lost control of the game. Scott Ormiston was carried off
with a split eye, and upon arriving at hospital found the surgeon on duty was the
referee for the game, but had been called in to the emergency ward. Needless to
say, Scott was back from the hospital and playing within 15 minutes. Very soon
we were 3-1 down but again the team pulled itself up by its jock straps and fought
back to a 3-3 tie, which had the game gone on for a few more minutes, could have
been a win for college.

We suffered a badly bruised toe, twisted ankle and seven hangovers, but
all in all a good weekend was had by all.

No finish on our usual note, we'll be in there again this weekend and
we'll come through -------- as the bishop said to the actress.