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Sports Committee Report. . .
Aims of the Committee :
1. To prov ide suitab le faci liti es and
equipment.
2. To cat er for the interests of all
students.
3. To arrange inter-college tr ips to
coun try co lleges.
Committee :
Composed of representatives from
a ll spo rt ing groups, thi s committee
is headed by two secretaries-a man
and a wo m an. All work is done in
conj unction with the Co llege's three
Physical Ed uca tio n lecturers : Miss
Wallace, Miss Longden and Mr . Ladd.
The committee is grateful to these
three people for their gu idance and
encouragement.
Acco mplishments du ring 1964 :
1. Dr inking taps we re p laced between
th e hockey and the football
fie lds to save p laye rs that
lo ng wa lk back to co llege for a
dri nk .
2. The oval w as top-dressed and the
grass cut; footballers and cricketers
sho u ld en joy their sport on
th is excellent g ro und in 1965.
3. The College 's p u rchase of a
tractor has facilitated the development
of the spac io us grounds
around the buildings; for insta nce
we now have a new hockey fie ld
and a new baseball d iamond.
4. In con junction with the Ground
Developm ents Commi ttee safety
fences were erected around the
ba sketball and hockey areas.
5 . To develop a ne w sport in the
college, dumbells, weights and a
weight-lifting bench were provided.
Th is increased the range
of spo rt available to stud en ts .
Yoga and Bush-wal k ing were al so
int roduced th is year.
6. Th is year, the spo rts tr ip to a
cou nt ry college was to Bend igo .
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A specia l train too k o ne hundred
and e ighty students and
lecturers to a fog-shro uded Ben ­
digo whe re they we re welcomed
by an enthusiastic band of Ned
Ke lly's followers . All in all , it
was an enjoyable and a successfu
l tri p.
7. Our m aj or accompli shment thi s
year wa s the success of ou r sw imming
team in th e in ter-college
carn ival early in the year. The
team swam excellentl y to ga in
places in most of the race s.
Supporters we re wel l-voic ed and
re mained to the en d to see Frankston
w in its fir st major interco
llege sh ie ld . Per haps we shall be
equally successf ul in November's
Ath let ics Carnival. Added interes t
w ill be given to the athletics by
the appearance of o u r Olympic
representative Laurie Peckham .
General :
Apart fro m these mo re noticeable
accompl ishments, every week small
items of equipment we re provided,
in ter-college games were arranged
a nd facili ties were m ade avai lable to
all spo rts groups. These efforts
certainly p roved wo rt hw hi le this
year as eight out of our sixteen teams
reached the grand final s in the intercollege
sport . Our fo ur premiership
w inners we re Squash , Basket ball
Sec on ds, Hockey Seconds, and Soft ­
ba ll Fir st s .
There ca n be no doubt th a t the
abili ty to participate in sporting act ivities
is a g reat help to a teacher in
ga ining acceptance in t he community.
As the spo r ts co mmittee does it s
utmost to provide a w ide range of
sports fo r col lege studen ts it feels
that it is performing an important
function .
- Marylo u Ha nco ck
- Max Quanchi