Shooting

Played away on Saturday, 1st December. Won 13-6.

This match has already met with its fair share of publicity by such headlines in the National Press as "Seven-forward game gives St. Peter's control".

Influenced by three main factors—(1) The knowledge that our forwards were in the peak of their form, (2) The certainty that conditions at Worksop would be hard, fast and dry, and (3) The fact that for the first time this term we had two full-backs available for selection—the School played with seven forwards and eight backs for approximately 65 minutes of the 70-minute game. This distribution of players was effected by two fullbacks playing in echelon one with another, and could only be justified by the superb play of the remaining seven forwards.

In spite of the lack of weight in the scrum, a territorial advantage was held for most of the first half, but it was not until close on half-time, when Carruthers broke from a quick heel and went over for a try which Carr converted, that we gained the lead.

Half-time: St. Peter's 5, Worksop 0.

Further successes soon followed When tries by Cossins and then Liversidge gave the School a 13-point lead. From this point onwards Worksop made a partial recovery, but their efforts to mount attacks were either thrown out of gear by keen marking or baulked by the two full-back set-up. The gap was narrowed by the successful kicking of two penalty goals, but little further success came their way, and in the last school match of the term we had gained another notable victory. Team: —Le Pla, Jesper; Clegg, Robertson, Carr, McKay; Cloughton,

Carruthers; Kettlewell, Pace, Magson, Brown (Capt.), Cossins, Bruce,

Liversidge.

Caps awarded to Cossins and Bruce. Colours awarded to Le Pla, Jesper, Robertson, Carr and Cloughton.

Shooting this term has been along the usual lines, except that for the first five weeks the S.M.R.C. practising was confined to a relatively small number of members while everyone else concentrated on grouping. Another change was the reduction of three lists, A, B and C, to two, A and B, as the old B had shrunk to negligible proportions.

S.M.R.C. practices were of reasonable standard, and once again our postal matches suffered on each occasion, except the last, from one member of the team being badly off form. No one suffered from this more than once, but the result was that team scores just failed to be good. Results were (own score last): v. Victoria College, lost 784 to 771. v. Ampleforth, lost 771 to 767. v. Pocklington, won 776 to 777.

In the "Staniforth Cup" we made 771, and were placed 25th out of 120 competitors : this score is an example of the difficulty quoted above, for 35