Colours were re-awarded to C. J. Brown, P. N. Nash, J. S. D. Pearson, A. G. Sherriff, D. C. Spencer and M. R. McMahon. New Colours were K. R. Burns and I. T. Walton. 1973 has brought with it the growth of water polo as a serious sport. The inter-house competition was keenly contested and Queen's, surprising everyone but themselves, beat Grove in a close final. In the first round School House lost a 2-0 lead in the space of less than two minutes, and went down 3-2 to Queen's. Grove qualified for the final by beating a Staff team in the semi-finals. The School team have been involved in several inter-school and interclub matches during the Spring term and the standard of play is rising considerably. Although the Summer term is predominantly swimming, we are entering in the Yorkshire County Knockout Competition and are looking forward to some good results in those matches. 1973 Spring Term Results: AMPLEFORTH INTER-SCHOOL COMPETITION WINNERS Spenboro' (Home) Won 5-4 Bootham Won 11-4 Halifax (Club) Lost 7-4 Spenboro' (Away) Won 3-2 Doncaster G.S. Won 5-3 This year's Swimming Standards Competition was won by Manor with an average standard of 13.76 out of 20.0 per boy. This was an increase of 1.5 per boy over the 1972 average of School House. Second were Dronfield with 12.13 and third were Rise with 12.10. 1973 Inter-House Swimming Competition looked like causing an upset to the general pattern, with both Manor and Dronfield very strong in the junior sections. However, it seems that everyone neglected to inform a certain House who consider the Kazarooni Cup their own. Thus, despite the narrow points margin between the Houses after the individual events, School House, who had representatives in each of the six team events, romped home winners with 96 points to Manor's 76. Queen's were third with a total of 71 points. The only record of the day fell appropriately to School House, in the U.14 Freestyle team race. Their time of 57.7 beat Manor's 1970 time of 58.4. T.T.
FENCING Although very few School matches were arranged this Christmas term, School fencing provided the backbone of York Fencing on many occasions. The first such occasion was a match between the Y.F.A. and Huddersfield F.C. The School provided one fencer for the first team foil, Simon Atkinson, who, by winning all his bouts, enabled the Y.F.A. to clinch victory by 6 bouts to 3 ; and two fencers, Martin Black and Richard Hazell, for the second team, who managed to overwhelm Huddersfield completely. In the Sabre match, the School offered the services of two sabreurs, Simon Atkinson and David Taylor, who helped the Y.F.A. team to win the clash 7 bouts to 2. 46
