the wellington college year book 2010/2011
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golf
another promotion. The introduction of full
co-education at Wellington has had its many
benefits but none as great as the freeing up
of Bigside 5 to allow us to play our home
games at College. In three years of playing
back at ‘Welly’ we have yet to lose a league
game and it brings back many a fond memory
with match teas in dining hall. For those of
you who want to take part in our 2011/12
campaign please contact Fergus Gilmour.
Above:
James Gilmour [Hl ????]
Fergus Gilmour [Hl ????]
Tom Alexander [Bl ????]
Ral Gilmour [Hl ????]
with the Arthurian League Division ? Cup
I
have always been into
stats, not necessarily due
to the teaching at College,
but from when I was
told the famous Andrew
Lang quotation that ‘an unsophisticated
forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man
uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for
illumination’. So here goes. Six years since
the owfc was reborn by Messers Longe [A
1999], Wade [M 1999] & Emsell [A 1999]
(ably support by John Edwards & Chris Potter)
and 99 games, 38 victories, 228 goals, 5 clean
sheets and 2 Dan Martin [Hn 2001] red cards
later, the owfc were on unfamiliar ground
knowing a victory in their 100th game against
top of the table Lancing would secure the
league title. With an hd camera set up on the
side lines and the most capped owfc player
in history in the shape of Will Misselbrook
[Bd 2000] dialing in from New York, the
‘Oh Dubs’ put in their finest performance to
date completing a 6-0 rout that resulted in a
well deserved celebration in the qpr training
ground dressing room 6.
Much has changed within the ranks of the
owfc since our 5-1 victory over Bradfield in
our inaugural match back in 2005 but there
was still a Misselbrook on the score sheet and
a Mallaburn [A 2000] on the bench. Having
played for the Oh Dubs since its inception
and having presided over many roles — it was
a total pleasure to witness our title winning
celebrations. There have been many highs
and lows over our 6-year history but winning
the league after years of narrowly avoiding
relegation was an immensely satisfying
high. With many of the squad hitting 30
next season we now need some new blood
to help us in our new division and push for
football
owfc player of the season
f e rg u s g i l m o u r [h l 19 97 – 20 0 2]
Back row:
Chris Rylatt [Hg ????]
James Searle (non OW)
James Gilmour [Hl ????]
Ben Kemsley (non OW)
Alexander Gulliford [Hl ????]
Ebenezer Banfu (non OW)
Peter Burroughs [Bd ????]
Front row:
Henry Barstow [O ????]
Tom Misselbrook [Bd ????]
Dave Curtis [T ????]
Fergus Gilmour [Hl ????]
Dan Martin [Hn ????]
Ed Mallaburn [A ????]
Ral Gilmour [Hl ????]
t o p g oa l s c o r e r
c h r i s ry l at t [h g 19 9 8 – 20 03]
g oa l o f t h e s e a s o n
e d m a l l a b u r n [a 19 95 – 20 0 0]
c o m m i t t e e p l ay e r o f t h e s e a s o n
a l e x g u l l i f o r d [h l 19 95 – 20 0 0]
G
olf is a great sport for involving all ages and all skill levels
and the owgs represents
those facets wonderfully.
In the last year we reached
the semi-final of the Grafton Morrish — one
of the three prestigious golf tournaments for
Old Schools’ Golf — we entered two teams in
the Senior Bernard Darwin Competition and,
although we narrowly lost to Stowe in the first
round of the Halford Hewitt, we did manage
to reach the quarter-finals of the Plate.
On the less competitive side we played
12 matches against various societies and
clubs with varying degrees of success and
both the Spring and Autumn Meetings were
well attended. At the Spring Meeting at
Rye windy conditions made scoring difficult
but Bas Gowar [Bn 1996] won the O’Brien
Scratch Medal with 75, Mike Power [S 1956]
won the Captain’s Shield with 37 Stableford
points and the Birkmyre Card Scratch Medal
for the over 50s with 79 and Alex StuartBamford [T 1998] won the Birkmyre Trophy
with 33 Stableford points.
The Captains’
Tankards were won by Peter Mallinson [Pn
1977] and Chris Stirling [L 1977] with 31
Stableford points, The Guy Docker Trophy
was won by Henry Somerset [Bn 1979] with
48½ Stableford points, the Walter Greenway
Cup by Barry Campbell [Hg 1959] with 41½
Stableford points and the Dutton Trophy was
won by Simon Pettigrew [S 1960] with 69
Stableford points. At Liphook in September
2010 while the scores were not brilliant, great
fun was had and Tony Collett [C 1958], Mike
Preedy [C 1969] and Henry Somerset took
the major honours between them.
We are now beginning to see the benefits
of the golf course at College and in particular
the high quality of leaving golfers. The
quality is so high that we do lose some of
them to golf scholarships at University and
even to aspirations of being professional
golfers but against that is the high number of
enthusiastic golfers of all skill levels. This is
also beginning to show in the teams for the
major representative tournaments where the
average age and handicaps are dropping rapidly.
We continue to get new members of all
ages and skill levels and are greatly indebted
to Iain Henderson not only for what he does
for College golf but also for his enthusiastic
promotion