MAIN MATCH

SATURDAY 10 MAY 2014, KELBURN PARK

UNIVERSITY

1. Matt Walker (gk)

2. Matt Ryan

3. Aidan Lawrence

4. Andrew Staples

5. Sam McLaughlin

6. Steve Davey

7. Daan Kjartansson

8. Ignacio Donovan

9. Peter Grierson

10. Matt Wilson

11. Matt Rowe

12. Seb Ninness

13. Simon Davies

14. Miles Lloyd

Coach: Iain MacIntrye

RED SOX MANAWATU

2. Bill Rimmongrua

3. Campbell Greig

4. Connor McGechan

5. Liam Smithers

6. Crispin Moore

7. Jared Seeyle

8. Keita Asakuma

9. Matt Kilpatrick

10. Michael Hilson

11. Mitchell Higgison

12. Ryan Williams

13. Wayne Molloy

14. Zac Beechey-Gradwell

Victoria University A.F.C

Victoria University v Red Sox

Manawatu

Chatham Cup 2nd Round

Kelburn Park, 2.00pm Saturday 10 May 2014

Match Programme

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The Professor

The Professor is our weekly look at university football around the world, highlighting club sides, famous

victories and epic clashes. This week we’re off to America, with university (college) sports are big business.

One of the greatest sporting colleges is located in South Bend, Indiana. It’s also the home of The Gipper,

perhaps the most famous character in Ronald Reagan’s career (except for his eight year comedic turn as

President of the United States)...

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simp-

ly Notre Dame) is a Catholic research university. In

French, Notre Dame du Lac means "Our Lady of the

Lake" and refers to the university's patron saint,

the Virgin Mary.

The university today is organized into five colleges

and one professional school, and its graduate pro-

gram awards 32 master's and 25 doctoral de-

grees. Over 80% of the university's 8,000 under-

graduates live on campus in one of 29 single-sex

residence halls (so no Weir House-style toga par-

ties), and the university counts approximately

120,000 alumni.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are the varsity sports

teams of the University of Notre Dame. The school

colours are blue and gold and the mascot is the Lep-

rechaun.

Most famous is the American football team, with 11

national college championships. Most famous was

coach Knute Rockne, who led the Irish to a record of

105 wins, 12 losses, and five ties. But football has

been growing over the last few years and with it has

come great success.

Mens Team

Since 2001, the men’s team has been coached by

Bobby Clark, former Scottish international who

should be well-known here, as coach of the All

Whites between 1994 and 1996.

Last year, Notre Dame made it through the men’s

national final, losing only once all season. In the

final in Philadelphia, Notre Dame met the Universi-

ty of Maryland Terapins, who were aiming for their

sixth national championship.

In front of 6,000 fans on a windy night the game

apparently wasn’t the prettiest. Maryland took the

lead and held off Notre Dame for much of the game,

until two late goals saw the Irish overcome the Tera-

pins and take the title.

Women’s Team

The Notre Dame women’s team is one of the most

successful football sides in college football (second

only to North Carolina in terms of the national ti-

tles). Notre Dame's won the National Champion-

ship in 1995, 2004 and 2010 and were the runner-

up in 1994, 1996, 1999, 2006, and 2008. Notre

Dame is one of only three schools with multiple na-

tional titles.

Between 2004 and 2009, the women’s team made

the College Cup, the national semi-finals each year,

the only varsity side ever to do so.

Three Notre Dame players have won the Hermann

Trophy, given to the United States' best male and

female collegiate soccer players. They are Cindy

Daws (1996), Anne Makinen (2000) and Kerri

Hanks (2006, 2008). Hanks is one of only four

players to win the award twice.

On campus, the 26 single-sex halls compete every

spring in a intramural football competition.

Club News

On Sunday, 11 May, the Womens 1sts will be travelling up to Ashhurst to play Massey Univer-sity. This is the first time the two varsity sides have met in a competition game. It will be a challenging game. Massey are the run-away leaders of the Central League, and have been the dominant womens team in the region for the last few years.

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Epic battle of attrition for the Unicorns on Sat-urday after getting thrashed last week. We dom-inated Stop Out all game, thanks to a strong ef-fort from the back. A well deserved win, with special mention to TL for two assists, and being an all round top bloke.

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On a grey, wet, autumn day in Upper Hutt, the University Beavers took on the Upper Hutt ‘Saints’ on their home patch Maidstone Park in front of a crowd of 26 (largest Beavers crowd on record, 37th biggest ever in Cap 7) . After a cracking warm up you would’ve expected the game to get off to a hiss and a roar but in fact it was quite the opposite. Intensity levels were low, communication was non-existent and exe-cution was average at best.

After 10minutes or so also, the situation got worse with ring in keeper Jake hurting his hand further and having to go off for the rest of the match. They don’t build keepers like they used to! Upper Hutt started to get their combina-tions working together putting pressure on the defensive line. Eventually they got through the backline and then pounced on a keeping fumble to score the first goal of the match. The goal was the wake-up call the Beavers need-ed. The play improved considerably and was fair to say they had the upper hand for the remain-der of the half. Right on the stroke of half time, Bill threw an even longer than usual long ball into the goal box straight onto the head of an Upper Hutt defender who neatly guided it into their goal! The second half was probably one of the worst halves in Beavers' history, so we won't go into too much detail here. A total of four goals were scored by Upper Hutt in the second half. One

from a penalty kick after an aggressive slide tackle in the box from a Beavers defender and the others from their strikers skinning the backs down the sideline.

********** Round 4 had been hyped up alot in the preced-ing weeks as there is on-going rivalry between the Amigo's and the Cycles. The Amigo's had the better of the previous two fixtures, winning 3-0 last season and then gaining a 1-1 draw in preseason. The Cycles were certainly ready for revenge and the biggest test of our ability as a team this season.

The game began very fiercely with the Amigo's on the attack from the get go. We conceded our first goal very early on when they put a beauti-fully weighted through ball down the left hand flank, the striker beat our left back to the ball and then chipped it over the keeper. Things did-n't get any better from there, the Amigo's scored again very quickly due to another defensive mis-take and then got a 3rd minutes later when our keeper took the ball in the air from a free kick and then it slipped out from under him and into the goal. It was 3-0 and about 15 minutes in to the match.

The looks on the faces of the team told the story, we were shell-shocked and disheartened. After some rallying, the game settled down from there and the Cycles had more of the ball and a few chances. A break through came near the end of the second half when Nat (centre midfield) played the ball through to Khoi on the edge of the box who took a shot and got a deflection off the defender, which unluckily for the keeper went right into the corner of the net. The score stayed at 3-1 until half-time. Last week the Cy-cles came back from a 3-1 deficit against Miramar to get a 3-3 draw, there was hope that we could the same or better against the Amigo's.

The second half went much better for us but we were unable to capitalise and score again until around the 85th minute when Khoi played a ball through the defense which Lance latched onto and slotted underneath the keeper. 3-2 Amigo's with 5 minutes to go. Despite our best efforts and hitting the crossbar in the final couple of minutes that ended up be-ing the final score.

Home Ground: Skoglund Park Colours: Blue/Red

Formed: 2005

Red Sox Manawatu has a long and complicated history, formed from the merger and name changes of a range of clubs in Palmerston North. It is the direct descendant of national league clubs of the 1980s and 2000s.

The oldest of these clubs was Saint Andrew's, which was founded in the 1920s. St Andrew's joined forces with Palmerston City (formed in 1938 as Palmerston North Thistle) in 1971, and continued as Palmerston City until 1974. At that time the club changed its name to Man-awatu United. This club became Manawatu AFC in 1992 upon its merger with Rose City - a club which had itself been formed via a mer-ger. Manawatu AFC combined with Riverside Red Sox (a team formed from the 1998 merger of Riverside and Red Sox) in 2004.

Rose City had itself formed from the 1983 mer-ger of Glen Carron and Kiwi United. Glen Carron had previously been known as Corin-thian-Old Boys, a club founded in 1963 from the merger of Corinthians and Palmerston North Old Boys, the latter club having started its life as New Settlers FC in 1952.

Many of the merged clubs which are part of the Manawatu Red Sox history have had prominent places in regional or national football. Kiwi United reached the later rounds of the Chatham Cup on many occasions from the 1950s, reach-ing the 1973 Quarter-finals, as did Palmerston City in 1969.

Manawatu AFC played in the New Zealand Na-tional Soccer League from 2000 to 2003, and reached the Quarter-finals in 1997, 2001 and 2003. Palmerston North Thistle also reached

the Quarter-finals of the competition in 1967, and went one better to reach the Semi-finals in 1968. Manawatu United played in the New Zea-land National Soccer League in 1979 and from 1985 to 1988, and reached the Chatham Cup Quarter-finals in 1976.

Since the 2005 merger, Red Sox Manawatu played in the Central League in 2005 and 2006. It has made the playoffs with Capital Football teams for promotion back to the league, the last being in 2011. It won the Central Federation’s Lott Federation League in 2009, 2011 and fin-ished second in 2013.

Currently Red Sox Manawatu is fourth in the Lotto Federation League, with two wins and three losses from their first five games.

Since 2005 the club has made the Chatham Cup fourth round on four separate occasions. Last year, it lost 1-3 to Napier City Rovers in the Sec-ond Round.

Victoria University has faced one of Red Sox’s predecessor clubs only once before in the Chat-ham Cup. In 1987 we travelled up to Memorial Park to play then +National League side Mana-watu United, losing 9-0.

Our Opposition – Red Sox Manawatu

Honour Roll

Division Team Opponent This Week Result

Last Wk Psn

Saturday 10 May

Chatham Cup Men’s 1sts v Red Sox Manawatu (h) Lost 0-9 7th

Cap 5 Uni Accies v Naenae (a) Won 5-2 4th

Cap 5 Uni Stallions v Marist Skins (h) Won 7-1 1st

Cap 6 Uni Raiders v North Wellington (a) Lost 2-5 10th

Cap 7 Uni Beavers v Uni Scarfies (h) Lost 1-5 4th

Cap 7 Uni Scarfies v Uni Beavers (a) Lost 2-3 6th

Cap 10 Uni Amigos v Petone (h) Won 3-2 7th

Cap 10 Uni Cycles v Wellington Olympic (h) Lost 2-3 4th

Cap 11 Uni Brow v Island Bay United (a) Lost 3-4 7th

Cap 12 Uni Corinthians v Brooklyn Northern Utd (h) Lost 2-4 8th

Cap 12 Uni Wanderers v Stokes Valley (h) Lost 2-4 6th

Cap 14 Uni Goldenrods v Island Bay PakNSave (a) Lost 0-7 7th

Masters 4 Uni Bombers v Stokes Valley (a) 8th

Sunday 11 May

ASB Cup Uni Women’s 1sts v Massey University (a) Lost 2-3 4th

Womens 1 Uni Womens 2nds v Stop Out Black (a) Lost 0-2 2nd

Womens 3 Uni Womens Uni-Fied v Women’s 4ths (h) Lost 0-10 5th

Womens 3 Uni Womens Uni-4ths v Women’s Unified (a) Drew 1-1 7th

Monday 12 May

Cap 1 Uni Gossies v Island Bay United (h) Lost 1-2 9th

Cap 2 Men’s 3rds v Lower Hutt City (a) Lost 0-1 8th

Wednesday 14 May

Cap 9 Uni Unicorns v Waterside Karori (a) Won 2-1 4th

Okay, so not the best week for Uni teams in the Wellington grades. Still, getting the cobwebs out early

on in the season is a good idea, and bending over to pick up the ball from the back of the net is suppos-

edly a good cardio workout. Each team will be looking for revenge this weekend with some big clashes

across the grades, especially down in the lower divisions as the battles for mid-season promotion and

relegation heat up. At least the Stallions restored some pride on Wednesday night

Most importantly, this weekend is two intra-club derbies—the Beavers v Scarfies on Saturday and then

the Women’s Unififed v Womens 4ths on Sunday

Club XI - 3-6 May 2014

Note—Only ten players this week, possibly in homage to how many turned up for the Rods this week...

Keeper: Brenda Woodridge - Without her many saves, many more goals would have been scored!

Defence: Tom Rawcliffe - Tom has been fantastic the last 2 games for the Raiders. Young man playing very well.

Andy George—Tough day at the office for the Rods, but Andy G was all over the backline, holding off Stokes Valley players and covering the rest of us.

Chris Owen—for his "fiery" spirit, attitude and chat to rally the team against all odds and for his aggresive defensive which rattled the Ami-go's attack (Chris came on at 3-0 down and they didn't score a goal while he was on the field). Without Chris tonight I think the result would have been much worse (ended up being 3-2 to the Amigo's).

Midfield Jake Vesty - brought some mongrel to the midfield in the second half .

Dan Smith—player of the day of the Amigos in their 3-2 win over the Cycles in the first derby of the season.

Rob Tilbury—Controlled the midfield for the Rods, and set up what few attacking runs we had during the game. Constantly across the midfield, hunting for the ball all day

Toby Laing —two assists in a 2-1 win for the Unicorns, and being an all round top bloke .

Anton Kivell—Anton, Tayne and Andre thought they played alright for the Beavers so nominated themselves for best beavers on the day. Anton got a free jug at the clubrooms so I'm assuming he takes top points .

Strikers Carrick Lucas - in attack from Stallions. 3 goals and an assist in a 7-1 win. (although Bakky says he missed a couple of sitters).

If you have a player for the Club XI, email victo-riauniversirtyfootball@gmail.com to see that player’s names go in the mix for that week’s team

A couple of years ago we had a team called the

Uni Internationals, which surprisingly included

international students. This article has nothing

to do with them. Instead today we focus on two

players from our deep, dark history – players

who, while they were playing for Victoria Uni-

versity won caps for New Zealand.

Born in October 1932, Alan Herbert Preston

(left) was a gifted sportsman in both football

and cricket. Until 2003, he held the record for

the highest score (161 n.o.) in an innings for

Wellington College’s 1st XI, in a side that also

included former Governor-General Sir Paul

Reeves.

While playing football for Victoria University he

was picked for the Wellington rep side and in

1954 played in the North Island v South Island

match. Soon after he was selected for the New

Zealand team, playing his first game against

Wellington. He scored a hat-trick in that game

at the Basin Reserve and was picked for the

1954 tour of Australia, aged 21.

A tall centre forward, Alan played eight games

on that tour, including all three tests against

Australia.

The first test was the most memorable, at the

Melbourne Showgrounds. Six years after the

last game between the sides (which Aussie won

8-1), NZ scored twice in the first seven minutes.

We held on to win 2-1, to achieve the first win

over Australia after 16 previous outings. Unfor-

tunately, Aussie won the other two matches to

take the series. It’d be 25 years before we beat

them again.

Alan didn’t score on the tour, but he did

enough to be named in a side supposed to tour

South East Asia in 1956. Unfortunately that

tour fell through and Alan never played for NZ

again.

Alan also played cricket for Wellington, appear-

ing in 40 first class matches between 1955 and

1963. He took 32 wickets and scored 1440 runs

at an average of 24, including one century. He

died in Wellington in September 2004, aged 71.

He is probably better know around Wellington

as being the founder of Unity Books in Willis St.

One of Alan Preston’s last games for Wellington

was against FK Austria (the first major club side

to visit NZ) in 1957. Another Varsity player,

Naidu Perumal, appeared in the same match,

one of his nine appearances for the province. A

midfielder, Naidu had already played once for

NZ against a Hong Kong selection, and he

played in the NZ game against FK Austria on

the hallowed Eden Park. We lost 7-1 and that

was the first and only time Naidu represented

his country.

So yes, University has had international players,

and the 1950s weren’t that long ago...

Uni Internationals

The Chatham Cup is named, not after a per-son, but a ship HMS Chatham, the crew of which donated a trophy to NZ Football in 1922. It’s been played for since 1923 when Seacliff from Otago beat Wellington’s YMCA 4-0,* so we’ve done a little trainspotting re-search into Varsity’s previous history in the Chatham Cup.

Varsity has been competing in the Cup since before WWII and thanks to the Ultimate Soccer NZ website (www.ultimatenzsoccer.com) we’ve found records dating back to 1965.

In that year we made the 2nd Round (thanks to a bye) before losing 0-4 to Hun-garia (who I think were from Sweden).

Varsity has made the 4th Round of the Cup on three occasions (1979, 1988 and 1994). Our biggest win was 13-1 over Porirua Unit-ed in 1979, but our biggest scalp was Central League side, and three-time Cup winners Petone in 1968 (when we were in Wellington Div One).

In 1983 we beat Central League Division One Wellington Olympic 4-2, when we were in CL Division Three. Other notable scalps include Palmerston North End (1988), Up-per Hutt (1994) and North Wellington (2007).

Our biggest loss was 0-9 away to Manawatu to in 1987, to end a run through to the 3rd Round. That was a big score but it should be remembered that Manawatu were a national league side at the time, with future All Whites Perry Cotton and a very young Stu Jacobs.

On three occasions, Varsity has played the eventual Cup winners. In 1994 we lost 1-3, away to Napier City Rovers for a place in the last sixteen. A Rovers shirt, a memento of that Cup tie, can be seen hanging in the KP clubrooms (apparently Postie played that game). In 2004 where we made the 3rd Round thanks to two byes, only to face

Miramar Rangers, here at Kelburn Park. In 2006 we lost to Western Suburbs in the 3rd Round who went on to beat Eastern Suburbs of Auckland in the final.

Of course, other opposition would be easy once you’ve played Varsity. In fact, if you’re from the Wellington area and want to win the Cup, there’s a good argument that you have to get through us first!

In recent years, results have been mixed. 2007 saw us through to the third round, be-fore we were hammered by Wellington Olympic. Between 2009 and 2012 we were knocked out in the first round every year. 2012 saw a massive win over Stokes Valley, then a close 1-0 loss to Wellington United. Last year a bye in the first round saw us meet Petone, where we lost 4-0.

So, welcome to Red Sox Manawatu, all the best to both sides today.

* The biker pants, Indian costumes and con-struction worker outfits can’t have harmed the Wellington side’s prospects as they won the Cup in 1925, getting revenge over Seaclff

Varsity in the Chatham Cup

Thanks to the wonders of Facebook we’ve col-

lated some comments on past Vic cup runs

and famous matches.

“Best Chatham cup memory is going to Rau-

mati in 1999 with a bare 11 including two

keepers. Patrick Sawyer scored after 3

minutes and then gave away a pen. 15

minutes into game I knocked out Dean Yar-

rall. He did the Lonergan before departing in

the ambulance. Down to 10 we led 3-1 with

20 to go before running out of legs. Their 3rd

goal never crossed the line. Lost 4-3. Got a

standing ovation when we walked into their

clubrooms after the match.”

“We only had the bare 11 which included a

ring-in 'keeper from Weir House who was a

mate of someone. To be fair I didn't score

(Simon Thomas did) but did immediately

concede a pen from kick off after the goal! Si-

mon scored again to make it 2-1 and we held

on until about the 85th minute with 10 men

(Deano being in hospital). After they got their

second their third seemed inevitable and

was... Remember the standing ovation as

well - but was too gutted to care much at the

time!

“Also remember a Cup game against Wanga-

nui East Athletic in 1997 who were 2 divisions

above us that we took to extra time before

losing - 3-2 from memory. To be honest de-

spite playing about 10-11 seasons for the first

team the Cup was never very good to me!

“The 1994 cup run when the 1sts went up to

play Napier City rovers in the 5th round

must be our greatest run in recent memory.

Lost 4-2 (or something - can anyone else re-

member? I wasn't there) but won the nut-

megs, and put the sh*ts up the eventual

champions”

“In that run VUWAFC beat Takaro and as I

sat in the KP clubrooms having my lemonade

as the drinking age was 20 I decided to

transfer from Massey to VUW. We had a

player sent off after 15 mins for what at the

time I thought was the worst tackle I had

seen but 18 years playing with Ma it was a

caution at worst.”

“I remember the time we played Miramar

national league team at KP in 2004. Carrick

Lucas was sent off after 30mins and we lost 5

-0. Was a great game though (weirdly) and

Dan Pringle named man of the match

(keeper).”

Cup Memories Men’s Firsts Match Report

Venue: Hutt Park 1 (2.30pm kick-off, May 3, 2014)

Stop Out delivered a devastating exhibition of attacking football and resolute defence to completely swamp University on a large and decent surface at Hutt Park.

Opening the scoring after just four minutes and extending to 2-0 after University came close to equalising, the home side added a third goal on about the half-hour mark and then two in the final minutes of the period.

University attempted to rally in the second half, but Stop Out continued the rout, scoring in the 48th, 63rd, 65th and 81st minutes.

Coach’s comments: Congratulations to Stop Out for a very professional performance. They were a notch or two better and hungrier than us in every department.

To be so resoundingly defeated -- and only a relatively short time since we were apparently competitive with Central League sides -- is quite stunning. There will be some serious soul searching all round.

We will roll our sleeves up, come back togeth-er as a unit and do our damned utmost to erase this result from the memory and get our season back on track.

University: M Walker, A Lawrence, S Davies [c], S McLaughlin, M Graham, N Donovan [booked] (C Armstrong), M Rowe, M Lloyd, S Davey, S Ninness, M Wilson (M Lahood)

Coach: I MacIntyre

Stop Out 9

Victoria University 0

History and Honours

Founded: 1943

Honours:

Central League Division Two: Winners 1998, Third

1992

Capital Premier* (Venus Shield): Runners Up 1956,

1973, Third 1979

Capital One (Power Cup): Winners 1950, 1952,

1965, 2001, Runners Up 1988, 1992, 2012, Third

1999, 2006

Capital Two: Winners 1998, Runners Up 2010,

2011, 2012

Hilton Petone Cup Winners: 1990, 1992

Women’s Premier Division: Runners Up 1995,

1996, 2012, Third 2005, 2013

Women’s Second Division: Winners 1981 Women’s

Premier Cup: Winners 2010, 2011

Club Management

Club Captain: Steve Davey

Secretary: Matt Wilson

Treasurer: Glenn Phillips

Women’s Coordinator: Megan Whintringham

Committee Members: Craig Harris, Lauren

Hakkaart, Matt Lamb, Natasha Naus

Associate Members: Matt Ryan, Ben Inkster.

Mens First Team Coach: Iain MacIntyre

Womens First Team Coach: Oliver Davie

Contact

Home Ground: Kelburn Park, Wellington

Website: www.vuwafc.org.nz

Email: victoriauniversityfootball@gmail.com

Club Information