Sports Day 1955

General

The Guest of Honour for this year's Sports' Day was Mrs. A. B. Clegg, wife of the Chief Education Officer. As the result of the fine organisation of Miss. Parkin and Mr. Leonard, the Sports ran smoothly, and fine weather helped to make it a most successful day.
This year the Championship and Relay cups were won by Price House and the Standards Cup was won by Talbot House.

The Victrices Ludorum were Patricia Brooke (Junior) and Iris Turner (Senior) and the Victores Ludorum were Hellewell C. (Junior) and Moore B. (Senior). Lowe won the Mile Cup and Moore won the Senior Half Mile Plaque. The Intermediate Half Mile Cup was won by Mansfield. A feature of this year's Sports' Day was the number of records broken - fifteen in all. Some of these were recent innovations to the programme but notable record performances in well established events were:-
V. Manning - Senior Girls' Discus - 80 ft. 3 ins.
E. Hirst - Senior Girls' Shot - 28 ft. 4 ins.
I. Street - Inter Girls' 220 yards - 29.3 secs.
Moore, B. - Senior Boys' 440 yards - 53.6 secs.
Moore, B. - Senior Boys' 880 yards - 2 mins. 10.3 secs.
Snookes, M. - Under 15 Boys' Pole Vault - 8 feet 3.25 ins.
Snookes, M. - Under 15 Boys' Discus - 101 ft. 6.5 ins.
Yates, N. - Senior Boys' Discus - 122 ft. 11 ins.
Brennan, R. - Junior Boys' 220 yards - 28.2 sees.
Parkinson, T. - Under 15 Boys' Shot - 39 feet 84 ins.
Moore, B. 5A Athletics Captain