Team Shows Fighting Spirit
Immediately after WWII, university sports teams tended to be a mix of students who had been in the service during the war and those who had not. The 1945 Acadia football team had such a mix; Purdy, Craig, McKay and Simmonds were “former varsity stars recently returned from the services.” Acadia had a successful season, beating Dalhousie University (NS), St. Mary’s University (NS) and St Francis Xavier University (NS) but losing to Nova Scotia Technical College. Of that loss, the 1946 yearbook claimed: “Yes, they had lost, but not in every sense of the word, for the team showed they still possess that fighting spirit, which in former years had characterized the teams sent out from the Valley town.”
(The Acadia Axe 1946)
Macaulay, Wolfville. 1946. ECW APC 1870.
