Well, we wouldn't have 
     
     thought it possible earlier 
     
     in the year, but the foot- 
     
     ball Panthers have develop— 
     
     ed into the scourge of the 
     
     league. Right now, if we 
     
     were to meet the'St. Mary's 
     
     Huskies, we'd wipe them 
     
     off the field. We've 
     
     scored easy wins over 
     
     Dalhousie, Mount Allison, 
     
     and U.N.B. and Acadia will 
     
     fall-o this Saturday. The 
     
     Axemen are ranked number . 
     
     ten in Canada so this will 
     
     be a prestigious battle 
     
     for Ed Hilton and the Crew. 
     
     St. Mary's is ranked fifth 
     
     but considering their 
     
     narrow victories over St. 
     
     F.X., Acadia and an out-of— 
     
     shape U.P.E.I., they 
     
     should be counting their 
     
     stars. The Panthers are 
     
     not the same team that 
     
     lost to the Huskies by 
     
     ten points in their season 
     
     opener. As of right now, 
     
     the Panthers could beat 
     
     St. Mary's by ten points 
     
     and more! This team has 
     
     worked like hell and is 
     
     richly deserving of our 
     
     praise. They've supplied 
     
     us with many hours of en- 
     
     joyment and the fans have 
     
     shown their appreciation 
     
     on numerous occasions. 
     
     There will be many students 
     
     travelling to Wolfville 
     
     this weekend to witness 
     
     the game and bid a success— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ful farewell to the Panthers 
     
    
   
   
    
     '72 and especially to those 
     
     seniors graduating from the 
     
     team 
     
    
   
   
    
     The hockey team, on the 
     
     other hand, finds itself 
     
     in a position similar to 
     
     the football team at the 
     
     Start of its season. In 
     
     Splitting two games with 
     
     a much-bigger-St. F.X. 
     
     team, the Panthers showed 
     
     lots of guts and an 
     
     adequate level of ability. 
     
     Their loss to U.N.B. puts 
     
     their record at l - 2 in 
     
     exhibition encounters - 
     
     the.same as the exhibition 
     
     record of the football 
     
     team. The league this 
     
    
   
   
    
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     year seems very well bal- 
     
     anced with the exception 
     
     of St. Mary's, who w0uld 
     
     appear to be the team to 
     
     beat at this stage. Con- 
     
     trary to what has been 
     
     printed in the local 
     
     established press, the 
     
     Panthers, along with 
     
     U.N.B. and Universite 
     
    

    
     de Moncton seem to have a 
     
    
   
   
    
     good shot at toppling the 
     
     Huskies from their throne. 
     
    
   
   
    
     :There could also be a 
     
    
   
   
    
     challenger in the rest of 
     
     the pack but, at this 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     moment, it would have to 
     
     be a dark-horse contender. 
     
     The fog may clear a bit 
     
     this weekend, when the 
     
     Panthers depart for their 
     
     first regular season road 
     
     trip with games in Sackville 
     
     on Saturday and Moncton on 
     
     Sunday. With any luck at 
     
     all, we could be 2 - 0 on 
     
     Monday... 
     
    

    
     The same thing could be 
     
     said about the Basketball 
     
     team. They leave for St. 
     
     John's, Newfoundland to do 
     
     battle with Memorial on 
     
     Friday. Although we have 
     
    
   
   
    
     a small team this season 
     
     (as if we ever have a tall 
     
     team), they played aggres- 
     
     sive ball last weekend and 
     
     used their speed to good 
     
     advantage to sweep two games 
     
     from these same Beothuks. 
     
     Speaking of winning, 
     
     we must congradulate the 
     
     Girls Intermediate Field 
     
     Hockey Team for grabbing 
     
     the Maritime Championship 
     
     in Halifax recently. We 
     
     hope to have a more com- 
     
     plete account of this 
     
     story and possibly a pic- 
     
     ture of the team at a 
     
     later date... And finally, 
     
     we just had to put a plug 
     
     in for the Dildos. Showing 
     
     lots of hustle, and playing 
     
     the role of underdogs, 
     
     they produced a classic 
     
     example of what team spirit 
     
     and a desire to win can do. 
     
     They captured the Intra- 
     
     mural Softball Championship 
     
     with a convincing 7 - 0 
     
     victory over the Sophomores 
     
     on Monday. If all our 
     
     varsity teams play as they 
     
     did (and we know they can), 
     
     then U.P.E.I. is in for a 
     
     very successful year in the 
     
     sports field.