One of the quirky things about being part of the very first intake of pupils when Craigie High School opened was that we had to start our school sports teams from scratch.
Teams for football, netball, hockey etc obviously didn't exist at CHS which meant we were the ones who had to start them up first.
When the time came to form a CHS football team, a bunch of us went to an after school meeting with a couple of teachers with the agenda of getting a team up & running.
As we neared the end of the meeting, one of the teachers suggested that it would be a good idea to design our own strip, and told the pupils that if we come up with any such ideas, feel free to present them, and the best design would be chosen.
This was just the kind of thing that I liked doing, so when I arrived home I grabbed my sketch pad, got busy and did, not one, but around a dozen football strip designs.
The shirts, shorts and socks all various designs but all done using the school colours of green & orange.
So I handed them in to the teacher and they went into the pot for consideration.
A couple of weeks went by, during which team trials had taken place until they finally chose which players were to be selected for the team.
Soon after, when this newly formed team started playing together, they were given school football strips to wear.
Much to our amazement, they were not the green & orange of our school colours, but were yellow..!!
Not only that, they were rugby shirts..!!!
Even then, it was just the shirt - the pupils had to supply their own shorts & socks, all of which varied..!!!!
Yes this was what Craigie High's school football team had to wear playing against other schools when they first began.
How could our team display school team loyalty wearing someone else's colours whilst in attire representing a different sport?
Very much an own goal by the teachers.
Teams for football, netball, hockey etc obviously didn't exist at CHS which meant we were the ones who had to start them up first.
When the time came to form a CHS football team, a bunch of us went to an after school meeting with a couple of teachers with the agenda of getting a team up & running.
As we neared the end of the meeting, one of the teachers suggested that it would be a good idea to design our own strip, and told the pupils that if we come up with any such ideas, feel free to present them, and the best design would be chosen.
This was just the kind of thing that I liked doing, so when I arrived home I grabbed my sketch pad, got busy and did, not one, but around a dozen football strip designs.
The shirts, shorts and socks all various designs but all done using the school colours of green & orange.
So I handed them in to the teacher and they went into the pot for consideration.
A couple of weeks went by, during which team trials had taken place until they finally chose which players were to be selected for the team.
Soon after, when this newly formed team started playing together, they were given school football strips to wear.
Much to our amazement, they were not the green & orange of our school colours, but were yellow..!!
Not only that, they were rugby shirts..!!!
Even then, it was just the shirt - the pupils had to supply their own shorts & socks, all of which varied..!!!!
Yes this was what Craigie High's school football team had to wear playing against other schools when they first began.
How could our team display school team loyalty wearing someone else's colours whilst in attire representing a different sport?
Very much an own goal by the teachers.
