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TRINITY COLLEGE NEWSLETTER THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
VICTORY! - after twenty-seven years
Taking possession of the ball - Michael Reid (I) and Ben Collins (r) in the Firsts Final against Ormond College.
At last! In May, for the first time in 27 years Trinity won the inter-collegiate Firsts Football Final. The win followed two consecutive years of finals losses. In 1992 and 1993 Trinity was runner-up to Newman College. The "old coli" finally proved its metal against Newman, Queen's and Ormond when it beat Ormond on Wednesday May 25 to take the ICSC's Men's Football Ist XVIII Final trophy. To the absolute delight of Trinity coach Frank Henagan, College Porter, Trinity won by ten points. The team, captained by Aaron Teelow, vice captained by Adrian Farrer and starring David Koczkar in the full forward position, was ahead by six goals at the end of the first quarter but slipped back in the next two quarters. By the start of the final quarter Trinity was behind by six points. Trinity's 1994 sports
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representative, Paul Willows, reports that Trinity's final quarter turnaround was a real team effort, although he said it was the Adelaide-born and bred Angus "Gill" McLachlan who was "the guy who won the game for us in the last quarter." Paul reports: "Gill was in the ruck but at the last minute took four telling marks which stopped Ormond from kicking goals and turned the whole game. Soon after he caught a mark on the forward line and kicked the goal that placed Trinity ahead. The ceiling goal was kicked by Toby Crane. After that everyone knew Trinit每 d win." Observers say that to witness the look on coach Henagan's face as he was carried off the ground in hero style was "incredible". continued on page 3
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