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Pre-independence Heroes …British Guiana win 1961 Hockey championship
Statistician Charwayne Walker in his series of Pre and Post Independence triumphs for Guyana (British Guiana)
Cecil Skip Roberts
as we look to the upcoming 50-years of Independence celebrations on May 26th looks at the 1961 West Indies Hockey championship with Guyana won.
British Guiana won the West Indies quadrangular hockey championship 1961. British Guiana playing under the captaincy of Walter (Affoo) Chin, won the 1961 West Indies quadrangular hockey championship hosted by Trinidad. British Guiana finished the tournament with five wins, one defeat, totaling ten points, the defending champs Trinidad had three wins, two draws and one loss, totaling eight points, Jamaica and Barbados were the other countries that participated in the championship.
Please find below a summary of the champs performance:
Game one: British Guiana beat host and defending champs Trinidad, one nil at Queens Park Oval. The lone goal came off the stick of left winger Gerald Wong.
Game two: British Guiana swamped Barbados nine nil at Queens Park Oval. The British Guiana goal scorers were Eddy Caetano three goals, Gerald Wong three goals, Rollo Lee two goals and Gary Lee one goal.
Game three: British Guiana beat Jamaica four nil at Queens Park Oval. British Guiana marksmen were Norman Wight who netted a double, Eddy Caetano and Rollo Lee with one goal each.
Game four: Trinidad halted the British Guiana show with a two nil victory at Queens Park Oval. The host scored in the twentieth minute through Patrick Gomez. It was a controversial goal and the Guianese were annoyed. Ken Merrick sealed the issue for the Trinidadians with a bullet like shot that gave goalkeeper Godfrey Chin no chance.
Godfrey Chin
Game five: British Guiana rebounded from their disappointing lost to host Trinidad by stopping Barbados one nil at Guaracara Park, Eddy Caetano’s goal in the sixth minute of the second half was enough for the boys from eighty three thousand square miles.
Game six: British Guiana beat Jamaica two one at Queens Park Oval. The British Guiana goal scorers were Rollo Lee and Gary Lee.
The earlier clash between these two teams was abandoned with only nineteen minutes left. British Guiana leading one nil at Guaracara Park umpires Ken Laughlin and Henry Permuy made the decision after a rain storm which begun mid-way into the first half turned the field into a quagmire making it almost impossible to play anything like constructive hockey. British Guiana had the better of the exchanges and got their goal through Eddy Caetano early in the first session. The 1961 victorious British Guiana hockey team that won the West Indies quadrangular series were Walter (Affoo) Chin – Captain, Eddy Caetano – vice captain, Gerald Wong, Cecil (Skip) Roberts, John Embleton, Rollo Lee, Norman Wight, Gary Lee, Ian Leal, Neville Thomas, Vincent P Chung, Jeffrey Lee, Godfrey W Chin , with V-S Lee – Manager.
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