{"id":46502,"date":"2020-06-27T08:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T08:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=46502"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T12:01:35","slug":"1959-all-island-inter-school-basketball-championships-about-the-team-the-coach-and-the-polka-dot-jerseys-from-doug-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/1959-all-island-inter-school-basketball-championships-about-the-team-the-coach-and-the-polka-dot-jerseys-from-doug-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"1959 All-Island Inter-school Basketball Championships : About the team, the coach and the Polka Dot Jerseys &#8211; From Doug Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366; font-size: 28px;\"><b>1959 All-Island Inter-school Basketball Championships : About the team, the coach and the Polka Dot Jerseys &#8211; From Doug Jones<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46503 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/959-All-Island-Inter-school-Basketball-Championships.jpg\" alt=\"1959 All-Island Inter-school Basketball Championships\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\"><em>Introduction: All those featured in this historic photograph attended St Benedict\u2019s long after my student days there. The only person I recognised in it was Bede Puvimanasingha, Prefect of Games. I had heard sketchily about the team\u2019s sporting prowess but luckily, I was able to contact a member of the team, Cosmas Perera (now Mahagama) who is currently a resident of Los Angeles (USA) and he kindly filled me in with all that happened at that eventful encounter in Jaffna.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">For the first time in the history of this competition, the finals of the 1959 All-Island Inter-school Basketball Championships was held in Jaffna when St Benedict\u2019s College Fives met Jaffna Central. The participation of the Benedictines in this match was under a cloud due to lack of funds for the boys to make the trip. However, the team had fared exceptionally well by winning the Junior Basketball Championship the previous year and Bro. Athanasius, the Director at the time, decided to finance the trip to Jaffna as a gift to the team that comprised of the entire Junior champions side, plus a very experienced basketballer and College boarder Vijay Silva.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first Five comprised of Vijay Silva, an accomplished former College soccer goalie and the most senior basketballer in the side, who was appointed Captain. He had a great game playing at Centre and cleared the boards at both ends of the court. His defence was impeccable throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Percy Perera was the team\u2019s star shooter. He played in the right forward position, a quick and high percentage shooter making baskets from beyond the lane. Working closely with Percy was Cosmas Perera who had the responsibility of controlling the game, dribbling the ball to attack opposing players and delivering the ball safely to Percy who was always greedy for points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Playing left wing was Winston Wijenayaka, former captain of the Junior Championship team, and the most experienced member of the side, who used that knowledge to advantage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Supporting left guard to Cosmas was an agile R. Rajendra who displayed his ability to play well on the inside as well as on the outside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The final score was St Benedict\u2019s scoring 67 points to Jaffna Central ending up with 61.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">Bringing the Championship Trophy to Colombo was a great surprise to everybody, including the Brother Director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Those in the picture are : Standing (left to right) Shelton Petierz, S.Yogendran, Winston Wijenayaka, Gamini Silva, Hubert Saparamadu, Percy Perera, Edward Sumanasekera. Seated (left to right) Ram Sundaralingam (Coach), Cosmas Perera Mahagama, Rev. Bro. Athanasius (Director), Vijaya Silva, Bede Puvimanasinghe (Prefect of Games).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Considerable kudos for this magnificent success goes to the coach Ram Sundaralingam. While St Benedict\u2019s can boast of having exceptional basketball coaches in the past, Ram is considered one of the best coaches, if not the best, St Benedict\u2019s ever had. With foresight, he changed the Junior winning team into a Senior team. A strict disciplinarian, this highly qualified coach trained his proteges to master all the finer tactics that in no small way made them a champion team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ram went a step further by introducing Polka Dot vests as the players\u2019 attire for the championships, never done before by any basketball team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It also must be remembered that three members of this champion team Percy Perera, Vijay Silva and Gamini Silva were also representing their country while at school. Also significant is that Cosmas Perera was Captain of the National team from 1964 to 1970 and most remarkably, he was the first to Captain a National Sports team while still at school. Such was the quality of Benedictine basketballers who represented their Alma Mater in those halcyon days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While the polka dots may have been eye catching, it was match winning tactics and skilful play honed under a gifted coach that turned tables for the Benedictine basketballers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1959 All-Island Inter-school Basketball Championships : About the team, the coach and the Polka Dot Jerseys &#8211; From Doug Jones Introduction: All those featured in this historic photograph attended St Benedict\u2019s long after my student days there. The only person I recognised in it was Bede Puvimanasingha, Prefect of Games. I had heard sketchily about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[23823,23821,23822,23820],"class_list":{"0":"post-46502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-bede-puvimanasinghe","9":"tag-cosmas-perera","10":"tag-cosmas-perera-mahagama","11":"tag-gamini-silva","12":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1959 All-Island Inter-school Basketball Championships : About the team, the coach and the Polka Dot Jerseys - From Doug Jones<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Introduction: All those featured in this historic photograph attended St Benedict\u2019s long after my student days there.The only person I recognised\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1959 All-Island Inter-school Basketball Championships : About the team, the coach and the Polka Dot Jerseys - From Doug Jones\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Introduction: All those featured in this historic photograph attended St Benedict\u2019s long after my student days there.The only person I recognised\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/1959-all-island-inter-school-basketball-championships-about-the-team-the-coach-and-the-polka-dot-jerseys-from-doug-jones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-27T08:36:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-20T12:01:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/959-All-Island-Inter-school-Basketball-Championships.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"422\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/1959-all-island-inter-school-basketball-championships-about-the-team-the-coach-and-the-polka-dot-jerseys-from-doug-jones\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/1959-all-island-inter-school-basketball-championships-about-the-team-the-coach-and-the-polka-dot-jerseys-from-doug-jones\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"1959 All-Island Inter-school Basketball Championships : About the team, the coach and the Polka Dot Jerseys &#8211; 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