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u the tmbunestouffville utmfh spobt fjas- athletic endeavours play a large part as a method in bringing a town together and to give it a sense of identity stouffvilles sport ing history is full of outstanding achieve ments that has developed the towns identity sports themselves had a much different look about them years ago it was a more relaxed lowkey affair as compared to the high pressure win at all cost attitude that is so prevalent at all levels of sports nowadays from pee wee up to professional regardless of when or how the sport is played it always brings enjoyment to those who participate and watch stouffvilles finest match their skills against their opponents in the late 18th century sports like hockey baseball and soccer were all very popular then as they are today and also other sports such as lawn bowling cricket and croquet were widespread although they have been now more or less passed over hockey has always been the biggest sport in stouffville as it is in any canadian town this town has had good success with its hockey teams producing fine players and nnw and again grabbing itself a championship one team that stands out in many peoples minds for their accomplishments is the 1952 senior b clippers hockey squad that took the championship against orillia the early 50s proved to be a very successful time for stouffville sports as along with the clippers the girls softball team took the markham township cham pionship the stouffville red sox baseball team was going strong back in the 50s as they pulled off a string of three con secutive cham pionships even the girls basketball team and the local lawn bowling squad pulled off championships in the late 50s and of course grant wells three time champion in the in- ternation plowing matches but stouffvilles sporting success does not start or end in that decade as there have been numerous winners throughout the towns 100 years however mention should not be made only of the winners but to all the athletes win or lose that have given the town the pride and pleasure of seeing them perfrom l3i5-ss-si3-