Message From College Old Boys Association of Florida President

Welcome to the 5th Annual Ziadie Cup. Jamaica College and St. George’s Col- lege were honored to have Dennis Ziadie as coach of our Manning Cup teams. As a member of Jamaica College’s Manning Cup teams 1970 through 1973, I experienced the great wisdom and vision of Dennis as a coach. It brings me great joy each year to see this event grow and I am proud that we continue to pay tribute to this great man.

As many of you know, the friendly rivalry has been renewed as Jamaica College and St. George’s have won the Manning Cup the last two years. It is because of the hard work of predecessors like Dennis Ziadie and many others that Jamaica College and St. George’s continue to excel in football.

Even though Dennis Ziadie is “near and dear” to Jamaica College and St. George’s College, we know he has influenced many others in the Jamaican Di- aspora. Keeping that in mind, we have introduced new activities to include other alumni in the Diaspora. We wish to thank everyone for their continued support and hope you all enjoy this year’s activities.

fervet orpus in campis.

Ray E. G. Stephenson President, Jamaica College Old Boys Association of Florida

Message From St. Georges Old Boy’s Association of Florida President

We are gathered together once again to celebrate the life of Dennis Ziadie and the many people’s lives that he has touched, especially in the sport of soccer. Dennis had a very close association with St. George’s College (STGC) and Ja- maica College (JC) and the performance of these two schools, as winners of the Manning Cup over the past two years, is a great tribute to Dennis and reasserts the foundation that he established in soccer with both schools.

Both STGC and JC have share a bond over the years, that the leaders of both Alumni Associations in Florida expect to grow even stronger over the coming years. We hope that you thoroughly enjoy the friendly games today and that it serve as a catalyst to strengthen the bond of all Alumni schools in the Diaspora.

Respectfully,

Trevor ‘Speedy’ Palmer President, St. Georges Old Boy’s Association of Florida

5th Annual Soccer Clash HISTORY OF St. Georges COLLEGE

St.George’s college was founded in 1850 by 21 spanish jesuits who had been exiled from colombia, as part of a religious persecution. At their head was Fr.Emmanuel Gil,S.J., a distinguished scholar and former court preacher to the king of Spain. Amidst a storm of protest against Roman Catholic preists opening Jamaica’s first secondary institution for classical and scientific education, St.George’s College began it’s long and proud history. On the 2nd of September in 1850 in a rented house at 26 north street, located on the southeast corner of north and orange streets, the new college opened with thirty-eight day students and thirty boarders. The first subjects taught at St.George’s included , Greek, French, English, Rhetoric, History, Mathematics, Logic, Metaphysics, Ethics, Drawing and Calligraphy.

After 2 years, the Spanish jesuits, led by founder Father Gill, S.J., departed jamaica to teach in Gua- temala, turning St.George’s over to the English jesuits. They left primarily because of the difficulties in language, with English being a second language to them. The school moved to 5 Upper King Street and changed it’s name to the St.George’s Presbytery Secondary School. There it remained until January 1866, when, for unclear reasons, it was closed. A few months later, thanks to Father James Jones,S.J., the school was reopened with twenty-five students and moved back to its original site at 26 North Street, again under the name St.George’s College.Only three years later, succumbing to the oppositon of the jesuit superior, the school was closed, a second time, at Christmas of 1871. On this occasion the strong petitions of ninety-two influential kingstonians convinced the jesuits to reopen St.George’s college in march 1873, but on a smaller scale, with only two jesuit teachers. The school prospered until September 1877, when it was closed for a third time, but this closure, however, lasted only a few days. The return of Father James Jones,S.J., and the leadership of Father Thomas Porter,S.J, assured the continued life and irrepressible growth of St.George’s College, which has endured to this day.In March 1939 St.George’s College built the first science laboratory in the island.

HISTORY OF JAMAICA COLLEGE

Jamaica College was founded in 1789 as the Drax Free School in the parish of St. Ann by Charles Drax, a planter of that parish. Drax came to Jamaica from in 1721 and left money in his will to establish a charity school in St. Ann. There was some delay and legal proceedings before the money was handed over to the St. Ann Vestry. In 1806 Walton Pen was bought for the site of the school, and a year later another act of Legislature gave the school the name, “The Jamaica Free School”.

In 1879, during the governorship of Sir Anthony Musgrave, provision was made by law for the Jamaica Free School, under a new name, The Jamaica High School, to come under the control of the Jamaica School Commission. The school now had a new headmaster, Reverend (later Archdeacon) William Simms. This law also authorized the removal of the school from Walton Pen in St. Ann in 1883, and classes were conducted in the Barbican Great House until 1885.

The buildings on Old Hope Road were opened on 9 July, 1885, and the first classes here took place in September of the same year. In September, 1890 a college was opened in connection with the school, which was known as University College. In 1902 the Jamaica High School and University College were amalgamated under the name Jamaica College.

Jamaica College developed as a boarding institution until 1967 when that system was removed.

5th Annual Soccer Clash History Of Manning & Decosta Cup

Year Manning Cup Walker Cup DaCosta Cup Ben Francis Cup Olivier Shield 2008 St. Georges Excelsior St James St. James St. Georges 2007 Jamaica College Calabar Garvey Maceo Garvey Maceo Jamaica College 2006 Bridgeport Eltham Glenmuir Frome Bridgeport & Glenmuir 2005 Calabar Tivoli Godfrey Stewart Glenmuir Calabar 2004 Excelsior Excelsior Glenmuir Glenmuir Glenmuir 2003 Excelsior St. Jago Frome Cornwall Frome & Excelsior 2002 Charlie Smith Ruseas Old Harbour Ruseas 2001 Bridgeport Bridgeport Cornwall Cornwall Cornwall 2000 Norman Manley Kingston College Cornwall Cornwall Norman Manley 1999 Tivoli Jonathan Grant STETHS Glenmuir STETHS 1998 Dunoon Dunoon Clarendon Clarendon Dunoon 1997 1996 Norman Manley Tivoli Clarendon Ruseas Norman Manley 1995 Charlie Smith Charlie Smith Cornwall Cornwall 1994 Wolmer’s Tivoli Clarendon Glenmuir Wolmer’s 1993 Excelsior St. Georges Ruseas Glenmuir Excelsior & Ruseas 1992 St. Georges St. Georges Ruseas Ruseas Ruseas 1991 Ardenne St. Georges Clarendon Cornwall Ardenne 1990 Charlie Smith Excelsior Ruseas Clarendon Charlie Smith & Ruseas 1989 Excelsior Meadowbrook Ruseas Clarendon 1988 Charlie Smith Camperdown Herbert Morrison Herbert MorrisonCharlie Smith 1987 STATHS Kingston College Ruseas Ruseas STATHS 1986 Kingston College Meadowbrook Herbert Morrison Kingston College 1985 Kingston College St. Georges Ruseas Kingston College & Ruseas 1984 St. Georges St. Georges Ruseas Cornwall St. Georges 1983 St. Georges St. Georges Cornwall Cornwall Cornwall 1982 Camperdown Camperdown Cornwall Vere Camperdown 1981 Kingston College K.T.H.S. Dinthill Kingston College & Dinthill 1980 Excelsior Excelsior 1979 Camperdown Excelsior Camperdown 1978 Camperdown Tivoli Clarendon Camperdown & Clarendon 1977 Calabar Kingston College Clarendon Clarendon 1976 Tivoli Calabar Vere 1975 Kingston College Kingston College Kingston College 1974 Jamaica College Jamaica College STETHS Jamaica College 1973 1972 1971 Wolmer’s Wolmer’s Vere Wolmer’s 1970 Kingston College Kingston College Vere Vere 1969 Excelsior Trench Town Vere 1968 Jamaica College Excelsior Vere Vere 1967 Kingston College Excelsior Vere Vere 1966 1965 Kingston College Kingston College Vere Kingston College 1964 Kingston College Kingston College Munro Kingston College 1963 Jamaica College Kingston College Cornwall Cornwall 1962 Jamaica College K.T.H.S. Munro Jamaica College 1961 Jamaica College St. Georges Munro Jamaica College 1960 1959 St. Georges Cornwall 1958 Kingston College Cornwall Cornwall

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