Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-10-03
T0oTSALL AT BoWo0lS.
Players Who Will Probably Make Up the
Eleven This Fall.

last Saturday, ard this week the Maine
college eleven ill finish their preliminary
practice and enter upon the active cam
paign. This afternoon a Journal repre-
sentative visited the Bowdoin delta and
watched the boys at their practice.
Some people think that football is the
chief thing studied at the colleges in the fall,
but here is where they libel the boys and fai!
TO understand the situation. At about 7.
NJ. the last recitations of the day are over
in the classic hall among the whispering
pines, and then, and not TILL then, are foot
balls or foot ballists seen on the delta,
But at this hour two score or so of active
young athletes, clad in padded uniforms,
with The suggestive additions of nose-pro-
tectors and hin-guards, come running from
the gymnasium for an hour or more of Wig
orous work. And it is work, too; in fact
it seems to the spectator much more like
work than play. How any player escapes
from the field alive seems a mystery, yet
nobody has been hurt 10 the three weeks of
practice this fall. The rest of the college
and generally several members of the
faculty are present as spectators each light,
and serve AS a decided spur to the eleyens
IUGu up DSluEt bUN uOlu iidNi bDt sbdit
of her sister Maine colleges in playing foot
ball and her superiority over them has never
been questioned. She has run up what
score she wanted against them and they
have seldom even scored AT all. Bowdoin
has won a good name in her many games
with the larger institutions outside the State,
and has defeated the strong teams of Tufts,
Brown, Boston University, Boston Athletic
Association, Andover and Exeter. But
Colby and Bates grow stronger each year
and claim this fall that the Brunswick lads
will have to hustle to keep them from scor-
ing. Several of the young alumni have
been back this fall and have assisted DR..
Whittier and Mr.. Smith in coaching the
candidates for the teams. Mr.. Smith, who
is the new assistant in chemistry, is a Bow
loin graduate of 30 and hss since played
on Stages Chicago team. The new rules
have been well mastered, and by next
Saturday the eleven will be in fine form
for its first game with Exeter on the home
grounds.
The exact make up of the eleven cannot
be given yet, as not even Captain Mitchell
and Manager Stetson themselves know,
but it is pretty well understood who will
fill most of the positions. There is no
doubt that Dennison 80 will again be cen
ter rush, and that his stalwsrt guards of
former seasons, Dewey '95 and Stone 90,
will again be on either side of him. They
form a center on which Bowdoin can al
ways depend, and of which opposing teams
are rather shy. kimball '95, BoWdoin'r
giant hammer thrower, will for his third
season fill the position of right tackle.
1t takes very few attemps to convince the op-
posing team that this is not the place in the
line for them to come through. For the place
of left tackle, left vacant by Stevens '9i;
New5egin 90 is the most promising candi-
date; Spear rs and French 81 may also be
tried here. The ends will both be new men,
probably U'cke % and Libby '96 as the
Old ends, Ross and Chapman have grad
uated Both Hicks and Libby have had
good experience on class teams and the
cond eleven. snl are good men.
Fairbanks '95 who has beeR the crack
quarter ba k for three falls, is now sick at
is home il Bangor, an will not be on the
iel1 sgain for several weeks, if indeed he
s able to play at sll this season. He is not
rnly the star player himsolf, but his very
presence is an Inspiration and his absence
: a severe blow to the team. In his place
Kroalton '95, is now b,ing tried and will
Jrobatl BE- kept there where he is doing good
rork. Stubbs 80 the crack half who has been
Bowdoins pride behind the line for two
fslis i'll again be right half. He is great
ground gainer and sure tackle. Capt.
Mitchell will be left half where he played
most of last season. lie il popular cap
ain and works hard for the success of the
team. The full back will be either Quinn
Ov %, who filed this place well last year,
or Warren 80, new man who is showing
Ip in great shape. Quimby coached
Thornton Academy early in the fall, and
hiss since been confined to his room with
severe coll. Warren played last year on
mis- class team. He is the bpst kicker in
college and strikes the line hard.
The second eleven not only furnished
practice for the Varsity by lining up
against it each night, but it trains up able
substitutes ready at moments notice to FL
any position on the Varsity. It's captain is
Leighton %, and generally nearer l5 than
IL men play on it. Shute 81, has been
playing center with Eastman '9G, Thompson
% and Rhines 81 as guards, French 81
ard Spear 9S, play tackles with Wilson '98,
Stearns 81 and Foster %, ends, Leighton
% is quarter back while Stetson 9S, Horne
%, Murphy 98, Bailey SO and Mead '95,
are the most prominent of those who act as
back There is some star msterial on the
second eleven and it can doubtless beat any
team outside of Bowdoin in the State.
Those who are most prominent in the prsc-
tee each night have been named, though
there are often many others out, and also the
sophomore and freshmen class elevens are
getting into Trim for game later on. Stet-
son '95 is proving an energetic and able
manager of the football associstion. The
directors are G. T. Ordway, J. G. Minot
aud H. W. CoDurn, all Of '96, and F. S.
Dane '9G is treasurer and secretary. The
schf dule of games il now we'll arranged.
and is as follows: October 6, Exeter in
Brunswick October 10, Boston University
in Brunswick; October Is, Boston Athletic
Asso. in Boston: October II, Colby in
Brnnswick; October 20, Dartnorth in
Hanover; October "a. Dartmouth in Bruns-
wick; October q, Aadover in Andover;
October 81. Bates in Brunswick; November
:, Massachusetts clsss of Tech. in Boston
November Il, Brown in Providence.
Gsmes will also Re srrang- d for November
3, 10 and II, and the teams with whom
Manager Stetson is in correspondence are
Amherst. South Berwick, Tnfts and Brown
University for return game in Portland.
Return games may also be played with