Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-12
COLBY OBJECTS
TO Reports of the Bates -Co|by
Game at Lewiston.
Claims That She Was Fairly Robbed
CT Game by Umpire.
Also That With Impartial Of cials She Can
Easily Defeat Bates.

the JourHal man the following Tor publ
cation:
The students Of Colby feel that the &C.
count OF the foot ball game with Bates
that was published in yesterdays journal,
intolerant and malicious misrepresenta-
ton and that an explanation Is impera-
tive. From first to last that account is
faltc. In the first place, Bates did not
keep Colby from scoring. Brooks found
the ball on the Bates line and called a
down, but as soon as the Colby men began
to unpile the Bates men worked the ball
back over the line. 1t was fair touch
down and only the dirty work of the Bates
team prevented its being allowed.
I'm the next sentence of the account We
find the statement, that the wearers of the
garnet did what Bowdoin failed to do
crossed the Colby goal line, not only once
but twice We unhesitatingly deny that
| Bates crossed our goal line but once
Bates made her second touchdown after
| time was called-when the Colby men
were not in line-a fact acknowledged by
the umpire, consequently Mr.. Clark, the
referee, did not allow the touchdown.
Bates would not have crossed the line
once, had it not been that she played II
men in the drtiest game that was ever
played on Maine campus. At four of
the most critical points in the game the
umpire gave Bates 10 yards for off side
play, without the slightest justification,
yet even with this gift of 40 yards, Bates
was scarcely able to push the ball across
the line for their only touchdown as time
was being. called. Forty yards were thus
maliciously stolen by the umpire, the one
invaluable man on the Bates team.
"This umpire Is the gentleman. Mr.
Murphy by name, who is said upon good
authority to have remarked before the
game that Bates should win If he had to
give her the game Bates was continually
off side. and though his attention was
repeatedly called to it, the umpire never
noticed it but once. and that once was at
ter Bates had made a 20yards dash down
the field, and by declaring Bates off side
five yards were thus saved, as Brooks had
to bring the ball back.
"In almost every play Bates men held
the Colby players, thus thwarting every
opportunity for fair and scientific playing,
and violating the accepted rules OF foot
ball. The umpire was Indifferent to this
holding though his attention was con
stantly being called to it. When at length
the Colby men became disguised with this
Treatment ana asked for new umpire
Douglass, the captain of the Bates team,
said that Colby could finish the game I'M
der Murphy or go home; the answer was
unworthy of true sportsman and plainly
showed that Bates was bound to score at
any cost. Bates held Colby for four
downs only once in the game
The bad condition of the field was not
a disadvantage but n tremendous advan-
tagc to Bates. for Colby's superior backs
could not run successfully and Bates extra
beef was favored in showing Colby's line,
10 pounds lighter to a man.
"Another disgusting feature was the
unwarranted disqualification of Thompson
for smuggling when he was being deliber-
ately held by the Bates guard. Thompson
simply pushed the guard off with both
hands, which he had a perfect right to do.
"Colby did not use last year plays; she
played this years Harvard rules, which
are up-to date as much as Yale's. I'm
fortunately, perhaps, Bates has not yet
been given authority to decide how the
colleges of the country shall play foot ball.
Bates style of foot ball carries us back tc
the dark and bloody ages Had Colby
been given a fair show she could have
easily beaten Bates, for she outplayed
Bates at every point. Colby men are
anxiously awaiting the return game, next
Saturday.
Bates failed to do, and always has
failed to do, what Bowdoin Invariably does,
that is, treat a visiting team as gentlemen
and stand for fair play. 1t seems hard for
some colleges to form any conception oil
what true spOrtsmapship demands, the
embryo even of the proper spirit docs not
seem to exist
THE Journals account of the Bates
Colby game was a press report copied from
the Boston Sunday Globe.-Ed.
The Lewiston journal of Monday, pub
lished the following;
AN old Princeton foot ball player who
saw the game was somewhat exercised
thercat and thus criticizcs;
"sThe undersigned an old foot ball
plaver. but now travelling man, was a
witness to the Colby Bates foot ball game
at Lee park, Lewiston, Saturday afternoon
and he is prompted, on behalf of the game,
to express himself on the rank exhibition
of umpiring that he there beheld
- NO less tndn oo yoiuS III eho "i7' '.'''
did the umpire see fit to give Bates for
Colby's alleged offside play to say nothing
of taking the ball away twice for holding
The writer followed the men and ball from
the side lines. and twice during the first
half was the umpire justified in allowif &
Bates ofrside play by Colby; but when 1t
came to offside play and holding by Bates
there was a mist in front Of the umpire
ewes and he saw nothing, except once When
Colby's left guard rushed the hsii ~
wards. Then he noticed Bates man OH
side and the ball was brought back hve
wards. is yards being the limit in case OF
a run resulting on an offside play
"sTo an outsider who had no interest
uhetcoaver as TO the outcome of the
match, but went to the field for the love owe
of the game, he must confess that it looked
as though the umpire, not content win ~
rounds to the man more weight ard a
rainy day thrown in, both in favor OF the
Bates eleven, was bouI d that the Lewis
ton men should win