Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-09
FOOT BALL.
A New Departure in lnterschoIastic
Foot Ball Matters.
Wright g. Ditson Offer Two Trophies Meeting
at Brunswick. Saturday.

The following invitation sent out by
the committee representing the friends OF
athletics In the State assures successful
foot ball contest this fall.
Augusta, Ne, Sept z, 1895.
To the Captains AID Managers of the
Foot Ball Teams of the Preparatory
Schools Of Maine:
Gentlemen Friends of athletics in the
State who have besn dissatisfied with
former foot ball contests have placed in
our hands two trophies, to be competed
for by teams from the high and prepare
tory schools of Maine. In addition,
Messrs Wright and Ditson Of Boston,
have offered the committee pennant to
be given to the winning team.
AS there are several schools much larger
than the others, the committee has de
cided to have double contest, a senior
aud Junior. In the senior contest will
be placed the three or four strongest
clubs, in the juniors all others This
will give chance to the smaller schools.
Should this contest be successful, and be
continued another year, the winner of the
junior trophy will be put in to the senior
contest, while the loser of the senior clubs
will play next year with the juniors, and
so on. This plan has worked with great
success in Massachusetts.
The committee invites you to meet
them at Brunswick, Maine, on Saturday,
the 14th of September at II 90 A. NJ. to
consider details and to arrange schedule.
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right to select all officers for the games
and to settle all questions which may
arise concerning the contest, or the award
ing of the trophies
Hoping that a large number of you will
meet us at Brunswick and that we can
inaugurate successful contest, we are
Very truly yours,
IF. GARCELON,
F. N. WHITTIER Co,,,
BYRON BOYD, ,,,it.a.
GEORGE V. S. MICHAELIS, 'H'''eo'
EWING W. HAMLEN,
Address: Byron Boyd. Secretary, Au-
gusts, Maine.
Although the committee represents no
organization, and cannot as yet couple
championship with its contest, there
appears to be no doubt that the winner
Will have the undisputed title of inter
scholastic champion of Maine
1t is understood that this plan origin
ated last June after the NJ. l. S. A. A.
meet in Bangor, when it was seen that
the rivalry was too strong between the
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managers. This committee is made up OF
older men who have had great experience
in managing athletic events
Mr.. j. f. Garcelon, who is acting as
chairman of the committee, is a well
known graduate of Bates and of the Har-
ward law school. In both Lewiston and
Cambridge, he has won Ienown as an
athlete and athletic manager.
Dr. F. n Whittier, director of the Sar-
gent gymnasium of Bowdoin College, is
too well known to need any introduction.
His name alone would be a guarantee
of fairness and success In the manage
ment.
Mr.. Byron Boyd, deputy secretary of
State, has long been known in connection
with athletics and won laurels while at
Colby University. He has lately added to
his qualifications as a member of this
committee by the successful way in which
he has managed the Augusta Driving
Park Association.
Tho name of George V. S. Michaelis,
Is not new to the boys in Maine, for it
was he who founded the M. l. S. A. A,
and started interscholastic athletics in the
State 1t is significant fact that this
latest innovation Is favored by him.
Mr.. Ewing W. HamlIn is young attor-
ney who has had excellent experiences in
athletics both in this country ana in his
former home in Scotland
Taken separately and together, the men
on this committee are Of the best, and
are sure to conduct a successful contest.
Next to the committee. the most i'm
poftant innovation is the senior junior
league. This gives the strong teams
rivals as strong while to the smaller
schools it gives a chance. Cony with Its
fifty boys has no chance against Portland
with 900 to select from. 1t will be no
discredit to belong to the junior league
1t will merely show that the school has
fewer boys.
The standing of the committee, the
form of the contest, and the trophies
one for the seniors and one for the juniors
and pennant 1t is believed, should call
| out very large attendance at Brunswick.
| Tho successful outcome of this contest
may be expected to mark a new era In
athletics In Maine.
Quinn Fund