Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-25
WESLEYAN WINS.
State School Championship
Goes to Kent's Hill.
Cold Day But Hot Game at the
Augusta Driving Park.
Score, a to o-Thornton Academy Is Defeated
on Slippery Field.

ing PARK, saturday afternoon, between
the Maine Wesleyan Seminary team o
kent's Hill, and Thornton Acad
envy elevens, resulted in favor O
wesleyan, an outcome not at all unex
pected Wesleyan had won the senior
series of the Maine Interscholastic Foo
Ball Association, and Thornton the junior
series, and, in view of the really extraordi
nary playing that Wesleyan has offered
throughout the entire season, the result
was surprise to very few.
The day proved to be about as unfavor
able for good foos ball playing as one couit
conceive Two inches of snow covered the
frozen ground, and it is wonder that tht
runners could keep up as well as they did
and still greater wonder that no one
was injured.
After short run around the field, &.
warm up, the two clevens lined out for
business, Thornton having the west goal
and the kickoff
n. Wing Of Kent s Hill, caught, but on
account Of the slippery condition of the
field, had hardly got started when the
Thornton forwards came piling down the
field and stopped him. kent's Hill then
started in with gain of seven yards, by
Wight, Immediately followed by one of 10,
by n. Wing, both through Thornton S left
tackle and guard. 1t was clear, at the out
set, that long runs would be the exception,
on account of the heavy field, and Kent S
Hill settled right down to q plain push
ing game, with good success, the backs
making telling gains. The Thornton
team, however, was equal to the hard at
tacks, and soon forced their opponents in
to losing the ball ON downs, when on the
Thornton 30-yards line
For Thornton, Boyker made 10 yards
around Kcnt's Hill left end which was
followed by runs by Cole and Foss netting
about seven yards.
The kents Hill boys were, by this time,
in their turn, awake to the defensive and
stopped Thornton 5 onrush, forcing them
to lose the ball on downs.
n Wing, for Kent sHill, again started off
with good gains, followed by some more
forcing around Thornton s tackles. The
Thornton team, however, was playing
well, aud for three downs little progress
was made. Goodwin stopped some we'll
planned work by his good tackling, and
was pretty much all over the field. Kent's
Hills greater weight, however, began to
tell, and the ball steadily moved up to-
ward ThorntOn's goal F. Wing made 10
yards, Bennett five yards, until the ball
had been carried to Thornton 20 yards
line. Bennett started for Thornton S left,
and nearly the entire field rushed to that
much attacked section. But to the CON
sternation of the whole Thornton aggre-
CATION, and especially its right end, who
had ~ I, cross to Join in the push n.
WinssNa seen slipping and sliding at
torr A 81 across the field, clear out of
rcac'~8t 6ie maddened crowd, and no one
touched him until he had landed the ball
sauarely behind Thornton 5 goal posts, for
n touchdown. Here for some reason,
probably known only to the Thornton man
who did the deed, he was bounced upon
when already PROSTATE, after he had got
ten all there was to get, and of all things
important, after he had yelled down. "
1t looked for all the world as if the above
mentioned Thornton player was so dis
tressed at having his team scored against
or else because he himself had been unable
TO "get there in time to prevent the run,
that he determined to push the Kent
Hill man through the frozen crust Of the
earth 5 surface to regions beneath The
ernst stood the strain, however, and in
snite of n disagreeable squashing the
Kent's Hill man survived to do more coed
work, later on.
An easy chance for & goal was missed,
the ball flying far to the left The score
then stood to 0, in Kent's Hills favor.
The oriss-cross trick, on which was
scored the touchdown, and which so com
nletely took in the Thornton team was
playod not only at most iudicious time,
INIT was we'll done, and, resulting in the
only score, can reasonably be said to have
been the cause of winning the game Tor
Ksnt's Hill. There was no element OF luck
in it, as it was purely scientific, strategic
work. and foot ball of the highest order.
Thornton kicked oil, and again Kent 5
Hill started up the field, but soon lost the
hall ON of side pay. At this point, Thorn
ton started in with rush and did some OF
the sbarpest work that has been seen on
the football field, here, this season. Wake
f,e,d started off for no gain, but, on the
next try. went flying around kent's Hill S
end for 20 yards Cole, Foss and Boyker
followed. with good gains, and the ball was
an Kent's Hills 80 yards line when time
WAS called, and the players went to their
A.. dr, off and get the snow out