Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-12-03
FOOT BALL.
BAR HARBOR BEATEN BY ELLIS
WORTH HIGH SCHOOL.
A CLOSE AND EXCITING GAME-SCORE,
TO 6-THE VISITORS FAIL TO
SCORE IN THE FIRST HALF,
THE HOME TEAM IN
THE SECOND.


Bar! H-a-r!! B-o-r!!! Rah! Rah!!
Rah!! Bar! Har!! Borl!!
The yell went up from Bar Harbor's ag-
gregation Of foot ball players and their
fifty or more "rooters" when they reached
Ellsworth on the morning OF Thanksgiv-
ing Day. 1t was given with a vigor and a
seeming confidence of prowess which
would have struck terror to the hearts of
ordinary mortals; but there's nothing
ordinary about Ellsworth's chasers Of the
pig-skin, and their pulse did not falter.
Neither did he surprising discovery that
among the Bar Harbor thigh school boys"
were number OF Oriole hose teams
crack sprinters create the CONSERVATION
that might reasonably be expected. The
Ellsworth high school boys are not lack
ing in that one necessary qualification OF
foot ball player-grit. The fact that
they were opposed to team which
averaged ten pounds heavier per man,
trary, spurred them on to greater effort.
And when the supreme test came they
were not found wanting. Again was
demonstrated the superiority of mind
over matter with the great advantage of
weight and strength in their favor, the
visitors were ut-played, out generated,
beaten.
1t was II close and exciting game. 1t
was IA clean game, too-a "gentlemans
game, rs one man present very aptly ex-
pressed it. There WAS gratifying ab-
scnce of the "sluggiug' which is too often
associated with foot ball. but which as
yet has not entered into the game as
played in Ellsworth. TO this fact is due
the present popularity of the game here.
The beginning of smuggling tactics would
mean the death of foot ball in Ellsworth.
The weather was not favorable to a large
attendance, but Ill spite of that about
four hundred people were present at
Wyman park when the game began. Bar
iIarbor was Well represented. There was
n generous display of colors--the Bar
Harbor orange and the Ellsworth garnet.
y majority of the spectators crowded
along the inner rail of the race track, the
orange predominatng at the southern
end, the garnet at the northern end, but
there was also, in places, friendly in
terminglng of colors.
The field, or the "gridiron'' as it is called
in foot bail pariance, WAS covered with
snowy carpet which looked soft-but
wasn't. A drilling rain was falling, but
it did not dampen the ardor of those who
had braved the elements to cheer their
favorites on to victory
Inside the rail Officer Silvy kept the
crowd back from the field and preserved
order. The antics OF one young man
from Bar Harbor, whose brain was be-
logged and muscles bewitched by too
much tanglefoot, served to amuse that
portion of the crowd which they did
not disgust. He insisted in encroaching
too far on forbidden territory, and when
Officer Silvy made touchdown with him,
he probably thought, il he was capable of
thinking, that he had some way got
mixed up in the foot ball game. Then it
was that he explained that he was a re-
porter, save the mark. The literary
world awaits with trembling expectancy
his report OF the game. 1t will prob
ably be illustrated by Awfully WierdsIy
or some other follower of the Aubrey
Beardsley school OF artists.
THE LINE UP.
But the game. 1t was exactly 2: 80
o'clock when the players lined up. The
positions were as follows:
Ellsworth. Positions. Bar Harbor.
Mason............Lef end..... 49,. RnI"tr
Thorsen. Left tackle............ Higgins
hustin........ -. Left guard. McQuinn
Blai-dell. ......... Centre. .......... WescOtt
Belatty. Right guard .......- Ellington
Foster. Right tackle. ........ Gutter
Cushman Right end-..........H Carter
Higgins. Quarter back .......... Weston
Whitmore -. LEFT half back. ALLEY
Grow Right half back Hold kinS