Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-12
A TIE GAME.
Bowdoin Fails to MOP the
Earth With Colby's Eleven.
The Great Contest Fought to Draw,
Score Standing 6 to 6.
Colby's New Coach Has Done wonders
Bowdoin Now Champion.
A TIE GAME.

vidual from the signing pines of old
i5owdoin that said we could not score
on their old foot ball team? Who said
we were not in the game any more now
than earlier in the season? Yer and
Mr.. Hopkins, yer and. You have done
the trick and have done it well. To ht
| on their track and made them 'holler'
| for a snow. They beat US at puntins
but we gave them a line as impenetra
| BILE as Gibraltar and they have some
| healthy respect for us. We have grow
eiled in the dust and sometimes the
mud of ridicule for ages, ana our plain
| tive voice lifted up in the despair OF
defeat mas been drowned by the glad
| rejoicinGs OF old Bowdoin.
But times change and so do some
men. Some men can play foot bali anG
yet there are others. We claim to have
played foot ball to quite an extent, TO-
day. Is there one to rise up from the
musty archives of the female seminary
Of the AnGroscoggin and say us nay.
Nit" They think down that way
that we are some pumpkins, tonight
Rowdoin's curlew did not ring, tonight
Nary q ring. and. Mr.. Hopkins, you de-
serve scholarship at Yale.
For weeks we have beheld the sad
spectacle of old age and infancy bowed
in the mute position Of expectancy and
doubt. with never q CHEEKY word to bid
them look upward. simply because they
we're scared of Bowdoin. But since the
advent of the young man with a plaster
of Paris right lower extremity. hope
has risen. We licked Maine State and
we wiped the earth up With Bates. We
gave Tech a number of points on the
game and they appreciate US. 1t only
remained for us to go at BoWdon ana
make a lawn mower of the ancient in
stitution. But we didn't. We allowed
them to score on us instead.
The Journal issued it's ultimatum, pro
nunciamento, proclamation or some
thing, this morning. and you who stayed
at home should have seen the exhibit
ton of grit. sand. nerve and life that
the Colbys put up when they saw the
representative of this paper so onto
the field. We distinctly heard Brooks
say: Here comes the Journal man. now
show what you are made Of And this
is the way they did it.
Brooks won the toss and took the
vest goal Clarke kicked off for Bow
doin. The ball settled into McFadden's
hands at the % yards line W no advanced
it d short distance. Gibbon bucked the
line for four yards McFadden three.
and Scannell went through tackle and
guard for TO- Chapman forced the line
for three. and Putnam and Upper were
both held for downs. The ball was
fumbled but Putnam fell on it. Bow
doin got the ball on downs and Stearns
made gain for IL couple of yards.
Bowdoin was held for downs. Lamb
making a splendid tackle of Stanwood.
1t became Colby's ball. Upper took
the lire for yard and then attempted
to punt to vantage but the ball bounded
on one of the players and rebounded
to the Colby Is yard line. The ball was
sent back to the Colby 80 yards line for
oil side play. Putnam bucked the line
for five yards, McFadden repeated the
offensc through tackle and guard. Tup-
per was held, Putnam went through
right tackle and guard for 10 yards,
Gibbon found hole for five yards and
tried it again for four more, Putnam
forced the line for slight gain and
Brooks punched himself through for
three yards. Gibbon made two gains
aggregating eight yards and Hook took
Lamb under his left arm through the
line between right guard and tackle for
y yards.
There was demonstration on the
Colby side of the field and that was
on both sides. Putnam took the line
for a slight gain and McFadden hunted
through for five yards, Gibbon was held,
Lamb gained eight yards, Putnam was
held. Gibhon got 2. and the ball was
within a foot of the BoWdoin goal line.
Here was where CoIby's beef came into
good play for Putnam was pushed over
in Just Is minutes play. Pike kicked
goal and there was Il sensation and
much joy. Score to 0.
McFadden took Clarke's kick but was
stopped on 10 yards gain. then Weary"
took it around the left end for eight
Yards Hook was held and the game
Vas delayed for an injury that he re-
ceived but he was soon in the game
again. Colby got 10 yards for off side
play Putnam made five yards, Gibbon
and Pike were held and BoWdoin got
the ball They were held on the first
snap back, Clarke made a dandy jump
over the heads of the muss up for two
Yards. They were held again and
Colby got the ball on downs. Here be-
gan a struggle that was grand to see.
There was kicking galore on the part of
captain who called on Brooks
to give us q show" Gibbon got two
yards to his credit, McFadden was held
and Upper fumbled the ball but time
was called with the ball on BoWdoin's
"a yards line.
In the second half Scannell kicked off
for Colby. Moulton got the ball but
was held on a gain of five yards, Clarke
b,,cled the line in an admirable man
ner and again for an aggregate OF foul
Yards and then he was held. Colby got
the ball on downs. Chapman was held,
scanneu got seven yards Gibbon was
held nut when the Bowdoin captain
cautioned the men to look out for
ccanneU' McFadden took the ball
through right guard and tackle for
eight yards.
Bowdoin got the ball and lost three
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