The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-18

Without a good coach the team Will not
be in the race at all and if the team can
have the benefit of good players advice
there will be some hope of the boys win
ming glorious victories. Today Bowdoin
college will furnish a coach and the
young men who desire to get on to the
team will go out to the Deering base ball
grounds and put in an hour or two OF
hard practice. Either Dawson, Sinkin-
son, an old High school player, or some
other man from Bowdoin will be present
this afternoon, and the green men will
be given their first lesson in the work
which is before them.
Very few of last seasons football play
ers are back in the school this year. Dor
ticos, who played substitute left end
Dillon, who played substitute half back
Anderson, last seasons left end and
quarterback, and Mac Smith, who played
substitute guard, are the only old men
the star player of last year, the avalanche
who smashed his way through the human
wall of Bangor players and made him
self famous that gloomy day in Bangor
when the Portland Eagles went down be-
fore the beef and Drawn of the Bangor
ringers, returns to school this year.
Should he decide to come back to the
High school this year he will be q to wer
of strength to the team.
Among the new ones, all of whom are
light men, but who have plenty of those
necessary qualifications, courage and
quickness, are Phil Hudson, who will
try for quarter back; Ralph Thompson,
who will try for half back; Rollin
Walker, who had little experience last
back or one of the ends; Arthur Mer-
rill, George Fogg, Henry Loring, Feeney
and Mute Some of these men will be
heavy enough for the rush line, but as
has been the case during the LAST few
years the Portland team is sadly deficit
in heavy men for the line. and unless
some good timber is found the team will
be very light one.
The boys hope to hold their own with
Bangor who has lost eight of her old
men and must begin her seasons work
with green players and we are not much
out of the race after all.
Football In Bangor.
Manager Bridges of the Bangor High
school football team is busy arranging
one of the best schedules the school has
ever had. On Saturday. Sept. rs, the
| first game will be played, the opposing
team being the Freshmen eleven from the
University ,of Maine. This team is excep
! tionally strong this season and q good
game may be expected.
| The Waterville High school eleven will
play in Bangor on Oct. 2. Late in the
season return game will probably be
played in Waterville.
| The strong Kent's Hill team will meet
the Bangor boys at Maplewood on Oct
| 80, and it will be one of the most excit-
| ing of the season.
| The Coburn Classical Institute team
will play in Bangor on Nov. 6, and Man
ager Bridges expects to have a second
game with them later in that month.
The Portland games are not yet ar
ranged. 1t is thought that the first game
| will be played in Portland, as last year il
was played in Bangor.
The manager of the Hebron team has
written Manager Bridges that the princi-
pal of that school objects to the team
making SO long q trip as that to Bangor
| but that difficulty may be overcome by
playing on neutral ground.
The team is practicing every Afternoon
ON the common and all the men are show
ng up finely. Physical Director Stolte OF
the Y. M. G. A. is coaching the team a.
present. Howard, a new man this year,
is a brother of the famous Howard
brothers who played on the High schoo
team several years ago. He has played
on Chicago school team and has ex peri
ence. and. strength, and is a most valuabl,
man.
| Gus. Corners, the star full back, has no
yet begun practice, but will get out in 6
few days.