Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-11-11
THE GRiDIR0N.
sI4r
u. of Maine Wins from CoIby,
Saturday, % to 0.
Bates Defeats the Badly Crippled
Bowdoin Team, II to 0.
Harvard. SO: Pennsy. 6.-PhilIips.Exeter. s:
Phillips.Andover. O. Other Games.

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We'll. it was not 50 terribly bad at
ter all. Maine only got FIVE touch
downs ard Colby mad. it decidedly in
tercstins for her While she was doin.
it, Colby didn't expect to score and
some of her most loyal supporters
were looking for Il score Of about 10 to
Q. When il turned out to be - every
one was Well satisfied
Maine has a splendid team. y splen-
did team. She will doubtless be able
To crow a crow from the TOP Of the
heap This Year when the season closes
and no one will begrudge her that
crow. She has worked nard ana turn
ed ont an eleven that is a credit 10 the
State as Well as to the University. The
men are all hard as nails. beautifully
trained and conditioned. When they
appeared on the field before the game.
Saturday, they certainly made an un-
usually line looking football eleven.
Colby'S little battered ANA worn
eleven looked weak and puny beside
their opponents. But il mad The pluck
and sand and when the first half was
about half completed there was no one
on the side lines that did not feel a
deep down admiration for the men
who took their medicine 20 stolidly
and who made so good Il try at giving
their share in return.
Whew, But wasn't the pace hot for
about 10 minutes, Colby evidently
thought that the time 20 keep the scor.
down was at the beginning of the game
ana went at her big opponents like a
regular old fashioned cyclone that rips
the bark off the bushes and the hair
Oft the dogs back
And Maine was APPARENTLY looking
for this kind Of play and took it just
as il come 1t was a little more than
she bargained for perhaps for she lost
ground again and again. Colby seem
ed nerved to the fight and was bound
to gain distance whether or no. 1t
was hard. fast, clean football. II set
the blood of every one on the field a
boiling and rain. mud. cold. evel ything
was forgotten in the excitement Of the
moment.
Colby was astonishing even her
most sanguine supporter and Maine
was fairly carried of her feet by the
whirlwind style Of play. Captain Keen
was right in the midst of it all and
was right in his glory. He smashed
the line like battering ram again and
again and seldom failed to make his
distance. The amount of work he ac-
complished apparently without weak
ening i'll the first part Of the game was
a caution.
No time was lost and play after play
went off like clock work, or rather like
steam engine for il was altogether
too fast to he likened To clockWork. The
bali passed back and forth between the
teams and neither could make any
great gains. But Colby gradually
weakened. The pace was too hot for
her. Maine took her medicine stolidly
and bided her time which she knew
was coming. Her steady hammering
began to tell, although slowly During
the latter part of the half she got her
grip and began to tighten on ii while
Colby slowly collapsed. TWO touch
downs We're made during the latter
part of the first half and three in the
last half which was five minutes
shorter.
Colby made a beautiful. piucky fight
and died game She asked for no
mercy and received none. 1t was like
a small man fighting big heavy one.
The little fellow, fiery. snappy. furious.
works to the limit of his endurance
while the big fellow takes it calmly
and waits his chance. Then when IT
comes as calmly puts the little fellow
out for good.
Keen handled his men well and took |
Every opening. He did the bulk of the |
line bucking for his team and this con- |
did fine work in this through the first |
half and then had to drop out. Hag-
gerty played like a flend and worked |
as he never worked before His blind |
zeal cost some distance on off side
plays but he amply made up for 1t. |
Priest. the little quarter back. played
The game like a hero. 1t almost broke
his heart when Colby fumbled once
after fighting hard for the ball. but it
vas not his fault. He took all the
.hances that came his way recklessly.
Once he was thrown by big Maine
.unner as bull would toss little dog
On his horns and his face plowed the
lirt. but he came up smiling. just the
same. Once he saved a touchdown by
, good tackle at Il critical moment. He
.ur his signals in fine shape although
1e has been on the Varsity but short
ime.
Cotton. who practically got up out of
BED to play the game. did some fine
ackling. No man was too big or 60
ng too fast for him TO connect with.
md the way he was twisted and thrown
vas caution. This is really his first
-ear in the game but he has the right
stuff. The work of the other men was
perhaps not so conspicuous as these,
,ut they all played like heroes. They
lid all they could or all that they
.ould possibly be asked to do and the
.Ollege is satisfied.
For Maine. Dorticos. OF course.
showed up very strongly. Parker and
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