Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-10-29
WHY COLBY WON.
Hard Work and Lots of It Is the
Whole Secret.

Colby's football team seems to be
causing no end of surprise and con-
sternation among the other Maine col
leges, this year, and the comments and
criticisms that have appeared since the
Bowdoin game have caused no end OF
amusement among those who have
watched the team develop and settle
into shape here on it's own gridirOn.
Bowdoin seems to think that Watkins
with perhaps just a wee bit of assist
ance from keene and Levine won from
their team. Maine apparently thinks
Colby played a strong game by chance
and that her team was not onto it's job
in that first game here. while Bates
thinks a good deal the same and seems
inclined to blame her men for putting
up weak game.
The fact is, and the other colleges
probably do, Colby has q strong team
in the field, this year. 1t may not be
the strongest in the State. but it's ''up
among the singers" all right and still
coming. 1t is not by any means Il one
man or a three men team. There are
IL good men backed by an unusually
fine string of subs that make the bulk
Of an unusually strong second team.
Some of the critics who have SEEM
ed to be inclined to think that Colby
is having a great streak of luck with
a few stars should have been with the
men through the season and taken the
work and training that they have
taken. Colby has indeed been lucky,
In, 80 1,1
most important being that she was
able to get a good coach at the begin
ming of the season and keep him with
the team all along.
Luck has been with her again in that
the men have been able to stand their
work and have escaped serious injury.
but the remainder has all been hard
work. The men have trained faithful
ly and taken all the work that came
their way without a murmur. They
have been Loyalty supported by the
student body and whatever the team
has wanted it has had if it has been
possible to procure it. The experience
of last year seems to have had a most
excellent effect and good many are
inclined to think that the failure then
IL.
The Colby football squad has been
travelling a pretty stiff pace from the
start. a much sitter one than the other
colleges realize. and the results are
now beginning to show. That sensa-
tional run of Watkins at Brunswick.
looked easy, but there was n heap of
preparation and hard work behind it
just the same and IL men had their
share in it when it was made.
What watkins is an unusually bright
star IL generally admitted. but Bow
doin would probably be very unwilling
to admit that he could go onto her
field i'll practice. break through her
whole team and make Il run like he
made last Saturday. all by his lone
some, even If he tried it for Il whole
afternoon. And furthermore they
would probably give odds that he
couldn't do it aided by Keene and Le-
vine. That wouldn't be reasonable
would it? Still. he got away twice. Sat
urday. once for % and once for As
yards. not mentioning his many
smaller gains. He needs just about 10
such men as he has with him at Colby
to get him through the heap and
away and then he can look out for
himself
Another thing should be noticed. In
saturdays game Bowdoin played Is
men and Colby Il. That first half is
generally conceded to have been one
OF the fiercest ii not the fiercest ever
played on Maine gridiron and Colby
took the bulk of the hammering. And
Yet after an intermission spent in the