Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-10
MAINE FOOTBALL.
Two Fierce Games Between the
Four College Teams.
University Of Maine Wins from Colby
--SCore 16 to 5.
Bates Takes Game from Her Old Ri.
val Bowdoin, 16 to 0.

Orono, Me-, Nov. 9.-(SpeciaD.-Uni.
versity of Maine defeated Colby, yes
| terday, on Alumni field, by score OF
| 16 to 5, in the presence of 300 specta-
tors, the largest crowd that ever wit
| messed football game at OrOno.
Before the game, Colby was conceded
to have the superior team and the fact
that her supporters were offering odds
Ste 5. was alone convincing of her con-
fdence. The fact that Colby defeated
Bates and then Bates turned around
and defeated Maine, was evidently no
criterion of Colby's superiority. SHer
team played with the same vigorous
ness and snap that it has displayed
throughout the season, but it was
simply outplayed and Outgeneraled
throughout the entire game. Only once
was Names goal i'm danger. That WAS
during the middle of the second half.
when Doc" Abbott got the ball on the
5-yard line on punt by Parker and
made q spectacular run through the
entire Maine team for a touchdown. 1t
was a wonderful feat and one that took
Maine by surprise. Abbott got the ball
on the 5-yard line near the east side of
the field. The whole Maine team closed
in on him. but squirming out of the
grasp of Bean, who had tackled him.
and lodging a man here and wriSgling
through che arms of another there, he
eluded all of his pursuers and covered
ground at Il rate of speed that the
proverbial Watkins had never dreamed
of 1t was a magnificent display of
speed and agility and the glory was all
his own.
From the instant the whistle was
blown at the beginning of the first half
it was apparent that Maine had the ad-
vantage and that Colby was contestinG
against team that possessed the
grim determination and spirit that
usually pulls "a team out victorious.
This day was all that could be desired.
Old Prob had condcscended to pro-
vide weather that Was entirely con-
genial to football and the crowd that
was rnassed in the grandstand or oc-
cunieG both sides of the gridiron were
gratifying in the extreme to the mana
tingent arrived on the field Il little
tardily, as by some unlocked for CIR
cumstanCe the special that conveyed
them to Orono had been delayed and it
was nearly > o'clock when the weareIS
of the blue and grey filed into that
norton of the grandstand that had
been held in reserve. With an entirely
new stock of breezy and up-to-date
songs they proceeded to make them
selves recognized. The Maine students
with The Cadet Band were maSSed on
the west side of the field opposite the
Colby rootcrs. They sang, cheered and
otherwise made things lively during
the interval of delay in getting the
game underway. or course BoilVai'
the. elephant mascot of the Maine boys.
had been properly fed and staked oil
in i convient portion of the field where
he could lend his encouragement to the
taap, while in action. The boys say
that it was due to his presence that the
game was won. Any way since his ad-
vent he has always been an accom-
panying feature of athletic victories at
Orono.
The clayey soil of which the field is
con,posed was not in just the best Of
condition for a speedy game, being a
little Shiny; just enough to make 1t
difficult for a man to obtain q quick
start The Colby men argue that it
was due to the poor condition OF the
field that Watkins failed to make one
Of his sensational exhibitions of speed.
but Maine men contend that it was due
to the ability of Names snappy ends.
Bean and Taylor, to get behind CODY
line and tackle the man before he nal
fairly got hold of the ball. Anyhow.
the. much talked of and cracked UP
Watkins failed to materialiZe with any
sensational work whatever. unless II
was the remarkable distance that he
was tackled back for losses during sew
eral parts of the game.
Cowing and Keene. Colby's star
tackles. played a remarkably strong
game. Keene especially proving valu-
able ground gamer for Colby. Levine
too. hammered Names line for sub
stantial gains many times during the
game. Maine succeeded in doing, yes
;erday. lust what they could not sue
coed in doing, last Saturday. at Lewis
ton. that is. getting the jump on their
opronen,s. Maine's line was also
stronger, holding time and again
against the mighty onslaughts of
Colby's backs.
Names back field showed also great
or strength than in the game with
Bates. To great extent, Bearce i
accountable for this His work, yes
terday. was especially brilliant, boti
on the offence and defence. Dorticos
buckcd the line for good gains at criti-
cal times, while Parker hurdled thu
line for good distances. But the in
dividual hero of the day was Sawyer
i Sawyer has been laid up with wate'
on the knee for nearly two weeks and
his appearance in the game at righ
guard was entirely unexpected by any
except Coach Robinson. He proved
mower to his team and the way III
ploughed through Colby's line was
| spectacle in itself. Sawyer has no
lined up with the team for nearly tw'
weeks. but he was certainly the facto
that was needed to strengthen tn
I line.
| But no individual credit should b.