Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-14


the lightest line among the Maine col
leges. In the back field the Bowdoin
average is 1873 and the Bates average
l51. Bates has much the heaviest back
Of the two teams in Reed but the aver
age is brought down by little Rounds,
the star quarter back.
Bangor High and Edward Little meet
at Auburn, this forenoon, to play their
second game. Besides this game, Ed
ward Little has yet three important
games left to play. There are two with
Portland, and one with Gardiner.
These are all important schools and
ought to furnish good games. The Au-
burn team will disband in Portland on
Thanksgiving day when they will play
the high school of that city.
The "All-Maine' elevens, are now in
order and no doubt a good number will
be manufactured. The Waterville Mail
is first in the field with one composed of
six Colby men and five U. of NJ, men.
This number reverses the score in the
game between those two teams, but
that is a minor detail. The self
restraint and modesty exhibited by the
Waterville authority in not making UP
the team of II Colby players is as COM
mendable as it is surprising.
The only game of football down Port
land way, today seems to be the game
between the two fort teams-Preble and
Mckinley, which will be called on the
Fort Preble grounds at 2.45. The fellows
on the Fort Mckinley team are big
husky chaps and have been playing the
game for months, as they have just ar
rived from Cuba and are right in trim
This contest will be full of interest from
start to finish. The Preble boys are
working hard to get into the best pos
sible trim and they say they are out to
win from the Islanders.
Lewiston High may well be proud of
it's record. 1t has won the seven games
it has played, scoring Ill points without
being scored against. 1t has beaten the
Bates second eleven 90 to 0; Edward
Little twice, q to 0, and u to 0; Port
land High twice u to 0, and % to 0 and
Bangor High twice to 0, and 16 to O..
Although it has not met Kent's Hill
| which claims the academy champion
I ship through beating Hebron to O.
there is little question that it is the
strongest preparatory school eleven in
the State. and it would give any of the
college elevens a hard game.
The great game OF this afternoon in
Maine is that over at Lewiston between
3oWdoin and Rates. 1t is the closing
game of the season for each team, and
will be a desperate battle. For neither
team has the season been particularly
successful. and as far as can be judged
by the comparison of scores of earlier
games the teams are as evenly matched
as two teams can possibly be. A crowd
of $500 is expected on the field when the
, game begins at 2 o'clock if the day is
pleasant, and they are certain to see
one OF the best and hardest games that
q Maine gridiron has witnessed for
years. The Bates line is 10 pounds
heavier to a man than that of Bowdoin
but il tho field is dry Bowdoin will try
to overcome this handicap by the speed
of it's backs.
There are some very gratifying in
dications evident to lovers of pure
athletics that some of the things that
have been accepted in the making VI
of formed school football teams in
Maine are now frowned upon. The
principal of the Augusta high school
recently put the team representing that
school out of commission for the rest
of the season because it did not meet
tile high requirements that had been set
| for it, and more recently, we under
stand, the faculty of the Coburn Clas-
steal Institute has followed a like
course with regard to the football
eleven of that institution. 1t would APP
pear that there were two or three men
whose eligibility to play. either because
Of their former connection with other
teams or a lack of necessary high
standing in their classes, was brought
| into question, and without any pressure
from outside the matter was taken uT
by the school faculty and it was decided
| to have no more football for the season
The result of this sort Of thing ait Au-
gusta and at Coburn will be that there
will be no necessity for a repetition OF
| it in the near future.-WatervilleM Mail
All four Of the Maine colleges have
| had exceptionally good coaching, Thu
fall. Anthony Harris who had charge
of the Colby boys was a find of the frs
water. He is a Cambridge man and his
chief success has been with the Manua
| Training school of that city, though he
has also coached Tufts. He had great
luck in keeping his players in good
| condition, and by his gentlemanly ways
won the respect Of everybody. Farley.
who coached U. of NJ. in 1901 and was
head coach at Harvard, last year, Is
back at Orono again, and his work If
turning out a championship clever
speaks for itself. His home is ir
Rrookline. and he is a graduate of botf
Harvard and the Harvard Law school
Jack" O. Connor, the Dartmouth captain
of 1901, is in charge at Bowdoin for 9
| second year. and the team and its sup
porters have as much confidence in hin
as though the eleven had won every
game. Sometimes he works his mer
| too hard, but he knows football and has
a way of putting wonderful spirit into
the players. The coach at Bates
Richardson, an old Bates player who
! has since been studying medicine at the
University Of Pennsylvania and played
end on the U. of p. eleven, last fall
He is a hard worker with thorough
tknowIedge Of the game,