Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
MAINE GRlDlRON GOSSIP.

at LEWISTON, llllS AFTERNOON.
Thus far in the seasons games the
new rules have cut almost no figure.
Coburn Classical Institute and Gardi-'
ner High play at Gardiner. this after
noon.
Gardiner High has fast eleven this
fall. and has some hard games ar
ranged.
Thus far the Maine colleges have
been very fortunate in the matter of
accidents.
Cults. the old Bates and Harvard
player. is coaching Perdue University.
Indiana. this fall.
Camel and Smith, two of the best
men on the TUFTS squad, are old play
ers at Bridgton Academy.
The ColbyU. of NJ, game at Orono
which was scheduled for today, has
been postponed to next Wednesday.
1t is hoped that the new 100000 grand
stand on Whittier field will be ready
for use when the Bowdoin-U. of M.
game is played, October 81.
The football team of the Madison
High School is getting into excellent
Roy Randall of Boston University.
| Irish and Carey, the two star backs of
the Leavitt Institute eleven, We're the
| battery on the nine last spring which
! was one of the fastest school mines in
| the State.
| David r. Porter, Bowdoin, 'G6, who
! played end on the Bowdoin eleven. last
! fall, and won notice by scoring on
Harvard after {. 100-yard run, is coach
| ing Kent's Hill.
Chapman. the Bowdoin half-back, is
Il brother of Chapman, "a, who played
end While in college. The older broth
err is now a Portland lawyer and is on
the board of aldermen. He has
coached the Portland High boys and
the Portland Athletic Club, several
seasons.
There is considerable football inter-
est at Deering High school this fall and
some good material is at hand both in
the upper classes and amongst the
freshmen. A meeting has already been
held in the interests of a football or
sanization and William Weber, '04 has
been chosen manager.
An addition to the Bates squad, this
week, is Baldwin a theological student
who weighs 225 pounds. He played
center on the eleven three or four years
| ago, but has since been out of college.
/ He is now preaching at Winthrop and
is completing his theological studies at
the Cobb Divinity school.
| A number of Houlton young men
have decided to organize a football
| team. and will arrange a schedule of
gaines with other town or school
eievens. Nearly all Were former stu
dents at the Kicker Classical Institute
where they did good work on the
school eleven, 50 a strong team is eX-
pected.
Bowdoin and Exeter will play on the
Whittier field at Brunswick, this after
noon and it promises to be one of the
! best games of the year in Maine.
These two institutions have met annu-
ally on the gridiron for q dozen years
and Bow dom has always won, but this
year the outcome is very much in
doubt. Exeter has the strongest team
in it's history and has already beaten
three college teams this fail, Tufts, n.
H. State college and Bates. In the
outclassed in every respect. Exeter
winning II to 0. The Bowdoin team
has made the hard Amherst trip, this
week, and so will not be in the best
condition.
Lewiston Journal: One of the sup
rOsed advantages of football is that 1t
teaches control of temper. Coach
Murphy, under provocation, at the
Lewiston High school game. Wednes-
day, lost his 1t is bad coaching for a
team. 1t casts discredit on the game.
| Undoubtedly he will be penaliZed by
the school: the same as he would pen
alize a player who "slugged' in a
| game were he official. From coach.
more than from any one else the game
| expects good example. His breach
of football etiquette should not be
| passed unnotced by the school. He
must pay the penalty of smuggling out
side the lines the same as in. Else
| football loses caste and the school
| stands for the blow. which is never
proper reply to anything, except in
| self defense.
| Western papers are lamentinG the
absence of Carter of University or
Michigan from the football line of
Michigan this year. Mr.. Carter who Is
the son of Hon. Seth M. Carter of Au-
| burn, was one of last years famous
| line that averaged the fastest and the
| heaviest in the colleges of the west.
He weighed 265 pounds and was at the
same time, say some of the western
/ papers in commenting on him, as hard
as nails and as fast as any man in the
line. With men along side of him
weighing from 1856 to over 200 the
formidable strength of the Michigan
line is to be understood AS a matter
of fact Michigan scored more points
against it's adversaries of any eleven
in the country. 1t is understood that
great pressure is being brought from
Michigan against Mr.. Carter to return
and play another year. but he is study
ing law in Lewiston and is not plan
ming to return to college this season.
All of the football that he is engaged
in is little coaching of the Bowdoin
line and a certain amount of official
work for which he is remarkably we'll
fitted.
They are talking up great team for