Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-17
WATERVILLE.
coLsYs ELEVEN AS GOOD.
The Orono FootbaIIists Not Yet in a
Class by Themselves.

The Bangor News now that the Uni-
Versity of Maine haspwon the Maine
championship and given Harvard and
HOLY Cross very pretty fights, takes
occasion to bark back to the days when
the Orono boys were the under dog in
college athletics. After. the fight Maine
has made and the success that has been
Won this is very reasonable and natural.
put when the statement is made that
the University is now in a class by
Itself and that the other colleges ought
10 go out and practice up with fitting
schools before playing with her again
is III the minds Of the Colby supporters.
going bit too far.as Names margin of
victory in the game with Colby was
small enough to show that Colby had
just as good Il team. Because Maine
kicked a goal and Colby didn't does
not put the former in Il class by herself
by any means. To be sure, it was
enough to win the game and the cham
pionship but after all it was pretty
small string to hang so much weight
on. And its victories over Bowdon and
Bates were not the kind of walkoyers
to put Maine in a class by itself.
In the game with Maine, Colby
showed superior strength. especially in
the second half. Maine had the ball in
Colby territory only twice for the game,
once when the touchdown was made
and again at the end of the first half.
In the second half Colby had the ball
inside Names 25-yard line four times.
Once she lost it On downs. once on a
tumble, once when n try for q goal
from the field was made and last when
time was called with 1t but five yards
from the Main goal. Colby's net gain
for the game was 119 yards and Mainc's
but 43 yards.
The distances made. in detail, arc as
follows: Rushes-Colby, 149: Maine 1856;
run in-Coby, SO Maine. 10; ground
lost-Colby, o; Maine As; penalties
Colby. 0; Maine 35.
Colby held Maine for downs once.
punts four times. and for a 2O-yard loss
once. Maine held Colby for downs
twice and for punts twice.
These figures show superior strength
for Colby at every point and when it
was remembered that Maine had two
weeks more training than Colby it GER
tainly does not look as If Maine was in
class by herself in football. this year
The State championship was never won
on so small a margin before and prob
ably never will be again.
Then while Maine had Il good and
reasonable excuse for not playing Colby
q sccond game, no desire to arrange a
game WAS manifested during all the ne
gotiations for one. After limiting all
around the lot that she wanted another
game, Colby came out with flat re-
quest for one. sending her manager
and captain over to Orono to make it
but Maine simply fell back on her good
strong position and refused.
So the Colby supporters believe that
they have good reason for claiming
that they had just as good a team, this
year, as Maine, even IL the champions
ship was lost. The chances are also
that Colby will prove just as good an
opponent for Maine. next fall. as she
did this. Maine will have to win by
more than one point before she gets
too big for the State
1t must be remembered, too, that
Bowdoin was for years undisputed
champion in football and has done little
to brog about for the past three years
1t has had good teams, to be sure, but
the others have had better ones, EXCEPT
Bates, this year. The same fate may
be in store for Maine. as success in
athletics among the Maine colleges ebbs
and flows.
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