Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-19
MAINE, 6; COLBY, s.,
A Tough Old Game, Saturday,
on the Orono Grounds.
Tufts Has An Easy Proposition With
Bates Eleven, % to 0.
Coburn Classical Trims Skowhegan
High, Fl to o.

| T. University OF Maine defeated Colby
Saturday afternoon, on Alumni field
by a score of 6 to 5. The score hardly
sives fair estimate of the game, as
Colby gave Maine a little more than
she had bargained for and in many re-
spects outplayed her.
| The contest was doubtless the most
exciting ever witnessed at Orono, and
| the outcome was in doubt from the first
second of play until the referee blew
| his whistle after time had been called
| in the last part of the second half.
Both teams were stronger on the de-
| fence than on the offence but Colby
was clearly the superior of the two on
| the offence.
| The game was rough one on both
sides. as is natural in a game which is
as fiercely contested as that which was
| played, Saturday, and the players had
to be repeatedly warned. Watkins and
Coombs of Colby, and Bean of Maine,
We're taken out of the game for slug
ging, While there We're others who
should have been put on the side lines
| but who escaped the notice of the ref
cree.
CoWing was the whole thing for
Colby and his line bucking was a feat
ure. Dewitt and McNane also dstin-
gushed themselves. the former making
| big gains with almost every play. Tay-
| lor Parker and Thatcher played the
| best game for Maine.
Parker kicked to McNane on the 10
yard line, who brought it in 10 yards.
Cowing pounded out II yards through
| Names line and then Colby found Il
wall few small gains brought the
| ball to the 35-yard line, where it was
| fumbled, Reed of Maine getting the
| leather. Thatcher started in beauti-
| fully with 9-yard gain around Colby
| left end. Parker and Shaw made it a
| first down on Colbys 11-yard line.
Shaw found a big hole in the left side
of Colby's ball for yards Colby
braced and held Maine once on the
2-yard line. but on a tandem play
Thatcher carried it over amid the wild
| cheers of the Maine rooters. Bean
kicked a goal which afterward proved
| to be the winning point. Had he
missed-well, things at Waterville
would have been different, Saturday
night.
! Parker made beautiful kick over
Colby's goal line, and McVane brought
it in IA yards. Maine held well, on a
couple of plays, but the brace was but
temporary and McNane tried Maines
left end for 5 yards. Then came Wat
kins. 1t was just the chance he was
looking for and he accepted it. Taking
the ball, the colored lad executed
a side stcp-reversed power-turned or
the steam and went whizzing down the
field diagonaly for 90 yards, Thatcher
bringing him down just in time. A
little more and it would have been a
repetition of his sensational work o!
last year. Taylor broke through on the
next play, mailing Dewitt for 4 5-yarG
loss. Watkins was smothered and Cow
ing punted to Thatcher on the 45-yard
line.
1t was right here that Colby began tC
show fight and Maine failed to pene-
trate her line. Thatcher ran back for
a punt. but Learned misjudged the
distance and the ball sailed over the
latter's head and rolled toward Names
goal 90 yards before the latter could
recover it. 1t was a third down, but
| Maine took advantage of the 20-yard
retreat rule, making it first down on
her own 15-yard line. Maine got off
side on the next play and was penalized
20 yards. This brought the ball to her
own 5-yard line. Shaw and Parker
found hole in Colbys left side of the
line and went through for two 5-yard
gains. Then Shaw went through be-
tween left tackle and guard for a clear
IS yards. Maine was again penalized
for off side play, and the ball was
worked up to the 30-yard line. Maine
failed to make good and Thatcher punt
ed to Craig, who brought it back
wards. Cowing broke through Names
line for 5 yards and then Colby FUN
bled, Taylor getting the ball in the CEN
ter Of the field. Maine gained 8 yards
through the line and then Thatcher
took it around Colby's left end, making
q sensational run Of over 40 yards. BY
tandem plays Maine brought the bal
20 Colby's 9-yard line, where the latter
held Maine for downs with only about
an inch to gain,
Gains were made by CowinE and ther
Craig tried a quarterback run unsuccess
fully. Time was called with the bal! il
Colby's possession on her own 1S-yart
line.
1t was in the second half that Colby
awoke to the fact that she could play The
game as well as her rivals, and came ontt
the field with big bunch of confidence
She at once took things into her owl
hands for on the kickoff Pugsley followed
up Newman's kick and it was Colby's bal
on Names 40-yard line-a clever bit o
football worked successfully. Then Cob.
hammered big gains through Names lin
assisted much by Cowing, bringing thu
, ball to Names 15-yard line. She thel
suffered big losses and Newman tried
goal, from the field. He failed to max
good and Thatcher kicked from the 3
yard line to Pugsley on Colbys 55-yar'
| line. From this time on Colby clearl
outplayed Maine in every department
CoWing was her chief ground gamer
Whiie McFane and Dewitt ground out goo
distances. BY line plays principally Cobb
: worked the ball to Names 22-yard line
where she lost it on downs Maine wa
! nenaiized ~ yards. being off-side an
this brought the ball to the 17-yard line
The homo team was unable to make thei
Instance against Colby and Thatcher RAJ
back 1or punt. Coom,s broke through
} blocked the punt, and the bah rebounds
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