Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-14
MAINE FOOTBALL NOTES

| the eleven but three days before the
| game it will be seen that he had no
time to lose in working the miracle
| which a Bangor paper said would nave
| tn happen before Bowdoin could beat
| Bates, this year. He will remain in
brunswick, this week, assisting Coach
Barry in getting the eleven into shape
for the big game of next Saturday
| which closes the season.
1t is of interest to note that four of
the best football men in Bowdoin are
unable to be on the eleven this fall.
Davis, a powerful Bowdoin guard of
two years ago, is in the Medical school
but his work will not allow him to
play. Speake. a star half back, of the
past two seasons, has been out work.
ing. and has just returned. Louis Gar
celon, the great tackle of last falls
eleven, is prevented by scholarship re-
quirements. Lee a splendid halfback,
| who is good enough for any college
team. came from Harvard, this fall,
and is shut out by the one year resi-
dence rule The last three named
will be on the squad all right, next
fall.
|
| has been we'll exemplified many times
| in the past by Bowdoin athletes on
diamond, gridiron. track and river but
never in more inspiring fashion than
by that Bowdoin eleven at Lewiston,
| Saturday afternoon. Going into the
game with all the odds against them,
| they pulled out we'll earned victory
from what the Maine football world
| thought was certain defeat. 1t is very
poor grace for the losers to say that
Bowdoin won by luck. 1t won because
Capt. Chapman and his men fairly
| outplayed Bates; because every Bow
dom man followed the ball better and
made the most of every opportunity,
and because they put more spirit, grit
dash and determination into their
work.
While the bouquets are being passed
| around in the matter of Bowdain's great
victory over Bates. last Saturday, one
of the largest and most fragrant
! should be handed to Joe Drummond
| who was the individual star of the
game and who stands in a class by him.
self among the Maine college ends. He
| defended his end perfectly and he fol-
lowed the ball so closely that it almost
seemed it had hypnotized him and he
| could not take his eyes off it. Every
time there was a tumble by Bates he
was right on hand to get the ball. 1t
was not luck, but it was great football
playing by one of the fastest ends in
the business anywhere. In connection
with the touchdown which he made
fl ON the 12-yard line and which won
the game, a word of explanation may
be made. 1t was not tumble, in the
ordinary use of the term, but the ball
was knocked out of Chapmans arms
by a Bates player who hoped. of
Ecourse. that some other Bates player
would be able to fall on it. But Drum
mond was right on the spot as usual
and catching the ball in the air he
turned the tables so quickly that the
crowd hardly knew who made the
touchdown, or how it had been made
The great and decisive game of the
Maine college football season will be
played on Whittier field, Brunswick,
next Saturday afternoon when Bow
dom and the University of Maine
meet. The situation is just as it was
last year when the closing game decid-
ed the championship. though Bates
was Bowdoin's opponent last year, in
stead of L. of NJ. If the day is pleas
ant a crowd of 1000 people will witness
the struggle and they will see a game
to remember. Prophets will not be
quite so ready. this week, to announce
results in advance, as they were last
week. The surprise which Bowdoin
sprung, last Saturday, has knocked
the dope artists dizzy. Yet it was not
so much that the Bowdoin eleven
made a great brace and finally got to-
gether for business, as it is that the
eleven has been playing in very hard
luck all the fall and has been absurd
ly moderated by the partisans of the
other teams who have rushed into
print. If the OronO boys can win it
will be after harder and faster game
than they have yet played. They
have splendid material. a very heavy
line, fast backs. and splendid coach
ing and they will go to Brunswick to
play the game of their lives. If they
can beat Bowdoin they will have a
good claim to the championship, even
though they could only tie Bates,
while if Bowdoin beats them or ties
them it will have a clear title to first
honorS again Both teams came out
of Saturdays game in fairly good con-
ldition and both will work hard. this
week. Bowdoin hopes for a dry field.
as a slippery field would favor the
heavier Maine line. The Bates team
was about so pounds heavier than
Bowdoin. according to the figures in
the Lewiston papers. and Maine is
heavier than Bates. Every football
fan in Maine should plan to be on
Whittier field next Saturday afternoon.
Whatever the result, nobody will al