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

No, U. of NJ. and Bates VIII not nave
to play off that tie.
The great game of the year will be
that at Brunswick, next Saturday at
ternoon.
Portland Highs easy victory over
Lewiston makes it look like a sure
winner in the high school series. 1t
will play Bangor on the home GROUNDS
next Saturday.
Some of those football writer's FOR the
Bangor and Lewiston papers must III"
feel a little foolish as they tnihh Vi
the absurd stuff they have been serV-
ing I'D about the college championship.
Tufts heat Bowdoin and U. of M. by
rrocticaIIy the same score, 10 to and
- IN O. and so the writer's of football
done are unable to get any great line
on the two elevens from this source.
Rates will doubtless retain Purinton
as its coach for next season. He is
hard worker and has the full conf
dence of the men who feel that the
failure to win the championship was
no fault of his.
Hafford, the great Bowdoin halfback,
is undoubtedly the best punter of the
wear IN MdlIe. ne puIllcu lOuT llIIleS
in Saturdays game. his punts averag-
ing over 40 yards. and being high enough
to give the ends ample time to get
down under them.
One of the most interested spectators
at the big game at Lewiston, Satur-
day. was Coach Mccoy of U. of NJ.
In view of the result of the game it is
fair to presume that he kept up
lively thinking during its progress and
that he has mapped out a pretty
strenuous week for his charges.
Even though the calculations of the
experts were sadly upset on certain
other gridirons, Saturday. the ex-
pected thing happened at Waterville
where Hebron swamped Coburn under
big score. The Hebron eleven is
in class by itself among the Maine
preparatory schools and would give
any Of the college eIevens a very inter-
esting game.
After his splendid exhibition of gen.
eralship and all-round good playing,
Saturday, Bass must be seriously con-
sidered when the all-Maine quarter
back is talked about. If he is bit
inferior to McGraw the difference was
not to be noticed, Saturday. By his
fatal fumbling of punts, Wight's good
record for the season gets bad blot.
Captain Kendall of Bates deserves
a lot of credit for his sand in remain
ing in Saturdays game after he was
badly hurt. In the very first play he
received a blow in the face from
Blanchard's head as he was trying to
lot hr0 y,
the line. He stuck it out till almost
the end of the game. though he was in
no condition to do himself justice.
Bates loses by graduation, next June
six of the best men on this falls elev-
en-, Kendall, Connor, Johnson, Thurs
ton, Mahoney and Redden. All of these
men have played three years and most
of them four years for the garnet.
The captaincy of next years eleven
lies between Schumacher, '0s. and
Wight, 'O7. with the chances favoring
the former.
Conner. who finished his four years
of football at Bates, Saturday, must
be ranked as one of the greatest
fullbacks that ever played the game
in Maine. There is nobody in his class
and is splendidly formed. In his build
and general appearance he bears d
striking resemblance to McClave, the
Bowdoin coach. resemblance that
was remarked by many, Saturday,
when they were seen near together.
A writer in a Lewiston paper was
deeply grieved, last week, at the care
less training in which the Bowdoin
players were indulging. He said that
several of them had been seen at u
theatre, the previous evening, and he
feared they would not be in condi-
ton to play Bates an interesting game
enough to give the people their moneys
worth. Yet the Bowdoin men finished
the game in physical condition much
| superior to that of Bates and did not
| have to make d single change in their
| lineup.
In the bitterness of their chagrin
and disappointment at their unexpect-
ed defeat, some of the newspaper cor
| respondents in writing up Saturdays
game from the Bates point of view
were wholly unfair and partisan in
| their accounts and INDUCED i'm very
lame excuses and "squeaIs." Their at
'ituue, however, WIS Dy no means that
| of most of the Bates supporters. The
| latter give the victors due credit for
| their splendid work and accept the de-
| feat in Philosophical and sportsman
like spirit.
Just how much credit for Saturdays
victory by Bowdoin belongs to Ross
| McClave cannot be known. but the
Bowdoin men all believe that his ap-
pearance in the coaching squad had a
| marked influence on the work and
spirit of the team. AS he was with