Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-15

Sergeant of Hebron has not yet taken
similar action.
A Bangor boy, Chamberlain Pierce,
played end on the Andover eleven
which defeated Exeter SO badly. last
Saturday. He is the brother OF waldo
Pierce the Harvard guard.
A special train will run from oroiio
to Brunswick, next Saturday pel,i,u
the regular, and will pick up Dis
crowd all along the line. The Z. OIL M
roo.ers will take along their paliu'
Portland High and Thornton Acao-
o,,,,, viii NAV at Portland. this AFTER
MON This is their second game ana
has heen twice postponed by stormy
,,.aatber The first game was won by
Thornton to U.
Tho Higgins Classical Institute
eleven has had hard luck in trying to
NAV the Bangor Highs second eleven.
,rbrca times a game has been arranged
but each time something has happened
RI nostpoae it. The Higgins boys have
nlaved five games. this fall, winning
them all.
Frank b. Smith, captain and left
half back of the Coburn team. who was
forced to leave the game. Saturday, On
account of injuries is still unable to
leave his bed. He is not badly injured
in any one place but suffering d general
pounding up. This with the physical
exhaustion resulting from the great
game he played, caused him to be laid
up. The physician who is attending
him, expects to see him about as Well
as ever in day or two.
Preparations are being made on
Whittier field, Brunswick, to handle
the biggest crowd that ever saw foot
ball game there. Bleachers will be
erected the whole length of the field
opposite the Hubbard grandstand. The
field will be well roped off and pollced.
1t promises to be the greatest struggle
ever seen on a gridiron in Maine and If
the day is pleasant the greatest crowd
on record will witness it. There will be
at least two bands to help keep things
from getting dull.
A few years ago Bates had all or
dained minister. Rev. Mr.. Baldwin. as
guard on its eleven. and now Bowdoin
has clergyman playing OH its team in
the same position. Hawksworth
graduated from the Bangor Theological
seminary in June, 1904, and in the fol-
lowing fall entered Bowdoin as
Junior He made the eleven as guard,
last fall, and has played in every game
this season. IN the same position. He
is the heaviest man on the team and is
active and aggressive to Il degree that
guarantees his success when he lines up
araipct fne forces Of sin
Coach Folsom of Dartmouth is all Old
Town boy. He graduated from Dart
mouth in 1895. He had never played
the game until he went to college but
he soon became one of the best men
there. He played end on the Dart
mouth team for two years, and after
leaving college coached the University
Of Colorado eleven. His home is now
in Colorado, where he practices law.
He was a good baseball player, as
many football men are, and it was he
who unearthed SockaleXis, the Indian.
who played baseball at Holy Cross, and
later with the Cleveland National
league team. This is Folsom's third
year as the head coach Of the Dart
mouth eleven.
Boston Journal: Jack O'Connor
who graduated from the Bowdoin
Medical school. last June, and who was
the coach of the BOwdoin eleven in 1902
and 1908. certainly did wonders with
the material at Andover this fall. The
manner in which the Andover eleven
triumphed over Exeter speaks volumes
for his knowledge of the game. for no
dark blue" eleven ever displayed bet
ter developed team play. The entire
team seemed to act as unit, and the
plunging of the backs was such as is
seldom seen on a gridirOn, while the
pulling and hauling game resulted in
the large number Of yards gained
Energetic and faithful service merits
| reward, ard justly does the entire
credit of Audover's victory belong to
| the ex-Dartmouth captain.
Although the Bates eleven again
failed to win the coveted championship
it has reason to be well satisfied with
the seasons record. OF the eight
games played, it won four, lost two and
| two were ties. 1t defeated Hebron
Mckinley. Colby. and Massachusetts
Agricultural college: it tied n. H. State
1OfleSe ana L. Oh Maine, ana lOSt 10
Harvard and Bowdoin. 1t scored Is
points on it's adversaries and 40 were
| scored against it, The only teams to
cross its goal line in eight games were
| the Harvard and Bowdoin elevens
| which defeated it. 1t was probably the
best team that ever represented Bates
| on the gridiron. Surely Coach Purin-
| ton and Captain Kendall and their
associates ought to feel that they have
done d good falls work.
Under the caption "A Wall from
Bates" the Bangor Commercial pub
| fishes communication from a student
at Bates. evidently a young lady. who
| expresses the opinion that last Satur-
days game was real rough and that the
players conducted themselves III a most
| unladylike manner at times. All this is
| undoubtedly true. but she is wholly
wrong in charging that the victors
were worse offenders than the van
| quishcd, and of course her claim that
| the officials deliberately allowed in
| Engagements of the rules or were in any
way unfair is too absurd and childish
to be noticed. Probably she would be
| In different state of mind had the