Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-07
MAINE FOOTBALL NOTES..
Gossip of the Latest Games and of the
Contests to Come.

The heaviest man playing football in
Maine, this fall, is Hersey the Kent's
Hill guard. He weighs 800 pounds and
they have to weigh him ON the hay
scales.
Huunewell the star tackle at He
bron, was at Kent's Hill, last year, ana
Buttcrfield and Simmons, two OF the
Kent's Hill backs were at Hebron, last
year.
Manager Stone of the Bangor High
school eleven, is making arrangement"
for q game on next Saturday IN baisoi
with the second eleven of the uhi'ei"
ity Of Maine.
Saturdays storm was pau Iii om.s,o
the financial end of the Maine for
football season. Everypouy no naxt
blue skies and dry fields 1or the
two Saturdays.
,r,o Co,by game was the first one 'iiS''
| caa,ai, Grammar of Bowdoh mas
nIayed through, this fall. he ana I'di .
| ford make the greatest complla'ioii Vi
halfbacks in the State.
ro,hy has no more games to play ana
p,tcs has only the BoWdoin game "
nrenare for. Bowdoin has 10 play
Rates and Maine: while Maine, besides
Meeting Bowdoin. has game win
Tufts.
McClave, the old Princeton star
vino coached BoWdoin's championship
eleven. last fall, will have hand in the
coaching at Brunswick for the rest Oh
the season and his presence will doubt
less have a most beneficial effect.
Carl Marshall. the old Harvard cap
tain who was referee at WaterVllle,
Saturday, said at the Elmwood after
the game that on a dry field Bowdoin
would doubtless have beaten Colby by
a score of 20 or 80 to 0.
Bangor News: Conner, the Bates full
back, earned the profound admiration
of every admirer of good football play
ing. lie is a splendid type of athle'e'
PLAYS all the time and strikes the line
like a runaway automobile. common
could make any football team IN the
country.
EXCEPT for the awful mud. that was
2 very clean game at Orono, saturday.
Nobody was hurt and nobody was pen
allied for smuggling. AT WaterVllle
there were no injuries worth mention
ing and only one player lost his temper
to an extent that attracted the hotlce
of the watchful officials.
If the Maine college elevens have any
trick plays they are carefully reserVinS
them for the big games that close the
season, Nov. IL and Nov. IS. There was
no opportunity, however, to use them'
last Saturday, had they been so dis
posed as it requires dry field TO run
off trick plays successfully.
It would be more satisfactory for all
concerned if Bates and U. of NJ. could
get together again and play off that
tie. but it does not look as though IL
would be arranged. Impartial obserV-
ers also say that the teams are so even
ly matched that another tie would very
likely result should they meet again.
The football game between Portland
High and Thornton Academy when
had been scheduled for the Pine Tree
grounds Saturday afternoon was post
ponei on account of the heavy rain OF
the forenoon. The game will be played
next Wednesday afternoon and should
be che of the most interesting contests
of the season in Portland.
AS Colby loses few of it's men by
graduation it ought to have 4 fine
eleven next fall. 1t has Il lot of weight
in the line as the four guards and
tackles each weigh from $50 to 1870
pounds. The team got into Saturday s
game much harder and faster than into
any earlier game. 1t is probable that
Hetherington, the big tackle will be
the next captain.
Says tine Portland Sunday Times
man who has seen all the college teams
play. this fall: IF the two remaining
Maine games shall be played on dry
fields U. of NJ. and Bates will know
they have been playing football when
they get through with the Brunswick
bunch. / regard Bates chances best
for the State championship but Bow
| dom is a factor that must be reckoned
with"
The Maine High school football stu
alton became even more complicated
than it has been when Lewiston de-
feated Bangor, Saturday, at Lewiston
by a score of II to 5. All three teams
| have won one game; and Portland and
Bangor have tied. Portland'S chances.
however, look brightest, for the Forest
| City lads have yet to play on home
grounds, while both Lewiston and
Bangor play away from home at Port
land.
Saturdays football victory over
kent's Hill was the first the Hebron
| boys have won since 1899 Kent's Hill
won in 1900. 1903 and 1904 and there was
no game in 1901 or 1902. kents Hill
has practically new eleven, this year,
! as Captain Quincy is the only man
| who played on the team, a year ago.
Hebron plays Coburn. next Saturday,
at Hebron and if it wins will have a
clear title to the preparatory school
championship.
Bridgton's football spirit has shown
what may be done by small schools
having the proper determination. Lit
tie BridSton Academy, with not enough
players to form second team, has pro-
duced. by hard work and good coach
ing. one of the strongest school teams
| of the State. They have not been
scored on this year except by Hebron
a school of 200 pupils. And although
defeated by Hebron under adverse cir