Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-21
'ost-Season Comment on
| Teams and Players.
he Leading Candidates for an
4 AI|.MaIne Eleven.
championship Series Sc. Prospects
for Season OF 1907.


rings to mind the interesting fact that
he University of Maine has never yet
lccceded in beating Bowdoin at foot
! all upon its home grounds. 1t has
/, eaten Bowdoin once on the Maplewood
ark gridiron in Bangor and several
mes In Brunswick. but never in
rono. Saturdays game was the
eveLth between these two institutions.
4 which Bowdoin has won seven and
+. of M. four.
"a As usual a good number of Maine
eople will see the great Harvard-Yale
anne at New Haven next Saturday.
! asst year Maine had representative
IN the Yale eleven in Lavine Of Water
lille, the fullback who figured promi-
emily in the play that scored victory
yer Harvard. Lavine. however
ilsems to have disappeared from promi-
Iience this fall. though there was talk
llarlier in the season of making guard
liz center out Of him. Maine will have
representative this year on the Har-
lard team in Waldo Pierce. the Bangor
10y who has made good at tackle. and
t-ho is now playing regularly there.
Z Bangor and Portland are talking up a
lird game to settle the tie between
hem for interscholastic honors in this
tate, but the playing of the third
anne is rather doubtful on account of
ne iateness of the season. In the game
Il Bangor the Portland team showed
Up p little stronger. while in last Sat
Erday's game at Portland the Bangor
Foys had shade the better of 1t. In
either game. however, was either team
BILE to score. a condition of things
f'lainly due to the combination Of a
muddy field and the new rules. 1t is
ot unlikely that the third game. if one
ere to be played, would result the
lme way. If third game is played
\ will te at Bangor next Saturday.
Two of the Maine college teams will
, all probability have the same cap
lins next year az this year, Colby and
ates. since Hethcrington Of Colby and
chu!nacher of Eates both have anoth
u year in college. The latter has al
.ady been reelected. At BOWdoin the
iost likely candidate for the captaincy
+; Fill Crowley. the Bangor boy who
I
lis collar-hone in practice just before
he Colby game. At L. of Nj. the
shoice was between Miner. the quarter
lack. and Higgins. the halfback. either
IL whom would doubtless make good
Aeder for the eleven. ana Higgins was
Ehosen.
None of the Maine college elevenS
III suffer seriously by the graduation
n players this year. though at each
here is always the possibility of other
hayers being lost by leaving college or
ifure to keep up In their work. Colby
t0mises to suffer the least. az only one
m, Thompson the reliable center, will
aduate next spring. Bates will lose
Il two men by graduation. Wight the
1fback. and Foster. the tackle. Be-
les Captain Joe Drummond. Bowdoin
lose by graduation his brother w.
Drummond. who has played at the
Or lend Of the line most of the time
four years. also Blanchard. who
the regular fullback this fall until
red. Speake. the star halfback, and
=, the substitute quarterback. The
vsreity Of Maine eleven will lose
regular men by graduation, Cap
Burleigh. left end. Rounds. center.
bot, left guard. and Swift. right
fback, all four Of them being good
> who will be missed.
hat was something of a unique
ng in Maine football annals when
Bates boys INDUCED In rousing
bration last Saturday evening at
news of Bowdoin's victory over U.
"a, a team which Bates itself had
j unable to beat. However. the
sdoin victory gave Bates supporters
Excuse for figuring out a champion
on the percentage basis. a method
lch is by no means wholly satisfac-
" in football. but one which it does
harm to engage in. Although Bates
Is not before had claim to a Maine
in football since 1898. it
hs, nevertheless, a record in this line
sport of which it has good reason to
E proud. In it's series of games with
he other Maine colleges it has. except
! the case of Rowdoin. won more
ames from them than they have won
rom it. With Bowdoin there have
cen played IA games Of which Bow
DIN has won nine and Bates five.
7ith Y. of NJ. Bates has won 10
ames. lost three and tied two; while
18th Colby. Bates has won six games.
,st three and tied one. For several
ears Bates and U. of NJ. played two
ames annually. but that custom has
ct been kept up of late.
1t 10 not at all unlikely that all four |
I the Maine colleges will have the |
anne coaches next year as this year.
tcCoy has already been re-engaged at !
pc University Of Maine. and Puring- !
,n. who Is now the permanent director !
( athletics at Bates will again have I
1arge Of its eleven next fall Nothing (,
efinite has been done yet at Bowdoin |
BOARDING the coach for next fall. but |
here Is a feeling that the graduate !
vstem which was entered upon this
ear will be continued and that La
erriere will remain. possibly assisted
y some graduate who is especially
dapted to coaching the backfield, and
" a physical trainer to keep the men
condition. Laferriere was a little
low in developing the team this fall.
s0t when the eleven once struck its gait
Is work in the closing games of the
eaaon made its supporters very proud