Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-19
IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS.
MAINE GRIDIRON GOSSIP.

has the same strong and winning per-
sonality which gives him the confidence
of men and gives him great influence
over them He knows football too.
and if BoWdoin again has graduate
coach he is the man for the place.
No more beautiful tackling was ever
seen on Maine grdiron than that Of
Lee the Rowdoin fullback, last Satur-
DIV. Ii will be a feature Of that great
game long talked about by the football
fans who were present in such num-
hers. Time and time again ne fairly
few through The interference and by a
long, lew dive brought down a Maine
back for a loss. He was everywhere
tackling back of the line. mailing end
runs for a loss and following down UNI
der pnnts 10 crash into the man catch
ing them 1t was the fercest Kind of
tac.ling and the victims usually
thought q locomotive HAD struck them.
Every tackle was just above the knees.
and the man tackled always went back
toward his own goal. once on Il pant
nc missed his man. but. as one specta-
tor explained it, He made Il dive OF 20
feet. instead Of 20 feet rs usual. ana
Was in the air 50 long that the man
| had q chance to dodge ana save MS
| life" His offensive work was fully as
! spectacular as his defensive work ana
| stamps him as easily the best fullbaci<
| If the year in Maine. Lee halls from
| Greenville. H., and made his r as q
| halfback last year but was in ne such
| form as this season He is y member
| Of 1905, and is one Of the brightest men
of his class. having done the four
years course in three wears
Tho coveted IT" viii he awarded to
| IL men Of the R1wdoin squad, the y
VINO started last Saturdays game and
| to Lente and Gould, the substitute
| center and quarterback. The rule at
| knNdo!n is that four games count i'll
| winning the i. the three with thr
| Maine colleges and one other game.
This year and last year the oti.er
| game was with Tufts; some years it
| has pecn with Amherst 10 win the
| & and be counted as regular varsity
| man man must play the whole Of
| two Of these four games or in parts of
three Of them. The fortunate men in
| Guide three seniors, two juniors, four
| sophumoreS and four freshmen. They
are William 4. Crowley, '0S, Bangor,
right end; Walter D. Lee, '0S, Green
| vile, Ill, fullback; Charles f. Files. 'GS,
Cornish. right halfback; Harold II.
| Burton. 90, West Newton, Mass, quar-
terback; Edgar f. Sewall, 90. Somer-
| vile. Mass. right guard; Thomas G.
| Conlmins, 10, Somnrville, Mass, right
tackle; William 2. Newman, 10, Bar
Harbor, LETT tackle; Alfred w. Wand
| y1Cx
A Boynton. 10. North Whtefield, cen
ter; Orrison 3. Haley. II. Pcpha M
Brach. left guard; Benjamin *
Phirps. II. Chelsea. Mass, left half
back: Melville A Gould, II, Old Town
| quarterback; and Harry II. Lente, II
Medical School. South Thomaston, CEN
| ter.
There have been other coed football
Coaches in Maine, but never one in the
| class with Ross McClave Of Princeton
| and BOWdoin. His development of the
championship elevens of 1904 and 1907
FROM what did not appear to be par
ticularly promising material has beer
a marvel to those who follow The
game in this State. Always quiet, al
ways cool. always a gentleman, his
methods are unique among coaches
| He never seems in n hurry-but lool.
at the dash and speed Of the Bow
doin team last Saturday, He is al
ways mildmannered-but look at the
fighting spirit he puts into his eleven
He never works his eleven hard in
practice. These We're not over l.
minutes of real scrimmage between
TIE Bates and Maine games The fact
| hlt mot civ
up was made in the hard Colby and
Pates games, and not a change in tile
Maine game due to the injury or ey-
haustlOn of a player is sufficient proof
Of the perfect physical conditions in
which he kept his men AT the close
OF those games every man was fresh
enough for another IS minutes period
McClave is u silent coach. He had
nothing to say before Saturdays
game except We've got to win" and
after the game he had still less to say
During practice when he has anything
TO say to player he says it to him
alone. What he says is law to the
players. Every man has absolut.
confidence in him and knows that il
his plays and formations are carried
out rs he orders the team will win
His reS0urcefulness in the game was
shown in the great variety of Bow
doin's offense. and even then many OF
the pest plays were not used as they
We're built up around Captain Crow
ley. But il is not his knowledge Of
the game after all which makes him :,
great coach 50 much as it is his per.
Sonality, his ability to size up men and
to Comman their obedience ap5 ,l,,o
ton.