Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18

deSIeO 10 pay Ilii- II vas 4eit, i4o"
ever, that his place was well filled ard
50 lie has devoted his time TO coaching
the second eleven ana assisting Coach
McClave in the work OF preparing the
| Varsity for its hard schedule. After
the slump which cost Bowdoin the
| Bates game there was general look
ing around for means of Strengthening
the team and il was suggested that
/ Crowley be placed in the lineup. His
| eligibility was passed upon without any
question, but rather than have any
feeling result it was promptly decided
not 10 Use him.
Occasionally football player is de-
veloped in cole &c who never tried the
game III his preparatory school days
Crosby, the RoWdo;n tackle, is an in
stance Of this He fitted al Bangor
High 0ut did not play until entering
college and did not come out for The
varsity until his Sophomore year. III
that fa.l & bad knee kept him out Of the
game for the season. When he started
oat h gave much promise and This
year he has developei into one OF the
star tackle Of The season. His work
at Or0no Saturday in advancing the
rall was Cnt of the brilliant features
Of thar great game which viii long be
remembered by the multitude which
saw it.
Harry L. Daimun. the Boston Jour
nails football expert, who has been all
official in Maine, this fall declares that
the Bowdoin eleven has a clear title Of
he Maine championship. In Mondays
Boston journal he writes: "Bowdoin
won the last game in the Maine State
championship series by defeating Maine
10 10 }. This leaves PoWduin tied viii
,,olby IL games won end lost Unles.
the tie is played BOwdoin VIII have tC
he given the championship because o1
her to victory in the game between
these two teams in the regular series
Melville f Webb Jr., the B0StoI
Globes sporting writer, relates this in
ldent Of the Yale Princeton game
Those who watched the game ren:em-
her seeing y ale man run up to JOE
Fendleton and apparently wipe his
nud-stained fards on that officials
white BowdoiE sweater We all Won
dered what ii all was about. Pendle-
ton explains the circumstance a
Princeton mar, little while before
had asked permission to rub his hands
or the referees sweater, probably for
luck. This was seen by the Yale player
in question, and ne asked the referee to
be allowed to do the same thing SO as
10 offset any hoodoo that Princeton
might have set on Yale"
one OF the officials n q {
game remarked that if he We're going
to make any further changes in the
rules he would include a penalty for
high tackling, both because it is un-
necessary roughness to pull down
man by grabbing him around the neck
and also because it is poor football
Now that the Maine college football
season is over, the manufacturers Of
theoretical "All-Maine" elevens will
again get in their work In a way this
is harmless pastime, though it is
sometimes very exasperating to those
who follow the game closely and who
really know the merits OF the various
players to see some Of the All-Maine
clevens which get into print each year
some are made mp by partisans Of this
VI tlIdl Team " no are Simply 1ncaDd Die
Of seeing things clearly and their selec-
tions are little short of absurd Others
are made up By newspaper writers
whose chief desire is to be fair and
divide Up the places as evenly as pos
slble among the four colleges, with
small regard to the actual playing
ability Of the various men as den1on-
strated in the seasons games Then,
often player is placed upon these
eievens merely on account Of brilliant
or spectacular work in one particular
game, although for the season as a |
whole he may have been decidedly QUE !
whole ny some man in the same posi- |
ton whom the writer's ignore There
VIII he lot Of All-Maine elevens an |
pearing in Print within the next few |
{ ays. but, for the rea sons given above I
none Of them arr to be taken very seri- |
ously
notable feature of Saturdays gone |
at Orono was the small amount OF time !
taken out in either half. There We're
no Kicks to delay the game and prac-
tcally no time taken out on account of !
injuries 70 players in spite Of the fast
and hard pace at which the game was