Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-10-29
MAINE FOOTBALL CHAT

Saturdays game at Lewiston will
be the 23d which Bates and l.. Of NJ
nave played. OF thos" p.ayed earlier
Bates has won IT, and e. of NJ 4,
while 4 have been tic games It j.,
a curious fact that the game, for the
past three years have all been ties
in 1903 and 1906 neither team scored.
while in 1870, both teams scored once.
Portland high will go to Fan -or
saturday to meet their old rivals for
the 1lrSt time this year and the team
VIII put in some hard practi .c thi;
week IN order to be in tn" best posi-
Die condfiGn for the game Bangor
defeated Far Iiarbor last Saturday by
the Sc"i< of II to and showed that
they haW Il great team. PGrtland's
showing against WestbroOk seminary
surprised their followers and if they
play ~ good gam" against Pangor
the QL"en city eleven win know that
they have been playing football A
large delegation will accom- ,rany the
team to Bangor t" cheer thrln to
victory.
BoWdoln ought to be ST. ,n-,rl for its
game with Tufts Saturday than it has
peen during the season as Burton will
nave tn" advdntag" of another wecK's
pTdCtlce winch means a great deal to
the quarterback. Hughes will also
nave a weeks practice at end a POSI-
ton which he played for the first time
against Colby. The whole team is in
good shap" and will know more foot
ball. They hope to make n fine show
Ing against the Medford team and
think they have a good chance to win
The four Maine colleges have played
New Hampshire state college this fail,
Colby scoring six points against her.
Bowdoin Is, Bates II and Maine six
Main" was the only eleven Of the
quartet to he scored on by the Dur
ham boys who negotiated field goal
at Oronu. New Hampshire is the
only team all four Maine colleges
have played.
Colby plays Exeter Saturday and
the odds are greatly in Excters
favor remarks the Portland Express,
and we wonder how the Express
figures It out Bates beat Exeter and
basis of comparison between Colby
and Exeter and it certainly puts the
odds in favor Of Colby rather than
Exeter
Biddeford Record; Thorntons foot
ball team plays this year with da III. |
snap and speed that is a reminder of
the famous old time teams that repre- |
sented the school for years and year
nfter year demonstrated their
superiority over the other school
teams OF Maine. Great teams.
they were and ii was a big drop to the
quality of football that followed in |
later years. And now that the boys
are again playing real football old
time enthusiasts are waking up and it
looks as though by Thanksgiving
there would be quite football fever
on across the river Local experts agroe
that Thornton this year has some very
good material and at least a few real
star performers
Hebron is feeling much pleased ut
having beaten the Bridgton boys 81
to after Kent's Hin had beaten them
23 to 0.
1t was the kent's Hill second team
which the Abbott school of Farming
ton beat Is to 10 last Saturday. not
the regular Kent's Hill eleven as some
papers had it. Kent's Hill had no
game last Saturday. Next Saturday
1t plays Westbrook Seminary and
week later Portland High
Pierce of Harvard who has been
agreed upon as head linesman in the
Bowdoin Bates game Nov. /. is a
Bangor boy. He was an official in the
u. of M.-TuftS game last Saturday
The football game between Coburn
and Maine Central institute at Pitts
field will be played Friday afternoon
instead of Saturday as was first in
tended.
With five games yet to be played in ,
the Maine championship series it is a
little early to he picking out All-Maine
elevens. The football expert of the F.,
Portland Express is getting busy.
however. and says that Good "t ,
Colby and Frank Smith of Bowdoin I
will undoubtedly be the llMaime
choices for the halves at the end of +
the season." {
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The four remaininS games on
Hebron's schedule are all with Port t
and teams October 81. Fort Nc
Kinley at Portland; November Z.
Seminary at Hebron;
November IA. Naval Reserve at Heb
on; November 81, Portland High
school at Portland.