Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18
Bowdoin Well Pleased
With Work Of Eleven.
Better Record for Season Than
Other Maine Teams.
The Work Of the Fall and the Men
on the Eleven,


with 9 decisive victory over the Uni
versity of Maine, and now that The sea
son is over and the team disbandeL
after two months Of strenuous work &
review and summing up is in order
The team was one Of the best that evel
represented Bowdoin and the season IL
whole has been highly satisfactory
To be sure, there is not 4 clear title tc
the State championship such as Bow.
doin won last year, but there is Al
least the satisfaction that if BoUdoir
cannot claim the championship ther
certainly nobody else can. Figured or
the pert1ntage basis there is a tie be.
tween Colby and Bow doin. but as Bow.
dnn has defeated Colby the latter col
tege appears to have the small end OF
the "t:e' Moreover, Bowdoin has ex-
pressed a willingness to play Colby
again, after the conclusion Of the reg
ular schedule, but the Waterville boys
preferred not 10 keep in training sc
long.
The only blot on the Bowdoin season
this year was he defeat by Bates, aId
it Is not at all t. the discredit OF th,
Bates eleven which played a fast anl
brilliant game, TO say that its victory
was due 10 tn slump of the Bowdoir
eleven. Had EoVdOln played the i.inC
of game it PLAYED a week ea,ie,
against Tuft#. OF the Kind Uf q gam,
1t playec 4 week later at OrOno, nobody !
here questions that il would have wOr
decisivr. .'ictcry over Bates in spite
of the ,ct that the Lewiston boys
played :. II day by far their best gam.
of the ~ son. Ii indicates soITetilin,
that botl. colby and L. of VI. which de
feated Bates acre in turn beaten an,
completely outrluycd BY BOwdoin. An
team is liable 10 have at least on,
slump in the course Of a hard schedule
and EowdninS slump came IN tn.
Rates GaIy, not as q result of poo
physical Cyndition but mainly from
overconfdence.
The eleven played nine games. five of
which raight be called the prelnir.ar.
games ana the final four those whicl
the college was out to win. Of tn
preliminary games the two with For
Mckinley and New Hampshire Sat
were easy victories, % to and Il to
Harvard was held to five points an
Bowdoin scored a goal from placemen
WHICH was NOT dIIONtu. Brown, WIlc
has tied Yale and held Harvard to on,
touchdown. was held to 12 points afte
beating Bates 81 to 4. Holy Cross wa
played in Portland and won the gam
IL to 5. The four remaining game
were each with colleges which regarde
the Bowdoin game as the one on thei
schedule which they wanted most
win. and the one for which they devel
oped their team at the expense
everything else.
This puts each year 4 big probler
before the coach and the eleven and
was met this fall in splendid fashion
Bowdnin won three OF the four, dc
feating Colby to G, Tufts II to 10 an
u. of III. II to and losing to Bates t.
.. Thus Bowdun had very muc
harder schedule than the other Main
-olleges and as il made such a fiji
showing outside the State in additio'
20 the work in the Maine college series
& is felt hero that Bowdoin has clearl
demonstrated that it has the best ele
rcn of the year in Maine notwithstani
ing that the defeat by Bates shadows
''s claim to the championship.
A remarkable thing about the Bow
Icin eleven this year is that there ha
not been even minor injury on tn
team, or on the whole squad for ;ha
matter Not a man has had 10 b
iahen out of a game. and every ma
nas finished every game in perfect CON
Aition. This speaks volumes for IL
way in which Coach Ross McCIave
has handled the men and the way they
have been cared for by Trainer NicIler-
son. Last Saturdays game closed Nc
Clave's third year as coach at Rowdoin
and as the eleven has lost only one OF
he niue games it has played with til,
other Maine colleges in those three sea-
sons nobody will question that ne is
,he greatest coach that ever developed
team on a Maine gridiron. Not only
does this former Princeton star know
football and know how to teach it. but
a man whose presence is 2 personal
help and inspiration to every man on
the squad. Always quiet and mild spo-
ken his methods are peculiar among
coaches. but their effectiveness has
and as gentleman Ross McClave is
the Bowdoin ideal. and every alumnus
and undergraduate hopes he can be
Speaking of clean methods of coaching |
II is matter of some satisfaction here
that in the three Maine college games |
not Bowdoin player has been put out
of the game or even warned for slug |
ging or unnecessary rougnress, though |
each of the other teams has suffered |
several times in that respect.
A few words as to the members Of
the eleven. 1t is not made up of stars.
nor has it any one man who has shonc
above all others in the games it has
won, as have Goode of Colby and
Keany of Bates. 1t has been we'll
balanced team. consistent, steady and
in that Bates game
well generated and playing fast and
hard Ir its closing game. as was the
case last year. it gave the best exhibit
ton of team work seen in the State for
the year. Every man was in every
play. tackling was clean and fierce and
the ball was followed every minute. I!
Daniel NJ. McDade, the popular cap
lain Of the eleven is the first of the five