Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30
BOWDOIN READY FOR
GAME At WATERvILLE.

BfuTSNIck, Me-. OCt. 29.--IHG iIltili-
bers of the Bowdoin football team, ac-
companied by Il large crowd of root
ers and the College Band, will invade
Waterville Saturday to do their best
to beat Colby This is BoWdoin's first
important game in the State, also Bow
doins first championship game. and
Colby has made such a good showing
this fall so this contest is sure to at
tract large crowd.
Any attempt to dope" out the re-
suit of the game would undoubtedly
prove entirely erroneous and notice.
ably ridiculous. The condition of the
two teams and the scores of the games
that each have played up to this time
shows to the followers of Bowdoin and
Colby that neither team will have a
"Walkover" tomorrow. Colby has al
ready played one championship game
with Bates on Garcelon field last Sat
urday, in which she was victorious.
Besides this game, in the several con-
tests in which Colby has been repre-
scented this fall the Watervl!c team
has proved itself to be both fast and
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and defence. Bowdoin has played four
hard contests, one with Harvard, one
with Dartmouth, one with Exeter and
one with Holy Cross. In the first two
of these she made a very creditable
showing and in the last two she won
by scores of to 6 and to respect
lively. In all of these but the Holy
Cross game RoWdoin received high
praise for the clean and open game
that was played and only in the last
game was she criticized and that for
the most part unjustly by supporters
of Holy Cross. The reports given out
by members of that institution have
caused much righteous Indignation
among all Bowdon men and friends
and all are anxious for relations with
that college to be dropped for the fu
ture.
Those privileged to witness the Sc
cret practice of the Bowdoin squad
this afternoon saw a decided improve
ment in the team. Several shifts have
been made this week. During the week
King has been playing at right tackle,
guard and center, but as things stand
today will in all probability start the
game tomorrow at center. Kate"
Wiggin will probably start the game
at quarter, although Wilson and Sui
Ivan, who has been playing quarter
all the year on the first team, were
both running the team at different
parts of the afternoon. Sullivan is
likely to be played for a part of the
game. Jackson has been in at left
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week but will not begin the game in
that position, although he will be TAX
en- to Waterville. Ballard and Frank
Smith have both been used at left half
and Ballard will in all probability be-
gin the game. He played fine game
against Exeter, playing the whole
game and it is expected will do some
work that counts tomorrow. In spite of
all the changes that have been tried
out during the week the chances are
good that the team will face Colby
much the same as it did Holy Cross.
"Baldy" Smith, the crack left end, is
in the best condition he has been since
iniuring his knee at the beginning of
the season. Smith never went out for
the Varsity until this year and is
d SAINT llldt Nouiti many
old players sit up and take notice.
This afternoon both the Varsity and
second teams were kept at signal prac-
tice for a long time and then were given
some short scrimmage work, the first that
has been held this week.
The lineup to start the game will prob
ably be as follows: E. B. Smith, lie; Cap
tain Newman, 1t; Pratt, lg; King, C;
Hastings, rg; Crosby, TT; j. Hurley, re;
IViggin. OBJ; Kern, fb; Ballard, lib; Farm
ham, RIB. Others who will probably be
given a chance to play part of the game
are Wilson, Frank Smith, Sullivan, Hous-
ton, Boynton Matthews.
The team will leave Brunswick at s
o'clock Saturday morning and MAKE its
headquarters at the Elm house while in
Watervile. Nearly the whole student
body will take the II o'clock train in
special cars, accompanied by the College
Band under Leader Newell.
Aided by the band, nearly 300 men as
sembled in Memorial hall this evening to
help cheer the football team for their task
of giving good account of themselves
against Colby. The meeting was a decid-
ed success.
The first speaker introduced by Chair
man Goliath was President Hyde. He
commended the good showing of the team
thus far this year and expressed in a
forceful way his hopes for success tomor-
row. Professor Robinson disappointed the
meeting by refusing to give one of his
unfailing prophecies. He said that so
much had occurred during the past week
which was so vastly more important to
him than football that he had been unable
to cast any horoscope. This was de-
cided blow to the audience but they were
nevertheless glad to hear that Profess
sor Robinson mad yet felt in his sensitive
organism no premonition of impending
evil for the Colby game.
DR.. F. N. Whittier urged every man to
attend the games played within striking
distance of Brunswick. 1t gave, he felt,
a decided impetus to the team to feel a
packed grandstand of royal rooters be-
hind them. DR.. Whittier, whom Profess
sor Robinson had spoken Of as the nat
ural prophet hecauSa of his experience