Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-22
ENTHUSIASM
Keynote Of cony High
School Football Banquet.
George Stewart Chosen Cap
tain otFootba|| Team Of 1910.
Fob and Charm Presented to Coach
Conner by Members Of Team.

COny High school football team, winch
was held Saturday evening at the
Cony House, was a most interesting
event and enthusiasm ran nigh, ar
guing well for a successful season next
year. Coach Conner was presented
with a handsome gold watch fob and
charm BY the members of the team
that he has so successfully coached.
George Stewart, who has played right
halfback during the entire season,
was chosen captain of the 1910 team.
1t was exactly 8 o'clock when the
members of the team headed by fflh-
cipal Farnsworth G. Marshall and
Coach Frank +. Conner marched INTO
the dining room and took their seats
at long table specially prepared for
them in the center of the room. The
electric lights over the table were
shaded in red, which made pretty
contrast with the snowy Whitencss OF
the table linen. A football was sus-
pended from the chandelier and red
and white Bunting. representing the
Cony cOlors, was draped from the
| chandeliers. Cony banners were in evil
dance all over the dining hall and in
the center of the table We're potted
palms and chrysanthemums. Pnks
| and smilax completed the table deco
| rations.
The menu was an excellent one and
Landlord Davis and his efficient corps
Of helpers prepared and served it in Q
manner that was highly satisfactory
to the banpueters. Covers were LAID
for q. The menu cards at each plato
| iol vi
| The front cover bore the words:
First Annual Banquet, Cony Foot
ball Team, Season of 1909. Cony
| House, Saturday Evening, Nov. 20,
1907 A representation of football
player kicking a goal also adorned
| the front cover The second page con-
| tanned the menu, while on the third
we're the names of the players in the
| following style: "The Bunch. Smith.
| (Capt). Dunn, Leighton, Motherwell
f. Thompson, Grenier, Ayers, Prout
Morton, Lathe, :. Cooper. Stewart
| Tetreault, Fletcher, G. Thompson
Stevens. Price. Mcdonald, Dorsey
| Wakefield, Cummings The names Of
| the banquet committee, Farnsworth G.
Marshall, Guy Smith and Frank Z.
| Conner were on the back of the cover.
| Seated at the table We're George
Stewart, Wallace Price, Arthur
.retreault, John Lathe, Harold Pink
ham, Harry Leighton, Stewart Shaw,
Earle Grenier, Barton Motherwell, Fred
Morton, Joseph Prout, Lancelot H.
Cooper, c. a. Halpen, Guy Smith
Frank E. Conner, Mark Wakefield
Dana Hanks, Principal Farnsworth G.
| Marshall, Leigh Ayers, Leo Dunn
Fred Thompson.
Principal Marshall presided at tht
rostprandial exercises. He began the
speechmaking with a talk on "Schooi
Enthusiasm" He commended enthu
siasm for football and other athletics
and also an enthusiasm in study, which
should make Cony model school This
result could only be brought about in
one way and that was with every
member of the school working for it.
The next speaker was Mark Wake
field, who stated that this was no,
only his first football season, but TIL :
HallowellC ony game at the trottin !;
park was the first football game h.
had ever witnessed. He came from
Canada, where hockey was the ma
tional sport
Barton Motherwell said that al
Though Cony had been down in ath
letics for two or three years previous.
the past year had witnessed q rcvlv-
al in school sports and all that wa
needed was to keep on going forward.
1.-The enthusiasm manifested here, he
thought, might become the founda
ton of an enthusiasm, which one
started, would put Cony at the heal
of the preparatory schools of the
State in athletics
Fred Morton was the next speaker
and enthusiasm was the keynote Of
his remarks as it had been of the pre-
Vious speakers George Stewart stat =
ed that he took great interest in ey
lcrything connected with Cony High
school and believed that Cony needle 1
more than anything else a boost in the
spirit of enthusiasm. 1t was the opin-
ion of the speaker that the girls bas-
ketball game that is to be played al
1.-THE Chizzle- Wizzle fair would do much
to advance the spirit of enthusiasm
among the girls of the school. H
pointed out that in order to have that
spirit the students must be educated
into it and whereas the girls in tn :
|
lgames from the gallery and could no.
really understand and appreciate good
playing, with the girls on the floor
they would understand and appreciate
the game. AS they compose half the
school it will make a great difference
in interest and enthusiasm, said the
speaker.
Capt. Guy Smith reviewed the
achievements of the present season at
football and said that in spite of OBJ
stacles and difficulties Cony had the
best football team this year that it
had ever had. He hoped that next
year Cony would have champion
team and concluded by presenting a
handsome gold watch fob and charm,
the gift Of the team, to Coach Con-
| nor.
Coach Conner was deeply touched by
The gift and said that any such dem
onstration was wholly unexpected. He
would long remember the banquet
which reminded him Of his own school
days and the feb would always be one
| of his most cherished treasures. He
! reminded the team that the football
season had been a hard and long one.