Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-06

Lewiston. Me-, Nov. 5.-(SpeciaD.-
Bates will line up against Bowdoln
Saturday as follows: Dacey re, D. E.
Andrews rt) Secusco rg, Dorman C,
Shepard lg, w. V. Andrews 1t. Carroll
le. Keanev Obj. Conklin lib, Dennis RIB,
Lovely fb.
Captain Cummings, the coaches and
those who have followed the Bates
team this fall believe that this is the
strongest proposition Bates can put
out. Unless this can win, no other
Bates combination without Captain
Cummings in the lineup would defeat
the black and white. 1t gives her a
strong line, a rugged pair of ends,
heady and fast quarterback, reliable
halfbacks and the best fullbacks, as
many think, in the State. Just what
the combination can do against bow
doin is the only thing uncertain. That
they can play stiff game was evlnced
by the exhibition they made in TINS
formation in the first half last Satur-
day against Maine.
The thing that stands out most no
ticeable when one compares these two
teams is the difference in weight. In
Justice to the Bates team it should be
said that they have labored through
long SCHEDULE with q team that aver
aged 15S pounds per man. The team
has necessarily had to play very
lively game in order to make up Tor
this difference in weight. This is
very light average for college team
which meets such teams as Harvard,
Brown and Colby. These teams out
weighed Bates over 20 pounds to man.
Maine did not present a team with so
great difference in weight as did Col
by. but Bowdoin will outweigh Bates
by a wide margin. Coach Mason Of
the Bates team said Friday evening,
in speaking of the two teams: Bow
doin will outweigh us almost 20 pounds
to a man. Her guards, tackles and
backs are much heavier than ours. but
/ have a great deal Of confidence in the
strength of Bates line"
Coach Purinton had very little to
say about the team or the game. He
expressed his opinion that the matter
of greatest Importance is the absence
of Captain Cummings from the lineup.
'There could be nothing which would
do us, the coaches, or the team more
damage than the removal of this man
from our lineup" he said. He said
that all Bates was doing was working
hard. That odds might favor BoWdoln
on account of her weight and the I'M
fortunate change in the lineup of the
Bates team but that Bates had done
the unexpected and that there was al
ways danger of Understanding the
strength of a. team.
Captain Cummings could not talk
His representative on the field will be
keaney.
Manager Paul c. Thurston is making
the best of arrangements for accom-
modating the usual large Bates-Bow-
doin game crowd. A squad of policemen
will be on the grounds and the field
will be kept cleared off back of the
running track to the wire fence. Five
men will be allowed on the side lines
and five newspaper men and the Bates
College Band will be given space in
front of the grandstand, just behind
the wire fence The center bleachers on
the west side of the field will be re-
served for the Bowdoin cheering sec
tion The Bates cheering section will
occupy the front rows of half the
grandstand Reserved seats are now
on sale by the students.
About a hundred fellows, accompa-
MED by the College Band, marched out
onto the field just before the close of
practice tonight. They rehearsed the
college songs and yells. There is much
enthusiasm over the game. 1t surely
should be a great contest.