Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-25

1 ali the seniors graduate In June ana
the remaining players return next
fall, Colby will be minus six members
of her 1914 championship team, Uni
versity of Maine will lack the same
number. Bowdoin will have five less
1 letter men, while Bates, hit slightly
harder than the other three colleges,
will start without seven varsity war
riors. Unless the outlook at the indi-
vidual colleges changes considerably
between now and next September,
| through the discovery of dark horses
| or the entrance of first-string material,
Colby and Maine will be the favorites
on paper. at the beginning of the 1915
| campaign, just as they were this sea-
| son. Last year graduation cut wide
swaths at Brunswick and Lewiston,
| but Maine Jared better, while Colby
| missed only one letter man, Norman
Merrill.
From the Colby ranks next June will
go, barring accident, Capt. Fraser,
halfback: both ends, Royal and Cross
man; both tackles, Laid and Dacey:
and one guard, Pendergast These six
players make up big gap that will be
no cinch to fill. Royal and Crossman
will be missed especially, for they have
tipped the wings for the last four years
and at the present time no firSt-class
successors for their positions are prom
inent.
The situation at the tackles is pref
ty much the same, Laid has played
tackle four years and Dacey three.
Ray Thompson, who has figured in the
line for the past four seasons, is also
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continues to hold down his guard job,
the vacant positions in the line will
lie araong Ralph Kolseth, Joyce, Bur-
ton, Mccormick and Taft, with Les
eur a good bet for Pendergast's place.
Even in the absence of the smashing
halftack, the house of Frasier will still
{ be represented in the Colby lineup
next fall, for it is doubtful if any one
will be able to displace Allen Fraser
from quarterback He was new at the
college game this year, but with the
experience gained from working with
bunch of veterans on a championship
team he should be even better in an
other season.
That Colby will miss him who has
been aptly termed her publicity man
goes without saying, but she will have
a string of fine backs to send on the
| field. Ed Cawley, who was a strong
second to Fraser, has yet a couple of
years to play, Schuster will be senior,
and Bangor's Bill Belger, will return
as a sophomore. Scholarship frowns
kept Jack Lowney from playing this
year until the Maine game but in that
battle and in the contest with Bates
he shone brightly lie will be senior
next year. Then Golden, Hammer
| schlag and B. Crossman will also be
numbered among the backheld candi
dates
Stanwood who was named on near
ly every Maine selection either at
his regular position at center or at
guard, also returns for his last year.
The ends are the places that will
need the most attention next year.
Maine loses a strong sextet. Capt.
Dave Baker, center, has a worthy rec
ord of four years, during which he has
been a popular All-Maine choice. Bill
Wark, who came to the front last fall
after two seasons of hard work on the
scrubs, vacates a tackle. Along with
Baker another four-year man to go is
Jim CULVER the 217-pound guard who
has also been favorite choice for the
annual hall of fame. Norman Dona-
hue, too, has been playing end for four
seasons now, and like Baker and
CULVER, has found himself a favorite
with those who dabble in honorary
elevens. The other two members of
the graduating sextet are Dutch"
Bernheisel, who was shifted from end
to quarter, and Bill Martin, the vet
eran halfback
For 1915 Maine can boast Bill Allen,
Moulton, Peterson, Rudman and Bus
ter" Greeley in the line, Clint Puring-
ton on one end, and "Bulf' Kriger,
Ruffner, Kirk and Gorham in the
backfield. For Bernheisel's pivot re-
sponsibilities Jimmy Spiers should
prove a promising candidate unless
the powers should decide to put him
opposite burlington. Owing to Pur-
ingtons injuries Reardon played end
toward the close of the season, and
the present writing favors him for the
other wing next fall, with Spiers at
quarter.
At any rate, the State university can
be banked on for a sizeable squad next
September, and Names football men
tor will find plenty of choice picking
from the bunch Of so odd candidates.
Similar to the case at Colby the back
field proposition looks particularly in
viting.
OF the seven men whom Bates loses
four are linemen, one is an end, and
the other two played quarter. George
Talbot, the regular pivot man, will get
through in June, and so will Pidgeon,
his understudy; Swift, end; Manuel
and Clifford, tackles, and Capt. Moore,
guard. Injuries received in the Tufts
game in the early part of october kept
Moore out of the State series, but the
Garnet advisory board very prettily
awarded him his letter for general
good work.
The varsity players who return to
| the fold next season are Merrill at GEN.
| ter. Stillman and j. T, Neville in the
line, Boyd. Murray and w. M. Neville
on the ends. and Connors, Davis, Stett-
back, Curtin and DeWever in the back
field Capt.-elect Johnny Butler will
be junior and will likely stay behind
! the line. The Bates management car