Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-18
Midget Eleven Gives
COburn Good Scrap

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High could not play Coburn on Sat
urday. however. Coach Haines and
Manager Barnes have been hot on the
trail and promise to have a game for
the boys Saturday The team was
taken through stiff drill last night.
There We're more candidates out than
at any time during the season. This
was caused by the forming of the
midget team. Several of the players
with less ability and experience Of
those on the first team are trying for
the midget eleven.
Coach Haines took the first eleven
through a thorough signal drill for an
hour. During this time Jake Gold
berg, as assistant coach. in charge of
the midget team was giving the new
men tryout. There was long signal
drill and after the boys were ac-
quainted with the signals they were
pitted against the regular team. How
ever the guards and tackles of the
regulars were shifted with the mid
gets. There was good scrimmage,
with team A going over with two
touchdowns. Team 3, or the midgets,
,, kicked off to team A, and held the
regulars inside their own territory
where they lost the ball when Thi-
bodeau tried to punt anG the center
made a bad throw. A tumble saved
the day for the first team as the
younger boys had the ball on team
AS Is yard line.
BY the way Of the forward pass
route team A carried the ball up the
field after hard struggle and during
which time the ball changed sides
several times. Team A seemed to
benefit greatly by fumbles of their
opponents. In fact if the midgets
had not fumbled as much they
/ would have denied the scoring COL
umn of the bigger boys. Thibodeau
and Shanahan were the stars for
team A. Thibodeau was unusually
fast and showed the boys some clever
playing He made two pretty runs
reversing his field and shaking off
tacklers until he placed the ball over
the line. On both these runs he car
ried the ball from the so yard stripe.
, Adams played hard, the big tackle
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no difficulty in getting through his
opponents to break up plays. Fielder
who was playing guard beside him
was with him all during the scrim-
mage. These two boys certainly
showed some good playing.
For the mdgets, O'Connell doomed
up as the star defensive man. He
was playing end and broke up every
run around his end. Mitchell worked
good against team A. He was in a
backs position for the first time. al
though he still has few things to
| learn about the game he should be
commended for his work last night.
He only weighs about 135 and yet he
carried the ball for some good gains
through the heavier line of his oppo-
nents. He did the kicking for his
eleven. Gorham did the signal call
ing. He used good head work but is
a little green at this position. The
midgets will have fast team when
they get started. 1t is too bad that
they did not start at the first Of the
season as other elevens are ahead of
them in practice. However. several
of the men have been working out
with the regulars during the season
and Coach Goldberg hopes to have
the squad in first class condition by
the first Of the week.
Coach Haines has been giving
special attention to the forward pass.
He realizes the importance of this
work and has equipped his team with
several of them. Moran, who was
calling signals tonight used tenn at
every opportunity. Shanahan has
been on the throwing end mostly and
the ends showed good work on the
completion of them. Bill Bowe and
McLoud played the wing positions.
Capt. Simpson was not in the scrim-
mage.