Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-01
NEWS
Bewildering Play
BOwdoin Rushes
Amherst Off Feet

Amherst OH Feet
Pratt Field, Amherst, Sept 90
Lack of a punch in the pinches and
inability to stave off a sweeping half
attack by Bowdoin, sent Amherst
down to 10 to defeat at the hands
of the scrappy little Maine eleven
here this afternoon. 1t was the open
ing game of the season, but the foot
ball smacked more of midseason class
SO we'll did both teams perform. A
good sized crowd watched the fray
which was played in weather far
more suitable for baseball.
Bowdoin, played off its feet in the
first half by the Purple and White,
returned to the field for the final
period an entirely different team. The
Maine boys flashed an offensive that
had Amherst baff1ed and mixing a
rushing attack with a long forward
pass were soon in a scoring position.
Three line plays and the ball was
over.
Another forward pass resulted In
the second Bowdoin score. Bob
Phillips grabbing a toss from Capt.
Nal Morrell and racing Is yards to
a touchdown. N1orrell added the flnal
point of the game on a drop KICK.
The pass that resulted in the touch
down was short low one over the
left end of the line, one of several
that connected and which Amherst
players were unable to break up.
Amherst had its opportunities In
the first half but 1t lacked the much
required punch. A long forward pass
soon after the start of the second pc
riod put the ball on the Bowdoin
seven yard line.
Two attacks on the line gained
four yards and then Moore carried
the ball to the one yard mark. An
other charge at the center OF the
Bowdoin forward works ended with
the ball foot from the coveted final
chalk mark and Amherst's opportun-
ity had come and gone. Play for the
balance of the period was mostly in
Bowdoin territory, but Amherst was
always stopped by the strong visit
ing line when any scoring chance
doomed up.
The main trouble with the Bowdoin
eleven in the first half seemed to
center about quarterback Phillips
whose slow and uncertain calling Of
signals apparently upset the team.
Time and again he changed the sig
nails when his team was set for
play and as a result the visiting Of
Tense never got started. This was
remedied in the second half, when
Capt. Morrell was injected into the
game at his half back berth. Morrell
also called the signals jim business
like manner that LETT no doubt as to
what was wanted.
Morrell put new life into the team.
AS its director he employed varied
attack Of forward passing, end run
ming and line smashing and the AM
herst team that solved every Bowdoin
play in the first half was Devil
dered eleven in the final. Carried off
its feet by the brilliant work of the
visitors Amherst could not recover
and once Bowdoin put the ball across
the result was never in doubt.
ROWDOIN Q3) (O) AMHERST
c. Hildreth .........LE Drew
Robinson ..........LT 49,. DUNBAR
A. Smith ............C.... Sylvester
Townsend ......... re-. ..... .Boenau
Mclean ......... .RT...... Davis
II. Hildreth ....... RE ........k Kyle
Phillips .QB ...... Mcbride
Blake LII ....... ZONES
Jones ............R H .....,. Moore
Garland .FB....... ReuSsWlS
Score by periods:
Bowdoin .............O l-l5
Amherst ..............O "
Touchdown. Garland. Phillips. Point
from try after touchdowns, Merrill
Referee, Kelly. Harvard. Umpire
Keegan. Pittsfeld. Substitutons.
Bowdoin. Harrington for Jones, Jones
for Harrington. Harrington for Jones
Morrill, for Blake. Kohler for Phillips
Burnett for Tucker. Tucker for Bur
nett. Burnett for Townsend. Fowles
for Burnett, Naux for Hildreth. Am
herst. Waddell for Moore. Merrill for
Mcbride, Moore for Merrill, kink for
Dunbar,