New Britain herald., 1926-11-15
|b0WDOIN FAILS TO l LET WESLEYAN WIN
Old Grads See Team Go Down to
 27 to Q Defeat at MidQletoWn
Special to the Herald.)

! -iiouioboNus NoF. lo-BOwdOin didn't get the significance of the
 season which marked All Wesleyan
 Day. held at the Middletown college
 over the past weekend and prompt
 ly annexed the last game of the foot Ball season to the tune of 20 to z, All the. old grads were present and
 the freshmen gave their annual par ade between the halves and the Red
 and Black players missed numerous l tackles and a fine time was had by
 all except the Wesleyan line. They
 weren't given much of chance to celebrate the annual event being too 1 busy trying to stop Captain Earring
 ton. the Black and White left half
 back who romped over their bull | WarK for q good many first downs
 and a touchdown.
 It was hard fought and loosely played game from start to finish. l Wesleyan started the celebration
 with march down the field via the
 overhead route that was stopped 1 once the Middletown aggregation 1 came out of the attic and threw ! away several downs trying to find a
 hole in the Maine line. Bowdoin
 fooled around throwing downs into
 the Wesleyan line and searching out i the defense and In the second quar- ! ter managed to get break by a
 misjudged punt which Tetley handl- ed in the approved "Bunnell" style. | Coach Gates sent out a wholesale e substitution of seven men all clad in new jerseys and pants and shoes that baffled the Wesleyan team to the extent of a touchdown that
 wandered through their right wing and galloped over the last white line. The teams left the field after Bowdoin's pretty kick and gave at tention to the "frosh" parade.
 That was lots of fun. Represent ed in the lineup was an cratic foot ! ball team clad In nightgowns and boudoir caps that gave entertain
 ment running the ball around the 1 place. The famous Earl Carroll's ! Bath Tub Party" was there and & | bahy in a baby carriage and chapel |, with the minister smoking cigarettes | during the sermon. Then the Big Three (Yale in knickers. Harvard in
 cap and gown with a monstrous Phi
 Beta Kappa key dangling from his neck and Princeton clad as though
 ''sketched from life at Fashion
 Park" appeared on the field and
 slapped each others wrists despite ! the efforts of Eli Yale to quell th- ! disturbance. Then there little fel- lows, Wesleyan, Amherst and Will
 Hams, were proclaimed the Big i Three and everybody cheered might fly. The game began again.
 Tetley began throwing forward
 passes and Bowdoin began intercept
 ing them and it wasn't long before the Maine squad had slipped over another touchdown and had messed up the kick for the extra point. Tetley still threw forward passes , and Bowdoin either knocked them 1 down or intercepted them and it be- gan to look like a dark day for the
 Red and Black. With the miserable exhibition of tackling showed by Steeles men the game began to
 riwindle and the old grads began | their annual talk of "now in my 1 day. Then, before anybody exactly
 knew what was going on Tetley ! flung a pass that reached Bitten
 bender who had slipped through
 Wesleyan went up on the score i board. Silloway had put another i point on the score and predictions
 of repetition of the Williams game flew around the Wesleyan stands. But is seems that Bowdoin had | also heard of the trick that Wes-
 leyan had pulled at Williamson the week before in getting two touch- downs in the last few minutes of
 play so they spread their backfieid | for the pass attack that they knew 1 was coming and broke 1t up con- i pletely, mana -ing to haul down one 1 for big gain that a few minutes | later resulted in Bowdoin's third | touchdown of the day. The extra
 point was gained without much l trouble.
 Wesleyan still continued 10 miss tackles and heave forward passes
 until the referee lost quite q bit of
 poundage pacing off the penalties
 for incompleted throws. Bowdoin
 still managed 10 knock them down
 and intercept them and the final
 whistle blew with Tetley poised to
 heave tho last pass of the game to some Black and Red jersey that
 wouldn't be there 10 receive it.
 Praise for the games efforts were
 doled out to the following: Far rington, Bowdoin, for his sterile
 playing throughout the affair; Lee,
 Wesleyan, for his unceaaing etflrts:
 Tetley, Wesleyan for his unurrng
 arm; Hewitt. Bowdoin. for his mas 1 siye blockadaS in the line; Ladd,
 Bowdoin, for his keen generalship
 Bittenbender, Wesleyan, for his ! touchdown: Osborn, Wesleyan. for
 his hard clipping in the extended l order play and the freshman that
 represented Princeton between the
 halves for his courage in wearing
 white spats.
 D n.-,, Co.,