Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-05
SPIRITED RIVALS TO CLASH FOR
THIRT|ETH Time ON SATURDAY
C0NY TEAM WILL
PLAY GOOD GAME
ON own GROUNDS

Those ancient and honorable rivals,
Cony and Gardiner, are due to hook
up in another Of their annual classics
on Williams Field Saturday after
noon. For the first time in years
Gardiner will enter the game as
favorite to cop the decision. The
Gardiner team is heavy, averaging
157 pounds both in the line and back
field and is not slow enough to hurt
it's chances to any great evtent. The
visiting team presents good aerial
attack and is also fairly effective in
line plunging. Undoubtedly one of
the best Gardiner teams in years will
invade the Capital City for the strug-
gle.
The Cony team has been well drill
ed but has failed to profit by it to
the extent that the Gardiner team
has. The Augusta outfit has been
we'll coached in the art Of smothering
plays in the line and has a powerful
pair of tacklers, who undoubtedly will
bear the brunt of Gardeners attempt
to crush the Cony line The team has
been weak against a forward passing
attack on several occasions this year,
the backs showing a tendency to be
drawn in too close to the line, but,
the club Is now improving and Incl
dentally has worked up a pretty for
ward passing attack that is strickly
their own.
Cony is a good home club. While
the team has lost several games by
formidable scores away from home,
none has run up very big score in
Augusta. The team, as is the case
with many green teams, plays a
whirlwind game with their home
crowd watching the game and gets
stage struck away from home. The
team has been drilled to stop almost
any attack used in high school cir
cles and a few more tricks which the
coaches have worked out in deter
mined effort to make the team play
football The members apparently
absorb everything the coach tells
them during the practice sessions
and then go out and do the opposite
when the game is called.
The players on the Cony club have
gone through their games mechan!-
cally this season, and judging from
/. several practice sessions in which
they have been observed there is lit
tie natural ability in the squad. Sew
| eral OF the players act as though
they had little love for the game ans
| several more have acted as If they
! did not know what it was all about
! The Cony coaches are as good az
| any in this section of the state, Ed
| die Pierce turned out some goot
| clubs at Old Town and John Mantel
| has turned out some good clubs il
| the Bay State, The team has beer
| taught enough football to win the
! game Saturday half dozen times.
| And the team is confident of win
| ming the Gardiner game. They have
begun playing the game and will be
right there Saturday with the same
club that held Lewiston to the loves
score Of the year. The team tina
| trimmed Morse by touchdown an(
,, rushed the ball all over the field
against the Bath club will be in there
| fighting Saturday. The game will be
! as good as any of them and probably
better TIM the game which was play
/ ed last year between Gardiner and g
Cony team that was rated as out OF
| Gardeners class.
| Both teams will stage hot battle
| Saturday and the fan that misses the
| gme will be missing something. The
game will start promptly at 2:30 and
should be attended by one Of the
| largest crowds in years.