Colby at Bowdoin

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  Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., November 12, 1896, page 1

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  A TIE GAME. Bowdoin Fails to MOP the Earth With Colby’s Eleven. The Great Contest Fought to Draw, Score Standing 6 to 6. Colby’s New Coach Has Done wonders Bowdoin Now Champion. A TIE GAME. vidual from the signing pines of old i5owdoin that said we could not score on their old foot ball team? Who said we were not in the game any more now than earlier in the season? Yer and Mr.. Hopkins, yer and. You have done the trick and have done it well. To ht | on their track and made them ‘holler’ | for a snow. They beat US at puntins but we gave them a line as impenetra | BILE as Gibraltar and they have some | healthy respect for us. We have grow eiled in the dust and sometimes the mud of ridicule for ages, ana our plain | tive voice lifted up in the despair OF defeat mas been drowned by the glad | rejoicinGs OF old Bowdoin. But times change and so do some men. Some men can play foot bali anG yet there are others. We claim to have played foot ball to quite an extent, TOday. Is there one to rise up from the musty archives of the female seminary Of the AnGroscoggin and say us nay. Nit” They think down that way that we are some pumpkins, tonight Rowdoin’s curlew did not ring, tonight Nary q ring. and. Mr.. Hopkins, you deserve scholarship at Yale. For weeks we have beheld the sad spectacle of old age and infancy bowed in the mute position Of expectancy and doubt. with never q CHEEKY word to bid them look upward. simply because they we’re scared of Bowdoin. But since the advent of the young man with a plaster of Paris right lower extremity. hope has risen. We licked Maine State and we wiped the earth up With Bates. We gave Tech a number of points on the game and they appreciate US. 1t only remained for us to go at BoWdon ana make a lawn mower of the ancient in stitution. But we didn’t. We allowed them to score on us instead. The Journal issued it’s ultimatum, pro nunciamento, proclamation or some thing, this morning. and you who stayed at home should have seen the exhibit ton of grit. sand. nerve and life that the Colbys put up when they saw the representative of this paper so onto the field. We distinctly heard Brooks say: Here comes the Journal man. now show what you are made Of And this is the way they did it. Brooks won the toss and took the vest goal Clarke kicked off for Bow doin. The ball settled into McFadden’s hands at the % yards line W no advanced it d short distance. Gibbon bucked the line for four yards McFadden three. and Scannell went through tackle and guard for TO- Chapman forced the line for three. and Putnam and Upper were both held for downs. The ball was fumbled but Putnam fell on it. Bow doin got the ball on downs and Stearns made gain for IL couple of yards. Bowdoin was held for downs. Lamb making a splendid tackle of Stanwood. 1t became Colby’s ball. Upper took the lire for yard and then attempted to punt to vantage but the ball bounded on one of the players and rebounded to the Colby Is yard line. The ball was sent back to the Colby 80 yards line for oil side play. Putnam bucked the line for five yards, McFadden repeated the offensc through tackle and guard. Tupper was held, Putnam went through right tackle and guard for 10 yards, Gibbon found hole for five yards and tried it again for four more, Putnam forced the line for slight gain and Brooks punched himself through for three yards. Gibbon made two gains aggregating eight yards and Hook took Lamb under his left arm through the line between right guard and tackle for y yards. There was demonstration on the Colby side of the field and that was on both sides. Putnam took the line for a slight gain and McFadden hunted through for five yards, Gibbon was held, Lamb gained eight yards, Putnam was held. Gibhon got 2. and the ball was within a foot of the BoWdoin goal line. Here was where CoIby’s beef came into good play for Putnam was pushed over in Just Is minutes play. Pike kicked goal and there was Il sensation and much joy. Score to 0. McFadden took Clarke’s kick but was stopped on 10 yards gain. then Weary” took it around the left end for eight Yards Hook was held and the game Vas delayed for an injury that he received but he was soon in the game again. Colby got 10 yards for off side play Putnam made five yards, Gibbon and Pike were held and BoWdoin got the ball They were held on the first snap back, Clarke made a dandy jump over the heads of the muss up for two Yards. They were held again and Colby got the ball on downs. Here began a struggle that was grand to see. There was kicking galore on the part of captain who called on Brooks to give us q show” Gibbon got two yards to his credit, McFadden was held and Upper fumbled the ball but time was called with the ball on BoWdoin’s “a yards line. In the second half Scannell kicked off for Colby. Moulton got the ball but was held on a gain of five yards, Clarke b,,cled the line in an admirable man ner and again for an aggregate OF foul Yards and then he was held. Colby got the ball on downs. Chapman was held, scanneu got seven yards Gibbon was held nut when the Bowdoin captain cautioned the men to look out for ccanneU’ McFadden took the ball through right guard and tackle for eight yards. Bowdoin got the ball and lost three CONTINUED on page %

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Bowdoin leads 8–⁠4–⁠1 in 13 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.