![]() (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library ) Horace Hildreth at halftime of the Glass Bowl between Bates and the University of Toledo on Dec. Frank Lausche (left) accepts an 18-pound lobster from Bates athletic director Monte Moore, Class of 1915, on behalf of Maine Gov. Lausche, and a Bates Manufacturing bedspread was presented to his wife. Bates’ First and Only Bowl Gameįollowing an undefeated 7–0 regular season in 1946, Bates accepted a bid to face the University of Toledo in the first Glass Bowl, believed to be the only bowl game for a NESCAC team.Īs part of half-time festivities, an 18-pound Maine lobster was presented to Ohio Gov. He graduated and attended Harvard Law School, became president of the 30,000-member American Bar Association, and from there helped defeat President Franklin Roosevelt’s controversial “court packing” scheme. 14, 1899, the first touchdown was scored on new Garcelon Field by Frederick Harold Stinchfield, Class of 1900. Daryn Slover, a staff photographer for the Sun Journal newspaper on freelance assignment for Bates, took the photo, persevering in his work despite the wind and rain, only calling it quits after several lenses became too wet to work. Some 4.62 inches of rain fell on Garcelon Field that day. The photograph shows Jamie Walker ’07 of Needham, Mass., moving a pile of Mule defenders, one of his 43 carries on the day. Taken four years before the advent of artifical turf on Garcelon Field, this image of Jamie Walker ’07 of Needham, Mass., moving a pile of Colby defenders during a game in October 2006 later appeared in Sports Illustrated. ![]() 28, 2006, appeared across two pages in Sports Illustrated‘s special issue, “Football America” (Dec. Taken four years before Garcelon was fitted with artificial turf, this iconic image from the Bates-Colby football game on Oct. Army team from Camp Edwards, a bygone Army base on Cape Cod. So in fall 1943, Bates (or the Navy, more correctly) was able to fill a football roster and the team, dubbed the Marriners by the local press, played a limited schedule of games, including one vs. The Lewiston Daily Sun published this photo of the football game between the Army team from Camp Edwards, located on Cape Code, and the Bates team, comprised of Navy sailors stationed at Bates. These sailors mostly came from the ranks of other colleges, including Bowdoin, Colby, and the University of Maine. 4, 1943, announced that the Bates “Marriners” would play an Army team from Camp Edwards the following Saturday.īy summer 1943, Bates had welcomed the Navy to campus, in the form of an officer-training program known as V-12. But that doesn’t mean there was no football played on Garcelon Field.Įnter the Bates “Marriners.” The Lewiston Evening Journal of Oct. ![]() The official records say that Bates fielded no varsity football team during the World War II years of 1943 to 1945. “Occasionally 10 or 12 men got into a promiscuous scramble for the possession of the ball,” the bemused Lewiston Evening Journal reported in its game story, “and came forth rubbing their shins and using such phrases as, ‘Gracious juggernaut.’” 2. This inscribed stone rests near the southern entrance to Garcelon Field, commemorating Maine’s first college football game. The stone was installed in 1975 on the 100th anniversary of the game. This inscribed stone rests near the southern entrance to Garcelon Field, commemorating Maine’s first college football game, played on bygone Rand Field on Nov. Wesleyan University, in a game moved from Saturday due to impending effects of Hurricane Lee. This edition of CatFacts - our occasional collection of fun tidbits about Bates, then and now, here and there - gives a nod to the gridiron, as Bates football opens its season tonight (Friday, Sept. And I’m only available July and August,” he recalled with a laugh.Share on Email Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter) Share on LinkedIn “I used to write away to these poor captains and say, ‘Wow, have I got a deal for you?’ I’m 12 years old. He even began to write the captains, pleading to be hired. He studied the pictures of historic schooners and became entranced with advertisements for trips on windjammers in Maine, where the cruises originated in the 1930s. While perusing the public library with his mother, a 12-year-old Jackson came across “WoodenBoat” magazine and asked for a subscription for Christmas. It was a curious dream of unknown inspiration - he came from humble means in Buffalo, N.Y., and his family never owned a boat. Sean SheppardĪs a boy growing up near Lake Erie, Jackson dreamed of becoming a sailor, navigating the choppy seas with the wind at his back. ![]() Those aboard the Grace Bailey waved at the crew on another ship as it passed by.
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