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Bryn Mawr College Yearbook. Class of 1906
Bryn Mawr College (author)
1906
serial
Annual
176 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
9PY 1906
Book of the class of 1906 : Bryn Mawr College.--
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BMC-Yearbooks-1906
Gow We Wan the Championship
This is the kind of thing one should never attempt to describe—it happens, it is over.
So vivid in memory is it that it can never live on paper. But a power not myself compels.
Hence ;
We began the season in 1905 with fifteen players from whom to choose an eighteen,
eleven of the fifteen had played before. From these we were to choose a nine. Facts,
as they often do, stared us in the face. The other teams started out briskly with what
seemed to us an infinite amount of material. We didn’t think much about the champion-
ship at first, One day, however, we heard a casual remark on the campus, ‘‘Poor 1906,
they haven’t any material; I wonder if they'll get into the finals.” We didn’t wonder,
we knew, we had decided. And with the decision came a desire for the championship;
a desire which had come to us every spring, but came this spring with a most cogent force
behind it; We did not expect the championship, we only knew that it had to be.
Practise games slipped by. We didn’t train much and, keen for the fray, entered upon
the match games. 1907 gave US good practise for the finals, better than they had ever
given us before. Our playing was characterized by fouls. In one game with 1907, twenty-
six fouls were called on 1906. I don’t know how many more we made, T hanks to the dili-
gence and loving scrutiny of the umpires in these games, fouls were more or less eradicated
from our play by the time we reached the finals.
What is the use of speaking of the finals with 1905? We all remember them so
clearly that words are superfluous. The first game ended gloriously albeit somewhat
chaotically, in a pouring rain, with the over-excited crowd streaming across the field.
None of the players could stand up, no one could hold the ball, everything was mud and
slime, A fluke might have turned the game the wrong way; none occured,
This victory did not elate us unduly, as we had always won the first game from 1905.
On the contrary we became very cautious. Days elapsed before the second game. It
happened, A wild game of plunges into the mouths of kodaks gaping on the side lines,
a game of piling Pelion on Ossa, as it were, a game of few goals thrown in absolute silence,
a tense primeval game, 1905 played its best, so did we. You know the result. Our satis-
faction was dimmed-only by the fact that 1905 played without its Captain, their best for-
ward. But there was joy in the camp still.
A championship still to be won seems impossible, once won, inevitable.
Jesse G. Hewitt.
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