Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 2 of 3

"SPORTS Basketball Luke Nadeau, Matt Stone Mr. Webb Pirates Basketball was a very big sport in the 1900s. Over the years they won 10 championships."

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 1 of 3

"Those teams had no real coach because they all knew about baseball. During one game PCHS was playing, a big thunderstorm came and it started…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3

"SPORTS Soccer (photos scanning in process) Text By: Elaine Riitano & Belle-Natalie Wingert Eighth Grade Students at Piscataquis Community Middle…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Sports

"Sports Organized Sports Swan's Island softball team, ca. 1978Swan's Island Historical Society Much as the 1950s were all about the Brooklyn…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms

"… as clubs and societies; workaday; athletic-style sports team uniforms and school jackets; or uniforms associated with national organizations like…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms

"… as clubs and societies; workaday; athletic-style sports team uniforms and school jackets; or uniforms associated with national organizations like…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"It sponsors many youth sport teams. They are also a bank for all the citizens in Bath that want them to be their bank."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"Hill, who brought the sport back from Cornell University. Walter Murtaugh was a very important member of the Alameda's Roller Polo team; he was a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… in the Class A (large school) division with its sports teams, even though their student population was always one of the smallest in the large…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Because basketball was a new sport, few buildings, schools included, had space big enough to accommodate a regulation basketball court."

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"… Black House, which is one of the two 7th grade teams at BMS. The Black House consists of approximately 60 students and 6 teachers who have all…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… like the House of David team with all the players sporting long dark beards and uniforms, and the Colored Giants, an all-Negro team renowned for…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"Even thought they had other sports, the winter ones came out on the top. New Sweden Athletic Club patch, ca."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"Over the summer, the team met a number of times to begin planning this extensive project that would eventually involve approximately 60 seventh…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Strong's first baseball team won their first nine games without a coach. Starting in the 1920s, students began to compete in intermural basketball…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Pratt Field would eventually host team sports and Chatauqua gatherings. This field was located behind the High School on High Street."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"X Sports taught Bill discipline. He learned that to excel in sports he needed the discipline to prepare, plan, work hard, and follow the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"Today, we have a wide range of sports, clubs and activities to choose from, including student council, drama club, chess club, various music clubs…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… attended school in Guilford where he excelled in sports, lettering in baseball and basketball. He graduated in June of 1940."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"The rail was used by sports teams to go to out of town games, and the military used it to transport soldiers to and from World War II."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… plus track meets, football games and organized sports for developing athletes. Hippach Field, ca."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… racing was so popular during this time that even sporting teams did not elicit the same amount of interest that the contests between the local…"