{"id":50791,"date":"2011-11-08T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=50791"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:47:05","slug":"sun-journal-kudos-to-bates-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/08\/sun-journal-kudos-to-bates-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Journal’s Kalle Oakes gives kudos to Bates football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sun Journal<\/em> columnist Kalle Oakes writes about the rising fortunes of Bates football<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Brett McAllister forces a fumble by Bowdoin quarterback Mac Caputi during Bates' 24-2 win over the Polar Bears. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p><\/div>\n

Oakes, who has covered a number of games this year, notes that “Bates, which hasn\u2019t experienced a winning season since ‘Endless Love’ was the No. 1 song in the land,” is now “intriguing, legitimate and relevant,” and “if you\u2019ve been watching this movie with even a modicum of interest for the last decade or two or six, you know that\u2019s 99 percent of the battle.”<\/p>\n

Oakes calls the Bobcats’ 24-2 victory over Bowdoin a “dissection,” and that the final home game was something of a “dance recital; a show-and-tell game for a school suddenly visualizing a prosperous football future.”<\/p>\n