The first was a new policy that affected several programs at the school; Bowdoin adopted the increasingly popular one-semester rule that barred freshman from participating in varsity sports until they had completed at least one semester of classes.
By the time the first game rolled around, the Polar Bears had yet to hold a single practice as a group and had been consigned to working out in the gymnasium.
[2] It was hardly surprising that Bowdoin was unable to score a single goal in their first two matches, both held in Lewiston, despite all of its starters having played the year before.
Bowdoin wasn't able to play its third game until after the exam break though that did allow the freshman players to join the varsity squad.
In a complete reversal of fortune, Bowdoin dominated the game from the outset, scoring three goals in the first period, two coming from Cutter, to take a commanding lead.