Just who is the University of Maine?

The University of Maine and Eastern Washington will meet for the first time as far as is known in an athletic event when the Eagles and Black Bears tangle Saturday at Roos Field in a Football Championship Subdivision playoff semifinal.

The two schools are geographic opposites, one in the far Northeast and Eastern well into the Pacific Northwest.

Located in Orono, just over 3,000 road miles east of Cheney on Interstate 90, and then north on I-95, the primary freeway that travels the Eastern Seaboard, the school is a 15 minute, 10-mile drive up the Maine River from Bangor.

The University of Main...