The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1896, Page 5

‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1896. 5 Stanford University and the University | miss the excitement, the rival yells, the of California will meet at Central Park | this afternoon to battle in their sixth an nual match for the football championship of the Western college world. Both elevens are in good condition to play the game of their lives. Both are confident of victory. The thousands of partisans of both teams are also well satis. | fied with the prospects for their favorites and will be on hand to see the grand | spectacle and participate in the wild en- | thusiasm. Over 7000 reserved-seat tickets had been sold up to last night. Itis safe 10 say that the'attendance will exceed that at any other outdoor athletic event in the history of the West. Game will be calied at 2:30 o'clock, but for fuly two hours before that time the grounds will be occupied by thousands of spectators, early on hand in order not to coilege songs, the university bands and to see and enjoy all the side plays ex- pected of and incident to a mingling of hundreds of rival collegians before the supreme event of their college year. ‘Several entrances from different streets have been provided in order to accommo- date the crowd in entering and leaving the grounds. Hundreds of feet of additional grand stands have been erected and all made secure beyond the possibility of ac- cident. There are seats for 15,000 persons. The minimum charge of admission is §1, most of the reserved seats having already gone at $1 50, $2 and $2 50 each, according to location. Two chirty-five minute halves will be played with an intermission of ten min. ures between the halves. For game officials the two university managers have agreed upon Harvey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology to act as umpire, Hinciley of West Point to act as referec and Ames of West Point to act as linesman. The total stripped weight of the Stan- ord team as it will goon the field is 1943 pounds, that of the Calilornia elevea 1896 pounds. Stanford’s seven linemen weigh 1262 pounds ana California’s 1254 pounds. In the evening the California teem and its supporters will witness at the Audi- torium an original farce, proluced by Ber- keley student talent. The Stanford team and enthusiasts of the cardinal will assem- ble at the California Theater to witness a burlesque entitled “The Macbeths of Berkeley,”” in which the best Palo Alto student talent will participate. ‘The plays for each of the university performances were written by two clever alumni, who together edit Josh, the intercollegiate weekly. - % S STANFORD'S CAPTAIN Ucuas. Fierent | it YSTANFoRDS CoacH 05 STAN! I H-CROSS THE BLUE AND GOLD. | the Oakland High School in 1892 a good foot- bell-player he was at once put on the Varsity, | and has maintained his place continuously, | | having lined up already against the cardinal | four times—in three regular intercollegiate | Thanksgiving games and in the freshman | game of '92. His work has been characierized throughout his football career with such brillianey that when it came to elect a successor to Captain | Sherman Ransome was pre-eminently the man | for the place. His kicking has been a feature of every game he bas entered, though in the last intereol- | legiate it was ot up to standard because ofa serious sprain of the right’ ktiee which he sus- | tained a few days before the game. He has met with the same misfortune again this season, and for a_time grave doubts were expressed as to whether he would be able to play to-morrow, but despite his indispas:tion he will enter the gane, and to wis, for he says that 1t will be the lest chance of his iife, as he graduates next May. Berkeley's captain has just reaciied his ma- v; he stands 6 feet in his stockings and will ‘enter the game weighing 185 pounds stripped. Steriing D. Carr, center, is in his twentieth year, stands 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 180 | pounds. He has played football for a number | of years, having captained the Berkeley team | Quring his senior year. While there he played at tackie and at hali, filling each position equally well, S Last year. hich was his freshman_year at the university, he played half in the fréshman intercoilegiate match &nd later substitute in the same position on the Varsity. His work on the Berkeley gridiron has always been characterized by a remarkable amount of dash and energy. It was these qualities which won for him the position of center on this vear's team, together with his extraordinary development ot neck and shoulder musc For a time much doubt was expressed as to whether Carr would make tie team, but his development was so rapid and his knowiedge of the game grew so fast shat he beat out in the race for the place four other men, each of whom was much heavier than himseit. neI gets into pleys remarkably well for & man who has not practiced the position for more than & fcrtnight. His passing, | becomes erratic at times. In t | weeks ago and hss baen out eve: | and stands 5 feet and 7 inches in height. He , Captain 0. W. Ransomg will serve his college | CICTed, College last year as a special student, for the fourth year as fullback. Coming from | entirely ignorant of the first principles of foot. | ball, but fter a short time he began 10 show great aptitude for the game, and by the end of | the season was in Varsity form, and would have made the first eleven. had hé not been | wisqualified from entering the intercoliegiate | on account of study reqnirements. 1 He was ranked as the star nlayer of the ’99 | freshman team last season. Returning to the | gridiron again this season he has practiced | steadily and is now in fairly good condition, though his play has not been characterized by the snap and energy which marked bis work lsst season. There is not a speedier player in the team than Simpson, though he morrow’s game he promisea to give Thomas a hard rab. W, F. MeNutt, ‘97, who wilt play left end, hss won his place turough only one season’s work. . He commenced playing about six night since. | on the Cogswell Institute team | in his *‘prep” days, he was mnot altogether a novice at the game. He did a little jootball workin his freshman year, but did not come out as a Varsity eandidate’ until this season. He is in his tweniy-first vear, weighs 162 pounds and stands 5 feet 8 inches in height. J. W. Craig, "99, lett end, is just 19 yvears of age. He weighs 155 pounds and is 5 feet8 | inches in height. In his Ireshman year he played a little, but did not gain much dis- | tinction. His hard, conscientious and untr- | ing work won for him the piace this season, though he had & hot rival in Hopper. He promises to give Jeffs, the Stanford crack end, a hard time_to-morrow. Fugene Kennedy will play quarter again this season. He begen his career in the San Francisco Boys’ High School, where he played | quarter also. During his first two vears in college he was oscillated between quarter and half, but in his junior year he made the latter Flace on the Varsity. Ie issaid to be playing | his place as well as any other mnn on the coast. Kennedy is just 21, weigls 150 pounds and stands 5 fee’ § inches 1n height. Eddie Sherman, '97, who nas been reckoned Matches Stanford. Having p'a; Califoraia. March 19, 1892, 14 10 December 17, 1892.....10 10 hanksgiving, 189 6 [ Thanksgiving, 1894 6 0 Thanksgiving, 1895 6 6 Thanksgiving, 1896 | more to than Giant Fickert, for he i He is 23 years old; height, 5 feet 11 inche: stripped weight, 186 pounds. He played h first football at S:anford and made the Varsi last year. He is 10w asenior and has an ex- cellent record in his major study—physiology. To Williams' ieft §8 Captain and Guara Charles M. Fickert. There is no man on her team that Stavford would be willing fo trust giant, being 6 feet 217 inches in his stocking feet and tipping the veam stripped at 195 pounds. He is & native son, hailing from Kern County, near Tehachapi, and is a wonderfully strong man physicaliy. Accustomed from his child- hood to outdoor 1if> and exercise he has built up & muscular physique that makes him a model guard. He plays low, and rivals Bert Oliver of the Reliance team in the way be gets into interference. At tackiing he is as sure as any man who will play on the team, and when ance he gets hold of a runner he never fails to bring him down. Tais is Fick- ert’s third year on the Varsity, and in both previous intercollegiate matches he has dis- unguished himsell. In the first game he blocked Ransome’s kick and made 1t possible for Stanford to score; in the game last year he held Berkeley’s pet,’ “Strong Man Plunkett,” to a standstill and easily outplayed him. Walter Camp had great admiration for Fiék- ert as & piayer ana recommended him to Gross &s & man who ‘“‘never tired or got hurt and Who played with greater and greater vigor as the game became closcr and harde=.” In the game to-day Fickert says he will try to prove that because & man is captain that responsi- bility need not interfere with the strength of his game nor his ability &s u player. Fickert is a junior and his major study is history., Williams’ right hand man is Guard Na- thaniel A. Cerle, '98, of Seattle, Wasn. Fickert, Williams and Carle form what Stanford be- Jieves will prove an invincible center. Carie is the heaviest man on the team, weighing at the present time 213 pounds stripped and standing six feet in his stockings. This is Carle’s second year on the Stanford team, and he is putting ub a stronger game now than he did atany time last year. fols very light on his feet ana active as a cat. Iis first football was played in Seattle as halfback, the year bo- fors no entered Stanford. The man who plays opposite Carle has no picnie, butis likely to be kept pretty busy during the game. Carle is 21 years of age and has a high record as a student. His major study is mechanical en- gineering. 3 - J. B. Rice '97 of Santa Barbara is left tackle. His long practice at the game under Coaches Biss, Camp and Cross has given Ifim a com. plete mastery of jis however, is inaccurate, espectally with a slip- pery ball. J0M. Walthall, left guard, is another Var- sity piayer who served the blue and gold in 1895. He stands 6 feet 3 inches in height, weighs 195 pounds.and is in his twenty-filth year. Though but & player of two years’ ex- perience his_ footbril career has been marked | with the lines of flat- tering success. commenced i85t year & green pleyer, but so Tapid was his develop- ment into Varsity form that he beat out all op- pnents for bis pisce. n the game he was aistinguished for his AS THE cool-headedness and a i TEAMS WILL FACE EACH principles, and 1ately nis work has improved wonderfully in charac- ter. Loug kept on the second team because ot his lighter weight in comparison with his giantrivals for the po- sition of tackle, he dis- placed during the last wees by Oue piay- ing bigHarrington,who was subscquently 100 severely injured to be serviceable as au alter- nate in the game. Rice is the wit of thecollege and as such is very yopular. No Stanford playerever had a bet- ter record for hara, conscientious work, He smashes through the O.rm line well and is one of the best tackles at determination to keep the man opposite from getting the better of him. Though not an especially aggressive player, he hoids back his opponent with mueh success. Though he has been over from the | law college for only a few days this season, he has rounded into Tairly good form. Having | done hard manual labor all summer, he was in training when he came over. Mostof his time hss been spent in learning the signals and getting back his wind. F. G. Greisberg, who will play right guard, isa member of the class of '99, and has had but two seasons of football experience, Last year he piayed center on the {reshmen team, | and was a prime factor in running up the score of 44 to O against the Palo Alto team. He stands G feet in height, weighs 195 and is 22 years of age. He is strong and active, but nas & tendency to loaf in his position. He is slow to line up and slow to get down the field through his men. Greisberg is a good tackler, seldom failing to bring down hismen in his tracks. Wiile unaggressive, he seldom ailows his opponent to pass him | until the danger point has Leen passed. As to muscular strength and solidity he probably excels any other man on the team, and in con- sequence is possessed of great endurance and staying qualities. R. H. Ludlow, right tacklie, is a sophomore. | His preparatory training was received at the Los Angeles High School, where ne played for two years at guard. At present he weighs 185 pounds and s in his twenty-first year. Last season he gave his opponents a hard race for tackle, but_was beat out by Reinhardt and Sirpson. From the beeinning of the prosent season he has had a“cinch” on the Varsity, as the boys all say. Whether Butterworth would finally decide to put him at tackle or at guard was & mooted question. For about ten days Ludlow was first played at one position and then the other. Finally it was settled that he shonld play tackle a< a mate to Simpson. He is conscien- | tious and painstaking in his work, but stiil he has many rough edges to work off.. He 1s slow in 1ining up and in getting through to bresk up interference. While a fast runner and quick 10 get down the field on kicks, he Goes not tackie well, in most cases getting his man too high. He h n quite as foriunate as any other man on the team in escaping serious injuries during the practice season, and as a consequence he has been able to play through- out the entire time. F. W. Simpson, who will play left tackle, is in his twenty-fourth year, weighs 182 pounds as one of the best players at Berkeley, but who | is not now in the best of condirion, owing to several recent severe bruises, will play right- half. It was he who 8o successfully captained the team last year and who made one of the most britliant plays of the day in breaking | through Stanford’s heavy line for thirty-five | yards. Sherman weighs 140 pounds, is 21 | years old and stands 5 feet 7 inches. Percy W. Hall, '99, comes in for the other | half. Hehass footbill career which makes | np in brilliancy what it lacks in length. He was disqualified from plaving last vear be- cause of study requirements, but since he has | come within the law his place in the team has been a certainty, There is no man in the | team who is more Sound or in bet ter condition for hard, fast playing than Hall. He gives great promise of becoming a second Rensome and from him great things e expecied tc-morrow. IHe is 23 years of age, weighs 165 pounds and stands 6 feet in height. Fglmwlng wili be the substitutes: Center, Birdsall; guard, Castlehun; tackles, Avery and Melsaacs; end, Hopper; quarter, Bender and Haskell; half, Whipple; full, Anderson, swldd ke e THE CARDINAL. The following information may be of public interest concerning the individuals of the Stanford team: o In her center, T. M. Williams, best known 1o his friends as ““Old Hef”” (after Heffelfinger) Stanford centers her hopes. Williams is a West Virginian, but not the least bit like the | characteristic Southerner—quick in his move- ments and easily aronsed toire. He isjustthe | opposite, being deliberate In his speech as in | his actions; good-natured to a degree almost unpardonable in & football player, but that doesn’t seem in the least to injure Heff's play- | ing. Once get him intoagame and he is a different man. He goes into & play with bull- | dog tenacity and his enormous strength | makes light work of any but a skilled and siurdy opponent. Willinms has the reputs- tion of being the best cente* on the coast, not only for his fair, clean, hard playing at cen- ter, but for his reliability in emergencies and his fine tackling. He is very strongly built and is a terror at pushing his way through a line, as he piays right down on the ground. Stanford. He s a hard mAan to block and he runswell with the ball. Rice is 21 years old, 5 feet 81 inches in height, weighs stripped 170 pounds, and is stadying to be a geologist. C. A. Thomas, Stanford’s right tackle, has played for three years on the Stanford second eleven and in most all positions. He has had experience center, uard, as tackle ana halft: 0 player has worked more faith- | fully to win a place on the team, and he should prove a valuable man to the eleven. When he tries hard Thomas is & most effective player, but he cannot aiways be depended upon. Oceasionelly nis game is as strong and vigorous as could be ssked: then again he fails to come up to the mark at critical times. Lately be has gradually forged to the front as & man who had overcome his fanits. When Cotton was taken out of the line Tnomas was put into his place, and he has shown himself well able to hold it. His home is in Los An- geles. He eutered the university with '97, taking electrical engineering for a major. He is two finches over six feet iu height and weighs 182 pounds stripped. His first football experience was hud at Beimont School erbert R. Straight, the Varsity right end, is a conscientious, hard player. This is nis first year on tne Varsity and practically the tirst y that he has devcted any attention to the game, though now in his senior year. He is a strong mAn st breaking up interferance. for his weight and strengt, and him in good stead. At tackling he is regarded as sure and hard: he uses his head well in following the ball and is counted on for gains if entrusted with the pigskin. He is a trifle slow for an end, but rlnys ne game forali he is worth. Straight is 21 years of sge; height 5 feet 10 inches; weight 166 pounds stripped; major subject, economics. He is & Pennsyivanian by residence. The position of leftend is in the hands of Alexander 8. Jeffs, who is doing his sevona year on the Varsity. He is friom Kent, Wash., and entered Stanford with the class of '98, taking law as his major. He is 22 years old, 5 feet 7 inches in height, and is weighing 152 pounds ndprd ut present. Jeffs rhyed his first football with the Pacific University of Oregon as halfback and end. Last year hedjd valuable service for Stanford in the inter. collegiate match in preventing many long gains round his end. This year rheumatism during the early part of the season and subse- quent injury prevented much training on his Continued on Eleventh Page. SPECIAL MORNING SALE AT THE MA Friday, o to 12 A. M. S We propose a series of morning sales com= mencing Friday. The object is to induce more morning trade. We propose to offer the most staple articles in the Dry Goods line during the morning hoursat half afternoon prices and see if that will induce the ladies to come out a {jf little earlier. We must have more morning jjj occupation. " The Grand Toy Department Is now open in our basement salesrooms. 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