The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1897. to gain at center | Stanfc gathered up again, and worked t to Berkeley on downs | down the field for another touchdown. the d. Murphy kicked out to Kicker:, who s e 1 ber assault the kick and Murphy kicked an- Score: Stanford 28, U. C. 0. the ora’s ( line. Hall U. C. team was com- Cotton ran in Lud- 10 yards. 5> yards and Hall ime was phy k rker. Wood. Jeffs, | nailed by F Hall tried Rice, but tiest <ort of al was thrown back. Burnett tackled Hall pped by » bad | aiter n 4-yard run. U. C. tried a quarter- ! was passed by Hall for 4 va back kick. but the ball was given to Stan- It w tried Th ford for offside play. Carle gained a yard; A I went through the Day tried Simpson without gain and Ludlow pushed Murpby punted for 35 yaris. Hall caught 3 Ballithed hasted the the ball on v to b downed by Parker. Berkeiey’s bali. Berkeley tried a quar- ack kick, but Murphy aowned the run- r. Burnett broke through and downed Ludlow bebind the iine. Hall punted to Murphy, who ught the ball, but was tackled heavily before he could start his running. The game ended with the ball in Stan- ford territory. dash, but rphy. Griesberg was [ne work of Daly was a surprise, as it was his first ¢ me. urnett at center, another new man, played # maenificent game and not only held his own but was able tot ie on ead run-, and also got down the field on punts. Pasker, the other new mau on the team, played a g eat game at end snd was able to zain mas ards for the cardinal. Fisher has at last found out the secret successful line-bucking and has that ilar Leadlong whirling dive that al- resulis ina gain. It seems like a aste of time to speak oi the other Stan- ford men. They and their ability are 100 well known to the football public. Cot- ton’s name is a synonvm for line plunging. Simpson ’fur > | ( nown as the stonewall man, lon as the old reliable. Chet Thom plays s good game and heid his easilv. Rice, although scarce! about on account of n knee, played as good a g man on the field. Jeffs b seen s best, on account s. Rea Smith was also on the i of vec wa. center interference, s and two over able bad ame J move swoll to nis v of jured l'axe it all together nford never had er trained coachied team. The -back formation waseminently suc- and it safe to say that te-lay rd has the strongest toothall team West, or is Stanf e IT’S. THE FORCE OF GRAVITY. One Reason Why the Stanford Team Won. By Miriam Michelson. me fundamental rea- for ai | v wearer of the car- dinal, com placently. T It's the force of gravity. The Be team is a team of light-bodied, The nford eleven ved, queerly tplay str vhich were sur e very resentful. straw !”" she whis- d-for Berkele Just once ne slip away rs, wh rength w : AOT & E AWHOPPER. ELwWELL T SHOLLD consideri ) —or lack of they made & And that their coursge is t weight is evidenced by the last balf was the hotter game. V't score. OTH TRERAVEN ! 3 ' were on the point of scoring, it NEVERMORE WILLWE SCORE seemed, often. When the ball hxd been .«a? dragged aimost inch by inch un 1o Star 2 ord’s goal, and the wearers of the blue = - and gold began to toot and to howl and 1o wave gold e badges, then—sud- | — ty, a wonder from a heavi o ——— red-sweat a great kick | from auother a ation was re- versed. Then 1 ¥'s zoal th was in sight. And whenever those mighty tugging, straining Stanford men we within « white line or two of Berieley goal, even the biue and pandoned hope. Never once did ardinals fail By dint of pushing, by a desperate ru icu at a time or hun- tanford arrived. v boys and a sure KIC dreds of feet— tered the Berkele , : THe BERKELEY "CROW" WILL BE path as EATEN AS USUAL WITH LARGE a great, resistiess snowplow senus the RED SOUR CRANBERRIES | featnery snow flying to either side. Berkeley fought stubbornly. After | those first two victories of Stanford’s th- lighter men, despite iheir strug . were tfairly pushed toward their own goal, the Berkeley eleven played despe. ately for the third touchdown. A ioulon violets and a barking from U. € that would have made menagerie | re are Where arefwel” de* | ma nded a voi h above the r ! It wasn't a question. But allina mo- ! me nt the tide bad ¢ ged. Before the ) rds Hall! Hali! Bully boy, Haill” 1 O, 1hey’re going to kick!” Quick!y the ball =sped from one set of a iriv fingers 1o another, and then Stan- =T ford did kick. Tne ball soa:ed up, up and 5. away. 1wo-thirds of the field was cov- 7 ered before a Berkeley man, who looked caught the ball. Go—o on coat nl’ was moaned a suspended ‘Go on—0u! from whos3 rers of blue. the strength that shoula have in- THIS, SAID DR.TORDAN !5 THE IKIND OF GAME I LOVE TOSEE. I T'SMORE FUN THAN BRANDING SRALS never | in- | o - | MURPHY COMPLETING H IS vizorated those siriped legs that flew over | mighty red lozs sprawled rizid a few long the ground scconds. “He’s only shemmin But Berkeley could not go on. Pro “Heisn 1, you mean answered in the shave of a flving cond of | feminine Stan‘ord, too wildly interested cardinal sweaters and padded tan trousers, to see a joke. | | | dence, | i decreed otherwise. Stanford gisnt | Bug, aiter all, it is the spirit of good butied square into him with his big thick- | faith i of purely honorable endeavor | haired head, and anotner Stantord Arnold | which specinl'zes football plavers and Wi elried threw bimself madly down | spectators. When one of the Stanford uvon the earth and clutched at the swift | men dragged :imself to his feetand went | Berkeley lezs. And Berkeiey feil. Auna | in search the surgeon there were blue Starford and the rest ot Berkeley piled on | and gold badges and bedecked canes be- of him and there was side the cardinal ones wavea to greet his « chaos of red | and blue legs, till one by one, slowly, the | re-entrance into the game, his black, | living pyrannd dissolved, leaving poor | bushy, saud-rubved hair bound around | Berkeley, who had run so well ana fought | with” a white bandage, which speedily {se madiy, | pale and unconscious. | took the prevailing tone—dirt, wirt, dirt | And then came tne answer straizbt and | stuff int man, even 1if he is | pertinent to Berk M are we?”’ tanford,” said Berkeley regretfuily. “In the 0 1 a voice, and pan- | Yes, stuif that B ey needs before | demounium, I-coiored, broke loose. | she can reverse this awful seven years' And the vlue-ritboned dam:el said piu- | record. Itisn’t the spiritual “'siuff” they fully: ss the ba It's the mate i 1 “I'm sorry I came; I'il never come | ‘s hat fills those burly red sweater: again.”’ ana bulging, misshap n red stock'ngs. If | Butshe’ll beone of the 15,000 enthu- | the Stanford teams or '92. '93 and '95 were | siasts who, in 1898, will shout tnemselves | equal to this mighiy 97 aggregation of i pale and glow with atternate | power, skill and courage, 1L 1s only a | defeat and triumph. Oniy, I hope, for | tribute 10 Berkelev 10 marvel that the re- sake and for Berkeley’s, that next |sult ol the firhis was a tie in each case. the teams will be more nearly | cellent men on the Berkeley ers so fleet, so cool-heaaed, any one who has seen the | ong and sure that were tuey ert, live play of the Stanford | but evenly matched in paysique with | for a moment detract at all there might be another the victory which they have won so | yet, it isn’tin human nature o | their opponents u That's au anti-climax. And vet, to the see the weaker pushed to the wail without | lay—very lay—mind, after yesterday’'s mentally yearning and straining to help | game, Stanford seems irresistible. them. Wuen the wooden =zwnineg fell and I amn not a football specialist. { boards ana ectators were precipitated aown upon the mass of people below, at- tention was turned from the plavers to- ward the Hurrison side of the grounds, By the way, it isn't fooibzll. It's hand- bail and air bali; but a kick’s a rare and a beautifal thing, I hind. But no more ball was “plyed” thut day. And it was just as well. Hope had died | for Berkeley, ~o far as the speciators were | concerned.” Every sweet fragrant violet, every gorgeous chrysanthemum was token only of disappoiniment. That there re- mained courage to go on beneath those striped jackets is only an evidence of what Berkeley might do if only Stanford were who is capable of coaching a team and yes, of fighting another—declared that my lgnorance was too periect a thing 1o spoil She langhed at my c.umsy efforts io lo- cate halibacks and quarterbacks and eighth and sixteenth backs when she was not so tensely interested 1in that strug- gling mass ot dirt-colored quadrupeds, with their burlesque false noses, that she rford’s pari, and the 1other, gave additional advantag and they | rmed on and ou ull there wasa blare | bboned trumpets, a mad w had died away a girl behind me moaned: | uifed, olG-fashioned, home- | emed to be trying to put into his | | : | Batit was Stanford could Lear my questions. not the bigger and the better man. But it doesn’t take a specialist to| e m at the enthusiasm of the specia- | ENDED WITH tors and—in time, and to oue’s great as- | | | | | tonishme: to find that one is really of | that maes of oneades but wonderfuly AN ACCIDENT. good-natured people whose whole | i b4 thought, whose whole life is just for the | moment fixed upon that big oval ball. | Men and Women Pinned Down [ | Isaw a man—yes, he was a man not a | : . ¥ boy—tlap his arms as though (hey were | by Falling Timbe:s. the bands of the wings, while beemitted vell after yell. Isaw tie most respectable of dowagers | o on gladiaters and over on the north ihe Sianford wing was rising to its feet to wearing upon her gown (which spoke of | modesty and zeod taste and excellent ! send cheer after cheer to its heroes an ac- cident, awful in its possibilides, but by Just as viciory was in dgzment and a long purse) a cockade of blue, that made her poor, old, withered face look doubly old and withered. some degree of fate trivialin its results, Lsawen old man complucently finger. | occurred. A flimsy awning that had veen j ing his red ribbon whose freshness cried {1 16 protect the observer from the sun | out agains. the untidiness of ni< spotted, & » | frayed coat and his biackened linen. gave way uader the weight of several I saw sallow girls wearing blue and | smail boys, and boards and timbers | peony-tinted one’s laming in red. | crashed into the crowd below. In an in- | And I marveled at it all. | stant all was confusion. Screaming But this was at fhirst. By the time the game was over the pharisaical spirit had left me. I had learned to Jook charitably upon waving flags snd to listen at least wi:h affected amiability to tin horns and coliege vells. When twenty-two men make animated ed or blue legged iriangles of themselves | and face each otier like so many huma buffalo. there is a moment of silerce, | when 15,000 people hold their breath and 000 eves watch that pumpkin slip as though it were greased from one pair of | hands to another. And then thereisa { run, and then, like breaking waves of | boy, the rush comes on and ends in an in- | tistinguishable heap. women and struggling men pinned to the seats by tne weight upon | for release, The other observation stands were soon deserted and their cccupants hurried to the rescue of the injyred peo- pie. In a remarkably short 'space of time between 3000 and 5000 people were jamming and fighting their wav toward the scene of the acci the police had to abandon the work of res- cue and dr.ve back the seething. battling crowd. This took several minutes, and then the timbers were Jemoved. Miss Mae Jones, who resides at 981 Wil- low street, Oakland, was found lying half unconscious, the blood stresming from her nose and lips. She was picked upand carried from the grounds, where several sympathetic iadies cared for her until she that was most fre- | quently exhausted yesterday. She played | ne thing. W \ds | L ¢ & o 19| " Miss N atherbv, who resides on persed and one couid see where tuat | L8 Nellie Weat - that | polegraph avenue, Miss Jones’ companion, ball was, it w almo ari- g v D51y a Stanford man thet bugeed it to his | 1143 SLTUCK on the heck and shoulders vy & :"mmihlfisfif'; ,‘;'\',:,_" o “ifi":{;{gfl"’m‘; | On examination it was found that she had beaten ground. | received a painful cut and hlrnxw on the e oar S urt,” said fominine Berke. | TIZDE tide of her neck, but her shouider : | Tied from the grounds, and when she re- | covered sufliciently she joined her com- | panion. | PMre. M. H. McCormick, an elderly lady, who was seated near the young women | was also rendered unconscious. She | badly bruised, but it is not thought that l'any of her injuries will resuit seriously. SATIONAL RUN OF FIFTY-THREE YARDS. |1 tried, bali-heartedly I admit, to get | where peonle clustered like flies appeared up some t:chnical knowiedge of the game, | silhouetied on tops of neighboring roofs. but tue girl who accombpanied me, and | “Ply bali! piy bait!”’ yelled the crowd. | em fought | ent, and for a time | SEN e was cared for on the grounds by her ( friends and was soon able tc leave for home. J. H, Sherwood, manager of Sherwooa & Sherwood, who resides at 1100 Sucra- mento stree wife, who was seated beside him, when the accident occurred. The timbers fell all around them, and Mr. Sherwood was about to rise in hi of boards fell and struck him on the head. He was stunned for a few minutes, but unaer the care of his wife, who, fortu- ely escaped injury, he soon regained consciousness. his escave, and cannot possibly under- stand how his wife escaped without a serateh. Daniel Cabill, a also among the injured. basebull He S suffered a by a falling beard ana aip wound. Malcom Dunn, wno resides with patents at 40 Shipley street, was found be- neath the timbers when they were re- moved. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital, and his injury, a severe contu- sion of the side, was atteuded to. Two | othe s, wlio were on top instead of under- neath the falling boards, were injured. | They were Thomas G lfeather, 261 Perry | street, and George Mase, whose address is unknown. Both are boys just in their teens, and were on top of the awning when it gave way. They were huried out into ihe gridiron, but suifered nothing more painful than ches. he management of the game and all who went to see it are of the opinion that the police are in a great measure respon- sible for the accident. During the prog- | ress of the game the crowd of small boy and men on the ontside who wanted to see the game but aid not want <o pay for that privilege fougnt like mad people for points of vantage. They tore boards from the fence, cut noles in it and swarmed on the roofs of adjacent house-. Gates lead- 1ug into the grounds were torn from their hinges, and no oflicer was on the outside of tue ience to see thac the depredations were stopped. Finally the boys and men began o climb the fence, and then be- tween glances at the piayers the polic men woud order them off. Along to- ward the ciose of the game, however, the inside of the fence, and in a remarkably short space of time the flimsy awning wh was _simply bulit for a day was black withh interested humanity. Just tlie game was coming to a ciose the crasn | came, and sounded for Stanfora were turned on the | ips of all to cries of alarm and sympatny for the njured. So closed the game that marked the fourth defeat of Caiifornia University. S DRUNK WITH The OId Scenes Between Gladia. tors Rivaled on the Gridiron. | Nomultituae that gathered in ancient days within the walls of the Coliseum a! Rome to meutally drink its fill of bloca | white warring gladiators died before their eyes ever yave way to their f-elings, if his- tory tells the truth, in a more complete manner than did the mass of humanity that witnessed yesterday’s football game. Fifteen thousand people, mad with ex- citement, howled until around seemed to become tired and re- fused to return an expected echo. Toes were tramped upon, clothes were torn and hats thrown wildly in the air were lost to him who in a moment of wild delirinm parted with it to relieve his pent-up emo- tions. iverybody was there, it seemed. The small boy in rags, the opulent and the mediocre forgot their varions stations in life anu in goodfellowship yelled together | anything that sounded good to yell. The gentler se. added to the confusion, and chaos was in- aavurated again. Over on the north of the gridiron the observation stand was divided. and S:anford each had its wing. Just at the dividing line two young ladies sat. One admired an athlete garbed in crim- son, while the other had eyes but for those who wore the colors of the Califor- nia University. When the game was at its height the Stanford admired tackied man in blue and gold. They fell together, and he of the crimson did not rise, but | ASCRIMMAGE. 1m THE GRAND STAND — THE MANAGMENT REPORTS THAT ALL THE RESERVED SEATS wWERE NOT RPAID FOR assisted and with treble voice | Berkeley | i , just turped to sveak to his | seat when another lot | Mr. Sherwood marvels at | | streamed while gash where he from a partad scorn more than pity his admurer watched hiwm as the surgeon band then, with a toss of her head, bunch of violets to her br have given him had he proved himself a nero and returned to the fray minus a bandage without and a stimulant within. She was like Mark Twain’s mother of the lay w Witn gladiator, who le't the side of the arena blushing with mor:ification when her son L slain. The admirer of the biue and 20ll, however, smiled and leaned ont over the baiustrade. If it had been in olden times ber gloved thumbs wouid have been turned down, and perchance had the U C. hero seen it he of Stanford would nave | suffered anotber gash in the forehead deeper and longer. Others were there also who had th favorites and who for the time being were tne mortal enemies of any one who did | not see the game through like spectacles, Showing Low the brain- aisturbing, thought-interrupting influence of the game | | affects some people, Dr. Rottanzi of high- hat fame forgot his pet theme and failed | to theorize and philosophize on the mag- niticent display of new Thanksgiving bon- | nets. He simply sought the side line, | fergot hisdignity, ¢oi dewn on his knees on the sand and nowled with all the vim | | of those about bim, a few bruizes and | | police began to relax their vigil from the | the cheers that would have | final victory, but even Police Sergeant Michael Joseph Conboy was also among the nnmber lost in the mazes of excitement. During the inter. val when he was not busy tossing bricks into the “slats’’ of small boys and men who persisted in climbing the fence he would beamn with excitement, but never once did ne forzei his early and late training as an officer_and break tne peace | with clarion voice. He retained bissilent dignity, but that excitement was for the | time his master was only too Dplainly manifest on uis face. All were enjoying themselves when, | ike a thunderbolt, the awning of the grand stand gave way, and then the day’s pleasure was at an e OPINION OF A PARTISAN| How It Looked to a Man From Stanford. ! By Walter Marlotte McIntosh, Stan- | ford '98. Stanford had been fairly confident of those on the in- ide felt that the struggzle would be a hard one. Tue CaLL was the only paper to pred ct that Stanford would have a walk- over. k Personally, having umpiiel ard atched closely most of the practice | | zames of the Stanford eleven for this | of football, the buildings | | | son. season, [ had no idea that the boys in car- | dinal would put up so briltiant an article I had perfect confidence in | tie men as players, in the coach and in | toe trainer, but 1 thought that the two | weeks of rela xation from university work and the thorough training in the braging | air of Monterey might work wonders witu | the U. C. men. : If we were to seek the fundamental cause of Stanford’s clean record in her an- | nual gridiron contests with her Varsity | rivai, I think we shall find itin the mag- nificent manner in which the Stanford | students rallv to the support of their | team. ] To George H. Brooke, the famous Penn- sylvania fullback, isdue a large share of | the creait for the victory. To be sure, he | had a team of veterans to handie, but he | knew an entirely different style of play frem that to which the men had been | trained under the several Yale coaches and how well he succeeded in teaching the men the Pennsylvania manner of offense and defense may be learned from a glance at the score. | Mr. Brooke's success lays in the fact that on the held ha is strictly business. | He permits no loafing, and by bis manner | wing the confidence and resp-ct of the{ men under him. To hirassistants, Messr. Code, Downing, Harrelson and Franken- heimer of the *old guard,” Stanford bas | been and always will pe indebted for | muck of her success on the white-lined | fieid. The members of the second team have done splendid work alt through the sea- | They are the men who,receive the | hard knocks and are repaid with too little glory. The second eleven virtually makes the Varsity. It is my personal opinion that the Stanford second team, asit pluyed | throuzh the last couple of weeks, could have defeated U. C. in their game. It was evident that the Stanford team’s defense was. inferior 0 its offensive work. The principal steady gains for the cardi- nal were made on ine Pennsylvania tan- dem plays. Berkeley seemed unable to | thstand the bhard drives against the line, when Fickert, Carle, Fisher or Cot- | | 1 ton would take the ball on these plavs, In defensive plav. the cld failing of the linemen to play high would crop out oc- casionally end thus Berkeley’s tandems on tsckle, modeled atter the Princeton game, would often prove effective, espe- cially in the first half. That Stantord had a strong defense when necessary was shown in the first half when the wearers of the cardinal braced themselves and won in his forehead. | lips and an expression of | wed him up, and | returned a | ast she would | | that he would fail | up the finest game of his I the blood | the ball on downs within 3-yards of their own goal. The jeature of Berkeley’s play was Hall’s brithant running. It was almost entirely individual work on his part. He was in this game what Ransome wasin the past. At punting, though, he was in- ferior to Ransoms and was utterly out- classed in this respect by Murphy. Captain Cotton repeated this year his wonderful line-bucking that won the game last year. ile was nearly always sure of bis distance, and has the record now of winning twice as many points for Stanford as anv other man who has played under the cardinal banner. It is an undisputed fact that Cotton has not played bis rame heretofore this season, but no captain ever does in practice, and Cotton certainly made amends forany loaf- ing ae may have done before. e playe: through the game with an injured ankle. Jickert and Carle, that pailr of veteran ““old reliables,” played as they alwsys have played—better than any other two guards on the coast. Their line bucking and in- terference were splendid. Burnett, onc of the youngsters in t veteran avg tion, did splendid w as center. He played center as it should be played. He was aown the field often with the ends on punts and several times tackled for out at the end of the line. I feared, judging from his practice Work, to ginger up properly, but his play was a pleasant surprise. At tackles, Thomas and Rice, occupants of the same position last year, put up a strong fight. They had to bear the brunt f their opponents’ attack, and showed 1p very strong. Rice was suffering from water ‘in the knee, but held his own and | played through the game in spite of the return of the water to his knee. Parker, another untried Varsity man, showed up better than any other end on the field. He ran well with the ball and made some splendid tackles, However. he was a little slow in getting down on kicks. On the other end Jeffs did the best he could under the circumstances. He | started in at a terrific pace.in the begin- ning, but 1t was soon evident that he was in distress. He. however, played throngzh until well into the second half, when Rea Smith took his place. Rea did some splendi? kling, aithough he, too, had been suffering from water on the knee, Murphy, the quarterback, upheld his fine reputation. In fact, he excecded it. Not only was his punting of a star order, but he also made some clever .ackles and egot well into the interference, proving that be had remedied his chief faults, Only once did he attempt to run with the ball, | and then he made the ‘ongest run of the day. It was a magnificent dash for 53 yards throush a scattered field. Daly and F.sher, the halfoacks, showed great improvement in their play. Daly excelled in end runs, while Fisher was strongest in tackling and running inter- ference. He was in every play, and put It 1s my personal opinion that the ofticials were a little unfairin their deci- sions. On the putout they were surely wrong, for rule 26 says that a catch from a putout is to be considered as a fair cateh, and in case of a fair catch being made, the opponents of the catcher must line up ten from the neel mark. Again, very evident to all that Al Learn was con- tinually, though quietly, coaching his men, but he was not interferad with, | while “Billie’’ McLasod was ruled off the field for a single offense «f that kind. OPINION OF A BERKELEY MAN. It Was Due to Fundamental Errors in Training. BY WILL C. RUSSE LL, U, C, ’98, It is indeed hard to brook deleat, and still harder to offer a eraceful apology for an ignominious drubbing. To make a long story short and to keep from chasing the devil around Rotin Hood’s barn the University of Calitornia team was simply | outclassed and outplayed by Stanford in yesterday’s football game. I: would be all nonsense to attemot to offer any other | explanation for the result, We had the material, the condition, the snap, the energy, the determination, and almost equal weight with our opponents; but in the science of the zame and the quality of perce.ving what ani when to do it, our team was deplorably d:ficient, ss compared with the men they had to run up against. The defeat last year, with a score of 20 to 0, was bad -enough, and theie was reason in the plea'that the B:rkeley men were ill-trained and in poor condition, but no such excuse can be offered this time. The ill-luck story, too, is no ionger valid. The reason for the 28 to 0 score yester- day appears to me to be fundamental and notimmediate.* It was in the ceozching, 1he general<hip and in the game tactics. To be specific, instead of chang ng from a wanton atiempt to pound ihrough the center, after having lost the ball on dewns time and again by this me . 10 a rush through between tackle and guard or an end run, the same piledriv r work ar cen- ter was kept up and cach time it was attempted our boys struck a s cne wall, ‘We had the bail butturee times befora Stanford made two touchdowns, and it Continued on Seventh Luge.