The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1900, Page 5

EET FAMOLU AND CAPTAIN BUR! AND CALIFORNIA FOUND KING THE CALIFORNTA LINE. SLAKER, THE GREAT FULLBACK, TAKES THE BALL, WITH RENCE. STANFORD USED THIS PLAY REPEATEDLY FOR CONSISTENT GAINS, PARTICULA "ULTY IN STOPPING IF. EY. QUARTER-BACK THE SECOND HAI Stanford "Efansforms Tie C,A;PTA]NS ON THE 6AME Sto;y of thei fiGamAer That Into Victory Before : Tt —— Was Won on a Goal e s Cisllod: Pringle Praises the/Burnett Thinks It From Field. Berkeley Coach. | Was a Good GAME. |, s e o o cin s s e, four minutes of play lef: en came a Star Traeger VOIRE D T ! A G ekl iy 1 stopping of Captain Pringle of California before the game that Captain Burnett of Stanford: “The game was the cleanest a fight of s and tige eleven that had the 1 Ie played in. Berkeley had a strong defense and we could would wir I think our system d the most | dc s with the Our riva ayed the best game in 1y deserves a eal of credit for put- If. but we 1 brace and outplayed them in th The Cali- ) ¢ handicapped in part ¢ the game. ( fornia as very strong on the of- e fleld fast teach them how to play | fer e. Their right tackle back gained a deal of ground for C He change the pla round contin- | them. Our boys played a hard game and deserved a victory He taught us the right kind of foott Their field goal | My knee pained me considerably, but much to my surprise 1 forced Staa- an ind 1al play. I do not care to &wsci the men on | lasted me until the whistle blew the signal e the game. opening play vards. Smith - team ery man played best. 1 believe that Clay was | Raitt was badly cut by Gammon in the second half and | ball salled upward and down among ee more straight over the cen- ruled out of the game unjustly, but I will not criticize the of- | he had to leave the The officials were highly satisfac- | Stanford playe time Erb nailed Gammon followed for four yards and ficials. 1 think they were excellent.” tory, and. deserve pr ietn Srnik bt it a g opening | Duden relief. Smith and - scrimmag t upc the a through the cea- ned. More | B e e = ———————————————————————————— | twenty- e Stanford o 1 »wn to Stanford's Californ . | fense opened up in fairly effective style, | 30-yard line, t changed color on I ' S I N I : Individual efforts of Erb and Slaker forc- | downs. lN lON 0 COAC H S ing the ball ten yarc aker ripped over | Then came the guard's back formation A L the left w < for four vards. of St and Seelev landed the ball was in striking | First dow d. The umpire penal- | five yards further for a first down. A times More was e I T 3 ized Ca nce with the ble caused Stanford to essay a goal, to fail center. Agaln the ball was slowly pushed sew i Yost Says - GoodwinKelly Would Rather jims po i et siass S rded the pre: P v lous pigskin - thought attempt | on the Stanford fifty-yard line. Gammon E I N o siipped in the Initial California plunge at e Stz | the cardinal line ana was stopped. A pen- s Not Fair e Excuse | i . ating in the Stanford bS] 4 i | Then Smith of California, a halfback e wap ad punted the ball down | physique and desperate spirit, threw him- “ field over Raitt’s head, and it had Coach Yost of Stanford sald: “All T wish to say Is that the Addison Kelly, the coach of the University of California, |S€lf across Burnett for five yards. Again opped rolling only two yards from the | game was a fairly steady contest, but ought to have been bet- = was in deep dejection over the game and refused to give an | he N e Sws. wiug o best_defe s v e teams lined up Hill | te The two teams should have played snappler ball. Each | extended statement about the contest. “I haven't much to say | ford forwards, and on the twer * forwards Traeger . - s called upon to punt. The pass was | team’s defense was better than the other expected. The at- | about the game,” hesaid last night, “‘other than that it might | d line of the (-ardm_al rfl.(rm! the ball— on. v bad 1 Hill dropped the ball. California | tack, however, was not as fierce as it might have been. Hoag- | et been won a number of times by Californfa during the first | d®ngerous n the defend mon whipped paat men were char There was sonfe very unfortunate handling of kicks and | mon was stopped again, but C. him, and seemed | land was one of the best officials I ever saw in a game, I rh"’ few accidents which would have materially changed the re- | t him, but he caught | not like Mr. odwin. 1 think he favored California. In the bees abc t. But there is lttle use in a post morter1, and I am not in | 8'¢ hammered successfully at the enemy’s the ball on the bound and punted out for | first half Stanford played a good game on the defensive, but | a spirit to repeat what did happen, what did not, what should | Fight wing, and the ball rested on the o a short distan reventing what might | f¢ll down on its offensive work. 1 think Gammon, Smith and | have happened and what should not. The field goal from a | Stanford seventeen-yard line. ment touchdown for Califor- | Pringle played the best game for California. Slaker put up his | placed kick was a pretty plece of work, and that it was suc- | gy oy Sa oo P iehdown for Callfor- | yqually good game. Smith did material work when he went in. | cessful there can be no doubt. In the first half California g % SESTHOE S - - ever escaped disaster | Traeger was a tower of strength. Our ends played their game | proved a great ground gainer, but when the time came for the | first attempt at a drop kick. The ball 3 and surprised evefy one by their excellent work."” deciding effort something seemed to snap. | landed in Raitt’s arms on the 3-yard line . n the nd half the Stanford team nd 4 Selii e e To this point California had forced the 3 approximately struck the gait that it was | @ sfefejefefeis 0 B e i S e e o | play against the goal of the cardinal. | yarq line ol popularly supposed to possess. Slaker £ i h E K a bt » he aft, Hill was signaled to punt the ball out of | gina1 1 2 Bedley and Hill beaam 5 e line | tWO 8Toups of tons were the spaces | making and their abillties in that line | wind should ralse later in the afternoon | F1lll ¥ ok tee & . eor | dinal goa H - KS;)“_ e ’;‘f‘_k}mi""_‘.‘;l”:‘r‘;“‘_h'n“‘:n reserved for the “rooters.”” The Berkeley | were about as evenly ched as were | the team striving to reach that goal in | S3P8eT- A fine low drive of ab, forty | giopped by Bur boys wore hats made of their college col- ors yards and a subsequent roll, a Stanford | tackle and Californfa held the ball in midfield. California tried a double pass. It failed in execution, as did every trick play tried in the entire game, owing to the wide-awakeness of the two sets of | Gammor ends. The two justly much-feared backs | puck an from the Stanford standpoint, Warren | was dre Smith and Gammon, proved their Individ- | and the b | the capabilities of the teams., They played spirited marches and college songs and each did its best to drown the other's music. then, however, the team failed to show to have the latent pos consistent strength and was unable to carry-the ball along; for a touchdown. Ex- cept for Traeger's beautiful place kick the | a o The Stanford ‘rooters” wore cardinal California men would now be celebrating | ~n¢ Stanf " pier caps of Tam o' Shanter style, and the a tie game as a welcome half-victory and | Stanford men w | rich red color of life gleamed from top t0 | trotted out upon the gridiron the Califor. | cally the entire half. ild be altcrnating be- | | tween chagrin at their failure to win ana | P°ttom Of the high bleachers. nia men, and girls, too. showed right weil | The first few scrimmages showed Cali- satisfaction that after all they escaped | Throughout the remainder of the great | their loyalty. The players were greeted | fornia to be strong on defense. Something the second half wouvld have an advantage. | The choice proved unfortunate, as the wind did not raise, and California’s kick- | off in the first half gave them “the jump.” | The California team was first upon the | and they managed to keep the ball in field, and as the trim and supple giants | their opponents’ territory during practi- and the sections occupied exclusively California students and sympathizers were ablaze with gold softened with blue. the exclusive me a fleld of wa pandemonium broke ° 71 ual merit bevond question. First it was|on pure /n into | the defeat which eeemed early in the | thTong the colors of the two universitios | with a great shout of welcome and pen- | seemed wrong with Stanford's boasted fr- Smith for three yards, then Gammon for | e’ 5 es were thrown Inlo | oo 45 be in store for them. | were mingled. Cardinai seemed to be|nants and hats were waved frantically. | resistible offencive play, and California | pan and fret dows oy ine. unged Stanford root- | “oppe crowd was the greatest In the his. | Father more in evidence, probably for two of joy without a. tory of California-Stanford football, | 800d and sufficient reasons. People with- very one was stand- | poory coat in the grand stand and on the | Out particular cause for loyalty to one s the linesmen car-| Back went Hill for a ried the string along. Captain Pringle was there again for another stretch of white- Then the students called “rogters” took | held them up and secured the ball on the up the cause, and each one of the eleven | forty-eight-yard line. At once the Califor- later a California do members of the team was given three | nla backs began to plunge through the e 5 failed, and Mo se’s zwml‘ cardinal-bedecked StU- | iegchers was occupled. In the standing. | Of the other wore cardinal because It Was | cheers, As the team began going through | Stanford line for gains from two. to st‘r,‘.‘\f,hiflnll:ir' ?}"';"::x:r:;‘”:; ;l::ika:alr: 1 Stantord elght-y: nto nto the air, mashed €ach | room space at the west end of the grid- | Widely held that Staiiford would win and | signal practice the men looked fit and | yards. The tackle positions were the ones | 6, Ohls’ momativia. and the- ball Tay rakot s ke of a er eves and thumped each | iron spectators were packed in like sar- | it s human to want to be on the winning | strong and fell into thelr places with a | most assaulted. At last Stanford held. | Stanford's fyard line. Batler thas crpy | delaved pass fa \for: o y Stald professors. | gines. Whichever way one turned, a mass | side. Then pretty girls who were not out | yrecision that evoked outburst after out- | and on the twenty-yard line California | Clay had been ruled off, and Stowe, the | o=, o astrous Thia won the s of joy in their eyes and? of people with blue and gold and cardinal | and out Berkeley sympathizers wore car- | pyret of applause from the bleachers. found itself unable to advance the ball. | frechman, had taken his place as left | oo Ll ¢45Y $ e whose sympathy happened | gecorations struck the eye. | dinal because it becomes them. And so it | ", oo oo N trotted out from the| Johnny More dropped back for a drop o . eft | enemy’s goal. Here e's try at a drop rdinal, all cast dignity 10 | Spectators began gathering early, and at | came about that in the contest of colors i added (heir share to th |2 o'clock the place seemed full, though | the cardinal had somewhat the better ot a through each of the many entrances a | it. guard. kick failed. Stanford Again tha. reliable but overtrained | twenty-five-yard line ‘alifornia a mo- Smith threw himself against the Stanford | ment later returned the punt. Raitt ran kick dressing-rooms under the north end of | Kick at the goal posts. It was a moment d out from the the grand stand a few minutes later. The | Of hope for California and of agony for cardinal sweaters worn by the men added | Stanford, but the ball flew low. ~An ex- P s g . v | sm was at 2 high pitch before left wing. The result w the distance | o m Id. and here the oper - g ‘"'x"i"i'fifffi- T'ff"f'n‘,“fnc'.’i’."u'ff""o,f?;‘l"l'éfi‘fh'?m"“‘ii"mE".T.:Z‘LTm As the cr‘owg waited for | to_thelr apparent size until they scemed | Change "'.,"“S‘Tl‘a“n" ;?:x‘frc:‘.:;e ""f. BOEK- | o7 fve ‘vards, added. to which: wese: fw :r::‘-(( v sounded the: Rl 'of the, Sret Bate . el gy s i ey R e e b ‘had | the appearance of the gridiron heroes che | Veritable glants. Their signal practice | I8 put ln: prosiz Bspagi S Hx'”; short plunges and the ball down on the | the score standing 0 t and most of the ey b na??.:‘eyn“;;rnughl back | been reserved for the “rooters” from the | rooters carried on a contest of thelr own, | Was snappy and the backs got off with a e ok the ball 'on fowns. Anatherand | thirty-five yard line. All this was done | play having been forced into Stanford's e kicked off again. Stanford had | two universities and the students whose | Each side sang football songs, punctuateq | SPeed and a close formation that showed | change of punts and a Stanford fumble | In the face of desperate resistance. It | territory. with Califor showing the ast, in the twink- | leather lungs were to lend nolsy aid to | with football and college vells. Good- | the excellent results of Yost's coaching. | gave California the ball again on the | seemed more a battle of eleven Individ. | wom cftective ball-advancing anitie. teved victory, and | the brawn and skill of the gridiron giants | natured badinage was hurled .back ard The team looked formidable and Califor- | eight-yard line. and another attempt at a | yals against each other than the _and at unit In this h the umpire ruled Clay oft sti0n was accordingly 1ong | came early. The Callfornia sections wers | forth and each side shouted in concert the | nfa men on the bleachers looked dublous, | field goal foliqwed. ' This time the ball | {lum force displayed on one Side or the | for siuscing. Stowe 1aking his plas’ ° € just north of the middle of the field, while | greatness of its heroes and the wenkneas] Stanford had a tempordry triumph | "Iy another exchange of punts Raitt, the | Other during the past four years. Again| pefending the north goal in the second of the men of the rival team. when Captain Burnett won the toss. He S g - did Smith of Berkeley cross back an Continued on Page Ten, -~ ford won on straight football, and ; Stanford's were to the south of the mid alifornia dangerously near proved its | dle line, In the center of gach of thesel Two college brass band: d the noise- J chose to defend the north goal, since i£ ghe ¢ sly mear ~ ~ ;EOV.LE d on Page Tem