The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1901, Page 35

> L T SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1901. NERSITY OF GALIFORNIK FOOTBALL TEAM CUTPLAYS STANFORD ELEVEN ON A HEAVY, SODDEN GRIDIRON AND WING BY A 5.AfETY,_4 SCORING TWO POINTS ) tm? / “REX” WOMBLE, THE DASHING CAPTAIN AND HALFBACK OF THE CALIFORNIA TEAM, RECEIVE _——— ALIFORNIA, 2; So re; year's i combat b Stanford, o. the result of this collegiate gridiron ween the two big universities of this State. By all the laws of football the score could not have been closer, yet California won the game on the GALIFORNI--- Dash and Spirit of the Blue and Goldi‘ Team Is a Revelation. | ford, Stanford, Stanford, seemingly merits of its own superior skill. Stan- ford went down to without the glimmer of 2 chance for victory from | the start to the finish ~ Great as was the discrepancy in the aggregate weights of the teams. the car- dinal at no time proved a match for the blue and gold. Ten pounds heavier to a man, the “pony eleven”—for such it has been f]uhhcd—outuhv(d their weightier antagonists at every point of the game. The California men shot through the center, skirted the ends. toppled over the tackles, and twice were in such close range of the Stanford al that the smell of the lime line that ked the end of the field filled their Stanford was forced into a de- from the outset. The ought with grim determination i set their cardinal hearts to the est of all work—the prevention - of There was no fet up. So rils ofensive game heay 2 touchdown fierce was the play, so intense the inter- | est, that when the referee blew the final whistle, that set one crowd frantic on the field and the other as sémber as the dark, lowering clotids, there was not a heart on the field or in the stands that did not beat in fulsome reliefl. ~ * STANFORD MEN JUBILANT. Stanford men went joyously to the game. They scented victory from afar. In the hotel corridors and on the streets of the city beiore the game it was Stan- -3 | | on every Jip But out to the game went the Califor- nia followers with the same strident en- thusiasm in their hearts and with leath- ern throats and lusty lungs. all trimmed for the annual exercise of shouting. The gentle rain from heaven fell upon all— except those who sat in the covered stand. It was a dismal day, dark, gloomy, wet and disagreeable. The crowd, not quite as large as the ordin- ary Thanksgiving gathering., was dressed in its usual gay colors. the blue and gold of California and the cardinal of Stanford. Waving thousands of flags, swinging megaphones. throwing their colored caps into the air, shouting, yelling or singing, these collegians set the weather at defiance and made a Bed- lam of the wettest, muddiest. murkiest surroundings of any California intercol- legiate game up to date. And the field. Minute after minute it became thicker and heavier. When the men began the play it was gummy and clung to the cleats of their shoes like cakes of mucilage. Then it be- came soggy and rich in mire. The al- most steady downpour and the churn- ing the field received from the twenty- two hardy athletes made anything but a field of daigies for the gridiron contest. DAY FOR UMBRELLAS. The blue and the gold and the car- dinal were not the only color decora- tions. Umbrellas, appearing doubly black on account of the contrast, made the bleachers look like a hillside . of mushrooms. Save for the patches of bright color in the college sections the tiers on tiers of umbrellas, attuned to the gloominess of the clouds above, - _—— — COLLEGE VICTORIES AND DEFEATS DURING THE PAST ELEVEN YEARS ..Stanford University. .....14 Uniwversity of California 10 | ...Stanford l’nwrr:uy GUSERS ) University of California 10 | .. Stanford University. .a... 6 University of California 6 | ..Stanford University. . 6 University of California o | ...Stanford University...... 6 Unizversity of California 6 ...Stanford University. . ....20 University of California o | Stanford University. . .....28 University of California. o | University of California. .22 Stanford University. ... o | University of California. ...30 Stanford University. ... o .Stanford University 5 University of Califoruia. [ University of Call/’ol nia... 2 Stanford University. ... o __\_ Captaln “Rex” Womble Overall and Mini Are the Stars of the Victorious Team From Classic Berkeley. were quite in harmony with the woe- begone faces of the California contin- gent—before the game. When once under way the gloom faded from the California section and planted itself on the Stanford benches. The Stanford team was-the first to ar- rive, and the greeting it received from the cardinal bedecked supporters sent a chill into the hearts of the blue and gold shouters. Enthusiasm and football go hand in hand, however, and the Califor- nia men yel'ed just as lustily when their “pony” team jumped on the field for Simpson knew whereof he spoke, for thc warming-up evohitions. just a few minutes before he had talked “That's a light texm of Califgrnia,” | to the California e'even. They say that said an old-time Stanford player on the Simpson was so earnest in his last coun- side line. “Looks like another vic- | sel tHat the Berkeley men had tears in tory for the cardinal,” he continued. their eyes when they left their dressing- “They haven't played the game yet,” | rooms. But they grmed their t:eth and |« retorted Dr. Frank Simpson. the blue | all said they would win. and gold coach. “Those blue and gold Stanford. won the toss and gave Cali- jerscys have bund'es of grit and heart inside."” PRESIDENT WHEELER COMPLIMENTS : BOTH VICTORS AND VANQUISHED ESIDENT BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER of the University of California said after the game: “The playing on both sides seems to me to have been excellent. - The game abounded in exciting plays. Plenty of kicking is always intcresting to the spectators. After the ground: grew slippery the operations around the ends evidently did not have the prospect.of success that they had on drier ground. There was no part of the game I pcrsonally enjoyed better than the cxcellent interference which accompanied the plays around the ends.'It is a great pleasure to me that we have such sturdy, honorable antagonists as the students of Stanford University. Imyself should be glad to sce a trial of the best two in three games replace the one annual game. At any rate, considering Our the special conditions existing on the Coast, it .wmld be well, I think, to try the experiment. team showed the right spirit Iltrauglwut the game. — ——p» | upon all that this pony team could play . gaining at every stroke. ‘sport, I ! | I carried and the echo came back from % $ THE BALL FOR AN END RUN. I ol ANFORD---0 Men of the Cardina From Start | Are on Defensive to Finish. fornia the kick-off. While the game was in its infancy the realization came football. Offense or defense, it was just the same. The red bleachers became suddenly silent. Turmoil, riot, uncon- strained joy ruled with a boisterous, soncrous, sweeping force in the blue and gold seats. Down the field went the California cohorts yard by yard. Vie- tory, unexpected as it was, seemed | ready to perch upon the banners of the lighter team. Over the field the clleers the covered grand stand. The Califor- -nia men lined up for another dash. They were six yards from the goal— from a touchdown that seemed immi- nent. Womblé was given the ball to ‘advance toward the coveted line. He “fumbled it and Stanford was saved for the time. 3 Back they went to the fray, the car- | ~dinal fighting every inch and California forcing holes through the opposing line, It was great thousands. and - thou- sands of . spectators realized it to their uttermost satisfaction. Stan- ford fought every inch and the crowd. appreciating the gameness of the strug- gle, applatded and shouted itself hoarse and dry. The rain counted for nothing. Both sides were lost in the ecstasy of the real football excitement. Back to the fight for yards of slmperv mud’came the - California men. and labor. Mighty Overall, towering above every other man in his team. broke through the Stanford line and blocked a Kick. Over the line the ball rolled with both teams aiter it in hot haste. Raitt, the Stanford quarter, was on it in 5 ¥ % {55 g IE z o f a trice, and thus was the safety scored that netted California the two points and lost"the game to Stanford. CAME OUT TO WIN. Then there was pandemonium. The crowd soon learned that California had scored a safety and that it meant two points. It was early in the first half. The game was still young. California had withstood its heavier antagonists. Could it continue? The blue and gold men said “Yes.” The cardinal rooters yelled a sturdy “No.” “We have weight and stren, h, (hcy said. “We will win. Wait.™ “California supporters this assnnnoe had-an-eminous ring. It hovered. over the heads of the players throughout the ‘game. ‘ The slippery ground, the prevalence of fumbles, the Ieaden ball, the ‘epidemic’ of blocked" kicks on both sides put an uncertainty on the result that made the perching place of ‘victory alnon impossible to forecast. The first half was hmrht out with grim determination on bath sides. Cali~ fornia felt its measure and gained cour- age as the game progressed. It soom became on the part of -the blue and gold an effort to win and not merely stave off defeat. The offensive ‘was takem and the cardinal then iell back to the job of holding the fort. Such was the spirit that ahimated the elenns when the players, bedraggled with wud and their identities lost in the slimy, caking, walked off the field at lhe =ud of the first half. The intermission was _ like all other football intermissions between halves—— full of noise and fury. college yells and the special brand of college music # - Comtinued on Page Thirty-Fous 4