The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1905, Page 39

—-———a Pages39t052 | e 1 [Pages ¥ 1052 = & UNIVERSITY OF (JAL]F()R.\']A ELE VEI e I T 7 LSSt SN S N Jf PP SIS A s S OSSN === : = W = a2 > o P —— =3 / STRUGGLING FOR A TOUCHDOWN AS TIME WAS CALLED AT END OF FIRST HALF. | | =3 BATTLE MAKES THE BLOOD OF ONLOOKERS THRILL Hardy Athletes Struggle for Supremacy Like Hungry Cougars of Mountain Fastness. Sl S ADHERENTS OF VICTORS DO “THE SERPENTINE” BY LEIGH H. IRVINE. time the sky was growing dull f the gloaming a score bat the cardinals had | rcollegiate game. | es were loud with were waved like anford!” exultation “Oski-wow- of nt cardinals ngs ke red s of virgin r columns, fol- | mphant musiclans and | e over the fleld of | had sunk into the | the yellow moon | had risen high over their harmiess | orgies. . we foe was vanquished, but not in dishonor, and none could say that the | and gold had failed to make a gal- fight and leave a record of deeds done, for the struggles of the ses that faced each other ron yesterday were as bold ose in any game of cour- ever played by Greek Neither Agamemnon mnor where swift- lant obly ever battled ness, endurance and foresight counted for more, or where cunning and skill were more essential to succ:ss. Long before the warriors bold came | forth there was much pleasant badinage in the singing of songs foretelling vic- | tory Yell leaders and their great chor- | vied with each other, songs of de- | e echoed and re-echoed across the | chosen fleld of conflict, and fair | women in white waved banners of blue | nd gold or megaphones of brilliant | red. The thundering yells of Berkeley were first to be heard, but when the | cardinals came they sent up red bal-! loons, set free pigeons with brilliant | streamers flashing - the colors dear to Stanford—and when their team ap- peared red confetti filled the air and floated to the sky like the glow of | Greek fire. SILENCE PRECEDES BATTLE. When the teams at last came forth and after the cheers or welcome had | died away there was the ominous si- | lence that precedes a battle. The pig- skin was the point of interest that drew the glances of thirteen thousand pairs of human eyes as intently -as if the wonderful Bottle (Imp of Stevenson’s weird story had captured the multitude with its magic power. The game was now about to be called, and the god of battles must decide which of the fused masses moving like two mon- sters of savage instincts was to' fall in the silence of defeat. Like two bands of stoles, laughing at danger and waving off the possibility of being mangled or killed, the contestants faced the ordeal of force, struggling to batter down opposing walls of humanity. Stealthily as the tread of moccasined feet moving to the battle line when lured by the lines of warriors when tomtoms are sounded, two armies of clear-headed ath- letes sprang to the task of putting the mystic ball to the place of honor. Then, like ravenous beasts fighting for cornered quarry, twenty-two human cou- . gars crouched and sprang and writhed doggedly over the checkered fleld to place the pigskin to the goal. With throbbing pulses the mass leaped., plunged, strug- gled and piled in thudding heaps to ac- complish the feat before it, as if the ac- complishment cf ‘that feat were the high- est of all human achievements. FIGHT LIKE DEMONS. Again and again the elevens fought over every hairsbreadth of the field, where each inch was of Manchurian im- portance in the desperate struggle, where a few yards often meant victory or de- feat. Hammered into unity by long drill, Stanford, though outclassed in weight, surged with alertness and resistless deter- mination against the dogged human wall that faced it. Panting and plunging in ferocious attacks or more savage defense, the cardinal team pitted itself against the foe until the strength of the winning mass beheld the waning of the enemy’s vitality, then the glorious sign of victory. In the lulls between desperate plunges, possibly after a flerce struggle or a bril- liant run, and once or twice when men were rendered ‘senseléss, it was a pretty Continued on Page 40, Column 7. beating of weird | drums, or like the rhythmic surging of STEADY WORK |EXPERT THINKS THAT RIVAL TEAMS BRINGS HOME THE VICTORY Chalmers Believes Clean Football Triumphed. BY A. J. CHALMERS, CAPTAIN OF THE STANFORD ELEVEN. The men of the Stanford team played as I knew they would. Straight football and consistent wWork gave us the game, but in the ecstacy of victory 1, and every suppordér of the cardinal, admire Berkeley for the game put up by the cleven representing them. For all these long weeks we have tralned and waited for this game and to-day we are justly proud. The treat- ment recetved from officials and spec- tators and from our opponents was all that could be desired. Speaking for the men of the Stanford team I give due praise to the Poe brothers, to “Chet” Murphy and to the others who officiated at the contest. 3 Stanford had a slump during the middle of the season, but Lanagan's coaching and “Dad” Moulton’s training helped us through to victory, of which we are so proud. We expected Berkeley would try some rough tactics and many trick plays when in a pinch. The case was entirely different. Our fears were not realized, because the Californians com- mitted no breach of the rules that was not the result of over-worry. of course, the spectators may have no- ticed some off-side plays on both sides of the line. Possibly they may have seen the ball stolen during the strug- gle, but this was to be expected and was always remedied by the referee's action. The most impressive incident of the game was the bulldog grit shown throughout® We had the fight of our lives against the line of the Berkeley contingent.- Never once did they give us an inch of uncontested ground. The Stanford team showed this same spirit. WERE EVENLY MATCHED AS POSSIBLE High Tackling by Visiting Eleven and Delinquency of Quarterback in Handling of Punts Are Largely Responsible for Defeat. BY PARK WINSLOW. Stanford ‘has again carried off the honors of the football fleld in one of the greatest battles In the history of the Pacific Coast gridiron. Every inch of the way was contested with almost| grinbs for he turned tWO ! team. unparalleled ferocity. If the elevens were to enter into another struggle it would be as difficult as ever to pick a winner. In spite of the pre- It was not only a mighty feat of brawn and brains for Stanford., but it was a complete vindication of the meth- ods of Coach James Lanagan. The dust of defeat should not choke Coach out & splendid CALIFORNIA STARTS WELL. After five minutes of play it looked vious showings and the surpassing ex-' as if the blue and gold adherents woull cellence of some features of Califor-| make an immense score. nia's game, every one who witnessed ; on the Stanford line was a success. ! the contest must admit that the better | ball weat rapidly down the field to the of injuries. The margin of superiority ' cardinal fifteen-yard line. team won. was infinitely small, and a slight acci- dent at certain stages of the game might easily have turned the tide of Every assault The cheering in the home section grew faint and spasmodic. The bleachers on the west were a mass of fluttering blue and gold victory: Each of the great universities | pennants and ribbons. But Stanford got Las every reason to be proud of the | low in the line and held hard. .The day bruised and battered heroes who repre-; Was saved for Lanagan's boys. Before sented it on the field of battle at Palo Alto yesterday. For three-quarters of the time al- lowed for play it seemed like any one’s game, but finally a second touchdown put Stanford in the place where it only needed the referee's whistle to send the eastern half of the bleachers into a frenzy. From the standpoifft of those who know the ins and outs of football, there has hardly been anything like it in years. From the standpoint of the uninitiated it was the sporting spectacle of a decade. Battling within itself like a horde of enraged rattlesnakes, the writhing mass of humanity moved up and down the checkerboard, each member fighting with every last atom of blood and ens durance. = Finally, conquered, but far from crushed, the standard-bearers of the blue and gold desisted from their ferocious attacks when all hope the cardinal. the end of the half the cardinal war- riors -had turned the tables and went through for a touchdown. In the second half Snedigar, Califor- nia’s hero of the day, smashed through two men in the rush line away for a touchdown. not stop the mad rush. out to get a chance at a goal, but failed to boot the ball between the posts. The fact that California was still a point behind when scores were so hard to gain had a dispiriting effect on the blue and gold enthusiasts. - Shortly aft- erward, when Vandervoort Dbroke through California’s left tackle and end for thirty yards and a touchdown, every one feit that it was all over but | the shouting. California’s failure to tie or win was due largely, in my opinion, to her bad was | tackling and the weakness of the quar- gone and sought simply to impede the | terback in catching and running glorious progress of the fighters for | punts. in Both lines were full of weak spots, which the opposing teams ham- The | and dashed | Stott tackled | { him five yards from the line, but could | game. Force kicked | mered as hard as possible. Delays wers few in the first half, but toward the end the men became sore and exhaust- | ed. The last half seemed to drag pain- fully. Disputes did not consume five minutes of the whole time—a feature of great credit to both captains. Just n few minutes before the game | was closed the ceaches of both teams sent in several men who had earned | the honer of wearing the coveted “C” |or “S. Only two men—one man on each eleven—were taken out because No one out of all that | played was seriously hurt. | FEW TRICKS TRIED. The variety of fake plays was ex- | ceedingly small. The single quarter- back kick of the game proved a loss to | California, who tried it. The straight | quarterback run proved disadvantag- eous to both outsfits. A technical quar- terback run, i which Halfback Snedi- | gar took the pigskin, gained many yards for California. . Stanford was | fooled on this play every time it was tried. California gained ten yards once on a sideline fake of antediluvian . On penalizations, Stanford lost sixty~ five yards and California but twenty- five yards. The punishment was meted out generally for offside play. Whit- man punted oftener and generally far- ther for the blue and gold than did Crawford for the cardinal. Crawford’'s kicks usually amounted to more, for ‘Whitman never came back more than five yards and twice muffed the fily at great expense to his team. “Close-in" end runs were highly pop- ular with both auarterbacks and the results were ample justification for so directing the plays. California made much greater gains outside of end than Centinued on Page 41, Columa &