The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1905, Page 41

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1905. 41 . FOOTBA RECRFL S 53 ; 2 GREAT CROWDS || oy MAKE JOURNEY || & TO PALO ALTO AL RN rains, Automobiles and Carriages Put || to Use. 1 Stanford Entertains| | 1\’0](71’/}' 12,000 [ Visitors. & ¢ 4 i B. FAVRE BY EU D 2. (s ", WHITMAN, THE QUARTERBACK OF THE CALIFORNIA ELEVEN, RECEIVIN G THE BALL FOR A PUNT. { — iy ' RECORD OF THE GAMES WON AND LOST | 1892* ..........STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 14; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 10 * - [ 1R92* ..........STANFORD UNIVERSITY. 10; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 10 || 1803 ......STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 6; UNIVERSITY, OF CALIFORNIA, 6 L TROx 0 i, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 6; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, o 1805 ...........STANFORD UNIVERSITY,6; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 6 18067 s STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 20; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, o T8 A .....STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 28; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, o || | 188 ...........UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, z22; STANFORD UNIVERSITY, o |} gL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 30; STANFORD UNIVERSITY, o || 1900 <v....STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 5: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, o || 1901 ........... UNIVERSITY OF CALIFQRNIA, 2; STANFORD UNIVERSITY, o ' 1902 . +yi- ...+ .. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIATI6; STANFORD . UNIVERSITY, o 1003 «..........UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA; 6; STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 6 1904 ...........STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 18; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, o 1005 i s STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 12; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 3 GAMES WON—STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 7; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORI.JA, 4; TIE GAMES, 4. | *TWO GAMES PLAYED, THE FIRST IN MARCH, THE SECOND IN DECEMBER. Y E - gry football humanity went into unds with an empty stomach 2 ry hand e policemen from | the Morse Pat r Francisco. They guarded tt m pos- oodlum N a great kept order among the automobile drivers. They | carefully for pickpockets and | amblers. But and quiet There w fringement of the law, a ; lestroyed. It was - t 21l times | . s wer ROOTERS ON THE ALERT. “ s he ifornia rooters ate their lun- | nd straggled into the - football | - o Their tion was quickly filled 3 2 organized first. Stan- : . mage from the great | . = e of the quadrangle | 2 | down to e on the field. The . e 5 . * | rooters uable possessions tol o guard, ch they later sprung | ca and they took no ‘ of a possible raid by the sup-| x of the blue and gold. They | in a compact body and took seats very quickly. Then the | - e from the rival sections began. It ot stop until long after the game | was over. H : After the rooters came the general | er There is’ something -about a football game that draws even those | : people who do not know the first prin- | | c of the game, but who cannot - | miss the fun of a day with the college | . w i The opening of the racing at| . Oakland pulled at the hearts of many | Franciscans, yet thousands finally _ | decided that the football game was the | = better and thep took the first train for | as | Palo Alto. Mothers and fathers of | X | sons and daughters- who attend the uni- | | versities came to see what Stanford | s o | really looked like and incidentally to | F- ks ¢ | watch the strugglé. But the mass of | 2 = s | th rowd, outside of the rooters, was | : ot v San Jose, | made up of football fans who lgve the kot . = game for the game's sake, who under- BEAUTY OF CAMPUS. stand every move that Is made upon to buses met the crowds |the gridiron' below and would not miss | N nive ¥ | the annual intercbllegiate football game | | were it hundreds of miles a | | OLD-TIME HERGES THERE. | i Heroes of former football battles were | gathered there by the dozens. They | | had come from every corner of .the { United States. For California “Jim- | Hopper, one-time college hero and | last ¥ '8 cdach, squatted on the side | 1ine. * “Pete of | blue and gold * Heit- | muller, who team from de- | | feat three 5 0 by breaking through the Stanford line and blocking | 2 kick and who was a tower of strength in last year's struggie; Middleton, | rly tack all of these men watched | | every move of their team from the| | bleachers. Most prominent of all Cali- wonderful | fornians was the mighty “Ovie” Overall, . then | veteran of four ty games. He| - B . of | Stood up straight when Force dropped . ¥ | back for the first time and signaled for - mracs e | a fleld goal. Down in Lis b | 4 | membered and every bleache t %! | bered the game of 1502, when he had{ o time brought victory to his team by kicking | i alboive two goals and making one touchdown. | P re were | Eagerly be waited for Force to make | ; and when the ball was finally | u i ling toward the goal, but far | N ) “wieve’ rortpded | wide, disappointment was written on his eld alose to the | every feature. All of these stars of | ere not given the | former days were given a rousing | e campus. | greeting. | . among them at | For Stanford Chester Murphy, the| | greatest of all the long list of cardinal great quarterbacks, helped to watch the lines that measured distances. The| Stanford rooters chee. Jim time and | again. “Guiby” Tole, a member of the| famous Dole family and formerly tackle, | ched his brother fight as halfback for his team. “Sunny Jim" Weller, last year's towering fullback, eame down from the mountains to help cheer for his former| 1e cardinal. There there, too, and of Ranchers from over who had never seen a tion. 2 ,ut who had sons at one | teammates. There were many. others, oo, | or the other, drove over in|and each of these heroes of former days| ! wagons. The automo- | was given a rousing welcome by the car- rse vied for superiority in |dinal rooters. THE JOURNEY HOME. As soon as the game was over the; AMPLE LUNCHEON PROVISION. ; f crowd made a ‘Dbreak for the excursion re of the day was the : on which the men and wom- | trains. The first cars were started at! s rd made to satisfy the appe- | 5:30 o'clock, and at 6:30 every one who ; v of hungry visitors. { wished to g0 had been cared for. The! and lunch | spot where | goal EXPERT THINKS THAT THE RIVAL TEAMS WERE ABOUT EVENLY MATCHED, Continued From Page 39, Column 7. did her opponent. Guard and tackle plays were also used extensively by both teams. Sperry was good for two vards through either tackle or guard at almost any period of the contest. Thompson had the ability to stop more of those bucks than he did. The two men at the left of Califor- nia’s center were weak and the two men in corresponding positions on the right side were weaker. The defensive ability of these men Wwas not. propor- tionate to their offensive work. The blue and gold players might have saved dozens of yards by tackling in different style. 1t happened altogether too frequently that the Stanford back would be tackled around the shoulders or neck. Making the most of their op- portunities, the cardinal runners kept their feet and advanced the ball several yards. Culifornia’s tackling seemed ideally fierce, but misdirected in a way I am at a loss to understand. Stanford tackled low and nailed the back on the he was caught. Vander- voort was tackied around the shoulders before he broke through for a touch- down. SPRINGS ANOTHER SURPRISE. Lanagan sprang another great sur- prise in the matter of interference. The work of his boys in this respect was truly remarkable. How the coach accomplished this wonder in the last few days of practice is another of the mysteries which surround his methods of instruction. California’s interfer- ence was only fair. It went astray several times when Mead was attempt- ing to advance the ball. Neither side got into position to try the drop kick, although Force twice tried for a” field ‘om placement. Apparently there was not a single instance of unnecessary roughness ot slugging in the game. It was a fair, gentlemanly contest such as is a credit to the institutions represented.and to the game itself. If all football battles were conducted in the same manly way the present oulory against it could hardly have been uttered. The men on both teams appeared to be in the best of condition. Towarl the last of the struggle Christie was oftener in action than “Dad” Moultoun. The fleld wuas rather heavy but dry. automobiles whizzed down the -county jOn a harder gridiron the - California road and the carriages slowly followed.| backs would have been seen to better In an hour the greater part of the crowd|advantage. In the opening of holes was on its road home. California did a little better on the Several thousand people stayed over to| o visit with friends and to watch the cele-| g + bration of the Stanford men during the|loudly demanding dinner, and the minute evening. The fraternity houses and the{ the trains discharged their passengers a dormitories took care of the visitors for | rald was made upon the nearest lunch the night. Some left on late trains. counters. - The football trains arrived in San Fran-| The United Railroads was well prepared clsco after about an hour and a half's| to handle the traffic. For hours before the run. There was little actual delay through stops, but the heavy grades near the Strings of trolley cars lined up about the cemeteries told on the speed. Four lomg depot. There was no confusion in start- trains flve minutes apart brought the ing. hungry crowd of enthuslasts into the Most of the Stanford men and women ass and enjoyed it. Hundreds Third and Townsend depot. There was' remained upon their own campus to cele- \eir own baskets from home and no time to tell how it all happened. Most | brate their victory. The Berkeley rooters < were held in every corner of the | of the worshipers of the gridiron were returned in great numbers. Many of them No one of that great “‘“’l realizing that a good, healthy appetite was , stayed in the city over night ut tife best serv~ Each of the ty houses ran a buf- | friends Thou- this way. The Stan- d for the occasion ste on its shaded ver- arding houses took care b re crowd er the shade of the trees just east drangle an outdoor luncheon rful ta ess was served. This | r somé of the young ladies 1. Dainty tablecloths cov- | laden tables. Visitors sed a luncheon and then sat .on e pler erboratum. first football train arrived there were/ average than”Stanford. gold work in this respect was spread over a larger area. Stanford created | several apertures frequently, however, tat carefully selected points. I made that indefinite so as not to be too hard on Captain Force and Bush. California’s backs ran well. With the exception of Chalmers and Slush- er, they struck the line harder. They did not keep their feet s¢ well after being tackled as a result of the differ- | ent modés of tackling. It is not to be understood that there is any fashion or {cholce Inm tackling to be denominated {Of the “first water.” There is only one jeffective way to tackle and that Is low. Molfino did all that his most ardent admirer could have expected of him at center. Once he actually stopped a play In its inception by his speed and agllity and a score of times he hurled jHaffey and Whitman together against thelr own backs and their interference. who do something more than pass the ball and lay low on the defensive while | the tide of battle swirls around him. STOTT IS A WONDER. “Stump” Stott is outside Pacific Coast classification as a quarterback in all the many features of his position except where he occasionally errs in directing his plays and in speed of signals. He plays end on punts and gets down the fleld like a shot. Yesterday he nalled lit- tle Whitman in his tracks nearly every time the tow-headed Berkeley quarter caught a kick. In the backfield he is well- nigh Invincible on the defensive. Only once in all his work of yesterday did he fall short of perfect in tackling, and that was when he falled to stop Snedigar Just inside the goal line. He was always present to help jam his assoclate backs along when downed. Whitman is faster in giving his signals, but otherwise.not to be compared with Stott. Whitman is a good, gritty player. He tried the best he knew how, but he lacked strength and speed. " Chalmers and Snedigar are a pair of crackajack backs. The latter was faster and better on end plays. The Stanford captain was superior when going into the line, and played ¥orgetful of everything else but his game. California would pick Snedigar and Stanford Chalmers, but the outsider would be at loss to select one of these men for the better back on the two teams. Vandervoort and Dole botlr played bet- He is one of those very rare centers | through on line plays and to pull them, The blue and , As a whole, Stanford had better team play, although California started faster. Both|sides made five or six fumbles-- some costiy and some which did not amount to much. The blue and gold eleven was faster offensively and defen- sively for three-quarters of the time of play. Stanford had one kick blocked just at the close of the game, but Whitman got all of his punts off in time. The weather was the best that McAdie could have delivered under any circum- stances. The Poes proved to be splendid officials. It will go down in the gridiron history of California as one of the greatest of all games. Rarely will the two teams be so evenly matched. Agreed that the better team won, but it wasn't much the better team. IDELIGHTS ON THE FOOTBALL CONTEST Difference in Appearance of Lanagan and Knibbs Is Marked. The gridiron struggle between Stanford and California yesterday was not only a| desperate battle between the two teams, | but a battle between the West and the East, as tepresented in the persons of Lanagan and Knibbs. To Stanford it was a test of the value of the present system of graduate coaching—a question whefher the methods taught by an Eastern man of experience was superior to the teaching: of a Western graduate who had made a | study of the game. The West proved her- self worthy of comparison, for clearly Stanford was as well versed in the intri- cacies of the game as was the team from the Uaiversity of California. The difference in the appearance of the two coaches was marked. Knibbs came| on the field wearing a smart gray walking | suit and a black derby hat. During the ertire game he stood with his hands i | his pockets, His hat was placed on the| back cf his head and he stood much of the time with his feet crossed. Deter-: mined, every inch of him, alive to every| movement his' team made, in every way an excellent coach, he concealed any ex- pression of pleasure or of discomfort. He walked slowly down the side lines, fol- | was compelled to retire & moment later : preciated by the 12,000 spectators. oo el ks lowing the team of his heart. He did not| smile when the first touchdown for Cali-| fornia was registered, nor did he frown' ter yesterday than Mead, although the| when Stanford rolled up twelve points. ' latter was a credit to his university.| He called to his substitutes when he Mead's failure to make longer gains was! wantzd them and sent them Into the fray - due largely to the fault of the line men, with the simple admonition, “cfit in who should ‘have protected him. Sperry | fast.” He was debonair at all times, a- gained less ground than Vandervoort, but ' true representative of the East. proved a more consistent and better back than either of the cardinal halves. Lyons played a good end for Stanford, but Koerner was very weak. Kittrelle and Elliott as a team were superior to the men in corresponding positions on the other eleven. The men who should be glven the most honors as a result of yes- terday's game are Molfino, Stott and Chalmers of Stanford and Snedigar and Sperry of ffornia. In the backfield the In direct contrast was Lanagan. He was dressed in an old soft shirt and col- !lege corduroys. He wore a great coat move. He mi hing mwemr-hm his’ interest e tent. I blue and gold had the better team play, | the fleld with the ball and topped it off with a cowboy hat. He was full of action from the moment the s ball was kicked until the end of the play. tural Colleges and Experimental Sta- He walked up and down the side lines like tions. a caged animal, his eyes intent on every | :d nothi; ‘When California wa and his every the game and so is Dr. Wheeler. . ;.both-!numv athletic contests with zest. | for the in /' They would squat side by side on the | was wired GAY CARDINAL RGOTERS HOLD HiGH CARNIVAL Students Assemble to Witness Jolly Pro- duction. Joyous Scenes Mark Celebration on | the Quad. STANFORD. UNIVERSITY, Nov. 11.— Second in importance to the big foot- ball game was the football show in the assembly hall of the university. All of the team were present and lis- tened to the cheers of their comrades and the timely hits on the defeated members of the blue and gold aggrega- tion. The play was “The Beauty Shop,” by J. C. Crawford, 'as produced at Fischer's Theater in San Franecisco. All jokes were localized to fit the occasion. The house was packed to the doors and bursting with enthusiasm. The band, which had already headed one victorious march, was located in the gallery and took turns with the uni- versity orchestra in supplying music for the rollicking football ditties, which served as _an accompaniment to the show itself. The cast of the produc- tion was taken entirely my male stu- dents, and, considering the number of times the fair sex is represented in the burlesque, the action of the students who impersonated was first class. Prominent among the hits was a play on the name of the Berkeley football captain. This worthy hero of the grid- iron, Force by name, was represented in the cast as his Honor Jimmle Grape- Nuts. When Lue last curtain had been rung down and the students saw every- thing was over as far as the show was concerned they adjourned to the quad and Kept up the celebration, marching, yelllng and singing throughout the small hours. . placing it on the Stanford ¢-yard line on the third down with but 2 yards to gain, Lanagan held out his arms as if to stop the play. When Stanford held he dropped his arms and started to hurry down the side-lines as though he feit sure his charges would be able to steadily ad- vance. He was Intense throughout, a typical Westerner. The eyes of the crowd were also cen- tefed upon the actions of the rival cap- tains. Both Force and Chalmers were attentive to thelr men, constantly urging them to fight hard and pointing out a spot where- improvement should ‘be made. Waen Chalmers was hurt in the second half of the game and lay writhing on the ground, Force was the first to go to his aid’ < 'When' the gallant Stanford captain it was Force who heiped himi from the field. The California captain won a place in tho hearts of the Stanford rooters by his sportsman-like attitude, and the cheers for him- after the game were of genuine good feeling. Another center of attraction was the new score board at one end of the field. For years the bleacherites have been kept in the dark as to the particular down and the number of yards to gain. The new score board kept the score, gave each down and the distance that must be gained. It was an-innovation greatly ap- PRESIDENTS ARE ABSENT. Both Dr. Jordan and Dr. Wheeler Are in the East. Yesterday's football game at - Stan- ford University will be called “The Game Without the Presidents.” For the first time in many years the heads of the two unive es did not stand on _the side lines®and watch every }a touchdown. move of the rival teams. President David Starr Jordan is in New York ' City, where he is attending the annual meeting of the trustees of the Car- negie fund. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler left last Thursday for Wash- ington, D. C., to attend the meeting of the American Association of Agricul- Jordan is an ardent adherent of Both are athletes of former renown and Dr. PENNSYLVANIA GLORIES OVER OLD HARVARD Game Will Go Down in History for Fierce Struggle. Gladiators Helped Ovwer Line by Luck and Steady Work. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 11.—Penns; nia defeated Harvard to-day in one of the fiercest gridiron battles ever witnessed on Franklin field. The final score was 1%“to 6. Both elevens scored a touch- down and kicked the goals in the first half and the Quaker eleven added a sec- ond touchdown in the secomnd half. That there was ill-feeling between the play- ers of the two elevens was made appar- ent early in the first half, when Parker, the crimson center, was disqualified for slugging and again in the second half, when Sheble was sent to the clubhouse for a like offense. Both touchdowns in the first half were due to luck. Before the game had been in progress two minutes and with the ball ten yards off Harvard's goal, Foster was sent against Pennsylvania's left tackle. . As he struck the line Foster dropped the ball, and when Referee Mc~ Clung was able to get the mass of hu- manity separated, Robinson was lying on the ball within eight yards of Har- vard’s goal. In three plays Lamson was pushed over for a touchdown. HARVARD WORKS TANDEM PLAY. Burr kicked to Sheble, who had a splen- did opportunity to carry the ball out of danger, but just as he got well start- ed he dropped the pigskin. A Quaker player fell on it within four yards of Pennsylvania’s goal. Sheble kicked om the first line-up, the ball going to Hur- ley of Harvard on the Pennsylvania's forty-yard line. Here the crimson eleven began to work their famous tandem, and, aided by two off-side plays, which net- ted them ten yards, they quickly pushed the ball over for a touchdown. The third touchdown was made on hard, clean football. Pennsylvania got the ball on Harvard's forty-five-yard line on an exchange of kicks and pushed it over for the final touchdown by straight lne plunging. Tory kicked the goal. In the first half Harvard completely outplayed Pennsylvania and gained | ground almost at will, while in the sec- ond half the crimson players made only one first down. Both their offenses and defense weakened perceptibly as the game progressed, while Pennsylvania’s attack and defense improved 50 per cent. LEVINE PLAYS STAR GAME. The particular star on Fragklin fleld to- day was little Levine, Pennsylvania's left end. It is no exaggeration to state he played the most remarkable game of foot- ball ever witnessed in this city. He fol- lowed the ball perfectly, and time and time again broke up Harvard's interfer- ence before the play had gone six feet. Six times during the game be recovered the ball after some member of his team had fumbled. Three times during the game he was laid out because of his flerce tackling, but he always resumed play after receiving the sponge bath. e i On Many Gridirons. ANN ARBOR, Nov. 11.—Michigan, 40; Ohio State University, 0. CARLISLE, Nov. 11.—Dickinson, 13; Lehigh, 0. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 1l.—Minnesota, 81; South Dakota, 0. CHICAGO, Nov. 11.—Chicago, 19; Purdue, 0. ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 11.—Navy, 34; Bucknell, 0. PRINCETON, Nov. 11.—Princeton, 1§; Cornell, 6. PITTSBURG, Nov. 11.—Washington anad Jefferson, 0; Western University of Pennsylvania, 11. £ SALT LAKE, Utah, Nov. 11.—The Colorado State School of Mines football eleven from Golden, Colo., had a walk- over with the team of the University of Utah here to-dx.ya when they won b ore of 22 to 0. yVV‘A;HINGTON. Nov. 11L—University. of Virginia 55, George Washington 0. CINCINNATI, Nov. 11.—Ohio Wes- leyan 0, Cincinnati 24. “MADISON, Wis,, Nov. 11.—Wisconsin 44, Beloit 0. LINCOLN, Nebr., Nov. 11.—Nebraska 18, Colorado 0. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 11.—University of Oregon 6§, Oregon Agricultural Col- 0. Ief;ES MOINES, Nov. 11.—Drake 10, Haskell 6. ';:)“eh\ CITY, Nov. 11.—Tows §3, Des Moines 0. . ‘;‘EXL\'GTO.\', Ky., Nov. 11.—Cumber- land 0, Kentucky State College 6. SPRINGFIELD, Nov. 11.—Wittenberg 12, Denison 10. CHICAGO, Nov. 11.—Northwestern , Ohio Northern University 0. “CgLL'MBL'S. Mo., Nov. 11.—St. Lould , Columbus 0. ”s’!‘. LOUIS, Nov. 11.—Washington University 5, Drury College (Spring- fielg, 1IL) 0. e(:‘(:L\ui:a. nd., Nov. 11.—Rose Poly- technic Institute 6, Culver 11 e‘l’s‘;)‘l:ANAPO!JS. Nov. lLl—Bulldr Col- 64, Franklin College 1. le‘Bel,OO)IflNG’l‘ON'. Nov. 11.—Indiana 0, Notre Dame, 5. QCHBABLESTON, 1., Nov. 11.—Milli- ken 4, Eastern Illinois Normal 0. IS A A BROWN FORCES OLD ELI ON. lYlIO Worried Till Eleven Points Are Scored in Second Half. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 1l.—In a game tull of sensational play Yale de- feated Brown University to-day by the score of 11 to 0. Not until well through the second half did the Yale supporters feel certain that Brown would not séore Early in the game they had fear lest the visitors turn he tables and win out because of the strength they showed in rushing the ) ball. Along in the second half when Yale haad the game well in hand, a misplay gave the watchful Brown players thetr opportunity to make supyeme effort to cross the goal line—a feat that no &m‘n has accomplished this year. Yale's - rush line was steadily pushed back, but with diminishing power until under the shadow of the goal. They sent back three successive charges aimed at cen- ter and took the ball on downs on the eight-yard line. prus WD —— - Another Vietim of Football LLTOWN, Iowa, Nov. 11— Randall McLeod, left end of the Hamp- ton High School football team, was probably fatally injured to-day in a game with the Marshalltown High School. » — line and each applaud every good play that was made on elther side. The rooters- yesterday gave three cheers absent presidents. The score them after the game.