The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-12
THE GRIDIRON FIELD.
Enthusiasm Over Football at
California Colleges.
PORTLAND AND SEATTLE MATCH
Revival OF Plan for An Eight Club Base
ball League on the Pacific Coast
Sporting Gossip.

The genuine football spirit of the East.
20 long confined there, has found its way
20 the Pacific coast. Although public in
terest and enthusiasm are widespread, the
q best exempiifcation Of the exactine re-
ouirements and consequent rewards Of the
sport is exhibited in the leading colleges
of California. At Stanford university and
the University Of California real football
discipline. with all the rigid training of
Yale, Princeton and Harvard, is in effect
The men are routed out at O'Clock in the
morning for gymnasium exercise. with
plenty of hard work to follow during a
good part of the day. They are compelled
to live on a diet of oatmeal, UNDERGONE
steak and chops, with stale bread, and to
eschew the use of tobacco, late hours
and all other practices detrimental
70 physical soundness. The material
that Camp and McCiung, the coachers i'm
ported from Yale, have to work upon is
reported as crude. but full of possibilities
The day after Walter Camp arrived at
Stanford his pupils showed up rather
poorly in tie game with the Olympic
Athletic Club eleven, of San Francisco,
both teams scoring fourteen points. Not
wthstanding this it is expected that the
veteran coach will work wonders with
these same men in the fortnight between
that game and next Saturdays champion
ship match with the University Of Cali
fornia. He is expected to put the Yale
snap into the play and that means great
deal. Daily practice and plenty of 1t, for
two weeks, under master hand at in
struction will 90 long way towards cor
recting the defects both of individual and
team play.
At Berkeley "Bum" McClung is also
working hard to infnse the Yale spirit into
his football class. Although a much less
experienced coach than Camp, he has gone
through enough years of training himself,
Z first at Exeter and then at Yale, to make
him very valuable as teacher. The Stan
ford team has more experienced men than
Its opponent, while Berkeley in measure
offsets this by superior weight. Among
material where there is so little on record
upon which to base Judgment, the out
come Of the game is only conjecture, and
not only both universities, but San Fran
cisco and ali the surrounding country are
on the tiptoe of expectation. 1t is thought
that 10000 people will see the game.
In the Pacific Northwest the greatest
prospective event of football is the New
Years day match between Seattle and
Portland to determine the championship.
Since her downfall on THANKSGIVING Ia
coma has never rallied and seems to be
out OF the arena for this season. In the
Muitnomahs, OF Portland, however, the
team OF the Seattle Athletic Club will
lind no mean foemen. The Multnomah
Athletic Club. although young in years.
has established itself as one OF the strong
j est and best organized institutions OF its
kind In the West. It's field events are al
ways we'll worth seeing; it turns out some
Splendid athletes; the desire to excel is
catered to, and its entries are always men
who go In to win. They find that they
must be III trim in order to go to the front,
and strict training is the result.
Reports from Portland bring word that
the football team is hard at work prepar-
ing for the Seattle game. The Multnomahs
have some excellent and well-seasoned ma
terial In Its team, which gave Tacoma a
terrific drubbing last New Years dav.
Tacoma, however, had then but two men,
bers OF its present team. and the result
can not be used To measure the compar-
alive strength of Seattle and Portland.
But it is certain that Seattle will have her
hands full and needs all the hard work she
can get IN the next three weeks. Follow
ing the victory over Tacoma, the desire
Tor revenge which had Heretofore been
the chief incentive TO earnest practice
seemed 10 have died out and the victors
appeared content to drift along upon their
laurels. The prospect of hard fight with
Portland fortunately seems to have dis
PEELED this disposition, and the present
outlook IS more promising. There was a
good pratlce game at Madison park yester-
dag, which Will be repeated every day. if
possible. between now and New Years.
The Athletic Club is apt to have it's
meitle well tried in its game with the
state university on next Saturday. The
University team is practically made IN of
green material. but its men have the adj
vantage Of always being in condition and
having plenty of time for practice. Four
OF Its members. Ceilings, Ford. Harrajs
and Hooker, have had invaluable ex-
perlence while playing on the Athletic
eiuh team in its games. They have PLAYED
with and against men who learned the
liner points of the game on the great
eattie fields Of the Eastern colleges and
are capable OF imparting highly useful in
formations. The Athletic Club has lost not
only these but others. SO that it has prac-
Really to build up a new team. Under
These conditions the importance of faith
iu work, with the assistance of good
coaching. cannot be overestimated.