The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-19
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoS.

little of football as it was, in 1t. The long
promised and uch-talked-of contest be-
tween the teams of the State University
and the Leland Stamford Jr. University
took place at the Haight-street ball park
at 2:I5 Saturday, under the direction of
r. L. McClung and Walter Camp. famous
collegiate football coachers of the East.
The first was umpire, the latter referee.
There was an immense crowd in at
tendance. Not less than 1850 people
We're inside the park and fully 1000 over
looked it from the outside. The students
and their friends of the respective col
leges occupied distinct sections of the
long or general stand and numbered 1000
fully.
The Berkeley colors were blue and gold,
the Palo Altos red. Fully half the peO
pie wore the colors Of one or the other
clubs. The students and their accom-
panying friends We're gaudily dressed i'll
these colors, ribbons on canes, flags i'll
hand, bands on hats, strealners from coat
collars, rosettes, buttons, capes, hats,
neckties, scarts-all in red or in blue and
gold, with flowers to match. Then the
ladies with shawls, wraps, scarls, para
soils, flags, dresses, hats and flowers IN
colors to indicate their partisanship, all
contributed to make the vast crowd a
perfect sea of color, of many flags and
flowing ribbons and drapery.
When one side or the other gained ad-
vantage their partisanS would wave their
flags and streamerS and paraSols and
swing their scarts and other devices of
loyalty to their clu bS. so that when these
thousands We're thus in motion, the great
lines of seats rising one above the other
and laden with enthusiastic humanity,
resembled sea of color i'll violent mo-
ton. The same was true OF the crowds
on the grounds clear around the park,
mingled with which were scores of
cmnibuses, carriages and carryalls gaud
lily draped in club colors and bearing
groups of hot partisans of the players
The noise kept up was deafening. Tin
horns by the thousand, of all sizes and
combinations, cornets, cannons, ,cynbals,
rattles, etc., kept up constant din,
which redoubled whenever successful
play increased the energies of the shout
ers on the benches and along the fences
and the promenades. College calls were
constantly shouted, and college chal-
lCng5s and songs and rallying cries
never ceased; it was continual hurrah
and roar of human voices from beginning
10 end of the game.
The Berkeley team was the heavier,
the Palo Alto team the quicker. In other
respects they were equal, in intelligence,
discipline, earnestness and general APP
pearance and conduct.
to regulation, indeed, exactly as de-
scrbed in Saturdays RECORD-UNIoN,
except that the flying wedge was
employed opening play on several
occasions-that is. the V opens out,
moves forward on a run on converg-
ing lines and reach the ball just as it
goes in to play, and by force of mo-
mentum an attempt to break the oppos-
ing rush line is made.
During the two hours and more of the
play, divided into two halves with tii-
teen-minute intermission, the football
was not kicked more than twice in the
field, and only thrice at the goals, whereas
in old-tashioned football, as men of ma
ture years remember it to have been in
their boyhood, kicking the ball was the
only method of giving it motion. In this
modern game, the foot is left out pretty
much, so far as the ball is concerned.
The sole object of the player now is to
carry the ball to his opponents goal, and
the sole purpose Of the opponent is to in
tercept him, throw him, and by piling on
hun to prevent his making any advance
by crawling on the ground toward the
goal.
Berkeley opened the play with the usual
wedge, and gained ten yards, but it was
soon lost. Stanford then got the ball
and at once gained fifteen feet by run
around the end. Some fine play followed,
10 describe which would he too lengthy
were, first, the bucking of the center by
Hunt, Captain Of the Berkeleys, by which
be got the ball back to center after he had
been driven nearly to the end OF the field:
second, the fine action of the Stanford
rush line and the quickness of the men
in play. one punt was kicked in this
half. \ clever run around the end by a
Berkeley player was a feature, also, and
saved Il situation for that club that threat
ened il disastrously. The half closed with
the score 6 to in favor of the Stanfords.
The second half opened with the ball
with the Stanford Club and theA flying
wedge opening, which broke the op-
posing rush line. The outcome Of the
first rattle was three-yard gain for the
State University boys, who got the ball,
and by Hunts bucking the center made
i've yards. The next rattle the Berke-
leys, by Hunts catapult force, gained
ten yards, and this was followed UP by
attacks that drove back the reds until
their goal was not three yards away. In
making this splendid advance Hunt did
most of the work by his bucking the
center.
The excitement was at this time indie
scribable, the blue and gold people going
fairly wild with delight In the midst OF
the hurrah Hunt carried the ball bevond
the goal line and got touchdown When
the kick over the goal was tried. how
ever i'll failed and the red-ribbon folk
look up luc Cheering ana lNe blue and
gold grew cold ana silent. The score
then stood 8 to t in favor of the Stanfords.
In the next play the Palo Altos won
thirty feet but lost the ball. berkeley
then gained five yards, but lost the bali
on a tumble. Stanfords, by Clemans'
fine run around The end of the opposing
rush, were won ten yards. Then came
some spirited play on both sides, but it
ended with a touchdown for the reds.
Clemans making the best run around at
the end of the day. But the trial tor the
goal to complete the fine play failed, the
ball going a foot outside the goal. The
score then stood: Stan1ords 10, Berke-
ley 4.
Berkeley now had the ball, and made
twenty yards by clever run by Henry.
Clemans tackled him, however, and cut
short splendid flight. Next Hunt made
hEe yards for the Berkeleys through the
lett end, Morse of the same club gained
ten yards, bat quarter back Code, of the
reds, brought him TO grass, and in a sec
ond there was pile of men on top of him
five feet high.
The next effort sent Berkeley eleven
yards toward Stan.ord's goal, and after q
slight pause to catch wind a new effort
succeeded IN putting Berkeley danger
ously near Its opponents goal. The
cneerlng was something to be sremem-
&c Fa q