The morning call., 1893-11-05


Dimmock Halfbacks............... H Task
O'brlen.- ...... lial1 backs morrison
Bennett Hall backs. Marsh
harrison ......-.......f forWarQs --..-: .fooie
Kitty ............ Forwards. ...... Hunter
Nison Forwards. Erkins
Peigriu .............. Forwards Nj orSe
Hanley. Forwards ......,... Pfyfe
Referee, I. A. keith.
Now that tile champion ball-twirlers
from the village of beans and culture
along the shore of the Eastern duck
pond have wended their way 10 the
Golden City of the Golden West and found
they would have to work il they were to
beat the Westerners, it would truly be in
teresting 10 nave our fGotballers line up
shoulder to shoulder with some one of the
crack Eastern teams. A few weeks since
itdid look as if the college boys would have
a chance to meet the Harvard team, and
all football enthusiasts will be sorry to
learn that now all hope of such meeting
has been given up The faculty OF the
Harvard school after offering to allow the
eleven three weeks extra vacation at
Christmas, which with the usual two weeks
allowed at that time would I've ample Cor
the big team to get out TO this coast and
do up-as they would thlDk-the would-be
players of this quarter of the globe, has
finally withdrawn its offer and the team
Will not come.
1t would have done ones heart good to
see the Cambridge and Berkeley Teams on
resentatiye of the East, the other OF the
West; more so, in fact, than any other
teams that could be gotten together.
Berkeley'S team is almost to man made
up of native sons. while the Harvard team
of last year was entirely made up of Mas
sachuseits boys, and this years team will
probably be much similar. The Yale team
contains many Western men. That OF last
year had only one New England man in it.
The Stanford team contains number of
Eastern men, so that of the cold. storage
land beyond the mountains and the flow
cry domain this side no two more repre-
sentative teams could be chosen than those
of Harvard and the University OF Califor-
MIA. Another reason for regrettlng that
the Harvard tenn will not visit this
coast is that Westerners will lose the
opportunity of witnessing any OF the
Delland tricks which Harvard will use
this season. Mr.. Delland Is known to have
tabulated sixty separate plays, each one
with its counterplay. and has already spent
considerable time in teaching them to the
Harvard eleven. The name of Delland is
now inextricably bound up with football
strategy All witnesses of the great u. c.
Stanford game of football last year will
remem Der the Delland flying wedge with
which the Stanford team put the ball 10
play at the opening of the second half. 1t
was the prettiest play of the game and
quite effective. That some like plays may
be evolved by Mr.. DellanG this year makes
it regretable that they cannot be seen on
this coast.
Who shall umpire the great game be-
tween the State University and Stanford?
That is the question now. Last year Nc
Clung, who this year Is back at New
Haven coaching the coming ale team OF
1894, and Camp. the Two university
coachers, manipulated the whistles. They
had often acted in similar capacities in
Eastern games after coaching partlcipat-
ing teams and were OF tried lmpartlailty
and acceptable to both universities, but
this year HeffelfiDger and Professor Bliss
will not pass the Judgments, and Just who
TO choose is puZzliDg the managements.
The umpire is the more important. lie is
the judge for the players and decides upon
fouls aud unfair tactics, while the referee
Is judge Tor the ball.
George A. Carter of Seattle seems the
most promising candidate for umpire. de
was the predecessor of Heffelfnger as left
guard on the Yale team, which position
he played for three years. lie thus OBJ
tanned an excellent nowledge OF the game
and since graduation has Kept ABREAST OF
its progress, being interested III athletics
In the Webfoot State.
The referee will be selected by Captains
Wilson and Benson OF the two teams.
An improvement in the paIapnernalla
Of the football player is being tried by the
Yale team under the direction of Captain
Hickey. 1t is rubber-spiked shoe in
place of the leather-cleated shoe now in
use. If it proves good substitute the i'm
proved shoe will be used in the regular
games in the East.
1t seems very probable that the all
around championship games proposed to
be held during the Mdwinter Fair will
come to pass, but that the indoor cham
pionship will is not so probable. Messrs
Purcell and Elliott. who COMPOSE the COM
mlttee to whom the matter was referred at
a recent P. A. A. managers meeting. will
report in two weeks. The indoor cham
pionshp games held two years ago In the
Mechanics Pavilion were not success
financially. 10 fact left the ASSOCIATION In
debt, so that the managers will doubtless
be little cautious about arranging Tor a
like occasion, the expense in preparing for
which is by no means small.
But there is no like objection against
the all-around championship games. Tney
could be held any time at the Olympic