The record-union., 1893-10-16
MODERN FOOTBALL.
Athletes Engage in a Scramble at the
Ball Park.
The Olympics of San Francisco Give
the Sacramentans Some Point
ers in the Game.

There was quite a crowd at Snowflake
Park yesterday afternoon to witness the
practice game of football between the
the team of the Olympic Club of San
Francisco and the Sacramento Athletic
Clubs eleven. The latter have lined
up'' but a few times, and il was expected
that the stalwart OIympics would walk
right over the Sacramentans, but they
didn't.
The visitors team was made up as fol-
lows: Captain and left end. Jack Sher-
rard; right tackle, William Haberly;
right guard, Cartwright; center. William
Sexton; left guard, Taylor; left tackle,
Graham; right end, Cameron; right half,
Percy Morse; left half, Steve Cassidy;
fullback, Miley.
The Sacramento team lacked several Of
It's regular players, and their places were
filled by substitutes. Tony Lovdal was
not on hand to play right guard, and
Fred Harvey and Charles Bentley were
also absent. The players were: Captain
and right half, r. \. Cole; right end.
Jack Powers; right tackle, Sam Smith;
right guard, Ernest Birdsall; center, \.
Kimball; left guard. g. Driver; lett
tackle, J. McGinness; left end, c. Holl,
I y
mer; fullback, Ed. Flint.
The Olympics have an especially strong
team. The men are nearly all large, and
except in a few instances greatly out
weighed the Sacramentans. Among them
were Haberly and Graham, who are
famed as wrestlers, and Cassidy, the foot
racer, and there are times IN modern
football game when good wrestling and
fast running become very potent factors.
Against a team composed Of trained
athletes such as these it was not supposed
the home players would be able to make
any kind Of a showing, but they did, and
kept the San Franciscans hustling all the
time. Coles wrestling and Payen's
sprinting abilities were particularly no.
ticeabIe throughout the play.
At one stage of the game the Olympics
had, by sheer weight and strength Of
their brawny rushers, worked the ball
across the 1ield to within yard or two Of
their goal ana it was dollars to dough
nuts'' that the next rush would carry
them through.
But out OF the sprawling, writhing
mass of muscular humanity squirmed
Payen, the Sacramento lightweight run
ner, with the ball in his arms, and he
struck out for the goal at the other end OF
the park. The Olympics We're up and
after him in an instant like pack OF
Heet-foOted hounds after flying deer.
The Sacramento boys, Of course, were in
the chase too, to see that Payen VAS not
pulled down. one of the Ulympics WAS
dangerously near the ball-carrier when
about midway OF the field. whore Flint
grabbed him, and both went sprawling
on the hard, sun-baked ground. Payen
was not overhauled, and carried the ball
beyond the goal.
The play gave the home team six
points, the OIympics having twenty-five
to their credit when the game was called.
One of the Olympics declared that the
bOldness OF Payen play took them by
surprise, and they became so ratified that
the little sprinter was safely out of their
reach almost before they realized what
had happened.
On leaving the field the San Francis
cans gave round after round of cheers for
the Sacramentans, which the latter re-
turned. There was young doctor on
the ground with a satchel filled with
bandages and liniments, but, although
the game was played with great vigor
and apparent disregard for the safety of
anyone's neck or limbs, nobody was in
juIed to speak Of One of the home play
ers hurt his knee, but was soon in the
midst Of the fray again.
Captain Cole says the Athletic Club
viii surely have a strong team by
Thanksgiving Day, when the St. Mary's
College eleven Will be here TO play them
The club members will practice steadily
of evenings on the Circus Maximus
grounds, near the Pavilion, and III a few
weeks will be ready TO put up a good
game with any team. Several are already
agreed upon Tor the winter months. and
If the members of the team should escape
having their neckS or limbs broken in
the meantime they will make their Op-
ponents hustle to beat them, for they are
or the right material.