The morning call., 1893-10-27
FIRST KICK OFF.
The Opening Game of the
Football Season.
HEFFELFINGER AND NORTON.
The Great Yale Men Will Play on the
Reliance Club Team Against
the UniYersitys.

81 THE first kickoff of the football season of
1S9394 viii take place tomorrow after.
noon at Central Park, when the Reliance
Club eleven of Oakland will line up with
the University eleven of Berkeley as their
opponents Though styled a practice
game, it promises to be such an exhibition
OF scientific playing as would draw a col
Tege man miles to see. W. Walter Keffel-
finger, the greatest guard player who has
appeared in the history of the game and
who is teaching the Berkeley team what
he knows about footballs, will play against
. that team tomorrow, as will also William
Norton, the substitute quarterback, END
and nalfback of the victorious Yale team
Of '93 who is the exponent of the game for
the Reliance men. These two veteran
PLAYERS of repute and acknowledged
ability promise to show their respective
teams how the positions OF guard and
quarterback can be played scientifically
and In winning style. And that these two
men know how no one doubts. Entering
\ ale in 1888, Heffelfinger has virtually
grown up with the game, for football as
true game OF science and Skill is product
OF the last seven or eight years. Team
work, mass plays, interference, Strate-
gical moves, all have been developed since
"Hef' entered Yale, and he has kept
apace with the develOpment, has helped
make it in fact so that to-day Caspar
Whitney saws he knows more football
than any other man in the United States.
Norton, or tae other hanG, though not
identified with the game a. lGug, yet has
fresh knowledge of al! the latest plays and
tendencies Of the game among the leading
Eastern univerS .tY teams.
Besides these on the Reliance team will
be FELTON, Taylor, thatveteran player who
has ability almost as coed as any player
on the coast. RanS0me, an elder brother of
the promising halfoack Of the Berkeley
team aud heavier man, will play left field.
He played last year on the Oakland tennis
team against the Sacramento eleven. ".
0lney is an old Eastern college player,
while Charlie Beck, who with Rice will
play behind the line, was player of re-
pute on the old Oakland League of six
years and more ago. Oliver. one of the
regular guards and one of the best men on
the team. will not be able 10 play Satur-
day on account of match between the
Oakland High School eleven and the San
Francisco schOOlboys. Coach Nor
ton chaTacterlZes him as player OF as
good promise as any he has seen in the
West, and Of the te am as whole he thinks
1t should make one OF the strongest on the
coast. Their material is fine. and they are
getting nearly as much practice as the
varsity boys. OF course, the smoking
rule cannot be rgidiy enforced, but the
greater maturity Of the men makes this
habit very much less injurious than to the
young boys of college,
Eddy Edwards, Berkeley's lost half
back, has joiEed the Reliance Club, and is
playing behind the line. OF the man MI
Norton considers him the finest, most
dashing halfback he has seen on the
coast. OF the team Mr.. Edwards is of the
opinion that it Will defeat all the other
coast teams, and his intimate knowledge
of the playing of the Berkeley men gives
weight 20 his statement.
On khe Berkeley team Captain Benson
Will transfer the ball from the center man
to the haf0ack. Humphreys or RansOme
and RheinhaTdt. Rans0me is scarcely
expected to be able to play. In practice
during the past week he has done some
splendid work. He is the hope of the
varsity men for the great Thanksgiving
game. Fol'z with his 10 pounds will en-
deayor to keep Sullivan, the big 215-pOund
center man of the Reliance team. on side.
FoltZ plays quick aggressive and withal
fairly steady game, but is not as good as
Joe Pierce. VINO is at present laid on the
shelf. with faint prospects Of his being
able 10 play many CT the games of the sea-
son. Easton, '94, will have almost super
human work To Keep the mighty Heffel-
finger on side. Sherman, '97, aud Wilson.
'96 will play the ends. aud will play them
well. Oscar Taylor cold Reliable OScar')
will play fullback, aud but little chance
will be given the opposing halfbacks by
Sherman or Wilson 20 return any Of Tay-
los kicks. even il they be long ones.
Thus opens the season, which promises
TO be full of college wells and College
rivalry, TO attract more thousands of IN
;erested spectators than any preceding one,
and to end in brllIant-hued victory tor
one university and somber defeat for
another.
The lineup for to-morrow's game in
full will be as follows:
BEKKFI,EYs WGHT POSITIONS REIrANcEs