The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-26
THE COLLEGE GAME.
Putting on the Finishing Touches
for THURSDAYS Big Match.

Putting on the Finishing Touches
for Thursdays Big Match.
The event of the season 10 football will
be the great game on Thursday afternoon
at the Haig ht-street grounds between the
college teams. viz: Stanford and Berke-
ley.
The interest among lovers of the game
in this particular event is becoming daily
all the more great, and it goes without say
ing that thousands Of people will watch
with particular interest the result of the
last game of the season. The following
correspondence from Berkeley and Palo
Alto relative to the game aud the players
will prove interesting reading.
This is wnat Stanford college man
| saws:
Now that the intercollegiate football
| season Is so nearly over, 1t is interesting 10
look back at the incidents of its progress.
and note their effect, favorable or other
wise, upon the development of the team.
The day has gone by when a number OF
Star players can be collected, a captain
chosen and victorious team put in the
| field. A good football team now is the re-
suit of months of patient instruction on
the part of the coach, of earnest endeavor
on the part o the players.
The team which will line up on the field
at Haight-street grounds next Thursday
afternoon Is the concrete result of a chain
Ut causes and events, set in motion when
college opened last September.
When Manager Maynard and Captain
wilson. by their own individual effort,
succeeded in getting Pop Bliss at Palo Alto
on the LIST of September instead OF October,
as arranged, they achieved something, the
| importance of which upon the develop
| ment Of the team cannot be Overestimated.
Pop" went to work patiently and method.
ion ltxr m hrrnl fAar
! succeeded few who have already wit
messed its performances in match games
will question.
But while Stanford has thus been able
to put up better ball than ever before, il
must not be forgotten that the Berkeley
team has likewise been subjected to thor.
ough coaching under the able direction OF
Yale's great guard, Hetfefinger, assisted
by Goodwin and Norton, likewise of Yale.
| SO that the signs all point to a great game
by both teams on the 30th-a game which
in point of science and weil-executed
plays has never before been witnessed
west OF the great colleges of Yale, Har.
ward. Princeton and Pennsylvania.
The condition of tber men has improved
very much this week; they seem in bette,
spirits and play with much more snap and
vim. The makeup of the varsity for the
great game will not be definitely known
until Wednesday evening. 1t Is pretty
as that which faced the Reliance Club and
the Olympcs in the first game. Some
dark horses, men who unex pectedly dis.
t,uguish themselves by brilliant play, al
most invariably appear at the close OF the
season. and this year has been no excep-
ton. 1t seems improbable that any of
these will make the team, though in any
event they make good substitutes.
The three men who will have the heavy
work OF stopping center wedges and
steadying the middle of the line will prob.
ably be Macmillan. p. Downing and Bur.
nett. They should be able to play well
together by this tiWe, as they have been in
these positions almos, all season. Paul
Downing is pretty familiar figure to the
football public of San Francisco now.
Halfback in the first game and guard In
the second. Bliss has put him at center
this season. The wisdom of the move can
not be questioned. Strong and steady,
cool and courageous, he is almost an idea
center. and brings out the fine points in
center play in a way not hitherto seen a,
Palo Alto He weighs l7Sh pounds.
Burnett is right guard aud the TALES,
and heaviest man in the team, WEIGHING
1874 pounds After two years of expert.
ence on bis class team he has now wor
himself place on the varsity. Bliss, see.