The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-12

showing or the stanford team week ago
has fully opened their eyes to the fact
that IL will be Hercuean labor to defeat
them. Never before has the Berkeley
team been 81 conscious Of the task it will
be TO win. This year il goes or tie field
seemingly weaker at every point than It's
adversaries. In the Stanford team this
year are seven veterans Of last years
team. In the Berkeley team are but two
of last years regular team-Hunt and
Burr, and probably Taylor. OF the new
men in the Stanford team only one is
freshman. The other three have had con-
siderable experience.
On the Berkeley team are three. and it
NAV be four freshmen-each in one of the
more responsible positions of the team
who may and are inclined to get ratified
and lose :heir heads at critical points of
a game. In weight the balance still ill.,
clines To the PaIO Alto men. Their center
is considerably heavier thai the Berkeley
center; their tackles are equal; their end
men average heavier, and their backs are
each more weighty than the CORRESPONDING
men for Berkeley. Thus handicapped AID
eXcelied. the State University men have
not lost heart. but during the past week
have done some of the most faithful work
of the season.
TO do or die will be the motto of the
team on the day of DAYS. it will be Stan
ford Drawn and Stanford strategy against
Berkeley science and faithfulnesS Of en-
deavor. With experience, weight, re-
SOurceIulness, and the betting all in their
favor. the PalO Alto men are confident OF
victory. If their hopes Iail what falling
it Will bel Dark doubts and misgivings
fill even the Berkeley students breast,
and though placing great confidence ID
Captain Benson and his men, the only
good word he has for friend and foe is:
The game will be close. and who Will
win is hard to tell
There IS Fotz and Smith and Easton in
the center. If they can hold their own
against the Stanford men we may win.
Hunt and Burr can be depended on to do
good work at tackles. and Wilson, though
slow. is all right on the end. Sherman on
the other END is light. very light to break
up interference. | would like to see Hupp
get into condition for the place. He has
been coming down to practice lately, but
not regularly. He is heavier than Sher-
man, though otherwise perhaps no batter
fitted for the place. Back of the line Ran
some is all right. Hilborn at present runs
fairly well with the ball and bucks the
line in good fashion, but he is weak
in throwing off tackler, does not
know how to use his arm, interferes poorly
for the other runners and is not sure
tackler. Oscar Taylor. after weeks
rest. has been doing better work this last
L
has been puntlng and running in more
nearly his old-time form. He was over
trained, which explains his poor work two
weeks ago. I think. One strong point in
TaylOr's favor is that he can be depended
on in a great game 10 play at his hest.
"The Berkeley boys Will have more con-
fidence in their team if Taylor is on it than
if any other man, even though equally
good or even better, replaces him. If Tay-
Il n n ON n II IN nh la
is a freshman, a fast runner. can punt
somewhat, but is weak in bucking the
line. Captain Benson is indefatigable in
his PLAYING and has reached anc gone be-
yOnd his last years form. lie has gotten
interference down to fine point, the only
man at Berkeley of whom this can be said.
THE freshmen elevens of the two elevpnS
are to meet the week following Thanks
giving day. The L G. freshmen have been
working for this game all the term. Soon
af er football practice had been begun a
challenge from the Berkeley 80 men was
sent down to Palo Alto and refused, 1t
being alleged that the game, if played be-
fore Thanksgiving day, would interfere
with the training Of the regular varsity
team, but it was stated n challenge for
some time after the great game would be
con sidered. So on October 2S Manager
j. II. Bishop and Captain Frank Taylor
of the l.. of c. freshmen sent the second
and following challenge:
1.-THE football team Of the class of '97,
University OF California, hereby challenge
the football team OF '97, Leland Stamford
Jr University, to game of football to be
played ID San Francisco within two weeks
after Thanksgiving, 1888 This game was
and s TO be for the benefit of the Mid win
ter Fair. All expenses are to be guaranteed
by the fair organization and all proceeds to
90 to if. Last week the Stanford men
finally decided to accept the challenge and
the game will be played Decem Der g. AS
far as known the two teams will be fairly
evenly mNtched. the Berkeley team per-
maps slightly stronger behind the line and
the StanfOrds considerably stronger on the
line.
THE regular varsity teams will be kept
in condition after the Thanksgiving day
game until the Christmas holidays. Man.
ager Maynard of the Pslo team has ar
ranged TO take his team through the
Northwest during the holidays. The
Mu;tnomah, Seattle and Portland teams
will be the principal ones met, and no
doubt the Stanford team will have an easy
time pulling III victories.
Manager Denman is considering a prop
osition TO take the Berkeley team south.
The Los Angeles Athletic Club team
would be the strongest team met. Stan
ford defeated :hiS team with ease, the
score was sc to 0. last year. 1t is consid-
erably stronger this year. and has
cOacher in the person of Sam NJ. Haskins,
who played one of the ends on the Berke-
ley team last year.
"FOr the accommodation of the thousands
who want to see the Thanksgiving-day
game the grand stand at the park is TO be
extended around the northern side and The
seating capacity considerably increased.
Stanford and its adherents will be as
signed one side. Berkeley and its friends
the other. The tortuous nOise-creatng in
strumentalities living and mechani-
cal - promise to be as numerous
and as powerful. if not more so.
this year than ever before. In the way Of
colors novelties in the way of umbrellas :,
which are so in vogue in the Eastern
games, will be Acknowledgment big far
ing red ones by Stanford men and blue
and-god ones by the other fellows. Drags
will not be in such demand as heretofore
There will be a parade of the two teams
and adherents, whose drags will no doubt
be as Sumptuously bedecked as heretofore,
but no teams will be allowed in the park,
special seats being reserved for those CON-
ing in chat fashion.
1.-The theater party at the Grand Opera
house IN the evening promises 10 be the
greatest thing of the kind ever seen on the
coast if the Berkeley boys win, otherwise
it will be rather a solemn, sad affair, as it
Is a Berkeley affair in which Stanford men