The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-30
PLENTY OF MEN.
The Berkeley Football
Season Opens.
With Good Material at Home and
Palo Alto Depleted, the u.
c. Is Radiant.

Over at Berkeley the foo ball season has be-
gun. On Monday Captain Benson got his men
out for the first time and since then his efforts
have been given 10 sizing up the new material.
He has had them hard at Work and Is daily
aided by several coachers, notably Hunt and
Pierce OF last years team. There has been no
hard playing picking and running on the Held
and short sharp dashes on the track have been
the rule.
The class OF '94 took with it many of the best
OF last years team. Hunt. Pierce and Ray
Sherman are gone, and though Wilson and
Morse are back in college it is rumored tnat
they Will not play again.
But even with the loss of so many stars The
team viii not b. very badly of, for there Is
sturdy lot OF new men who promise TO make
any team fight hard 10 win from the U. G. this
year. San Jose sends two experienced players,
Dickson and Cosby, who Will Try for places be-
hind the line, but places behind the line will
not be easily won. For instance. there is Dave
Porter who will he hard man 10 beat out for
nalfback; young Flick, who used 10 plav on
the Olives, Is another man, ana there are many
others who wish 10 win the honor of standing up
behind the line with OLD Pard RansOme, who,
by the way. Is going TO SuTpaSS even his me
work of last year
Wells. who played tackle last year for the
unbeaten st. Matthews School team, Is going
to try TO fill Wilson's shoes but In order 10 do
II he will have TO prove himself a better man
than Parkhurst, an old player, OF whom Heffel-
finger thought much, or EbrlehT. who looks
good ana brings a reputation from the Boys
high School, Avery, strongly knit. we'll
built fellow, Is a prominent candidate for
tackle. He ought 10 be a star for he halls
from st. PauPs school, which has sent many
fine players TO Yale, Princeton and Harvard.
There are plenty of strongly built, big men
in college and Captain Benson Is hoping that
some of them will catch the fever and come
out. They are just the men he needs 10 I'LL uD
the gaps at center and guard and 10 help out
Pete Smith, who Is almost sure 10 play guard,
though lie may try for tackle.
Certainly the players cannot complain about
want OF enthusiasm on the part or the college
Yesterday some four hundred Stueents lined
up and watched the practice with evident In
te-est and to-day there Is 10 be grand mass
meeting in the interests Of the game. Pro-
fessOrs SOule, Clapp and Cory will address the
meeting aud Colonel Edwards will be heard
from. Archie Pierce. Walt Henry. LIE Roy
Hunt and lot more of the alumni Will en-
deavOr 10 stir up the already awakened en-
thusiasm TO It's highest pitch.
Yes. indeed" they say over at Berkeley,
this Is U. c. year." and il makes them
feel all the happier 10 hear that Stanford most
Unexpectedly Will lose five or six of their best
men, for IL Is sand that Walton. Kennedy
WhitehOuse, Burnett and Mcmillan Will not
defend the cardinal on the gridiTon field, and
unless Jules FraDkenheimePs IA her relents
ana allows him 10 play they will have 10 de-
Yelop an entirely new set of backs down at
Palo Alto this year. All of which makes them
say over at Berkeley when they look at their
strapping freshmen, This is U. G. year"