The morning call., 1894-11-30
AND THE JONAH" is BROKEN
Cardinal Floats Over the Blue
and Gold.
SCORE STOOD SIX To NOTHING.
Twenty Thousand People Look on
Interestediy at the Great Game
of the Season.


The tie was broken and swept off the
face of the earth by a midwnter fog just
as the trick was accomplished by the
wearers of the cardinal.
Intercollegiate football, TO a man in a
balloon. is not what would be considered
a scientific game. but to college student
It is so far superior in every particular to
all games on earth that comparison is sim
ply out OF question.
The young man with the foXtail bangs
and overgrown chrysanthemum will tell
you that baseball is but child's play when
compared with the classic and dashing
game called intercollegiate football.
1t would appear from the crowd that as
sembled at the Haigh!-street recreation
grounds yesterday that the university boy
was not far off the mark when he said that
college football was mere popular than the
national game but this can easily be ac-
counted for by the fact that baseball can
not be construed as being classed among
the society fads. while on the other hand
college football is supported solely by the
elite of the country.
1t was plainly evident in yesterdays
game that majority of the spectators who
wore either cardinal or blue and gold did
not know, whenever a good play was
made, which side they were favoring with
cheers and the waving of divers colors.
frequently the red colors that adorned
canes and hats would be- seen hoisted
over the heads Of their owners when the
University of California team had scored
an advantage aud vice versa.
Granted that among the vast crowd were
thousands of people who were not con-
versant with the game, everybody seemed
TO enjoy the sport, and the incidents con-
nected with the great match of the seal on.
AS previously stated in The CALL two
Thanksgiving day games which have been
played on the Haight-street grounds ended
without result, and as a matter of course
there was the keenest interest imagi 3 BILE
in yesterdays contest, and speculation
ran high as to which of the college teams
would obliterate the football Jonah OF '92
and '93.
On Wednesday several visits were paid
the weather prophet of the coast by friends
of the players, who were very anxious that
yesterday should be fine so that both teams
would have a fair chance of distinguishing
themselves on a good field.
The weather CLERK must nave heard their
prayers and acquiesced to their wishes, as
more suitable day for football could not
have been manufactured by the mosl
ardent supporter of the game.
Long before the time as announced for
the kickoff, every seat in the grand stand
and bleachers was occupied by wearers of
either the cardinal or the blue and gold.
The latter colors were certainly the most
numerous, and their owners the most
boisterous.
On the outside of the Enclosure. where
standing room was at q premium, were
thousands of enthusiastic young men
dressed in the very latest fashion, and all
were wearing large yellow chrysan-
themums or streameFs which represented
the color under which the Stanford team
was doing battle.
The old time tin horn was not as con-
spicuous as formerly. Possibly the an
nounced fact that the Palo Alto brass
band would do the blowing on this occasion
deferred many of the expert 6shhorn
tooters from going through performance
that, to say the least. is appreciated only
nv the natives of the forest who do love
good" music.
The Palo Alto students who have learned
TO blow trombones, French horns, etc, to
the number of forty pieces added very
materially to the stirring interest that was
manifested in the contest in all quarters
of the field.
The boys had evidently trained for wind,
as their blowing was quick and suitable to
the game, very few breaks being notice
able from tOotball-player's point of view.
At 2 o'clock. which was fully half an
hour before game was called, thousands OF
ladies and gentlemen had cOngregated a.
20 n wa
not until some time after the game bad
commenced when the last of the gathering
got within the big fence.
The carriages in which "the 1907 rode
To the star outdoor event of the season had
to line up Immediately outside the park
as there was DO room Tor a horseshoe
within the grounds this year.
While the drivers of the roadsters were
waiting for the flush of the game and tha
occupants Of the carriages much merri-
nent was caused when an Irishman, who
was IN charge OF two beautiful bays, asked
"colored" hostler if he knew the differ
enre between Gaelic and college football.
All eyes were Immediately focused on
the latter, who answered quickly: III
had my say l would have all those fellers
ia the asylums, as they look more like
wild men tn civilized beings, and that's
the only difference l see in the games"
The freshman took off his hat to the
coIored driver and acknowledged that he
was stuck for reply.
The crowd within the field, which must
have numbered 10000. gave the teams !
great ovation when they appeared in their
respective coaches dressed in regulation
football gear. The college wells which
we're kept up until the men appeared on
the swaTd could have been heard block
away. The University of California team
bad unquestiOnably the greater number OF
supporters, who almost rowned the Stan
ford contingent when it came to whoopinp
things up.
As the teams took their respective posi-.
lions, the Berkeley mascot was seen way.
ing little flag at the boys who wore the
yellow and blue stockings.
The signal was greeted by shout from