The morning call., 1894-12-08
THE FRESHMEN.
They Will Kick To-day
Rain or Shine.
A Large Attendance Expected at
Haight- Street Park-A Point
in Question.

The freshmen football elevens of the
Stanford and Berkeley universities win
have an opportunity of digging up mud
this aftern loon at the Haight-street Recre-
alton grounds. The Berkeley team is in
splendid form and will put up great game.
Coach Gill gave the boys a good bit of ad-
vice last Monday before taking his depart
ure for the East The team will, in all
probability, be made up of the following
players: Center, Wilbur. the shot putter.
who is connected with the art department
of the y. c.; right guard, Winkler; left
guard, Avery; right tackle, Morgan or
Ebright; lett tackle, Ferguson; right END,
Hopper or Crosby; left end, Julian; quar-
terback, Blasingame: haltbacks. Baker,
Dosler, Prendergast or Harvey; fullback,
Hockheimer.
The Stanford eleven contains some ex-
cellent material Cotton, the right tackle,
played end on the varsity in the game
with Berkeley ten days ago. Dole. the
teams captain, was sub-half on the Stan
ford team. He is strong, speedy runner
and a cleaD-handed player. When running
with the ball Dole is as hard man to stop
as any one in the team. He will play full
back.
Garlic at center is a strong, heavy man,
and has lately put up strong game. HIS
chief fault is too high passing of the ball.
Both guards are good men and the
quarter is star player. Hughes al one
end and Pauley at he other are speedy
runners ana sure tackles. The latter was
sub-end on the University eleven.
The team will line up as follows:
Center Carrie: right guard. Harrington: left
guard, Lillard right tackle, Cotton; left tackle
right half, Nicemonger: left half, Carter; quarter
Allyn; fuback. Doyle (captainl; sub half and
full, Allen: sub-quarter, ShepArd: sub-end. Jen-
ntngS: Sub-tackle, Frazier; subcenter, Plat: sub
guard and tackle, Frost.
The crack football eleyens of the coast
are having warm discussion over what is
alleged to have been a mistake made nv
the umpire of the great Thanksgiving day
game. The Berkeley boys hold that the
umpire erred in his ruling, and that they
should have been credited with touch
down when little Sherman carried the ball
over the line. That play was without
doubt very unusual one. The ball was
fairly carried across the line by the q. c.
player. but was lost when he touched il
down behind the goal.
Many old foOtball-piaYers have remarked
that they never knew Of a case before
where the ball was carried across the line
without the side so doing scoring touch
down. Since the game Umpire Hurd has
talked over the matter with the football
men, and it is said admitted, after inspect
ing the rules, that the U. C.'s should nave
been credited With touchdown, but Just
itied his ruling by saying that Captain Ben
son of the u. C.'s should have protested
the point on the field, in which case he
would have allowed them the touchdown.
This is very small hole for him TO crawl
out of, especially as an umpire is expected
TO know the rules perfectly. However,
the circumstances of the play were so un-
usual that it Is doubtful if any one realized
exactly what the ruling ought 10 have been
until they had time TO think the matter
over afterwaTd.
AS it is. however, Stanford has the de-
cision and will bear the title of champions
OF "a D. Notwithstanding what the ruling
ought 10 be, Tor there is no appeal from
| the umDire's decree. This is peculiarly
unfortunate for the i. c., as the impress
sion will go out that, as Stanford won the
first intercollegiate game, tied the next
two and won The fourth, the U. G. is not
the formers equal, whereas, iu all of the
last three games at least, she has shown
! fully as strong front as Stanford has. II
therefore remains for the q. c. now to
make firm resolve that she will wipe out
this false impression next season by ScOr-
ing decisive victory over Palo Alto.
Captain Benson is evidently of this
| opinion. for he has accepted the position
| of captain again this season, which will be
his third at the head of the eleven.
Had Berkeley been allowed that touch
down, her admirers insist that she would
have been the victor of the contest For
with the ball in the position where 1t was
taken over, it would have been quite easy
to kick goal, thus tying the score. Re-
| newed confidence would have been in
stlled into the U. G. by this condition of
things, while the Stanfords would have
been correspondingly depressed, ana it is
probable that the U. c. would have again
scored.
Many people at the game wondered whv
Berkeley did not try foT field goal when
| they had the bali in such a good position
before Sanford's goal. but that is ex-
planned by the fact that they would have
made one more point and tied the score if
they secured the touchdown and goal,
while If they made the field goal they
would have scored five points. If it would
have put them even or ahead of Stanford
then IL would have been a good plan TO
| risk the field goal.