The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-07
WILL BRING A BIG SACK,
Butte Eleven to Be Backed With
$4,000 in Its Visit
Here.
INTERSTATE FOOTBALL FEVER.
Star Players to Be Secured and No
Expense Spared on the Eastern
Team.
INTERSTATE FOOTBALL FEVER.

The Butte football team, which is coming
here in about two weeks to have another
try at the Reliance eleven, has determined
to become the representative powerful
gridiron aggregation of the West, for it in
tends to go East next year with the avowed
purpose of defeating Yale and Princeton.
No effort is being spared by the men OF
that mountain town of Montana to secure
the very best football material available.
From nearly every team that Butte has
met this season it has drawn the best men
to strengthen its own. The Denver eleven
furnished Bohn, a fairly good end rush,
and Harzel, an exceptionally powerful and
effective line bucker. The Multnomah
Club of Portland gave up its star player.
Laswell, who is a phenomenal line buckle
and dashing ground gamer. And from
the Reliance team Butte has succeeded in
capturing George Mcmillan, who was not
only the best player, but was the captain of
the Oakland Athletic Club eleven.
The Butte men tried very hard TO induce
Theurkauf and Captain Smith of the Olym-
pics to remain with them after the two re-
cent victories the Montana boys scored
against the San Francisco clubmen on
gridron whitened not by fine yard lines,
but com pletely covered with four inches OF
snow.
When the Butte team shall come to this
State it hopes 10 have even more star ma
terial added. 1t promises to appear here
with the right guard, the center rush and,
perhaps, the quarterback of this years
University of Michigan Varsity.
Three games, so far, have been arranged
by the Montana giants. The first will be
Reliance Butte, on December 81; the sec
ond, Olympic-Butte, on Christmas day,
both at Central Park, in this City; and the
third, according to the Butte men, will be
University of California-Butte, at Los An
geIes, on New Years day.
AS a preliminary to these games the
Reliance and Olympic elevens will play at
| Central Park on December IA, the gate re-
| ceipts TO go to charity.
| One of the Olympic players, just re-
| turned from Montana, speaking OF the
| Butte team said:
The town OF Butte is football crazy. The
| people are determined to collect all the West
| ern stars and get team that viii overpower
| Yale and Princeton next year. They are
backed financially by man named Clark,
who seems to have money to burn when it
comes to football.
The Montana eleven are pretty good indi-
vidual players. but they lack team work. Nc
MILAN, however, will soon give them the nee
essary instruction for that. They play hard
every minute of the game, but they are not
| fast players yet. That fault can also be over
w IL
| tackle high.
| So far they know absolutely nothing of q
| kicking game. Their great weight, their
strong, rigid line and their fast end running
| backs are the points wherein the Butte eleven
ere more than a match for any other team in
| the Far West.
| A team to defeat them must put mp good
punting game and play last. There is little
use in bucking their big line. Just think of it
the eleven weigh 210O pounds, and that is
fully 200 pounds heavier than any eleven ever
turned out by either of the universities
They consider ellis. the right halfback, their
star. He is very fast runner, and when the
line holds and makes it possible for him once
to clear the end he is good for the whole field
in front of him. Laswell, who plays fuliback,
| consider to be the superior of ellis. Laswell
and Farrell are a remarkable pair of line
smashers; both of them are better at that
style of game than is big FELTON, Taylor OF the
Reliance team
The Butte enthusiasts promise to bring $780,
900 to San Francisco to bet on their team.
They are all true sports up there. In the first
half of our last game the betting was about as
much on our team as on the home team. In
the second half $1,000 was lost on bet that
we wouldn't score.
1t was an experience of lifetime tor our
team-the hospitable treatment we received.
The people cannot do enough for football
PLAYER. Inside of two hours after one of our
players was hurt in the game eighty people,
by actual count, came around to inquire how
he was, and some of them brought poultices
and bandages and offered their services. They
told US to order anything that was necessary
and that Clark would pay for it.
Strangely enough the Butte colors are the
same as the Olympic colors, red and white.