The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-15
Practice Begun in Earnest,
With Two Full Teams at
the Start.
LONG RUNS ACROSS COUNTRY.
Long-Haired Athletes Who VIII Try
for Places in the Football
Eleven.

this university Will begin practice with
two full teams. Last evening when Cap
tain Cochran began punting the ball on
the old field he had under his supervision
a sufficient number of men to line up for
practice game, yet this was but the first
day at real field work.
Stanford's prospects for another success
full season with this greatest of all college
games seems brighter than ever before.
How much it means to have plenty of can
didates for positions on the eleven at the
very beginning of the semester can hardly
be imagined by the general public. Dur
ing the practice last year it was not until
October that enough men turned out
nightly for practice to form two good
teams. That quickness and unity of team
work, therefore, which should be seen in
first-class eleven, was lacking until Camp
managed to get the boys trained to it. 1t
is conceded fact here that had Stanford
had any other coach in '94 than the
"Father of football himself" her chances of
winning the championship would have
been immensely lessened.
Another noticeable feature of the play
now is the spirit which animates all the
men. They work with will and spirit
unusual so early in the year. 1t is gen.
orally late in practice before the men get
at their work with the enthusiasm neces-
sary for success. Perhaps the change is
due to the energy and popularity of this
years captain, who is the first each even
ing to don his 'pneumatics" and start the
bali going. He has begun the work I'M
like former captains, in that he does not
intend to work his men hard while they
are in soft condition, but by daily exer-
else, gradually increasing in intensity, he
hopes to have the players prepared for
actual line work within O week or ten days.
By that time the new gridiron will be
ready for use, as workmen have already
begun preparing it.
The men were given instruction in punt
ing and catching last evening. Several of
the new men showed up in good form at
this work. Throwing off his sweater, after
an hour at this play, the captain called
the boys together and started off ON a
cross-country run. Over the oval, down
az embankment, they scrambled. Then
for stretch down dusty road, to the
establishment and fright of numerous
equine spectators. Gradually the bunch
of athletes scattered, some keeping well to
the van, others of weaker wind falling to
the rear. Scrambling over fences, regard
less of nails and splinters, the future repre-
sentatives of Stanford against Berkeley
presented a ludicrous spectacle to those
unused to college sights. The run con-
tinued for fifteen minutes, and when the
men returned to their quarters, gasping
for breath and dripping with perspiration,
they were ready to declare they had taken
uoh fnr do hQ
however, they all looked fresh enough to
repeat the performance at once. This is
about the usual programme planned for
the coming week. On Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays gymnasium practice
will be given the men instead OF field work.
Captain Cochran was seen after yester
days practice and questioned as to the
men and Stanford's prospects. eve have
lot of new men out, as you saw" said the
captain "Some of them appear to be
good men, but they all require lots of prac-
tice, and really it is too early to judge"
OF course Cochran feels a big respon-
sibility on his shoulders, but thinks that
when the cardinal again meets the blue
and gold on the football field Stanford's
successive victories will be continued.
There is always enough doubt and anxiety
about the matter, nevertheless, to keep
interest at high pitch. Students are on
the qui vive for the least scrap of informa-
tion every players merits are gone over
time and again, and as the great final
struggle draws near there is a suppressed
feeling of enthusiasm ready to burst forth
at slightest proyocation. There will be
more interest here this season than is Gus
tomary, for there are more vacancies to be
filled than on previous seasons. Changes
in the lineup increase the chances of VIC
tory or defeat.
The four vacant places for which men
must be found are FuIlback, played last
year by Kennedy quarterback, where little
HARRISON starred" on the team of "a;
center rush, made vacant by the absence of
200-pound Hazard, and right tackle, played
last year by Stanford's dashing captain,
Paul Downing. In the loss of these men
there was taken away source of great
strength from Stanford S football material;
but there are many likely seekers for their
places.
may not be possible for Jack Reynolds to
try for his position as left halfback, on
account of his work in the university,
which conflicts with practice hours.
Spaulding is in like state of uncertainty.
He played right end last season
Among the old players that have re-
turned and are expected to enter the cam
paign are the following:
Charles M. Fickert ~, left guard. Flick
ert is in excellent shape for the game right
now. He weighs 200 pounds and will train
perhaps to 100 pounds.
Guy Cochran (captain) 96, left tackle,
is also in good condition. He weighs nearly
$50 pounds.
Stuart Cotton '9S, end, is heavy this year
and is likely to play at It's.
A. II. Burnett, who played right guard
for two years, is planning to capture his
old place. He weighs 1870 pounds.
Alfred Spalding, '96, end, is in the pink
of condition. and would undoubtedly retain
his place If he made try. He weighs Ito.
julius Frankenheimer, '96, is an avowed
hunter for his place as halfback. The beam
will tip at 165 pounds when this cam
paigner gets on it..
Jack Reynolds, '96, would have to take
off some goodly pounds of flesh and could
take his old place at half at ITO pounds.
Thomas Code, '96, will try for quarter If
possible. In this position he played for
Stanford two years. His weight is about
165 pounds.
Many of those who played last season on
the second eleven or f'subbed" on the first
have returned to Stanford and will try fer
places. There is Charlie Dole, 98, who
captained his class team. He is an all
round athlete as well as a football player.
In the practice during the fall OF '94 he
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