The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04
Butte Department.
WILL PLAY BERKELEY
The Buttss Have Agreed to Tackle the
Los Angeles Boys.
TWILL COME OFF NEW YEARS
A General Resume OF the Game OF
Football for the Past Year
Brooks May Drop Out
Hooper Not Here Yet.

The Butte football team closed con-
tract yesterday with the Berkeley CLUB
for a game at Los Angeles and IL VIII
probably be played on New Years day
The present programme of the club Is 10
play Reliance in San Francisco on Dec.
q. Olympics on Christmas day and then
leave Immediately for Los Angeles. The
date Of the Berkeley game will necessi-
tate AZ postponement of the games at
Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane
and they will all be played during the
first week in January.
Nothing has yet been heard from Jim
Hooper and another telegram was sent
TO him yesterday requesting his presence
In Butte at the earliest possible date. He
wrote his brother Charley. however.
few days ago that he would start for
Butte soon after Thanksgiving. and 1t is
thought that he Is now on the way here.
1t is expected that he will be accompanied
by Carr, the University of Michigan's
great center. Carr will probably be given
a place In the Butte line, but he VIII not
take Charley Hooper's place unless he
shows himself the better man for the po-
sition, which is hardly probable.
The announcement that Captain Brooks
is seriously contemplating dropping out
Of the team will cause the greatest re-
greet among the lovers of the game, and
the hope that he will reconsider his part
ly formed decision to that effect Will be
universal and sincere. Brooks Is one OF
the two men who started football In
Butte, and to him more than to any other
one man. is due the great team which
Butte has to-day. Aside from being
brilliant individual player. he is one Of
the best generals in the West and the
players have the utmost confidence In his
ability to guide them to continued VIC
tory.
Mr. Brooks finds. however. that his law
practice suffers greatly from his ardent
devotion to the game of the gods and this
is his only reason for dropping out of the
team. II he can get the team in shape
to go to California without him he will
remain at home, but otherwise he will go
along, as nothing could induce him to
weaken the team at this time. The play
ers refuse to consider his probable resig-
nation and say that he will accompany
them to the coast II they have to take
him along by main force
Contracts are already being made for
next years games and the season will
open on Easter Sunday with Spokane.
The indications are that Butte will have
even a greater team next year than II
had this. pete" Smith, the captain OF
the Olympic team, will become a resident
OF Butte and a member OF the team after
the close of the present season. ellis,
King, Mcmillan, Carr. Jim Hooper, Sla-
ter, Charley Hooper, Smith, Bohn, Per-
ham, Ellis. Hartzell. Richards, Lasswell
and Weiss will all be here and 1t will be
hard for Brooks TO keep out of the game,
in spite of his decision that this will be
his last year with the team. Butte will
easily have the champion team of the
Northwest next year.
The next game scheduled in Butte is
with the University of Minnesota on Dec.
IA. but 1t is not believed that II will be
played. as II is thought that the Mime
sofas have abandoned their western trip.
C. L. Thomas. the captain and coach OF
the University OF Nebraska. has written
Captain Brooks that he would like to ac-
company the Butte team to the coast in
any capacity. His offer was declined with
thanks.
The Chicago Times-Herald. in a lengthy
resume of the football year. says:
Most satisfactory, in a general way, are
the results of the football season of 1895,
which came to an end with the gridiron
battles of Thanksgiving day. 1t has been
a season of hard football, but of fewer
accidents than any of its predecessors.
and has brought the great game of the
American colleges to a more advanced
general popularity than IT has ever en-
joyed before. The croakers at The alleged
brutality of the game have not been
heard once this year. The worst faint has
been the charge of professionalism ex-
plotted in an influential publication by a
writer who took rumors for facts and
was far too ready and willing to believe
the traitorous utterances OF an unreliable
correspondent. The charges were directed
at the western colleges, from the facul-
ties of which have come specific and en-
phatic denials. 1t may be that western
college athletics are conducted a little
too loosely.
Two football teams in the country
have reasonable claims on championships
the University OF Pennsylvania in the
East. and the University OF Michigan in
the West. The Quakers are unbeaten in
their territory, and the Wolverines in
theirs. and the records of both teams are
far better than those of any OF their d.
rect rivals for championship honors. The
Michigan team. though unbeaten In the
West. was beaten in the only contest be-
tween East and West. when II fell be-
fore Harvard's kickers on Cambridge
field The game was Harvard's by a sin
gle touchdown. made almost accidentally,
and the playing of II proved conclusively
that the difference between eastern and
western football elevens is by no means
as great IT used to be. The difference
is only a difference in training and the