The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
The Giants From Butte Are
Defeated in a Great Game
of Football.
THE SCORE STOOD 10 TO 4.
Splendid Sport Witnessed by Thou
sands at Central Park YeSter-
day Afternoon.

The Reliance football team won from the
Butte team by score of ten to four in
Central Park yesterday.
It was such a contest as football en-
thusiasts see but once in decade. The
two heaviest and most powerful teams
that have ever been seen in the West
fought in slime and mud for nearly two
hours and half, and so hard and fiercely
that four men were assisted from the field
unable to continue the struggle. Time
after time big men, great 200-pound fel-
lows, lay on the muddy ground COM
pletelv prostrated from the severity OF
their exertions and the tremendous force
of their compact with the human wall
they encountered. But with all their
ferceness and rushing and terrible smashes
the splendid game was unmarried by any
exhibition of slugg1ng.
Within twelve minutes OF the first kick
off Reliance had scored a touchdown.
Wyckoff had punted well down into Butte
territory. Butte had carried the ball back
across the white lines by irresistible line
bucking until they reached the middle of
the field and had regained by massive force
what Wyckoff had obtained on the first
punt. There Butte could gain no more,
and Reliance took the ball back with
equally brilliant plunges and short runs,
over the goal line, without once losing the
pigskin.
All the rest of the first half the two teams
fought back and forth across the middle
line until Reliance punted down to the
Butte 15-yard line. and Butte, working
with the energy of despair rushed fiercely
II n the fold tearing thrnnUb and h q m M
ing Reliance until they had entered Reli-
ance territory. Then time was up for the
first half and Reliance had points and
Butte had not scored.
Early in the first half Captain Brooks
reluctantly limped from the field and took
up his position on the sidelines in the
midst Of a striking looking group of
brawny Butte substitutes, attired in red
and white sweaters and similarly striped
toboggan caps.
The second half was even more brilliant
than the first had been. Butte early
crowded the Reliance very close down on
their own goal, but Wyckoff freed his
team from a dangerous predicament with
a beautifully executed kick, Just as the
men were almost upon him. The fighting
after that was long and fierce in Butte S
territory, but foot by foot Reliance ad-
vanced until within the fve-yard line, and
there Butte made a beautiful stand and
held like a stone wall. A kick soon re-
heved the imminent danger to the goal ;
but their security was short lived. Oliver
picked the ball up on fiuke near the %
yard line. and cleared everything between
him and the tall posts.
He missed the try at goal, but Reliance
still had 10 points TO nothing.
How hard and how valiantly Butte
played in the short time that remained !
Again and again their great sprinter
nearly got clear of the crowd by his
dashes. And then when it looked as
though Reliance would surely score again
that wonderful run came. A man in a
black jersey flashed up the field with the
speed of racehorse, almost from one goal
TO the other.
Butte had scored at the very end when
every one was momentarily expecting the
call Of time. 1t was magnificent exhi-
bition OF human speed. A run OF 80 yards
with eleven men falling further and