The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
fornia team, representing the State itself,
stand for the three most powerful football
elevenS on this half of the continent.

fornia team, representing the State ITSELF
stand for the three most powerful football
elevens on this half of the continent.
The prospects are that the Reliance
Club will have a stronger eleven than ever
before, while the two University teams at
first will both be weaker than they were
last year, Stanford being a little the
heavier loser in veteran players.
The three big teams of the West are par
ticularly fortunate this year in having men
in command whose personality and ex
ample will go q long way in securing that
general morale that counts for much more
than greater physical strength and agility
without it.
George w. Mcmillan, captain of the Re-
lance team, is undoubtedly the best guard
that this coast has ever produced. He is
large, powerful and active, and q remark
able line-b ucker. Lacking only a quarter
of an inch of six feet in height, he weighs
about 1877 pounds. Mcmillan was born
twenty-three years ago in Kingston, Mo-,
and there he received his early schooling,
being graduated from the High School in
the summer of 1890.
A year later he received the appoint
ment and was admitted to West Point,
but in December of that year be was re-
tired because of physical disqualified
ton caused by an injury which did not
prove to be permanent. Later he entered
the Kansas City High School, and in
April, 1893, was graduated with a class of
over a hundred, of which he was presi-
dent. While at Kingston and Kansas City
high schools he carried off the champion
ships in sprinting and broad jumping and
was always considered good wrestler and
boxer. At the Reliance Clubs field day
last fall he made the 100 yards in 10H
seconds. In the baseball season of '92 he
played catcher and centerfield for the
Kingston AGNES, that year the amateur
champions of Missouri.
Mcmillan entered Stanforn University
in the fall of '93 as a freshman. Before
month had passed he was on the gridiron
field as novice and developed so rapidly
that when the makeup of the varsity was
announced there was no surprise when
one freshman and only one made the
team: Mcmillan played left, guard. Last
left guard and tackle for the team he now
captains Those who saw the Reliance
victories over the Berkeley and Stanford
varsities, over teams of the Portland,
Tacoma and Seattle athletic clubs and
over the University of Chicago know that
the big guard was the mainstay of the Re-
lance line: Since January of this year
Mcmillan has been librarian of the Ala
media County Law Library in the Oakland
Courthouse. His spare time is spent in
reading law, for he hopes to be admitted
to the bar during the next year.
Guy H. Cochran. captain of the Stanford
team. lisa veteran football player. He got
his first experience in 1892 as left tackle on
the eleven of the Lawrenceyille School
near Princeton, and was on the team that
defeated the Princeton freshmen that year.
After that one years training in Eastern
methods he entered Stanford University as
. freshman in the fail of '93 and easily
made the varsity and secured his accus-
toned position, which he has filled regu-
larly for the last three seasons. Cochran
is practically Los Angeles boy, although
he was born in Illinois. AS football
player he is not sensational, although the
greatest excitement of last Thanksgiving
days intercollegiate match was occasioned
by Cochran'S opportune dash that re-
suited in the only touchdown of the game.
score that broke the tie OF two years with
the University of California. But Cochran
is strong and reliable and he knows the
game. He is trlfle larger than McMii-
Ian, for he is exactly six feet in height and
weighs 1873 pounds. He is % years old.
Cochran is the ideal of an all-round college
man and heavy athlete.
Edward ]. Sherman, the Berkeley cap
tain, is 20 years ola, and was born in Oak
land, where he received his preparatory
schooling. Eddie" Sherman, as he is
IdI0llldIly Cdllcu III DcIhclCy, 40 lltIlC
fellow, for he is but five feet six and three
quarter inches tall, and weighs only 100
pounds, but he is quick, fearless and
dashing player, and is always cool and
calculating in game. He, too, is popular
with both students and professors. AS
student he stands considerably above the
average. At the Oakland High School he
was president OF his class, and last year,
his sophomore year, he was president OF
the big class of '97. For the last five years
he has played football. In his first year
in the High School he was in the second
eleven, but the next two years he was in
the regular team; the last year as half
back, although before that he played end,
q position he has held for two years on
the varsity, having made the team as a
freshman. Sherman played in the Reli-
ance team last winter when it defeated the
University of Chicago. In addition to his
long experience he has had the advantage
of the coaching of two of Yale's greatest
PLAYERS effelfnger and Gill.
The Reliance Club has decided to send
its team East about the middle of October.
Games will be played with the Denver
Athletic Club, the Omaha Athletic Club,
the Chicago Athletic Association and tine
University of Chicago, and, if possible.
with Cornell University and the University
of Michigan.
The Chicago Athletic Associations team
NAV come to this coast in November, and
if it does it wishes to play return game
with the Reliance and it wants to meet
the Berkeley and Palo Alto teams.
The Reliance team will lose only Racine