The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-22
NOTES OF THE GRIDIRON.
OIympics Played Without Berkeley
and Practiced Two New


The Olympics had to content themselves
with light practice without opposition at
Central Park yesterday evening, as the
Berkeley Varsity did not come across the
bay to play the second secret game.
Two new plays were tried by the Olym-
pic team. In one the ball is touched by
the half and advanced round the tackles
by the quarterback, guarded by the inter-
ference of the other backs. The other
play is a long run straight to the side,
with double line of interference, the first
to encounter the opposing end and the
other to protect the runner in his advance.
Porter, the right tackle, practiced for
time as fullback and punted better than
Phemkauf, the left half, who has so far
done the Kicking for the team.
The Olympic lineup for to-morrow's
match with Reliance is not yet decided
upon. Captain Smith said last night that
he would PROBABLY make several changes
in the line, but could not say just what
they would be.
1t had been limited that in addition to
Wilbur as left guard, the line would be
further strengthened by putting Simpson,
the disqualified Berkeley PLAYER in at
tackle and moving Porter to fulback. But
the Olympic captain denies that Simpson
will be played in Saturdays game. But
big Wilbur, the record breaking hammer
thrower, will play left guard, and possibly
Cameron will be put in at right end. He
played that position last evening and has
been IN training for it some time.
Oscar Taylor, Berkeley's star fullbaek of
'92 and '93, is coaching the Olympic men.
Patterson, once OF the University OF Cali
fornia's victorious track team that made
tour of the East last summer, will be sub
half for the Olympics tomorrow
With Taylor, an old Berkeley Varsity
man, as coach and with Porter, a member
of last seasons Varsity, as tackle, King
ton, student at the College of Pharmacy,
as center, and Patterson, the Berkeley
high jumper, as substitute, the alliance
between the Olympic eleven and the Uni
versity of California appears to have its
origin further back than the recent can
ceiling by the Stanford manager of the re-
turn game with the Olympics.
AS the two big Athletic Club teams hap
pen to be constituted this season, it is
natural that some of their members should
favor one college. 1t might be expected
that the Berkeley men on the Olympic
team would not forget their loyalty to the
pected that the captain and several of the
Reliance team, being old Stanford football
men, would as individuals be the allies of
the Palo Alto Varsity.
The future existence of the two big ath-
letic clubs football teams must depend in
measure upon material supplied by the
universities and upon the practice and
training obtained from contact with the
college elevens. Both the State Unrver-
sitv and Stanford have been very mate
terially benefited by their games with
the Reliance and the Olympic teams and
the clubmen have also profited by the ex-
perience that will make their match to-
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hibition of football than would otherwise
have been possible.
Men are at work in Central Park upon
the new grand stand for Thanksgiving.
Substantial new benches are already up in
place along the south end of the field and
the entire east side is to be fitted up with
tier upon tier of seats, so that on the day
of the great intercollegiate match the field
will be surrounded by four sloping walls
of over II 900 spectators in addition to the
more wildly enthusiastic who will stand
along the low fence about the gridiron.