The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-21
THEIR SECRET PRACTICE,
Olympics Playing a Strong Steady
Game, but Berkeley
Fumbling.
Collegians Score on Chance Play, but
the Clubmen Make More Re.
liable Gains.

The secret football game between the
| Olympic and Berkeley elevens at Central
Park yesterday evening resulted in one
! touchdown being scored by the university
men, although the weaAers of the flying
doughnut put up the better ground-gain-
ing game.
Two complete elevens came over from
Berkeley and they engaged in some brisk
practice before all the Olympians arrived
on the field.
Eddy Sherman, captain of the q. C..
Varsity, played right half and used his
knowledge of the ends position well in
blocking off for his companion half's at
tempts to go round the outpost on the
scrub line.
The Varsity players had little difficulty
in scoring two touchdows against the
second eleven, but their play was not so
clean and sure as might be ex pected thus
late in the season and with the Thanks
giving match only one week off. No less
than nine fumbles were made by the
Varsity during some twenty minutes play.
Ransome, the manned and crippled and
dying Ransome, was in every play, and
from his evident good spirits and accus-
apparent activity and soundness with the
collegiate doctrine of despair that so re-
Gently had him crippled gridiron gladi-
ator beyond the hope of recovery.
Coach Butterworth was on hand, yelling
to his pupils to play faster, as he watched
and directed the formation of interference
for plays around the ends and tackles.
After little rest the Varsity lined up
against the Olympic men, and Ransome's
kickoff of forty yards was Immediately
caught and returned ten Yards before the
Olympic runner was tackled. Then the
Olympics worked the ball steadily up the
field by tackles and end plays, and had it
back to the center before they were COM
PEELED to give it up on downs.
But Berkeley lost several yards and the
possession of the pigskin on her first at
Tempt and the Olympic men, repeating
their successful attacks, had advanced
eight yards, when the Berkeley guards
broke through and caused them to lose
little ground and the ball also.
The Olympics repulsed repeated at
tempts to get through or round their
tackles, and very soon regained the airbag
on downs.
In three plays the clubmen covered ten
yards and then Porter, protected by excel
lent interference, was sent round left end
for twenty-five yards. Then on their own
1O-yard line the Varsity players got the
ball and regained about fifteen yards in
several plays before they were compelled
to kick. But the attempt was blocked and
ten yards lost. On the third try the ball
was sent through the air twenty-fiv
yards and into Olympic territory. 1t was
run back five yards to the center, but in
the first play Plunkett got through, cap
tured poor pass, and with only one man
in his way had little difficulty in scoring
touchdown.
The Olympics were given the ball on
their own 1O-yard line. They bucked it up
the field for twenty-five yards before being
compelled to resort to punt and the
ends were down the field in time to hold
the thIrty-fve yards gained on the kick.
Berkeley struggled hard and fast against
tackles and guards and then, after much
pushing and hauling, gained five yards
and followed 1t up with a hasty twenty
yard punt that was almost blocked. The
Olympics took it well back in Berkeley
ground with a run of fifteen yards, and
then the game ended on account of the
uncertain light of approaching night.
Hupp did not play for the college team,
but his place was well filled by the little
captain, H. Ransome, and to him the ball
behind a rapidly formed but not always
successful running line of interference.
Captain Smith Of the Olympics seemed
to have no great difficulty in handling
BerkeIey's biggest and most powerful rush,
and proved himself the strong pillar in his
own rushline.
If Simpson and Hall, the special stu
dents disqualified from the Berkeley
Varsity, can get off, it is possible, said Cap
tain Smith Yesterday, that they will make
the trip TO Butte next Monday with the
Olympics, for as yet it is not known posi-
lively that all the members of the present
Olympic team can go to Montana.