The record-union., 1896-11-27
In the Game of Football in San Fran
cisco Yesterday.
Hard as the Berkeleyites Struggled
They Were Unable to Score Point
Throughout the Contest - The
Greatest Audience Ever at an
Athletic Exhibition in the Far
West Witnessed the Game.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26.-In the
presence of the greatest multitude of
spectators that ever assembled in the
far West to view an outdoor athletic
contest, Stanford University this after
noon defeated the University of Cali
fornia at football The score was 70
to o.
The day was perfect for football and
for an unprecedented crowd. The air
was crisp, and there was hardly cloud
in the clear blue sky. Everybody that
Is in any way interested in athletics
was among the active partisans, the
Alumni and the students of both col
leges.
A great ampitheater, surrounded on
its four sides by thousands upon thou
sands of wildly enthusiastic men and
women, rising tier beyond tier from the
very edges of a large, level arena.
down upon which the multitude ever
riveted an intense but nervous and eX-
pectant gaZe-there on that heid
twenty-five men, the best combined
Drawn and nerve and physical skill
and endurance and Self-control from
nearly 5000 youths at the two great
rival universities OF the same great
State met The two elevens faced
each other down in the arena. An in
tense calm settled upon the sloping
fillsides of humanity that stretched up
and back almost to the surrounding
house tops and wal in the gridiroa
fleld.
The impact of the men in the con-
test was terrific. The timid spectators,
0f n1pfQ1U lost IN Ot her
thoughts than a savage partisan de-
sire for the supremacy of the team
of their choice, looked on without winc-
ing sympathetic fear at each furious
crush of bodies and fall of men. But
as the excitement of. the game In
creased, even these timid ones were
carried away by the contagion and lost
themselves in the wild spirit Of the
great mass of people.
Were all the blue and gold team Ran
somes there would be different tale to-
night sent over the country. 1t could be
but one thing, victory for Berkeley. The
man from across the bay is wonder,
and was practically his whole team to-
day. His line did not hold for him to-
day on kicks, end runs, or anything else,
nor did it more than once open any holes
for him. What work he did was entirely
unaided, and his runs through a field of
Stanford men, throwing them off one
by one, until it seemed beyond human
power to do more, was one of the fea-
lures of the game.
Captain Fickert did some capital work
at interference, and in opening up holes
in the line. The other center men, Will
Jams and Carle, played very strong
games, and easily outclassed their op-
ponents. These three center men helped
to gain the greatest number of yards
in the game by forcing the opposing
center back to enable Cotton to buck.
In the first part of the game both
teams were slow to line up after each
play, but in the second half marked
Improvement was noted in this par
ticular. Punting was feature on both
sides. In the first half Ransom's kicks
did not avail much, because of an ad-
verse wind, but in the second half, with
the wind with the ball, they resulted
In big gains for Berkeley.
Stanford's s touch downs were all made
by hard, heady playing. The second
touch down, although it was not won by
expert running or line bucking. was
nevertheless made through the work OF
the line men in following the ball, and
thus showing their ability to carry out
the directions that have been drilled
into them for months. They scored two
touch downs In each half and twice
they failed to kick goal.
Tonight the victors and their college
mates gave an entertainment at the
California Theater, while the Berkeley
students entertained their friends at
the Auditorium.