The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
the encouraging supremacy of no defeats.
Game will be called at 8 o'clock.
These are the players and the way they
will face their opponents:


In preparation Tor this match Reliance
has had several practice games with
Berkeley, from which, if the Oakland
clubmen have gained any points at all,
they have certainly learned the advantage
of fast playing. Stanford, after witness
ing on last Saturday Berkeley's snappy
play that resulted in signal victory over
Olympic, have taken the hint and will un-
doubtedly put up a much livelier game
than in the earlier match with Olympic.
ALI this week the practice on the Stanford
campus has been particularly lively, the
individual play ers showing more ginger"
than ever before.
Jeffs, the Stanford varsity left end of
last year, who has until week past been
handicapped with rheumatism, has taken
his old position on the line and has been
putting up strong. lively, aggressive
game, characterized by all the fierceness
that made him such sure man in cover
ing territory and securing fouls as catcher
on the varsity baseball team.
Murphy, the promising freshman quar-
terback, who was laid off by slight in
jury, com plicated by serious paternal OBJ
jections, is another valuable ssibility
that has again materialized. He of all
the Stanford players, it has been said, has
the best head for the game, and to him
the freshman class looks TO captain its
own team to victory against the Berkeley
freshmen, and perchance to general the
playing in the great Thanksgiving match.
Reliance and Stanford should play much
the same style of game. Both have
strong, eavy lines, and neither is partlcu-
larly qualified for punting game. The
play will PROBABLY be characterized by
fierce line-bucking, to which the backs of
both teams are particularly trained.
There can be little doubt that both Reli-
ance and Stanford have more powerful
linesmen this season than either Olympic
or Berkeley. The question is, Can they
play in proportion to their strengthf Last
Saturday Berkeley's backs made repeated
gains round the Olympic tackles. who,
because they were helplessly inefficient,
failed signaliy to break up formations that
passed them paratively without oppo-
sition and resulted in long runs that would
not have been possible against tackles
knowing the duties of their position.
That hardly gain was made Though the
Olympic centermen was proof OF their su-
perior strength, but they did not use that
advantage in tearing through their weaker
opponents on the college line to break up
passes andpunts.
Burnett, the Reliance center, Oliver, the
guard, and Sexton, the tackle. are sup
posed to be the strongest three men in
those positions in the four big teams.
Oliver is the greatest of the right guards
when his unusually fine interference is
considered in addition to his work in his
position. The Reliance and Stanford lines
should be almost equal, with an advantage
for Stanford in her ends Offset by the
ability of Reliance nearer the center oi
the lines. At quarterback Stanford should
lave the better man. Fisher of Stanford
at half is almost if not fully the equal OF
Captain Walton of Reliance, while several
OF the other Stanford candidates for half
back are better player than Carter OF Re.
lance, whose effectiveness depends much
upon Walton's interference for him. Ar
lett the Reliance fuliback, though com.
paratively a new player and not a very
good punter is heavy, dashing back and
good ground gamer. He is hardly 9
| match, though, for either Soper or Free
man OF Stanford in punting game.
1t has been said by old enthusiasts o.
Berkeley that this years University o.