The San Francisco call., 1896-10-10
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Berkeley Football Men
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provement.
Some Promising Candidates
Among the Aspirants for
Honors.
a HEAVY CENTER RUSH.
Much Attention Is Being Devoted TO
the Play of the Forward

| BERKELEY, CAL, Oct. g. Football
has been fruitful source of interest at
Berkeley during the past week. With the
dawn of last Monday morning the season
at the State University may be said to
have fairly begun. Previous to that time
matters were in an unsettled state because
of the non-arrival of the coach until last
Friday, and because of the unframed con-
dition of the men as to their muscles and
wind. Since the coming of Butterworth a
perceptible improvement in the players,
almost to a man, has been noted.
Every day this week there have been
four complete elevens on the field, and
each man has received more or less indi-
yidual instruction at the hands of Coach
Butterworth or his assistant, ex-Captain
Mott of Brown.
Every afternoon the bleachers have been
filled to their utmost capacity. The first
two or three days of the week were put in
sitting candidates and teaching the men
to fall on the ball. The Reliance team
came out on Tuesday afternoon and lave
the college men chance to line up for
h alf an hour. On Thursday and Friday
most of the time was spent by the first
tackling, falling on the ball and breaking
through the line.
Mott has been giving almost his entire
attention to the men on the line, coaching
| each one according to his needs While
| Butterworth has looked after the general
play.
But little scrimmage work has been
done, because of the apparent need OF in
| diViduai instruction. AS most OF the men
| fNa iaiH mar hands
at the game much work has been necessary
| on each of them.
The candidates this year, taken as a
whole, seem less inclined to play to the
grand stand than in years gone by, and
they are all huckling down to conscien-
tious, painstaking work.
During the past week the only two mem
bers of the '95 Varsity team who have
come down regularly for practice were
Ransome and Kennedy. Hutchinson has
! been la ID up with sprained ankle, Sher-
man has been suffering from lacerated
temple and Selfridge has been unable to
play because of objections made on the
part of his family. Under the most favor
able circumstances Berkeley will have
seven vacancies in the Varsity eleven to
fill before Thanksgiving day.
Last Saturdays game with the Reliance
team developed in Hopper one of the most
promising candidates for end that has
played on the Berkeley team for several
seasons.
He played so hard in that game, how.
ever that he has been laid up all the
week.
Selfridge being unable to try for center
the only two rema ining candidates for the
place are Birdsall "00' and McDormo ot
'99. Birdsall is the heavier of the two
weighing 207 while McDermott tips the
beam at only 1872 Birdsall has strength
| Wi
appear to be able to use it TO the best ad
vantage. He puts up better offensive
than defensive play. Archie Fierce, the
J veteran center. has been coaching him
during the past week.
OF the candidates for guard, Ludlow
, '99, Greisberg '99, Ankley '9S, Shilling '0(
and Wilbur 100 are in the lead. Ludlow
J has been doing particularly brilliant work
this season and is reckoned among the
best players on the field. He breaks
through well and tackles hard. He is
weaker on the defensive than at offensive
play.
Cornish 100. from the Berkeley gym
at tackle. He is strong and heavy and is
not afraid of getting hurt. His play is
somewhat erratic at times, but he gives
his opponent hard struggle.
Simpson, he promising tackle OF last
year. who was debarred from entering
the intercollegiate because OF being Spe'
cial student, came out on Wednesday fol
the first time this season. He is now in
the medical college and is qualified for 6
place on the team. He is one of the
quickest meI among all the candidates
and seems to have a certain spring abou
all his movements that is characteristic
only of himself. Haskell, '98, and Craig
, '99, are out for places at end IN addition
to Hutchinson and Hopper. Kennedy
: '9S. and Bender, 49, are the only two can
didates for quarter. Hall. '99, has beer
doing good work at half this week, alonI
with Eddie Sherman.
Captain Ransome has spent much of hi
time while not looking after his men il
making drop kicks for goal. Yesterday
he made dozen or more successful drop
kicks from the foriy-yard line.
The freshmen are showing up somewha
better than they did at the outset of tn,
seasons work, and indications are tina