The San Francisco call., 1896-10-30
.P'ALO ALTO men
KICK THE GOAL
Stanford Beats Reliance in
a Practice Game
! g TO o.
.
. Lively Interest lin. To-Morrow's
Battle With the olym.
pics.
.TNlVERsITY BOYS CONFIDENT
Captain Fickert Discusses the Bad
-. Defeat of the Oily mpics by
-. Berkeley.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL, Oct.
29.--On Saturday Stapford's eleven Will
lineup for the second time against the
olympic team; and the outcome Will be
watched with interest. The TACT that
Berkeley. succeeded in running up score
of 24-O against the team when Stanford
merely held Them to standstlll was taken
6v some as a sure sign that Berkeley was
stronger than stanford by just that much.
Whether such a conclusion is justified or
not will be seen more clearly after Satur-
j.: day s-gapie.
Captain Fickert of Stanford: believes
there is no. great disparity between the
college teams, and says that preliminary
scores are not reliable as showing the rela-
tive condition and strength of the teams.
"The condition and play of team in one
game may be entirely different from its
CONDITION and play in another" said Cap
. tain Fickert, land this is. of more force
when MEN are changed about lnytheir posi-
.fions::'' =.
Captain Fickert thinks the Olympics' a
strong team and capable of q much better
game. than they played against Berkeley.
He expects his :meh to win Saturday s
:: game. but. believesit will be by much
? smaller score. e. -
The :Olympics learned a lesson from
.. Berkeley in that last game said he,
which: was that they can't become so over
: confident that.they viii omit their regular
training, unless they are willing to take
chances of being defeated. | don't ex-
pect them to play as weak a game against
. us as they did against Berkeley, simply
= because 1 think they lave taken that les
son to.heart."
The:fact that two of :Stanfords half
backs are laid off. with injuries which viii
probably prevent their play on Saturday
is hound to weaken the team.
= The men are practicinS hard and regu-
= larly and have been greatly benefited by
the practice games with the Reliance
eleven, which played its second practice
game here to-day with the college men.
With several of the strong hnemen laid
off Stanford was too strong for the Re-
lance and by constant bucking kept them
down near. their own goal most of the
time.
. The Oakland players did not exert them
selves as. they do in a match game, but at
times, notwithstanding their best efforts,
it was plain to see that the Varsity was
the stronger team; especially in the line.
With the exception of Dole none of the
Varsity backs are making much of show
ing Dole, however, is doing the best
work he has done this season and against
theaReliance he did admiral BILE work.
Freeman is trying. hard for the position
of fhllback and with little more expert
ence as tackle be should make good
man for that. position. Soper has a de-
'cded advantage of all the fullback candi-
dates in bunting, but he is slow buck
ing and thus far has not developed ability
as a tacklers
The Stanford-Reliance practice game
this afternoon resulted 6. TO 0 in favor of
Stanford. The festures of the game were
the fine work of, Dole and Cotton at line
bucklng and Williams and Fickert in line.