The San Francisco call., 1896-11-07

did nothing particular to mark him as
valuable man or as a football failure. The
fact that he is on the Varsity would indi-
cate that he is considered one of the more
promising of the new men.
To Whipple, then, and Birdsall and
McIsaacs and Anderson and Barnes spec
tators will look for particular manifesto
tions OF individual ability among the
Berkeley eleven; while Murphy and Lana
gan and McGilvray should attract cor
responding notice for individual work for
the cardinal. The other men are to fame
and glory yet unknown, except, perhaps,
among their relatives and near friends,
but tonight may see several of them
heroes beyond the roseate dreams of the
most m bilious freshmen OF the lot.
From these men will be formed the big
Varsity teams of a few years hence. Look
ing upon the match from such a stand
point, future possibilities may be reckoned
when Captain Ransome and Sherman
have left Berkeley and when Captain Flick
ert and Williams have become traditions
al Stanford.
Both freshmen elevens have been beaten
by the Belmont School team. A compari-
son of the games and of the freshmen
playing in each gave rise to the belief that
the Palo Alto freshmen had a slight ad-
vantage. This, howe. er. is not now ap-
parent since the increase of weight in the
Berkeley team and the disbarment of sew
eral of the Stanford players on account of
certain registration qualifications required
by the intercollegiate agreement.
Then too, Berkeley goes into the game
with two victories by preceding freshmen
classes, while the Stanford freshmen must
exert extra efforts to overcome the en-
couraging feeling of prestige in their
opponents, feeling that year after year
has been such power with the almost in
vincible Iale Varsity.
tair ,f ~ f4r
men football team has hopes of winning
to-day's game, but he is not over-san-
guine, and lntimates that he expects a
hard game. as he understands that the
Berkeley freshmen have been under But
terworth's special coaching for some time,
while his own team has played but half
dozen practice games as team.
"If the men go into the game with the
right spirit and determined to win they
ought to do it., said he, ''but if they fail
to play for all they are worth or allow
themselves to get discouraged or play in
differently they are going TO suffer defeat.
l don't expect them to do any such
his BEST and L am, therefore, hopeful"
Unfortunately for the team several of
the men expected to play have been pro-
tested by Berkeley, because they are reg
istered as special students and Stanford
has consented to get along witt out them.
Some others have been injured recently
and will either be unable to enter the
match at all or will go into the game in
bad condition.
BERKELEY, CAL, Nov. 6.-Next in i'm
portance to the great intercollegiate
Thanksgiving football game between
Berkeley and Stanford will be the gridron
contest which will take place between the
freshmen of those two universities to-
morrow at Central Park.
With two signal victories over the STAN
ford freshmen, the game last year having
been won by score of A to o, the Berke-
ley men expect to maintain the precedent
established by the classes of '98 and '99
and come out triumphant in to-morrow's
battle. At the opening of the season the
outlook among the freshmen was not in
the least encouraging, and many were in.
clined to believe that Stanford would win
this year, but within the last fortnight
things have changed. Several experienced
men, who had not been out previously,