The herald., 1896-11-01
Tie First in a Series of League
Games
THE PARK WAS CROWDED
A Large Audience Witnesses Good Foot.
tali Play
The U. s. c. Team Badly Beaten-The
Disgraceful Conduct Of an Ath-
letic Club Player.

The Athletic and University of Cali
fornia football teams met at Athletic
park yesterday afternoon and played
the first OF series of league games to
be played this fall for the championship
of Southern California The result OF
yesterdays game was a score Of % to 6
in favor Of the Athletic club team. A
good sized crowd was present and cheer
ed their respective favorites Justify
whenever an especially good play was
made. The conduct of the Athletic club
yesterday was anything but commend
able. The action Of Harmon in smash
ing Priestly of the U. S. c. team In the
face in full view of the grand stand is
such breach of decorum as will draw
upon him the merited contempt of all
lovers of clean football. Harmon on
two or three other occasions disregarded
all rules of fair play which called forth
exclamations Of disgust from the spec
tators.
The U. S. c boys, while badly beaten,
played pluckily to the end and made
record for clean play.
In the beginning OF the first half the
university boys had the ball and for
several minutes the teams surged back
and forth across the field without any
lasting advantage to either side. Finally
when the ball was near the line Harmon
broke through the university ranks and
reached the goal, scoring the first
touchdown for the Athletic team. This
was just twenty-five minutes after the
beginning of the game and had been an
excellent exhibition Of football playing.
The star plays in the first half were
| made by Phil Wilson of the Athletic
team, who made several fine runs, and
Hinman of the university team, who
displayed some expert kicking.
In this half three of the U. S. c. best
men were hurt. Christy had his hand
broken, Quinn sprained his ankle and
Knoles sustained a severe injury on his
shoulder. All three boys were compelled
| to leave the field. This greatly weakened
| the university team, and the story Of
| the game after the first half is one
| tale of continual disaster. The Athletic
| team now gradually forced it's way
| through their opponents and soon scored
| another touchdown. Phil Wilson's
, playing still called forth many rounds
of applause. When tackled while MAX
| ing a run with the ball he displayed a
wonderful ability to always drag the
ball several feet after he had fallen.
Harmon made pretty end run and for
time it was thought he would escape
all his pursuers and carry the ball across
| tiiS iiC, Oul JuSt Nllcll lIc Secliltu odlc
he was beautifully tackled by Wright
and thrown heavily to the ground.
| Toward the end of the game, the
Athletic team finding themselves much
stronger than their competitors, adopted
a plan of pushing the ball along. They
were able to do this to perfection and
| gradually drove the university boys
across the goal line
Five touchdowns in all were made
and one goal kick. thus bringing the
score to %.
The other team was unable to score a
point.
If the league continues to put up such
football contests as the one given yes
terday they will certainly have no trSu-
BILE in creating an increased interest
throughout this portion of the state In
| football.
The teams as made up yesterday were
as follows:
athletic Club-MacPherso center;
Mahaffey, |. g.; Smith, |. t.; Chapman
|. e.; Dan Smith. r. g.; Leeds, r. t.; Has
kins, r. e.; Murrietta, f. b.; Wilson (cap-
tain), right half-back; Hanlon, left half
back; Dillon, q. b. Substitutes, Bayer
Coleman, Atwood.
U. S. C.-Christy, center; Goldworthy
r. g.; Hinman, r. t.; Martin, r. e.. Bal
low, l. g.; Decker, |. t.; Premo, l. e.;
Knoles, r. h.; Grimm, l. H.; Wright, q. b..
Edgerton, f. b. Substitutes-Hasham
Jones, Pratt, Hunter. Rott.
The lesman was b. c. Whitcock, aut
a. p. Thompson acted as referee