The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-29
THEY ARE.PUFFED UP
The ALI California Football Players
Shying GlaDces at Yale.
WHAT ONE VICTORY WILL DO
Since the Pick of the. Coast De-
feated Butte. the Sons of the
Golden West Have a Lofty
Opinion of Themselves.

The football players of California and
their hackers give convincing evidence
of being the possessors Of more unadul-
terated nerve than any other class OF
people in the world. Their victory over
Butte with the strongest team that
could be gotten together in all Califor-
MIA, has led them to believe that they
are more than match Tor 1ale'
Princeton. Harvard and Pennsylvania
and the big teams of the middle west.
and they are now threatening to send
a team east next season which would
be the pick of the Pacific coast and
from which great things would be eX-
pected. The Chronicle says of the latest
move i'm football circles:
Considerable interest is being mani
tested by the University students in TIE
possibility of an athletic contest with
Yale next summer The letter which
was received in December by Manager
A w. North of the Berkeley team from
Capt. L. p. Sheldon of Yale. excited
great interest. Although the letter was
private and unofficial in every way,
there is evidently a desire on the part
of Ellis sons to meet the men OF the
Golden West on the track and field.
Mr.. Seldom merely wanted to know
whether California intended to send a
team across the continent this season:
and If 1t does he would like to be adj
vised of the fact, as his men seem TO
favor the idea of having a dual meet
with the Californians. Last year Cali
fornia tried to secure a match with
Yale. but the latter adduced half a
dozen reasons why such a contest
would be impossible The fact of the
matter was, however, that Yale consid-
cred the athlets from the West out OF
/ her class, but the records made by the
Berkeley men showed they were i'm IL
| with the best of them.
If California does decide 10 go East
again this season, a proposition which
many of the prominent students at the
/ university do not favor. she will not GO
| farther than Chicago. Here she will
/ meet the teams of the Middle West TO
| take part in the Western intercollegi-
ate championship games, where she will
| try to win for another year the silver
/ trophy which she has had in her pos
1 session since last June. This handsome
( trophy goes to the college whose team
wins the annual championship the
greatest number of times out of nine
California captured it first. and Mr.
North, who is president of the Western
association, says that IL will go to the
/ victors of three field days.
There is nevertheless. one way In
which California may have a chance to
cross swords with Yale. Mr.. North Is
| intending to secure the passage of the
! following proposition: Each year the
Victors of the East to meet the victors
of the West and these to contend foi
the supremacy of America. If thi:
scheme carries, ii is not improbable
that Yale will once more take the lead
Of the East and California that Of th'
West, and then between these two 81
ants there will be a battle royal. Call
fornia has some of the best men tha'
ever put on spikes and she is only
anxious for a chance to teach Yale tn,
lesson taught Princeton and Pennsyl
vania. Louis I. Merwin. the newly
elected track captain of the Berkeley
team. is heartily in favor of making th'
trim