The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22

football clothes over 200 pounds. He has
played with the Olympics for the last
three seasons, first as center and then as
guard. During the season of '93, while
freshman at the University of California,
he played guard on the Varsity, but in the
Thanksgiving game of that year he filed
lett tackles position, relieving Loren
Hunt, who was early retired from the field
because of an additional injury to a lame
leg. Before that one year az Berkeley
Smith had PLAYED football for some time
at Cogswell College, in this City.
Trained in '93 by the giant Heffelfnger
of Yolo, said to be the greatest guard that
ever lived, Smith has since developed his
play along the lines suggested by his
teacher, whose physical proportions he
approaches more nearly than any other
football-player in California.
With respect to veteran players from
pies are better off than either OF the uni
versities. Stanford has lost six OF her old
team by graduation and Berkeley has lost
one by graduation and five through other
causes. The Olympics have Kingdom, 192
pounds, center; Middlemas, 178 pounds,
guard; Smith, 1876 pounds, guard; Sexton,
176 pounds, tackle; Porter, 1872 pounds,
tackle; Nahl, lao pounds, quarter, and
Percy Morse, 100 pounds, halfback.
They have lost both ends, halfback
and a fullback. But for new men they
practically have Weldon, sub-fullback for
Stanford last year and a player OF four or
five years experience at Belmont School
and at Stanford University, and Tommy
Code, quarterback of the Stanford Varsity
for four seasons. Both men have been
members of the Olympic Club for several
years, Code having at one time been a
we'll known lightweight wrestler. In ad-
dition to these men, Captain Smith has
his eve on Harrelson, Stanford'S star
quarterback; Lewis, formerly an end rush
on the Stanford Varsity; Downing, cap
tain of the Stanford Varsity IN 1884;
Frankenheimer, Stanford's veteran emo
rush and halfback, and Wilson, for sew
eraI wears end rush of the Berkeley Var
sity. These men have been graduates
from college, and are now in business in
or near this City.
OF the veteran Olympic players, Sexton
first PLAYED with the Olympics in 1892 and
then in 1898. Kingdom, known as a
promising young wrestler In his club,
made his initial appearance on the grid
iron field last season. And here it may be
appropriate to say that Captain Smith
laughs at the suggestion that Kingdom
may, as a student in the college of phar-
macy, play with Berkeley this year. He
declares that Kingdom Will stay with the
Olympics exclusively, as he did last year.
Middlemas has played but one season,
though he had experience previous TO last
year while student in Anderson's acad-
emy, Alameda. Percy Morse is veteran
football PLAYER in the broadcast sense of
the term. He has played both the asso-
citation and the intercollegiate game off
and on for the last five years. Porter"
as they say at the Olympic Club. ''has
been playing football since the year l."
He played Amherst College years ago;
then, in 1892, helped coach Stanford while
he was a teacher and coach at San
Mateo preparatory school, where he played
the game for several years.
Then he played with the OIympics, and
in '94 played on the Berkeley Varsity,
having qualified for the team by entering
the medical college of this City. Last year
he returned to the Olympics.
The Olympics will not begin training
before the middle of September, a time
when the two universities will also set the
ball rolling. The individual players and
at very small expense.
Pringle, last years manager of the
Reliance Club eleven, has not been re-
elected to that position, which is still
vacant. Fred Frick, captain of the team
last year, is now deep in Oakland politics.
The club itself is making no active
preparations for team this season, though
old material being available.
1t is said that big Bert Oliver, guard and
tackle on the Reliance eleven for the last
two seasons, will enter Stanford this year.
He has been a college possibility for sew
eral years. Now il seems he has decided
to go at the request of Manager Brown of
the PaIo Alto team, who is also an Oak
land boy and an old schoolmate of Oliver.
Brown soon after his election to the man.
agership, set about With Captain Fickert
of the Stanford team to engage a coach
for this season. Walter Camp could not
return, but he had done everything pos
sible while he was out here to lay the
foundation for good team this fall. One
of Manager Browns first thoughts was to
engage Butterworth, thereby not only de-
priving Berkeley of his services but secur-
ing for the Stanford players the advantage
of his intimate knowledge of the Berkeley
men he had trained last season.
But the idea was soon abandoned as
savoring OF a tricky advantage. After
considerable correspondence Cross, Yale's
center of last season. was engaged to come
to Palo Alto on October 1 and coach
Camps old pupils for two months. Cross
is not a star player, neither is Captain
Fickert of the Stanford team. But both
are big, determined, conscientious men,
who give backbone to team by adding
strength and irmness to the line. Cross
played on the Varsity only in his senior
year at Yale. Previous to that he had
been on the second eleven-a most excel
lent place to observe and learn the whole
game. The one place for which he was
peculiarly fitted happened to be filled by
the great Stillman, q phenomenal center,
who as such was little better man for the
place than Cross. But Palo Altos new,
coach is fresh from the gridiron field; he
has Camps trained men to work with,
and he will himself be thoroughly in
touch with the Stanford captain in max
ing the line, already composed of veterans,
a stone wall for Berkeley to oppose with
practically new men.
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