The record-union., 1896-02-03
LIVELY GAME OF FOOTBALL.
This Time Woodbridge Makes a Tie With
Sacramento.
There Was Work for the Doctors, But
the Ranks Were Kept Filled
Score. s to 6.

The honors were evenly divided be-
tween the Sacramento High School and
woodbridge College football teams on
Saturday at Agricultural Park. Each
team had scored six points when the
referees whistle announced "time!"
with the ball in the hands of Wood
bridge and only six yards from the
goal line.
Throughout the whole game both
teams displayed just a little bit too
much Of the ranking discord which has
the tendency to creep into a man on
the second contest Of the season be-
tween the same teams. Everybody is
''on to" everybody else, and the play
must be dogged and determined from
the very start The Woodbridge boys
came up to win, and the Sacramento
boys knew it, and the truth of the mat
ter is that Sacramento went into the
game not with the idea of winning, but
with a determination to keep down the
score of the other side, and with a
strong hope to tie.
It was enough to silence the yells Of
the strongest enthusiasts of the purple
and white to see the way the Wood
bridge fellows started to walk through
their opponents. It could be easily
seen that it was to be a hard, uphill
and stubborn fight for the Sacramento
boys. If the way the Woodbridge team
showed their capacities as ground-gain-
ers on the first kickoff and the three
following downs was to be taken as an
index to the trend of the game, it would
have seemed to the spectator that Sac
ramento was mot in it,
The team work Of Woodbridge was
well executed, but they made some very
fatal fumbles during the game, which
the Sacramento boys got down on in
good style. Owing to the muddy con-
dition of the grounds it was a pretty
hard matter for the players to start on
a down, and as the average weight of
the teams was very close, the slowest
starters had simply to slide back.
For Sacramento, HoH and May made
the longest gains, the straightest run
of the day being made by May, when he
carried the ball clean through a hole in
the Woodbridge team, from the twenty
five-yard line for the redeeming touch
down Holl did not miss an opportu-
nifty to be on to the ball whenever there
was an opening.
Ed. Flint played a very strong game,
and rendered HoI most material as
sistance. In fact, had it not been for
the manner in which Flint went for
and got his man every time on inter
ference, a number of Hollis fine ground
gamers would have been shortened
very materially. He also added two
points to Sacramento's score by kick
ing a goal from Mays touch down.
Flint was quite seriously laid out to-
or-I ha Of
and had to be taken home in a carriage.
Jack Powers, as long as he lasted,
played a very steady game, but was
forced to retire quite early, owing to
severely sprained ankle. Dixon took
his place, but was injured. Then 'that
fellow with the red sweater" as the
Woodbridge boys called him-he's
known as Chick Harrison in Sacra-
mento-came on, and made the Wood
bridge people think that cyclone had
turned loose behind the Sacramento
rush line He hit the line pretty hard
sometimes, and showed, as he re-
marked after the trouble was over,
that he is perfectly capable of taking
care of Chick"
Van Voorhies had to put in a goodly
part Of his time holding his team to-
gether, puzzling out the hard conund-
rum Of how he was going to get
through the woodbridge center, who
stuck together like glue. 1t did not
take him long to find out that his char
acteristic center bucks were not as sure
ground gamers as they have proved TO
have been heretofore, and for this rea-
son Van sent most Of his plays round
the ends. Although he did not play his
usual fine individual game, he exer-
eised clever judgment in the disposition
of his team work, and did himself much
credit as captain of his team.
Vim Merkley held his end down in his
usual good form, and did some very
fine work In a number of plays, by
his quick starts, he forced the op-
ponents back, in one very noticeable
case carrying the holder of the ball
back ten yards before he could be stop
ped. Hornlein and BirdsaI played
their reliable and steady game, and
worked together very well.
But the Sacramento boys didn't do all
the playing. Van Meter of Woodbridge
made some long runs. Rawles made a
pretty run of about twenty yards, and
had it not been that he slipped in the
mud he would probably have made a
touchdown for his side. Say" he said
my feet flew out from under me, or
had a sure thing" However, Broyles
went through for the rest of the dis
tanee, mad made the first touch down,
which was converted into a goal by
Garnette Garnette's game was full Of
snap and vigor, and he made some
clever tackles. Armstrong played 8
fast game at quarter for his team, and
did some hard work.
The attendance at the game was quite
large and the green and yellow of
Woodbridge were well represented. En-
thusiasm ran high at many stages Of
the game, and May and Flint were
warmly. congratulated when they made
the touchdown and goal, respectively,