The record-union., 1897-11-26
The Stanford COIIegiates Easily Defeat the
California Universities.
The Former Had Twenty-Eight
Points to Their Credit When
the Game Closed, While the
Latter Could Not Achieve a Sim
gle Unit-Re1iance Falls Before
the Butte City Team.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25.-Cardi-
nal is again the Thanksgiving Day color
of the winning gladiators of the grid
iron, and cardinal is the hue with which
their fellow undergraduates, in honor
of the victory of the eleven from STAN
ford, decorated San Francisco tonight
Unique in the lack of the usual dis
play of partisan college sentiment. the
dominant characteristic of this year
struggle for the goal line Of the oppos-
ing team, was the ease with which
Stanford piled up point after point
touchdown upon touchdown, goal upon
goal until Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni
versity had twenty-eight points to her
credit while the University of Califor-
MIA strove in vain to achieve sing
unit.
Never in the history of intercollegiate
football on the Pacific Coast has victory
been so overwhelming, superiority SO
undeniable, inferiority SO unmistaka-
BILE, as in the match this year, when
the stalwart young athletes from Palo
Alto achieved so signal a triumph over
the team representing the older but less
athletic University of California.
The superiority of the winning team
confirmed by the first touchdown after
the ball had been in play only six min
utes, and maintained throughout the
entire game, the occasional rallies OF
the California eleven serving merely TO
render more marked the ease with
which the Palo Alto players bore back
the ball to the Berkeley territory.
Before the greater avoirdupois of
8 oxr
at every scr;mmage, while as against
a wall of stone the united force of Berk-
eley's team beat in vain against the
nnyielding line of the Palo Alto giants.
But ii was not alone in weight that
Stanford displayed and utilized her ad-
vantage. California was outplayed at
every point in the game. Her interfer-
ence was lamentably weak, and when
interference was attempted, the Cali
fornia tackles were brushed aside with
out apparent effort by the broad-chest
ed and strong limbed athletes from the
groves of Palo Alto.
Captain Hall alone. of all the Berk-
eley players, achieved notable play, but
his series of brilliant runs was. with a
solitary exception, rendered futile by
the lack of support which he received
from his team. He made any number
OF clever end plays, and Whipple, his
right end, made several good runs on
quarter back kicks. and Greisberg, full
back for the University of California
also deserves commendation for his
heavy bucks. and Mayer, center. sue
cessfully held down Fickert, Stanford s
left guard, hitherto considered invmci-
BILE
For Stanford. Captain Cotton, full
back, and Murphy, an ideal quarter
back. played the star parts
Early in the second half Hall punt
ed to Murphy. who, with the ends
pressing close upon him. lodged back
then forward. and cut straight away
zig-zagging down the field, finally be-
ing downed on the California twenty
yard line. achieving the star play of the
day. making in all run of sixty-five
yards through scattered field.
But it was really the solid team work
of Stanford which won the day. '"The
stone wall OF Palo Alto" has become
historic in football annals, and it was
absolutely impregnable this afternoon
Strive as they might, with all the arts
instilled by their watchful coach. Cali
fornia was powerless to break down
that wall of stone Once through gains
by off-side plays on the part of Stan
ford. supplemented by the gigantic eff
forts of Greisberg. Berkeleys full back
the ball was on Stanford's four-yard
line. but the home territory was sue
cessfully defended and the ball speed
ily carried back. Never again in the
course of the game was Stanford's goa
menaced.
The weather was perfect for football
clear and cold, but bright. The attend
ance was the largest at any gridiror
contest in this city. Stanford's victory
and California's defeat being witnessed
by 10000 spectators.
When the game lacked few minutes
of being finished the roof of a flimsy
constructed grandstand collapsed, ths
falling boards descending on the section
occupied by number of members of tht
University club. Several ladies sus-
tanned slight injuries, but no one was
seriously hurt. The accident caused 8
cessation in the game. and play was not
resumed. The bali at the time of the
accident was on Stanford's forty-yard
line, and the unplayed two minutes could
hardly have affected the score.
Time was called at first half. with tht
ball on Stanford's twenty-five yard line
and in Berkeley's possession.
Score-Stanford 16, California O.
An unsuccessful try at goal followed
the third touch down.
The final score: Stanford 2s. Cali
fornia o.
Stanford securing five touch downs
and four goals
The Berkeley team has never won g
game from its opponents at Palo Alto
and 1t was entirely the lack of a vitaliy
necessary snap and vigor that brought
the score 10 the sinister twenty-eight tc
nothing. When the California players
from time to time made some ground
their spirits arose. and they temporarily
worked with a dash that boded Ill fol
the cardinal ranks. A single tumble
or failure to gain. however. was sufli.
cient to throw them back on their ole
hopeless method of listless fighting.
The Berkeleys might have scored. ant
would have done so, but for a mistake
in the judgment of the quarter back
With the ball on Stanford's fifteen-yar6
line, Haskell, quarter, began working