The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-09
They Will Contest To-Day
in a Society Football
Game.
West Point and Annapolis
Against Graduates of Uni.
verSitieS.
Gridiron Heroes of Many Teams tC
Fight for Maidens' Favor at
Central Park.

a football contest in which society will
take great interest is to be waged. at
Central Park this afternoon. The game
will be called at o'clock. The proceeds
will be devoted to charity, and the glory
of victory will be the only reward desired
by the participants.
1t Will be society event, for all the
players are young, well educated, ath-
Ietic, unm arried and, in some instances,
might even be considered good looking.
One team is composed entirely of young
commissioned officers who have been reg
ularly graduated from the United States
Military Academy at West Point or the
naval academy at Annapolis. And that
means that these men were, perhaps, the
pick of many competitors in different
parts of the Union when they secured
their appointments to the academies, and
it certainly means that they must have
been physically perfect to be accepted and
retained as students at those institutions
where gallantry, courtesy and dancing
are almost as much a part of the course of
instruction as are the studies associated
with the art of war. Of the sixteen young
officers that may be called upon to play
nine are West Pointers and seven are An
napolis men.
The other team is composed of univer-
sity men, representing the following insti-
tutions: Harvard, Yale, University of
California, Stanford, Stevens Institute of
Technology, Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology, University of Missouri and
William Jewell College. There will be
sixteen on hand TO insure a serviceabIe
team, in case OF accident to the original
eleven. All OF the college men are gradu-
ates who have received their degrees.
Many of them are members of the swell
University Club.
These then are the players. What mat
tiers it how the game goesp But there are
enough veterans with Varsity regulations
to maintain to insure a lively contest.
Where the young officers of the army and
navy, combining themselves strictly to
their own class, have an advantage in pos
sessing material most OF which is fresh
from the academy teams and half of which
has been actively engaged with the OIym-
pic Cub eleven this season, the Z University
Club has almost evened up matters by bor-
rowing some excellent old material that
could not be found among the members of
the CLUB itself
In this way, while primarily for charity,
the game resolves itself into a contest be-
tween the representatives of the army
and navy branch of society and the civilian
branch.
Following are the men that will play,
arranged as they will oppose each other,
and with their stripped weights indicated:
Army and Navy. Position University Men.
Nolan (capL), 156....L L. r. ...-...... Coyne 176
Harms, T.R. .:. + % Iney, I SO
Ham Ham lso T sd P PFngIs i 1s9
A%ss aS' i85 sh aaTHsg is is
McCofmack. 1873 -. R. E. L. Dlbblee, lze
R Rino iSS. i5s ..Harrelson, 14O
Carson. L H R. F F MSE 'se@ GS2 iS3
F Fn9y lSo-. H W sf Mases 1 1s5
KING, 1856 .................F..... McNear 165
OF the army and navy team Nolan,
Ham, Ames, Bent, Hinckley, Carson and
King are ieutenants in the army;
Menoher is an adjutant at Angel Island
while Harms, Kavanagh, Mccormack and
Raby are naval cadets soon to be pro-
NOTED; England is an ensign and Ruhm
is a naval constructor. King, who Will
play fullback and do the kicking for the
team, was graduated from West Point
with the class of SO. He played on the
academy team several years and was the
captain during the seasons of '94 and 95
Carson, who will play halfback, was
graduated in 1894 and captained the team
in his senior year. Nolan, who Will caps
tain the team to-day, was graduated only
last year, aEdin addition to being the best
end that has ever played on this coast
was last year rated as one of the two best
end rushes in America during his last
season on the West Point team. McCor-
mack, who will play the other end to-day,
is a veteran fresh from the Annapolis
team, as is also Harms, who will play
tackle.
Menoher and Ham are new at the
game, not having played during their col
lege careers. Hlnckley, who will play
quarter if he has to, was so severely in
jured at football while at West Point that
TlSkS Qftamnfipo fha
game.
OF the University Club players many
have had Varsity experience. Coyne was
captain and end on the Stevens Institute
of Technology team before his graduation
in "a, and subsequently was end on the
great Orange Athletic Club team. OIney
was end at Berkeley previous to
his graduation in 81. Thomas Magee
was half and end at Berkeley before 1891,
and played considerably at Harvard, from
which he was graduated in 1893. Will
PringIe was Yale "a man and picked up
the game there. Ed Pringle was Berke-
ley '93 man. Harvey, when he carried
less superhuous flesh than at present, was
center for Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology. Ray Sherman was gnard on
the Berkeley Varsity for three years and
was graduated last year.
"Phat' Downing played on the Stan
ford Varsity during his whole four years
at college, first as halfback, next as guard,
next as center, and before his graduation
in 90 as tackle He captained the victorI-
Gus team of '94, and was also baseball
player.
Dibblee, Harvard '93 man. played four
years on his class team and was substi-
tute one year on the Harvard Varsity.
HARRISON, a graduate OF Stanford in '95,
was quarter or the Varsity football team
and fielder on the Varsity baseball team.
Fred McNear, Harvard graduate of the
early COS, played half on the Harvard
Varsity during the early games of one
season until injured.
Frankenheimer, a graduate of Stanford
in '96, was another four-year varsity man,
first at end but latterly at half, where he
became terror to Berkeley men.
Starlight played football four years at
William Jewell College in Missouri before
graduating there, and spending last year
at the University of Missouri, where he
also played before coming to Stanford
and winning place on the victorious
THANKSGIVING team. w. A. Magee is a
Berkeley 81 man and a graduate of Ste
vens Institute oil Technology in So, and
played half on the Varsity at both places.
S. McNear is a Harvard So man, and,
in addition 10 playing on his class team,
was during his senior year substitute on
the Varsity.
Such will be the array of gridiron heroes
gathered from many colleges. And with
them upon the field as officials will be the
three most prominent players of the col
lege football season just closed.
There Will be The dignifed and studious-