The San Francisco call., 1897-11-26
URPHY COMPLETING HIS SENSATIONAL RUN OF FFTYTHREE

! the ball on downs within 3.yards of their
own goal.
The feature of Berkeley's play was
Halls brilliant running. 1t was almost
entirely individual work on his part. He
was in this game what Ransome was in
the past. AT punting, though, he was in
ferior to Ransome and was utterly out
classcd in this respect by Murphy.
Captain Cotton repeated this year his
wonderful line bucking that won the
game last year. He was nearly always
sure OF his distance, and has the record
now of winning twice as many points for
Stanford as any other man who has
played under the cardinal banner. 1t is
an undisputed fact that Cotton has not
played his game heretofore this season,
but no captain ever does in practice. and
Cotton certainly made amends for any loaf
ing he may have done before. lie played
through the game with an injured ankle.
Fickert and Carle, that pair OF veteran
'old reliabies. played as they always have
p1ayed-better than any other two guards
on the coast. Their line bucking and in
reference were splendid.
Burnett, one OF the youngsters in this
veteran aggregation, did splendid wo:k as
center. He played center as it should be
played. He was down the field often with
the ends on punts and several times
tackled for out at the end of the line. |
feared, Judging from his practice work,
that he would fail to ginger UP properly,
but his play was pleasant surprise.
At tackles, Thomas and Rice, occupants
OF the same position last year, put up
strong fight. They had TO bear the brunt
OF their opponents attack, and showed
up very strong. Rice was suffering from
water in the knee, but held his own and
played through the game in spite OF the
return of the water TO his knee.
Parker, another untried Varsity man,
showed up better than any other end on the
field. He ran we'll with the ball and
made some splendid tackles. However.
he was little slow in getting down on
kicks.
On the other end Jeffs did the best he
could under the circumstances. He
started IN at terrific pace. i'll the begin
ming, but II was soon evident at he was
in distress. He. however, played through
until well into the second half, when Rea
Smith took his place. Rea did some
splendit tackling, although he. too. had
been suffering from water on the knee.
Murphy, the quarterback, upheld his
fine reputation. In fact, he exceeded it.
Not only was his puntihg of star order,
but he also made some clever tackles and
got well into the interference, proving
that be had rem edied his chief faults. Only
once did he attempt to run with the ball,
and then he made the longest run OF the
day. 1t WAS a magnificent dash for So
yards through a scattered field.
Daly anu sner, the halloacks, showed
great improvement IN their play. Daily
excelied in end runs, while Fisher was
strongest In tackling and running inter-
ference. He was In every play, and put
up the finest game OF his life
1t Is my personal opinion that the
officials were little unfair in their deci-
sions. On the putout they were surely
wrong, for rule 26 says that a catch from
a putout is to be considered as a fair
catch, and in case of fair catch
being made, the opponents OF the
catcher must line up ten yards
from the neel mark. Again, it was
very evident TO all that Al Lean was con-
tinuaIly, though quietly, coaching his
men, but he was not inlerfered with,
while "BiIlie" McLsod was ruled off the
field for single offense cf that kind.