The San Francisco call., 1897-11-26
IT'S THE FORCE
OF GRAVITY,
One Reason Why the Stanford Team
Won.
BY Miriam Nicholson.

There must be some fundamental rea
son for it," sal a pretty wearer OF the car
/ dinal, com placentIv.
There is It's the force OF gravity. The
/ Berkeley team is q team of light bodied
striped bum blebees. The Stanford clever
IS body of giants, oddly sna ped, queerly
radded giants, who outweigh and outplal
Berkeley despite her gallant struggles
Il do hope that our boys will get ga 1T
with Ya.e or Columbia or some Eastern
college" continued the coed who wa!
radiant in red.
And a fair-naired Berkeieyite, who still
wore her violeJs and yeIlo" chry ysanthe
mum, looked across the crowded car, snC
her violet eyes which were surely colOreC
by sympathy, were very Tesentful.
"Oh, this IS the last straw she whis
pered to her neighbor.
Stanford's victory this year is a fine
one. Her men butted and squirmed and
kicked and ran and bounded and die
everything but fly after tnat lonCed-toi
yellow leather pumpkin. But Berkeley:
defeat is not lnglorlous. Just once heI
men fun bled and let the ball slip away
and into Starford's greedy fingers when
no extraordinary Skill or strength was
needed 10 retain II. But, considering
their weight-or lack OF it-they II ade a
superior to the weight Is evidenced by
the fact that the last half was the hotter
part of the game.
Yet they didn't score.
They were on the point of scoring, ii
seemed, often. When the ball had been
dragged almost inch by inch up 10 Stan
iord's goal, and the weaTers OF the blue
and GOLD began to toot and to howl and 10
wave gold and azure badges, then-sud-
denly, a wonderful run from a heavily
built red-sweaiered giant, a great Kick
from another and the situation was re-
7ersed. Then it was Berkclry's goal that
was in sight. And whenever those mighty,
tugglng, straining Stanford men were
witnln a white line or TWO Of Berkeley
goal, even the blue and gold abandoned
hope. Never once did the cardinals jaiL
BY dint of pushing, by desperate run
and sure Kick, an inCn at time or hun
dreds OF feet-Stanford arrived. She scat
tered the Berkeley boys from her path as
a great, resistless showplow senus the
feat1ery snow flying to either side.
Berkeley fought stubbornly. After
those first two victories of Stanford 5,
when the lighter men, despite heir str ug.
giles, were fairly pushed toward their own
goal. the Berkeley eleven played des per.
ate!y for the third touchdown. a iouI on
Stanford s pari, and then another, gave
them additional advantage, and they
StOrmed on ana on tllI .theTe was DIare
from blue-ribboned trumpets a mad wav.
ing of yiolets and a barking from L. C.
tEroats that would have made menagerie
envious.
Nv here are We! Where ave.wer' de-
ma nded voice high above the rest.
Il wasn't a question. But all in a m
me Mt the tide rad changed. Before the
NO rds Hall! Hall! Bully boy, Hail!
ha d died away girl behind me moaned
"Oh, they're going to kick"
Qui ck!y the ball sped from one set oI
d irIv fingers to another, and then Stan,
ford did kick. Tne ball soa;ed up, up md
way. Two-thirds of the field was COW
ed before Berkeley man, who looked
ike a badly stuffed, oG- fashioned, home
N sde doll, caught tho ball
eco on-OaI Coo on-nW moaned a
boy, from whoss coat was suspended
streamers OF blue.
He seemed to be trying to put into his
voice the strength that should have in