The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-26

goal, until Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versity had Is points to her credit
While the University of California
strove in vain to achieve a single unit
Never in the history Of collegiate
football on the Pacific coast has vic
tory been so overwhelming, superiority
so undeniable, inferiority so unmistak-
able, as in the match this afternoon
when the stalwart young athletes from
Palo Alto achieved so signal a triumph
over the team representing the older,
but less athletic, University of Cali
forria.
The superiority of the winning team
was apparent at the first scrimmage,
confirmed by the first touchdown, after
the ball had been in play only six min
utes, ard maintained throughout the
entire game, the occasional rallies of
the California eleven serving merely
to re-2der more marked the ease with
with which the Palo Alto players bore
back the bail to the Berkeley territory.
Before the greater avoirdupois of
Stanford, the California line gave way
at every Scrimmage, While as against a
wall of stone. the united force of Berke-
leys team beat in vain against the
unyielding line of the Palo Alto giants.
But it was not alone in weight that
Stanford displayed and utilized her adj
vantage California was outDlayed at
every point in the game. Her inter-
ference was lamentably weak and
when interference was attempted the
California tackles were brushed aside
without apparent effort, by the broad
cheSted and strong limbed athletes from
the groves of Palo Alto.
Captain Hall alone of all the Berke-
ley players achieved really notable
plays, but his series of brilliant runs
were, with a solitary exception, rem
dered futile by the lack of support
which he received from his team. He
made any number of clever end plays,
and Wh!DDle. his right guard, made
several good runs on quarterback
kicks. Greisberg, full back for the u.
c., also deserves commentator for his
heavy bucks, and Mayer, center, sue
cessfully downed Fickert, Stanford's
left guard, hitherto considered irwin
chile
For Stanford. Captain Cotton. full
back, and Murphy, an ideal quarter
back, played the star parts. Early in
the second half Hall punted to Murphy
who, with the ends pressing close upon
him, lodged back, then forward. and
cut straight away, zig-zagging down
the field and finally being downed on
the California 20-yard line, achieving
the star play of the day, making in all
a run of IS yards through a scattered
field
But it was the solid team work of
Stanford which won the game.
THE Stonewall Of Pale Alto" has
become historic in football annals, and
it was absolutely impregnable this af-
ternoon. Strive as they might with all
the arts instilled by their watchful
coach, California was powerless to
break down that wall of stone. Once
through gains by offside plays on the
part of Stanford, supplemented by the
efforts of Greisberg, Berkeley's full
back, the ball was on StanfordS four
yard line, but the home territory was
successfully defended, and the ball
speedily carried back. Never again, in
the course of the game was Stanford S
goal menaced. The weather was ideal
for football-clear and cold, but bright.
The attendance was the largest at any
football game played in this city, Stan
ford's victory and ,safifornia's defeat
being witnessed by 10000 spectators.
When the game lacked only two min
uteS of it's completion the roof of q
fiimSily constructed section of the grand
stand collapsed, the falling boards de-
scending on the section occupied by a
number of members of the University
club. Several ladies sustained slight
injuries but no one was seriously hurt
The accident caused a cessation in the
game, and play was resumed. The ball
was at the time of the accident on
Stanford's 40-yard line, and the I'M
played two minutes could hardly have
affected the score.
Time was called for the first half
with the ball on Stanford's 25-yard
line and in Berkeley's possession.
Score: Stanford, IS; California, o.
An unsuccessful try at goal followed
the second touchdown. The final score
was: Stanford, %; California, 0.
Stanford secured five touchdowns and
four goals.