The herald., 1897-11-26
Allowed by Stanford to
Berkeley
THE CRACK RELIANCE TEAM
BEATEN By MoUNTAINEERS OF
MONTANA
Games Played on Other 0ridirons'
The Baltimore Ball Teams Beaten
4 by the Gilt Edges
xs.oc,.ted Press Special wire.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25.-Cardina
Il again the Thanksgiving day color oi
the winning gladiators Of the gridiron
Rnd cardinal is the hue with which theil
fellow undergraduates, in honor OF the
Sictory Of the eleven from Stanford
are decorating San Francisco tonight.
-Unioue in the lack Of the usual display
of partisan college sentiment, the dom
lnant Characteristic of this years strug-
gle for the goal line Of the opposing team
was the ease with which Stanford pileo
up point after point, touchdown upon
touchdown, goal upon goal, until Le-
land Stanford, jr., university had q
points to her credit while the University
of California strove in vain to achieve
q single unit. Never In the history of in
tercollegiate football on the Pacific
coast has victory been so overwhelming
superiority so undeniable, inferiority
so unmistakable as in the match this
afternoon, when the stalwart young
athletes from Palo Alto achieved so sig
nal triumph over the team represent
ing the older but less athletic univer-
Uity of California.
The superiority of the winning team
was apparent at the first scrimmage,
confirmed by the second touchdown, af-
ter the ball had been in play only six
minutes, 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 avordupois Of Stan
ford, the California line gave way at
every scrimmage, while as against wall
of stone, the united force of Berkeley's s
team beat in vain against the unyield-
ing line Of the Palo Alto giants.
But it was not alone in weight that
Stanford displayed and utilized her ad-
vantage. California was outplayed at
every point In the game. Her inter-
ference was lamentably weak, and when
interference was attempted the Califor-
MIA 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 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. Greisberg, fullback for the
University Of California, also deserves
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Mayer, center successfully held down
Fickert, Stanford's left guard, hitherto
considered invincible.
For Stanford, Captain Cotton, full
back, and Murphy, an ideal quarterback,
played the star parts. Early in the Sec
ond half Hall punted to Murphy, who,
with the ends pressing close upon him,
lodged back, then forward, and cut
straight away. zigzagging down the
field, and finally being down on the Cali
fornia 20-yard line, achieving the star
play of the day, making, in all, run of
IS yards through q scattered field
But 1t was really the solid team work
of Stanford which won the day. "The
stone wall of Palo Alto" has become his
toric in football annals, and it was alb
solutely impregnable this afternoon.
Shrike as they might, with all the arts
lnstihed 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 Stanford, supplemented by
the gigantic efforts of Griesberg, Berke-
ley's fullback, the ball was on Stanford's S
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 perfect for football,
clear and cold, but bright. The attend
Rnce was the largest at any gridron
contest in this city, Stanfords 8 victory
and California's defeat being witnessed
by 10000 spectators.
When the game lacked only two min
utes Of its completion the roof of a
fiimsy construction of the grand stand
collapsed, the falling boards descending
on the section occupied by number of
members of the University club. Sew
eral ladies sustained slight injuries, but
no one was seriously hurt. The acci-
dent caused a cessation in the game, and
at the time of the accident on Stanford's
aO-yard line, and the unplayed two min
utes could hardly have affected the
score.
The Berkeley team has never won a
game from their opponents at Palo Alto.
and 1t was entirely the lack of vitality.
snap and vigor that brought the score
to the sinister twenty eight to nothing.
When the California players from time
to time made some ground their spirits
arose, and they temporarily worked with
a dash that boded i'll for the cardinal
ranks. A single tumble, or gain. how
ever, was sufficient to throw them back
on their old, hopeless method of listless
fighting.
The U. G. might have scored and
would have done so but for mistake in
the judgment Of the quarterback. With
the ball on Stanford's fifteen yard line
Haskell, quarterback, was WORKING
Griesberg, the big fullback, on the line
With the ball on Stanford's four ward
line and Griesberg exhausted, Haskell
transferred the line work to Hall, Z
smaller man and one less capable OF
making the few necessary yards against
q team realizing it's danger and fighting
in desperate defense of its goal.
Had Haskell worked Hale to Ludlow
when the goal was not so near and the
danger to Stanford less imminent, re.
serving Griesberg for the final struggle
there is little doubt that the giant full