The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
Y. NJ. c. A. TEAM
( AGAIN VICTORIOUS
Lick Football Players De-
feated by the Light
weights.
A Close and Interesting Contest
With the Score Six to
Four.
Effective Tackle.Ktller Play Used
Upon Lick's Understandable
of the Game.

tins City played its thirty sixth game yes
terday afternoon at Central Park and
came out of tbs contest still maintaining
its unique record of no defeats. 1t met
and vanquished the California School of
Mechanical Arts, otherwise the Lick Poly
technic School.
But it was a close game. The score was
to 4. Both teams made single touch
down exactly between the posts and after
q long Individual run. That the score was
not tie is due to the failure of Left Half
back Hamilton to kick an easy goal for
} lex. Ii was said, however, to be the
inst goal he has missed this season. Dur
ing both halves most of the playing was
in Lick territory. Once in the first half
Y. NJ. c. A. had to give the ball up when
within six yards OF the Lick goal, after
having advanced it by continuous gains
for seventy yards.
In the second half Y. M. c. A. twice lost
the bail on downs near the Lick 15-vard-
line. There we're no other close calls on
goal during the game.
The Y. NJ. C. A touchdown, coming as
it did early in the first half, and when
Lick appeared to have an advantage, was
both a surprise and somewhat of an acct
dent, if an unmedltated play may be SO
called. Lick had caught Symmes' first
kickoff on the 25-yard line, and was
downed on the spot by the speedy Y. NJ.
&. a. ends. Then in seven rushes Lick
carried the ball back 10 and over the center
line. On the next attempt \. NJ. c. a.
. held and Lick lost a yard. Then Wilson
was given the ball. He Ium bled. Like 4
fash, Left End Keller picked the ball up
on the very center line. He had q clear
field before him, and with Right Halfback
Davidson running close behind him and
Lick men vainly pursuing, he carried the
ball between the gOalposts.
Lick then realized that its skill and its
% pounds greater weight to the man
might be offset BY just such ready, quick,
OppOrtune playing us that 1t became
game for caution on The part OF the play
ers and for expectation among the specta-
tors.
The first half went on with honors about
even. 1t ended with Lick in possession of
the ball very near the center of the field.
Early in the second half little Keler's
lame ankle was hurt again after he bad
made beautiful end run for gain Of 20
yards. Allen Miller took his place at lett
end for Y. NJ. c. a. Soon after that
Y. NJ. c. A. lost the ball after having
worked it back from its own 25-yard line
10 near Lick's 15-Yard line.
Then Lick began an admirable series OF
seven pay > uS444R W 4lsO& anu haullkDn
for long gains through the Y. NJ. c. A.
Inc, and finally scoring a touchdown after
q total advance OF nlnety-two yards with
out once losing the ball. Twice again dur
ing the remaining time of play Lick made
two continuous advances of forty yards
each on ten plays, and then failed to gain
when Just inside of y. ". c. A territory
Y. NJ. C. A. used one play in particular
that generally resulted in a good gain. 1t
was a tandem formation driven RAPIDLY
through the LEX tackles. They called it
the tackIe-kiier." After it had been
used successfully on one side Of the Lick
line the Y. NJ. c. A. rooters on the side
lines would yell SUCCESSFULLY Give 'em
the other BARREL and presently the big
Lick players would get 1.-The other barrel"
with telling effect
At times the Christian spirit seemed to
be forgotten and the struggle on both
sides assumed a fierceness that savored of
personal malice.
After the game the partisans of the
Christian Association team swarmed on
the field, ana holding aloft two large
wooden axes, Joined In the significant
Stanford slogan, beginning "Give 'em the
ak the ak, the az" Some pretty girls
wearing the orange and black of Lick rue
fully fingered near the grand stand and
one of them scornfuliy remarked: "The
traitors" for all Lick felt keenly the loss
of the two fine players that left in disgust
months ago and joined the Y. NJ. c. a.
forces
The following record of all the games
played by the Y. NJ. C. a. team this season
shows no defeats Notwithstanding the
fact that, with the exception of Peralta
Academy and Polytechnic High School,
the lightweight eleven conceded from fif-
teen to thirty pounds to the man in the
elevens it met:
Company c. League of the Cross Cadets. 90
Peralta Aca1emy. Berkeley. ............ $50
Hoitts School, B uriingame. ........... -. 90
Co swell College. ................ a
Polytechnic High School (practce, one-haf
n.y. - - $40
COgswell College ............ lS-O
J. well y Ugh School 49,. .--.- ........... 1919