The San Francisco call., 1897-11-21

Total weights-Reiance 1892; Army, 1882
When the soldiers came on the field in
gorgeous and spotless red and white striped
sweaters and first -class new football out
fits there were perhaps three men and a
boy in the grand stand, though il was
time for the game to be called Reliance
appeared few moments later with Just
eleven players in suits.
Indications promised a deserved
frost" and the iingling atmosphere
suggested a real one. But after the game
had started several hundred persons
drifted into the grounds, and, if they aid
not see much clever football, they wit
messed unusual features incident to ire
quent, objectionable and costly fun bles
that gave lite and agreeable interest to
what otherwise would have come near to
being a farcical excuse for gridiIon
match.
The soldiers had the first kickoff to-
ward the west goal and regained the bal /
on the thirty-yard line from Erskine's y
poor little return kick. In nine pays,
principally through Reliance's uncondi-
TONED left tackle, they worked the ball
down to the five-yard line, where Reliance
held and took the ball on downs
After making five small gains on bucks
through tackles and center Keliau ce
punted nearly to the middle Of the field,
where the army back was downed in his
gaining about three yards at time, the
army backs, with some ia interference
anu assisted by the superiority of Bren-
yam to his vis-a-vis, carried the ball down
to the twenty-yard line. Again Reli ance
held Ind took the ball on TOUR downs.
Like fash little Carter came round the
Army rlsht end on the first play. and,
ro'ected by well distributed interference
that surprise several soldiers, sped
tawarj the east goal and covered fifty.
seven yards before he was finally downed.
Reliance soon lost ten yards, and lost the
ball on downs.
With the ball near the 35-yaid line, on
Its second attempt 10 advance, large part
OF the Army team PARTICIPATED in q COM
blnatlon fumbie that lost over twenty-tiv
yards. On e 10-yard line Seawright
tried to punt out of the hole and kicked
into the line, and Jack Sherrard dashed
through, grabbed the fun bled ball and
carried 1t five yards and over The line for
touchdown. Platr missed difficult
goal.
Army again kicked off and Erskine was
downed when he caught the ball. Arlett
punted at once. Seawrght caught the
ball on his own 20-yard line and ran back
ten yards IN attempting to evade tacklers.
The half ended with the ball on Army's
10-yard line.
Arlett kicked off in the second hall, and
IseIiaHce GOT tne pail on the 4O-yard line
from SeawrighLs short return punt. In
seven tackle bucks she carried it almost
TO the 5-yard line, and then lost il In
tumble. Army bucked and fumbl and
kicked and got the ball on short return
kick and lost it on a tumble on the 25-yard
line, where Seawrigh: was gully of as
dirty piece of deliberate muckerish play
as has been seen on the local grid ron.
After the play had stopped he attacked
and felled little Platt in touch and proba-
bly, only the fact that all the officials were
Reliance men saved him from immediate
Disqualified ion.
1t was soon after that that Platt kicked
held goal, the third performance of the
kind to be recorded for all the match
games PLAYED on his coast since Western
football wes firmly established early in
1892 by the first intercollegiate game.
Both of the other field goals were made
by Joe Tobin for Olymp C, one in this city
and one on the Stanford campus.
With the ball ON the Reliance 1O.yard