The San Francisco call., 1898-09-03
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 With the autumn comes the first. hot wind from the gridiFon. At the -Unlver@ sity of California but one topic. of con- versation is heard among the. students. and that is football. Every afternoon the candidates of the Varsity show them selves for preparatory work on the: grid iron. Coach Cochran is Worklpg.. with vim and spirit and the men take well 10 his teaching.
 That a change has been instituted in the work at Berkeley is at once: not1ce' able. It is very likely that the gymna~ sium preparation will be dispensed 'Wlth' entirely and the early training be devoted to the first rudfments on the held' Coch~ ran wishes to get over the prelllnl1iiat.y work as soon as possible anQ then go lHeo active practice. :. =.
 The prospects for a. team are fairly good. The eleven wearing the blue and gold will be one of development rather than creation. Cochran began his. laborS in the spring and he will continue in the same path until the end or the season. Just now there are grave doubts who Will and who will not return. to. college. The students count on some good:men for the line. The new Acquisition. CadWalader, formerly center of Yale, Is. undoubteQly the best line material that has been en- rolled under the blue and gold 'standards for several years. The former 4pethclenGy of the line on account of a lack of. DE men to oppose the strength and weight of the famous Stanford trio seems now Tn a
 
 slated to play one of the. center posi- tions, CadWalader another and a To- mona giant, about 21O pounds net, the; third place. This vii change. the entire order of things. For tackles there is a strong belief that Simpson and .Prlngls will again return to the lime-cr!ossed 1ela.' The candidates for end are quite. numer~ ous and the material of fair working. quality. Other candidates of more or ls5s pWof and smth who @ has just entered from Hoitt's School, Captain Percy Hall, the bright glittefingi star Of the last ntercollegate game; IS F 1ev0as rial and the plying of persuasive tongue to induce the football possibilities to come. out and try for the team: fard san+ +o vic tory last year is disrupted. The nonpa- reil center, Burnett. Carle ana tlckert' has gone three separate ways, ana tneTe is no possibility of a convergence at Palo Alto or any other place this fall. TICK ert, a post graduate, Is dlsquanned on account of the four years limit. B4r- nett is thinking of the insurgents at Ma nila, and Carle is holding out 'agalnst the protestations of a worshfpful student body. Rice and Thomas, the tackles or cellent substitutional material, but It will have to be formed into & team, which is a.: task of constderable 4apor. Balentine, Rusk, James, Bigelow, Car son and Harrington are names that will possibly be seen in the lineup of the Stanford eleven of '9S The fresh- man class mas not .UeelI eAPiOlICo SSSNb for Stanford does. not really begin It's fall semester until the middle of Septem- Der. some three weeks later. than the University of California. Harry Cross. the coach of two seasons ago, will again pilot the Stanford football craft this year His work will be on the: line chief iy. for there is where the gaps show most at present. Behind the line are Murphy, Fisher, Erb. Wilson and Free man.
 The third team which will play the col leges in the early games of the season will undoubtedly be. the sOlympics, though there is a faint possibility of it being the Reliance. The entire matter. hinges on the question of proportion Of gate re- ceipts The Olympic Club will put team in the field if the college managers will agree to allow the club team the net receints of every game played. The Olympians contend that it will be impos- sible to put in a team otherwise. The expense is so great for them during the season that they must have all the re- turns of the athletic club-college con- tests Manager Pritchard of Stanford has not yet returned to college, and no meeting can be had until he arrives. An other difficulty besetting the Olympic Club Is the tangle over election. The have to come from the new board which will not be elected until the latter part of the month. But the football material in the club are ambitious, and they are talk ing things over There will be on the rolls Smith. Sexton Hobbs, Sheehy, Middle mas, Code, Morse and a number of other heavy weights The rub comes in the search for lighter men for the ends and back of the line.