The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-06
OLYMP|CS
MANAGED TO
MAKE 4 TIE
A Featureless Game
With Stanford.
SCORE STOOD SIX TO SIX
HOBBS AND HILL MADE THE
ONLY POINTS.
Cross Lectured His Men Between the
Halves and They Did Better
Toward the Games
End.
HOBBS AND HILL MADE THE
ONLY POINTS.
Olympics 8. Stanford 6.

O1ympics 6, Stanford g.
For the first time this season the Olym-
pics scored. More than that, they did
not lose the game. They did not win IT,
but they prevented the opposing eleven
from adding another feather to their cap
of victories and that is something. Hobbs
the giant guard. with his go pounds OF
muscle, won the touchdown from the car
dinal by a successful blocking Of Muir
phys punt and following the ball on the
rebound until 1t reached the goal line,
when he dropped on it and rolled it over
for touchdown. This was the one
bright feature of an otherwise featureless
game.
Stanford did not play Its best eleven on
account of injuries to a few of the chosen
athletes, but those who did play did moth
ing to distinguish themselves in gridiron
reputation. The clubmen. augmented in
strength, put up q game that was fairly
good, but which was lacking in judgment
from beginning to end. Code and Morse,
back eff the line, in a series Of passes.
earned ground for the Olympics by clever
passing on the run, and Sheehy, who was
ever in the midst of scrimmages and
down the field on kicks, were the bright
particular stars of the Recreation Park
football armament yesterday.
What the game lacked was snap ana
ginger, but this was due in great meas
ure to the midsummer weather, a slX-lnch
coating of dust and the encroachments of
the mob that crowded in on the side
lines, making II Impossible for the teams
TO play. The police, with their usual atten-
ton to unimportant details, neglected to
keep the crowd back, 10 the great dis
eomfture of the players, the people VINO
must of necessity be on the sidelines and
the spectators in the stands. The guard
fans OF the public peace were there IN
sufficient numbers, but they preserved
most beautiful inaction.
The game began by Stanford kicking on
To fhsa -ar1fx
he ran the ball in about ten yards before
being downed. Then the ball was ad-
vanced for twenty yards until l. rumble
on the part of the Olympics gave Stanford
the ball; but the compliment was returned
and the Olympics once more took pos
session of the pigskin on their own twenty
Three times they tried to force their
way through the Stanford line, which for
the moment seemed imbued with gum
my spirit, and three times We're they re-
pulsed surrendering the pigskin TO the
cardinal Then there was tumble on the
part of the college men, but 1t gained
yard line, when the next signal gave
Hill an opportunity to score, which he ala,
and the hooting and bowling eollegians
on the benches sonorously celebrated the
first touchdown of the day. STANFORD
five points were increased to six by Mur-
ply kicking goal.
The rest of the first half was fought
pretty much in the Stanford territory,
the clubmen gaining ground with regular
ity of procedure that left Stanford NE
less. until some spot of danger was
reached. and then the college men took
a bracer and cut off the advance ATTACK
There was no further scoring In this malt
During the rest between halves Cross
lectured his men, and they returned TO
the field with more or less resolution to
eliminate the Olympics as a positive guam
tity. They did not succeed very IuiiS, LOT
in this half the Olympians scored and
continued to earn more ground than they
were entitled to. 1t was Stanford's bail
on their own thirty-yard line when Muir
ply was given the spheroid 10 kick With
a iu1np and a dash Hobbs of the Olym-
pics shot through the Stanford center and
blocked the ball just as It left Murphy
foot. The rebound set the ball swirling
over the field, toward the goal posts eT,so
and Hobbs and Murphy raced for 1t. The
big "un' won the palm and he nestled
the ball. in his sweater. rolling over the
last lfme-Iine TO touchdown. with Muir
phy holding him fast TO the dusty grid
Morse kicked a goal, and the score read
Go. remaining such throughout the rest
of the game. ..u.
Gross. referee. The teams lined up as fol-
lows: