The record-union., 1898-11-25
The CALIFORNIA; Finally Succeed In Defeat
Ing the Stanfords.
Score at the Close Of the Contest
Twenty-Five to Nothing-A
Badly Managed Game on the
Part Of Those in Charge-Twice
the Number Of People Allowed
to Pass Through the Gates for
Which Accommodations Had
Been Provided.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.-Never
was game so mismanaged as this,
the eighth ANIMAL Thanksgiving Day
football game between the University
of California and the Leland Stanford
Jr. University. Although 10000 peo-
pie passed through the gates, accom-
modations were made only for about
half that number. The consequence
was that people were unable to obtain
the seats reserved for them, and spec
tators overcrowded every section, and
hundreds of interlopers trespassed on
the football grounds, interfered with
the progress of the game and blocked
every point of vantage. Ladies were
hustled hither and thither, their wraps
torn from their shoulders and trampled
under foot, and their seats usurped by
outsiders who should not have been
allowed inside the gates.
The college Students with their GUS
tomary egotism, born of inexperience,
undertook to arrange the seating of the
immense crowd, with the result that
people were pushed about indiscrim-
inately, and after having paid for seats
were obliged to stand on the fringe of
the crowd during the entire progress of
the game. The sole object of the man.
agement seemed to be sell tickets at
any price, irrespective of the seating
capacity of the grounds, with the con-
sequence that the box Office was sur
rounded by people demanding their
money back. 1t is probable that the
next football game managed by a CO.
terie of amateur boys will have much
smaller attendance than the football
game of 1898.
After a delay of seven years Califor-
MIA achieved her first football victory
over Stanford by a score of % to @.
In three games the score was tied, and
four times Stanford won. This year,
for the first ime in the history of inter-
collegiate football on the Pacific Coast,
the undergraduates of Berkeley know
how it feels to be a winner. BY every
football test the Berkeley team to-day
was the superior, her men outclassing
Stanford both I'm team work and indi-
vidual play. After the game had been
on five minutes it was clearly the
University of California's day, and
thenceforth the fight became merely a
matter of the score.
/ On the 2-yard line Murphy, Stan
ford's quarter, dropped back for a kick.
The ball rose high in the air, descend
ing above the 5-yard line, where Muir
ply himself cleverly caught it and
broke away for a magnificent 9O-yard
run, being finally downed by Hall on
the 70-yard line. Apart from this ex-
ceptional play Stanford invariably
gave way from center to backs, and
the California men plunged through
from 5 to 10 yards at a rush.
Smith, for California, played star
game, and the best feature of the en-
tire play was his high dives over the
Stanford center
Stanford lined up weaker with every
succeeding down, until the conclusion
of the game, which had become very
weak defense. The Stanford team sus-
tanned the greater individual injuries
Three of her best men were hurt, and
to cap the climax, Captain Fisher was
finally carried off the field with a badly
twisted knee. Murphy, who is STAN
ford's star player, was hurt time and
again, and although he remained in the
game to the bitter end, he was practi-
cally useless for the brilliant work or
dinarily expected Of him.
1t was conceded an easy game for
Berkeley after the first five minutes
play. After a few kicks and returns
the two teams settled down to business,
and Stanford tried her old bucking
tactics. Three yards were made on a
tackle wedge; then Clinton was stopped
short by Pringle on a right end run,
and Murphy was forced to kick.
With the ball in Berkeley's possess
sion, Smith, Hall and Harrisburg re-
turned the compliment, each for good
gains. AT last. on the 2-yard line, the
cardinal made a rally. Smith, then
Hall, tried hard to get it over but it
seemed the old stone wall. Smith was
thrown back, Hall crushed down, and
with Stanford in possession, Murphy
dropped back for kick.
Here occurred the only redeeming
play of the Palo Alto team The line
did not hold. Murphy was forced to
kick high. The ball shot straight into
the air, descending over the 5-yard line.
But the plucky little quarter was there
to make up for his error. Seizing the
oval, he slipped through the scattered
players and got away, followed by Hail.
For a moment It seemed Stanford's
trick, but Murphy was slower than
usual or Hall faster and the end of it
all was hard thud on Berkeley'S 20
yard line, which left Murphy with
slight limp as a token.
Then the kicking game began. with
honors between the two men almost
even. With the last kick from Kaars-
burg, at about the center of the field,
Murphy dropped back to return. He
gave the signal for the pass, and fun
bled, Berkeley falling on the ball
Here the team from across the bay
settled down to work. Smith made
twenty yards around the left end, and
was downed by Dole. Next they were
given five yards for offside play Thane
added nine more on double pass, leav-
ing the ball on Stanford's 20-yard line.
Harrisburg broke through center for
three, Smith bored a hole in Rusk for
an equal number, and took three more
around the left end. Hall tried the
same place for thirteen more. and the