The herald., 1898-10-24

will line up against the University men or
Thanksgiving day. The makeup Of thu
eleven has not been fully decided yet, but
Sloan and Maxim win play the tackles
Wharton and Bixby will hold down the ends
while the backs will be, Stewart, quarter
Rood and Fairch1ild, halves and Hayes full
ton are members of last years team, and
the others are new men. The competition
for center and guards is very keen and the
men who will fill these places have not been
chosen. Wharton, left end, will captain
the team.
The University of Southern California
time dash. Captain +. c. Wright, 'o2, is arous
ing increased interest, and will have two
elevens hard at work from this time forward
The lineup of the team has not been def
nitely determined, but Holland. Martin,
Wright, Haddoek, Williams and Christy Of
the men Of last year will certainly, make the
team. Knoles, a new man, will play at
either end or half. Green has been playing
good game at full back, but is rather light
aud will probably be beaten out by Pratt
who played the position last year, and re
enters college this week: Lloyd and Viii
son are promising candidates for half: In
addition to the Pomona game Thanksgiving
day and the mix-up with the Phoenix In
dams in the early part: OIL December, Man
ager Tebbetts reports that games have beer
| scheduled with San Diego team in Sar
| Diego on Christmas day; with the Santa Bar
bara Athletic club in Santa Barbara New
Years day, and arrangements are being
made for a game at Ventura during the
! Christmas vacation.
| The Occidental team is making good rec
ord for lightweights and seems to have good
backs in Cromwell, Gordon and Torrey
They will line up against the Normal School
eleven oninext Saturday.
The outlook for Stanford this season is
anything hut reassuring. The Iowa Nolun-
teers defeated the wearers of the cardinal
on Thursday by a score of to 0. The college
men put up miserable game, playing with
out any spirit or team work. The individ-
ual work of Fisher and Murphy alone avoid
ed disgraceful defeat. The latter is not
kicking in his usual form, his pMnts ayerag-
ing less than thirty yards. The soldiers
hammered Stanford's line as they pleased,
especially through Digehow at center. Lew
the second eleven this week. The Freshman
team is also weak and will probably be
beaten by the California Freshmen next
Saturday. The Santa Clara college eleven
by score of Is to O., while the Freshmen
from California defeated the Santa Clara
boys on Saturday by score of Is to 2. 1t
looks as though the game on the 18th will
be an easy thing for the wearers of the blue
and gold.
The Californians are jubilant over their
prospects for Thanksgiving. The eleven il
practicing with snap and ginger and Coach
Cochrane has introduced his massed defen-
sive work in the line that may prove trouble
some for Stanford. Again, the Berkeley
backs are all playing fast. snappy ball that
will carry their colors long way toward
victory, while the line, particularly the three
center men, are much superior to their pros
pective opponents from Palo Alto. In her
whole history California has not had sucl
radiant promise of decisive victory owe,
her cardinal rival as seems before her on
next Thanksgiving day.