The San Francisco call., 1899-09-30
FIRST GAME ON
THE GRIDIRON
AT BERKELEY
Olympians and CalifornianS
Will Put the Football
in PLAY.

The football season opens to-day. This
afternoon at Berkeley the Olympic Club
eleven and the University of California
team will meet and will strive honors
on the field Both teams have been train
ing for a month and are anxious TO test
their strength in actual conflict.
The clubmen are sanguine OF victor.
With their Drawn, ripened experience and
advanced condition they do not entertain
a thought of defeat for a minute. Cali
fornia is not so certain either Of victory
or defeat. The college athletes respect
their heavier foes, but the reserve and
covert smiles with which they listen to the
expressed intentions of the Olympic men
may augur something which the OlymplcS
least expect Coach Cochran admits that
he does not anticipate a victory for his
colts, but he has given the Olympics
warning that they will at least feel the
effects of a battle and that they VIII
realize that football game was on before
the final whistle blows.
The game this afternoon should pc OF
better quality than the first game OF any
preceding season. The Olympic club
never had a stronger lot of men nor
more harmonious set. They have trained
together during the last few weeks with
out a sign or show of friction ana they
are working with a common end in view
Every evening at o'clock the team as
sembles in the club gymnasium ana runs
out TO the Pacific Street armory. Ihen
signal practice, fast and furious, Is IN
order for an hour. The men run back To-
the gymnasium after this and SWIM
completes their training. Strict dietary
rules are observed.
The club men will have a center that
will tower over Californias midline pro
tectors. Hobbs in the middle, with Cad
wallader and Pete" Smith on each side
OF him, make enough weight OF llesh 10
terrify almost any center trio in the coun-
try. Cadwallader, the pick of the East
two years ago for an all American team,
is a fast powerful linesman, and when
he is fortified by two expert football men,
each weighing over 200 pounds, something
ought to give way in front of them. call
fornia's center will be the same as last
year and it is comparatively light An
interesting problem Will present itself
when they meet to-day.
But it isn't the center alone that makes
the Olympic team. There Is Sheehy and
E,rskine in the tackle positions and Code
at quarter The ends are untried, but
they are equal to the good average end
in a college team. Carter, Thierkauf and
Wilson will play back of the line. All
are good ground gamers, especially when
working in consonance with line that
is big enough to punch holes into almost
anything.
10 matter what the Olymptcs do with
their Superabundant weight, the specta-
tors may hope to see some of the old
time gridiron brilliancy when Hall, Smith
or Harrisburg get the Dall and start down
the field. Percy Hall is still, with Cali
fornia and has lost none of his old-time
dash and vigor. Pringle is back and
Whipple is there also, and both have
proved themselves great tackles. Mas
ters, a substitute end OF last years team
will fill Craig's place on the end of the
line Hopper will play quarter, the posi-
tion for which he was trained last year
but failed to make on account OF an accl-
dent. The lineup for the game, which
will be played on the Berkeley campus
at $3.50 this afternoon, is as follows: