The San Francisco call., 1899-12-30
FOOTBALL HAS
A FIRM HOLD
ON COLLEGIANS
The California-Carlisle Game
AWakens Interest.
Stanford Enthusiasts Are Already
Planning an Aggressive Cam
paign on the r ield Next Year.

The football season, which closed on
Christmas day, when the University Of
California eleven met the noble red men
OF The Carlisle School. has been the most
noteworthy in the history OF the game on
This coast. For the first time a team re-
Ilted as one of the fastest ia the East
lined up against a purely representative
California eleven and suffered a repulse
that has won for this State a national
place IN the economy of the gridIron
sport.
How conservative Western men have al
ways been ga regard 10 their own produc-
lions ou the field of sport is evidenced by
The betting on the Carlisle-California
game. Little OF no money was Wagered
on the general result, Carlisle being con-
sidered an easy and certain winner. The
score, = 10 %, De- judged by al football men
all over the country as tie, with the
l0uOIs oI The battle evenly distributed.
D he last has not been backward in its
praise lOr california \ showing against
the Indians. and suggestions OF annual
matches are made by Eastern papers.
After the game the Indians had many
excuses 10 oi1er The bail used in the
game was TOO large, the neld was too
soft. their condition Was not what il
should have been. The truth is that
neither team possessed an advantage in
these particulars over the other. ana the
game was fought out on perfect equality.
but there is one lameutable fact about
Alt match lIe l4tllAts Fl4OAlu nave hetn
81 regulation lengths instead OF - min
utcs. The worst that could have hap
peued 20 California under these conditions
might have been single touchdown. AT
any rate, the Indians viii return East
with the utmost respect FOR their foe and
win 10 doubt express themselves as hav-
ing undergone the hardest struggle Of the
scar when they tussled with cochran :
Wtl drilled California team. Coach War
uer and Physical Director Thompson
frankly admitted the day after the game
that the Callfornians were surprisingly
strong and were well equipped 10 battle
with Harvard. Princeton or Yale. This
IS The measure of things.
N0t only has the game established a
precedent on this coast but II viii do
more for California football than years
~ patient isolated work. Next year Will
f.o some real Eastern football played by
nome teams. Two defeats such as Cali
fOrIia administered 10 Stanford in 1898 and
deem themselves. Early I'm the new year
there Rll he "a football movement on foot
at fAn Alto fo organize and develop a
spirit o- redemption. CalifOrnia's per-
fprmanco against Carlisle Is stirring up
The stanford enthusiasm as no other
event could But the blue and gold is not
lax az resting On its laurcls. Already ne
EQUATIONS are being conducted with East
crn men Tor coaching the team during the
IeEf season. II Ie about settled that COch-
ran VIII not pass third season al Berke-
Joy. Al Kelly and Hlilebrand. Princeton 5
captain of lsf. arc The most favored OF
the coaches, and they win probably be on
the coast next fam. Princeton has sue
cceded Yale az Berkeley. and with q splen-
did success.
A contingent ~ California men will be
present az the game on New Years dav
between Stanford and Multnomah in
and Percy Hall viii leave to-day for Port
land.