The San Francisco call., 1899-10-21
GRIDIRON GAME IS
THE TALK OF ALL
The COLLEGE MEN
Stanf0rd'S Athletes VIII Line
Up Against Olympic BPdWn
This Afternoon,

Already the college men are beginning
20 count the number OF weeks before the
Thanks giving game and consume hours in
idle ak upon future possibilities. Thi
football season is under full sailing, and
every effort and every experiment on the
part of the coaches at both universities
VIII tell upon the teams which they are
organizing.
Stanford men are working with a viii,
fun Of The realization OF the thorny path
which is 10 be their EoIuE before the big
game which ends this season. The mate
Iia- at Faio Alto Is not AN Of the best, but
such as il is il Will give au account of it
self ON Thanksgiving day. Slowly but
surely Chamberln and his assistants are
developing team. In another week the
nucleus OF the line VIII be segregated and
then viii begin the efforts OF coach and
captain 10 organize the eleven that Will
represent the cardinal IN the annual grid-
Fallen irom their high estate is the
mUCh-Irumpeted olympic eleven. When
the season opened no team in the field
had brighter prospects for series Of un-
broken victories. Some there We're who
deliberately made bets of substantial
sums that the Oiymplcs would not lose a
single game. As Yet the clubmen have
not Won game, though out OF three
played they lost but q single contest, the
other Two being ties.
The reason Tor the Olympics' lack Of
SUCCESS l@ easy 10 LGlllll. lAeN 90 not
train properly and have not the necessary
practice. With a list OF men that ought
20 carry everything before il nothing out
negative result has been ACCOMPLISHED.
his weeks method OF practice is a full
e&.lIpIIcauon OF the reason OF the club
mem Lou-success. The full team was
not out q single night. and several times
practice rad 10 be foregOne because the
men could not attend. The difficulty is
not so much ia lack of spirit but the in
ability II the players to appear in time
d Of Tl144
playing with the winged 20" are engaged
ln business pursuits ard cannot sacrifice
lEDlr cellnEs for the sport of the gridiron
mus u happens that when the Olympic
team lines up TOR the Saturday games
there lS O. doubtful uncertainty as TO the
Performance of the cubmen.
i1e game to-day between Stanford and
laa o.lmpics VIII show many changes in
the lineup OF the latter team. Thierkauf
home product and q good football
P.aNeE either at end or back of the line
is III with typhoid fever. This is great
loss 20 the olympic eleven and Will Grip
pie the backs in TO mean measure. Not
only viii the Olympics suffer from the
absence Of Therkauf FELTON, Tavlor
nose smashing plunges through the
car iQrEia line last Saturday netted many
+aIGs LOT the OlFmulcs, will not play to-
day. This is another weakening with
o.aWal and VIII give the new Olympic
4.t- some fierce labor in making i'm fha
absence Of ThierkaUf and TavI0r The
cay " Hobbs on the Olympic team has
passed. Business is his excuse for not
'.''--e h4'i' ~ Pei ll'I pate tlNAGT IN the
day afternoon. In his place will be the
rCcoubtable Charles Fickert. at one time
captain OF the stanford team. Fickert
is guard of excellent reputation. de-
pending upon the demonstration of gen
uine auilty ON The gridirOn field. What
he lacks, however. is training. His con-
oton is not up 70 the standard: stin he
may be counted upon to play good foot
The game last Saturday afternoon. ex-
..EFl the nDGE1ItItfE Of lr1e=e IN ol
tornia's team and what concentration Of
sIort might do for the Oympics In the
second half California was within scor-
lI# distance . couple Of times, but the
SPIRIT was lacking and the execution OF
iHe pays poor. Cochran was not a
haifE man after the game and what he
said We're NOT words that denoted a pious
and "a humble spirit. With the univer-
Sity eleven, the best the college can so
Tar snow. the playing was of a quality
mat hardly surpassed the Olvmpics. For
a short time it looked as if the Oiyn-
pcs might work out a touchdown but
they, too, lost heart and nothing hap
IN consequence Of the game last satur-
qeN coaches Cochran and Kelly have
uerp forcing the play on the California
campus. The team has been laboring un-
der the apprehension that ''cfncb'
awaits them on November 20. The indi-
Nldual players thought that the team is
already picked not TO be changed There
viii be race among the second eleven
men for positions and both coaches are
10 play on the team when his work sur.
passes that Of his competitor. The spirit
at stanford is similar to what it was
at California last year--desre for hard
earnest and enthusiastic work toward q
well defined end
The freshman game three weeks from
to-day will draw the attention Of the col.
lege men and particularly the enthusi-
asts who have just matriculated The
new material at California has not beer
either prolific Of quantity or superabund.
antly, excellent Of quality. Unremlttent
have been the complaints of coaches upor
the lack Of big men in the freshman class
at the university At Stanford every.
thing points TO a strong eleven. So fal
nothing but victories mark the course or
the Stanford freshmen outside Of the sin.
gle defeat which was meted out by the
sophOmores in an intercass contest
There is nothing quite as uncertain as Z
freshman football game, however, anC
this years contest may result in gooC
gridiron struggle.
The game between the Olympic anC
Stanford this afternoon at the Sixteenth
and Folsom street grounds will begin al
3 o'clock.