The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08
STANFORD
OLYMPIC WAS
A TIE GAME
Football Match in Which
Neither Scored Heat
Makes Slow Play.
Olympic 0, Stanford o.

On hastily constructed stands running
parallel with the side lines Il slim crowd
SAW the game between the OIympics and
STANFORD yesterday afternoon on the new
.--ll.rsu al Sixteenth and Folsom streets
Netasr team scored after battling
through twenty minute halves in a heat
...t was intended by Providence for
..4.t-dryius purposes.
The game was painfully slow to the
=-,.-.tu- and tOrturing 10 the player,
NH. uuGad ana sweltered with every
forced EFFORT. II was certainly not the
Weather for football and the snappy,
at--.ry. E4mner- -and-tOngs work that
,t.lr.. .tar-Zes the game as a rule was neg
atNaly represented in the match yester-
day between the clubmen and the cardi-
1a.-salrled StanfOrdites.
IN.ce the OlympIcs might have scored
ana twice did y relentless fate prevent.
4 fum0lod ball after a gain of fifty yards
uy clean. persistent buck!ng was chance
..,..-D-u one gone a-besglHg. The second
along the -Iue Wneu the OIympICs had but
ten yards TO cover Ior 4 touchdown ana
Very little enthusiasm marked the prog
ress oi the game. Chamberlain, with d
stack OF Teu shirts, arrived some half
hour before game was called. king
Kelly, Princeton : famous back and coach
oI the California team for this season,
was on the side lines, drinking in the
strength and weaknesses OF the two
teams. 10 point moral and adOrn a
tile Judge LdWlOr told what he knew OF
other days, and Howard Taylor delivered
lectures on the automobile. All this was
GA the side lines and did not delay the
same.
The game started when Chet Murphy 5
foot switched the BAH into Olympic ter
rltOry. Yard by yard the cLubmen ad-
yauced the pigskin into the Stanford ter
rltory. First carter would plunge through
the opposing line, then Sheehy, Thierkauf
q rHrr HU4r=N 1048-4
Down the field the Olympic team came,
moving within danger distance Of STAN
forG's goal. when a tumble made the ball
stanford property, With FEELING or re-
lief Murphy punted far down the Olympic
territory and Carter, in his eagerneSS IA
do something fumbled, the ball going TO
the college men fifteen yards from the
olympic goal.
Fearful Of results. Murphy tested his
own skill as a drop kicker. The try was
unsuccessful. the ball going into the
crowd and rebounding into Murphy s
hands. Another drop kick was attempted,
but il failed, and the ball was brought
out on the twenty-five yard line by Cad
wallader, from which spot II was punted
toward Stanford's goal Rudolph fumbled
il and Olympia had another chance TO
work for score. To SUanfOrd's 5 twenty
i've ward line the clubuen moved with
persistent gains, but three times did the
college men hold them without gain on
this spot, and Stanford recovered the ball.
This is where the first half ended.
Second haIf-Cadwallader, mighty and
putting, kicked off. After a try or two
that were fruirless, Murphy punted TO the
center of the field. The Olympics, taking
heart and attempting to forget about the
weather. began to work a degree or two
faster. and slowly the ball moved toward
the Stanford goal. Twenty-Five yards
from that point they again lost the pig
skin by the splendid work of the Stanford
defense, and a punt TO the center again
saved the Cardinal. From the center to
the tive-yard line the Olympic backs,
dashing, plunging and running, brought
their team within five yards Of touch
down, but again Stanford made a gritty
defense and Olympia could not cross the
line Murphy pUnJed to the center.
The time was fast being consumed and
the Olympics were thirsting for a touch
down Dinsmore, by a splendid run Of
twenty yards around the Stanford right
end. put life into the clubmen. but at the
same time the college boys braced them
selves and the Olynpfcs advanced no far
Their FELTON, Taylor was put in the game,
bur nothing was done and the pigskin was
the property Of the red. Regaining pos
session of the ball, Murphy punted and
the whistle blew, which ended the game.
Score-Stanford O. Olympic o. Officials
Percy Morse and William Erb, referee
and umpire. Time of game, 20 minute
halves.
tinu0us changes were made as the match
progressed.