The San Francisco call., 1899-09-23
FOOTBALL MEN
ROUNDING OUT
Stanford, California and Olyn-
pic Working for the
Seasons Games

Whirr goes the pigskin through the air
and loud is the shouting of the coaches as
they yell football wisdom into the ears of
the college colts. Both at Palo Alto and
at Berkeley the afternoon is given over
TO the pigskin game, and the work has
begun In earnest. On this side of the bay
the Olympic Club is struggling with a
team that will make itself felt In the
series OF games with the college elevens,
as the men are not neglecting moment
of their daily practice ..
The preliminary work has not yet been
completed at either of the colleges, but
California will begin active training before
Stanford for two reasons-they were ear
lier on the field and the team is in a better
state OF formation than that at Palo Alto.
some two weeks ago and ignored what is
usually known as preliminary work. AS
the winged o. gridiron athletes are men
of seasoned Drawn and ripened expert
ence they do not need preliminary work
ing element
maps the best as far as material goes
which that club ever presented There is
not, man on the line who is not a heavy,
trained football athlete and who has not
played the position which he will occupy
less than, three years Signal practice of
the, rapid order. execution of plays and
athletes. They have no team to line UP
against, and so they are trying TO perfect
team work by exercise in signal practice
AS all the men are old players, and able
ones at that, this is not such serious
situation as at first seems. Later on in
the season, when the college men have
reached the stage of training where they
can stand any kind of a battle, the Olym-
pics may find themselves in a bad way.
unless they engage in just such kind of
practice work, The Saturday games will
tend to round out the Olympics. Last
season the clubmen were battered into
condltlon after two months of play but
redeem themselves
The Olympic team is practically chosen.
During the early. part of this week the
aiready strong aggregation of players was
the Yale center of 1897. Big Cad for he
weighs 225 pounds and is as active as a
small man, strengthens the Olympic line
IN no mean fashion. He will not play
that position, Pete" Smith playing left
guard and Cadwallader right guard For
tackles tack the ,Olympics will play Gene
S.hfeehy 81 on IN, the ne right side of the line and
Lavender Erskin on the left side. The
ends are as yet uncertain. The selection
will be between McLaine, GAYLORD and
D1ni,ssmore, three good men of about equal
ability. Code at quarter and Thierkauf
and Wilson playing halves and Garter 1'' at at
full will make a team which, if properlv
framed, ought to carry everything be-
fore It For substitutes the Olympics
have Clum, Hamilton, Atkinson and Mon
roe, the latter being a powerful linesman.
He will possibly alternate with one Of the
guards or tackles in the Saturday games,
1t is almost possible to judge of the
weights of the teams this season by the
material which is offered the coaches for
selection The olympics will have the
heaviest eleven by big odds. Then will
come Stanford, whose eleven will far ont
weigh that of Berkeley. Stanford will
play Burnett as guard and one of the Gil
mans at center At least it looks as if
that selection would be made Another
guard, Christie, who is tremendously
large man, will help to form a center of
ultra heavyweights that will give Cali
fornia cause for worry. At Palo Alto the
work of sitting is still going on. Reid
the famous Harvard back, was out coach,
ing ing the Ca Cardinal backs last week, while
Ghamberlin was devoting his time to the
Hnesmen. Cochran is finding no easy lob
with his colts at California. The material
Is about the same as last year and there
is still the lack of heavy men for the Blue
and Gold team.
The first game of the season will be
played week from to-day, on the Berke-
ley campus, between the Olympics and
California. Cochran says he does not ex-
pect to win the game, but the Olympics,
he asserts, will know that they have been
playing football before the game ia over