The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26
Stanford and Berkeley viii
Try Conclusions THANKSGIVING Dev


The great game of the year in Cali
fornia is that between the teams of
Stanford university and Berkeley col
lege, which will take place on Thurs
day. The San Francisco Chronicle
gives an estimate from each college Of
| the probabilities of success. The Stan
ford estimate is:
"A hard battle, with good fighting
chance, sunlss1p the football prospects
OF stanford, as seen by coaches, players
and student body. No one doubts the
hard battle, and, while there are many
degrees Of feeling as to the fighting
chance, it seems certain that the car
dinal eleven Will play a harder, faster
and more consistent game on Thanks
giving day thanTthe scores of the season
in the preliminary league games would
seem to Indicate More definite predic- /
tions could be made if it were certain
as to whether Captain Murphy can go
into the struggle. His injury is trou-
bling him and is continued cause for
apprehension. The brilliancy of his per-
Torrance in the last three Thanksgiv-
ing games gives an index of his value
behind the snap-back, and even if he is
finally able to play he will be unable
| to practice with the men before then,
| which will detract vitality from the team
work of the eleven.
Coach Chamberlain is, to a certain
| degree, non-committal as to his teams
| chances. To begin with he said to-
night we are greatly handicapped by
| the strictness Of the faculty as regards
scholarship. Several Of our most prom
| Using men have come under the ban,
and, while ! do not think this should
not be so. still it is a fact we must
face in figuring on the outcome. Then,
again, the captains injury is a piece
| of the hardest kind of luck, and, while
we cannot yet tell Ii he will be able
| to play, the fact that he is not on the
| field with the men at this critical time
argues against us. On the other hand,
| we may draw some analogies from the
Harvard Yale game last Saturday. A
| like time before that game Yale was
no better off than we are to-day and
you all know what changes took place
| in those last few days and the result.
| tell you, we have an excellent chance
! to hold our own, and you can depend
upon it that we shall be in the fight
| to the finish
| Coach Reynolds also realizes that the
| cardinals path is not strewn with roses,
by any means. In speaking tonight Of
| the condition of things he said: The
| contest is not over, by any means until
| the game is played, and we have much
| reason to be hopeful. If the men them
| selves only reach the conclusion that
| they can hold Berkeley down. / think
| we can do it.
Coach Levers takes a similar stand.
| AS for the players themselves, a num-
| Der of them say that the general opin-
| ion of the men on the team is that the
| blue and gold will not come out much,
| If any, ahead. Trainer Murphy has the
| players in excellent shape, and they
| are undoubtedly rounding into varsity
| form. Practice tonight was very sat-
| isfactory, in spite of the mud and slush
on the field. Several changes in the
| lineup We're made. but they may or
may not be permanent"
| lows: las the football Seasin nears its
The estimate from Berkeley is as fol-
| lows: LAS the football season nears its
| close with the day of the final match
between the two big college elevens,
| has possessed the Berkeley rooters
| throughout so much of the season is
| beginning to give way to a sounder
| feeling. The college is awakening from
its dream of a 30-to-0 score, with the
| blue and gold on the long end, and real
| ICES at last that the Thanksgiving day
| game is to be no farce. The coaches
watching carefully the play of the col
| legians down at Palo Alto. and they
| have not shared the unwarranted con-
fidence of the student body, The team
| also has, in the main, been left unaf-
| fected. The coaches know that Stan
! ford may pull together wonderfully in
| the last two weeks and that when it
| comes to the final day the proposition
may not be such an uneven one. Coach
Kelly, who watched the Stanford
| Olympic game last Saturday, IS Of the
opinion that Stanford has improved
| very much in both offense and defense,
while in the same time Berkeley has
retrograded
The truth is that the California ele-
ven is not the same team that 1t was
when it piled up 16 to Olympie's moth
ing. Apparently. as a natural part of
the series of ups and downs through
which the Berkeley varsity has passed
this season, the eleven, after the bril-