The San Francisco call., 1899-09-16
FOOTBALL
THE CRY OF
COLLEGE MEN
Many Coaches for the Uni
versity eams-Extrava-
CANT Plans Made.

Football is king. and all the gossip one
hears now at the great universities is
relative to the gridiron and to the canvas
jacket The coaches, imported at a great
expense from the East, are with their
teams, and there are more to follow.
Cochran rules az Berkeley and Cham
berlin eat Stanford. The Olympics are
without a coach, trusting to their own
captain and the desire of the candidates
10 follow the directions Of the field gen
eral.
That this season will be the greatest
known to the. Pacific Coast is an abso-
lutte certainty. The reason Of it lies in the
defeat of the Cardinal" a year ago. The
interest i'm the gridron sport is on the
increase, and with the Olympics repre-
sented by "a strong. enthusiastic team the
three big eleVens of California should fur-
nish a series of games that will send
shafts of delight through the football
heart.
The interest throughout the season will
center largely in the Palo Alto team, for
that eleven viii be one of development,
lust as Caifornia's was last season. II
rumOr breathes syllable OF truth Cham-
berlin viii soon have the assistance OIL
TWO OF the best football men IN America
II is given out on good authority that
Greenwood, the great end who played on
Yales team when Hinckley captained 1t,
ears OF the Palo Alto athletes. This is
not ali. The greatest of all the great,
Walter Camp, has written to some or ms
friends declaring his intention OF spend
ing the fall in California. That on its
face means that the great football author
ity viii be at Palo Alto, should he come
to California at all. Greenwood, Cham
berlin and Camp make a triumVirate
equal 10 the best that any Eastern col
lege can boast.
Cochran will not be alone in his coach
ing labors. King Kelly, another Prince
tonian, and one Of the best backs that
university has produced. will be with the
California team in two weeks. 1t will be
Princeton against Yale on the California
soil as much as it is Berkeley against
Stanford. Chamberlin played on the
same team that defeated the Princeton
eleven which Cochran captained. There
will be two distinct battles in this years
An interesting story, not yet published,
was told at Berkeley few days ago. 1t
was in relation to the methods pursued
by the Berkeley managers in order to Sc
cure the services of Cochran. Cochran
was engrossed in the management of
nine at Silver City, n. NJ, when the Call
terms and he told them that they were
certainly foolish in offering him 50 much
money for a short season ana that many
better men than himself could be brought
out to California at half the expense.
There was a disagreement on the part OF
the managers as to this point ana as
they were determined 10 nave OOCIIdI
the latter's life was made miserable for
a week by the Berkeley commissioners.
Cochran admits that 1t was too much for i
him and at the end of the week, fearing
nervous prostration, he signed the con-
tract which will give him S2500 Tor eleven
weeks work. The figure set was the
original offer on the part OF the Berkeley
managers. Even then the California men
began to feel a chill in their neither eX-
tremites and this week they kept wiring
all over New Mexico for the Princeton
-gh Il rr-n- rot ta6 on Ia ho
brought him to this city.
The situation this year is practically
the same. as last, with a reversion Of the
names of Stanford and California. the
latter college has its entire team back
with the exception of Thane, the quarter
back, and Craig, an end, but there are a
fill those positions The team is out
daily for preliminary work, though they
have not begun actual training as yet.
Cochran said yesterday that he would
not force the men into rigid training
until after the first Olympic game, which
will be played on the 30th inst. Cochran
year than it was last for two reasons
the great efforts that Stanford Will
make to regain former prestige and the
havoc wrought in the minds OF the Cali
fornia team by the victory of 98 Coch-
ran is wasting no time and will have the
men playing before the end of next week,
though the work will be of the lightest.
At Stanford Captain Murphy and Coach
Chamberlin are making the most of their
opportunities. The interest Of the college
men in the gridiron game is Of a better
sort than it was a year ago and the spirit
of the college is back of 1t. Early in the
week the backs came out followed by the
linesmen few days later. Nothing but
preliminary work has been done so far.
Coach Chamberlin has been sorting ma
terial and keeping vigil for the best of
fered.
The Olympics have begun their practice
in the Armory and they are at 1t with a
will this time. The names of all the men
playing with the Olympics under Inc
Olympic standard this year have been
published. The team IS not yet made up,
but soon will be- When the cubmen line
up against the Californians for the first
game of the season there should be the
feeling Of victory in their veins, for they
have the ripened material of many sea-
sons in their team.