Amador ledger., 1900-10-12
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
Students Make An Agreement Regarding
Intercollegiate Athletic Contests.

1
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Sept.
27, 1900.-The eastern coach and the
San Francisco Thanksgiving football
game will be no more in California after
the present year. The students OF
Stanford and the University of Cali
fornia have agreed that commencing
with 1901 the head football coach OF
each university must have graduated
from, or have attended for four full
years the university whose team he
coaches; that all intercollegiate athletic
contests shall be held on the university
grounds, and that the annual intercol-
legiate football game shall be played on
the second Saturday in November.
Next falls football games, both Var
sity and freshman, are to be played on
the University of California campus,
and to alternate thereafter between
Berkeley and Palo Alto.
Some sixty men are out for football
practice every afternoon under the
direction of Coach Kelly. Beside the
Stanford game, the Varsity will meet
elevens from the universities of Oregon
Nevada and Idaho; the San Jose
Normal, the University of Southern
California, Santa Clara College, and
will play three games with the Reliance
Athletic Club. The freshman eleven
will play Belmont, Lick, Boone's; the
Lowell, Berkeley and Oakland high
schools, and other preparatory school
elevens, these games ali leading up to
the intercollegiate freshman contest.
The University Boating Association
will hold regatta on Oakland creek
class rowing and swimming races and
championship events President
Wheeler will be referee.
ed. It is hoped that it's friendly rivalry
with the Students Congress- will do
much for the debating interests of the
University. Arrangements are being
completed for sophomore-freshman
debate, and for a debate between the
Students Congress and the students
of the Law Department.
The prosperity of athletics, debating
and other student activities has been
much increased by the recent remark
able growth in the proportion of
students whose college residence is in
Berkeley. Six years ago only 81 per
cent of the students lodged in Berkeley
49 per cent going home every night to
San Francisco, Alameda, or Oakland.
Today 71.9 per cent of the students
have their college residence in the
University town, or one-fourth more
than six years ago,
Five. Filipino boys, ranging in age
from eleven to sixteen years, have Just
arrived in Berkeley in search of an
American education. President Wheel
er has been asked by the United States
Philippine Commission to look after
their welfare. They hope eventually
to enter the, University Of California.
Comment has been aroused by
recent article by President Wheeler on
Education in California, :" in which he
expresses the opinion that one of the
most vital of present-day educational
problems is the Question of how to
secure properly trained county and
city superintendent of schools. 1t is
his belief that experience, and pro-
fessional training of a higher order,
are essential qualifications for such a
position. So long as the salaries paid
to superintendents are comparatively
small, the tenure of Office uncertain,
and the method of appointment ordi-
narly political, the best men are re-
luctant to enter so unattractive field,
and the common schools tend to be left
to the direction of men lacking in the
qualities of leadership, selfish, and of
narrow horizon.