The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-10
sTANF0RE THE VICTOR
Beat University Of Cal,fornia at Foot
ball by 5 to o.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 3O-Less
than four minutes Of play left and the
score 90, as Traeger dropped back for
a place-kick try for a field goal, while
Is, 900 people held their breath in an
agony of suspense, and then the oval
pigskin sailed upward high into the air,
and true above the center of
the crossbar of the goal posts and the
game was won for Stanford-the game
that had been all but lost several
times during the play.
Traeger did the trick. The steadiness
of his nerve and the cunning Of his
good right leg turned virtual defeat in
to victory. McFadden, Freshman Nc
Fadden, helped him, for his pass was
true. Freshman Bansbach placed the
ball just right and deserves well a
generous need of credit for the cardin-
ais triumph.
The spectacular play that produced
the only points Of the game and left
the score to 0 in favor of Stanford
where it stood when the whistle blew
at the close of the game, was made
with only three minutes of play left.
The ball was nineteen yards from the
goal line, with Stanford apparently un-
able to make the distance necessary to
keep possession of the ball. If the try
at field goal should fail it meant an
other tie added to those that went be-
fore the days of larger scores, for with
the time so short for scoring effort
neither side could hope to win after
the ball should be once more in play.
Traeger dropped back to the 30-yard
line and Bansbach cfouched in front
or him to receive the long pass from
McFadden at the center position. The
Stanford line braced itself doggedly in
front of opponents poised for the
charge into them the moment the
ball should be snapedp. A few
in California's rooters' section i'm
piored the Berkeley players to get
through and block the ball and a stan
ford man or two found voice to beg the
line of cardinal-jerseyed athletes to
hold. But these We're only a few and
the remainder of the $4,000 people who
thronged grand stand and bleachers
sat with checked breath and hearts in
throats
One moment tie seemed a certain
ty, for place-kick seldom nets field
goal; the next, the goal was made and
Instantly the bleachers and grand
islands everywhere except in the exclu-
sively Berkeley sections became a fieI5
of waving cardinal and pandemonun
broke loose. Hats and canes were
thrown into the air and leather-lungaC &C
Stanford rooters yelled in a frenzy ot
/ joy without any thought of concert
Everyone was standing and jubilant
cardinal-bedecked students leaped iutt
the air, mashed each others hats Over
eyes and thumped each others backs IL
JOY. Staid professors, co-eds with tear.
OF JOY in their eyes and solid citizen.
whose sympathy happened to be Will
the cardinal, all cast dignity to tn,
wind and added their share to the din
The demonstration was the mos
striking that has been seen at an inter
collegiate contest in San Francisco.
lasted long after the ball had beer
brought back and kicked off again
Stanford had faced defeat and at last
in the twinkling of an eye, had achiev
ed victory, and the demonstration VA
accordingly long and frenZied
Stanford won on straight football
and yet California dangerously nea
proved it's Superiority