The San Francisco call., 1903-09-05
COACHES PREPARE
FOOTBALL TEAMS
FOR EARLY GAMES
Gridiron Stars Of the Two
Universities Anticipate a
Great Season of the Sport

- ERKELEY. Sept 4-The task Of
forming .. football. eleven 10 meet
- the Stanford team began with the
lining-up Of the men at the Univer-
stty Of California on Tuesday Graduate
Manager Decoto, Trainer Christie, Coach
Whipple and his assistant. Percy Hall. de-
cided that IN order 70 win they must get
their materials together early, and so they
laid out their plans accordingly. From
now on until the great trial Of skill and
strength in November both men and their
trainers will be busy.
California IS lucky in having most Of
last years veterans still in college. be-
sides most Of the second-team men, who
were almost as good as the varsity of
the line men there remain Captain Over
all, Stow, Stroud, Howard, Demeritt and
Hudson. The exceptions are Albertson
and Heitmuller, who graduated Hudson
did not expect 70 return to college and
he was counted upon as lost to the team,
but at the last minute he decided 70 come
back, so that the team will retain one OF
its ablest men,
For backs the team will have the stars
Of last year-Mini More. Muther and Ris-
ley Mini is graduate student. but
eligible 70 play another year, and though
he says he will not play again the COL
lege Is confident he can be prevailed upon
10 change his mind. The loss of Sherman
is likely TO be keenly felt. as he did great
work last year
The gaps in the line and back of IL will
be filled by men who had a lot OF expert
ence on last years substitute list. For
the line there will be Phillips. Force.
Saben, Middleton. Craig. Burke and
Oliver, all Of whom played in varsity
form, but did not quite make the team
or hl fHar xrrfIT lr. r~k, I'll
as Belknap. Boynton, White and ellis.
The outlook for the freshman team is
not quite so bright. There does not seem
TO be any secondary school stars such as
there have been in former years, though
the crop may yield some good ones. A
good deal was expected from Kenneth
Hamilton. who played with the California
School Of Mechanical Arts and the Re-
lance team, but he has been found to be
ineligible to play because he is only a
special student and also played profess
sional baseball last summer in the North
west. Claude Kern, player who made
name for himself on the Berkeley High
School and Lick School teams, is about
the only other freshman of whom any
thing is known. Until the men lineup for
a week or so it will be hard to tell lust
what material the coaches will have to
deal with
From the way things look now there
viii be any amount Of football excitement
during the season There will he al Least
iiye teams for the varsities to meet.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Sept a
Ihe football season Of 1903 is fairly on at
stanford and daily practice will be the
order from now until the elimination of
the seasons work in the contest with
Berkeley on November H. The Cardinal
as Head Coach flanagan remarked at the
I football rally on Monday night has a
I laTl uUnill fight fn rooLa - lo.za
come out victorious Several of the old
varsity players have left college and no
stars have appeared with the entering
class to fill their places
Nevertheless there are a number Of
hardworking determined men appearing
on the gridiron every night and under
the skilful tutelage of Coaches flanagan
and Shaker a thoroughly coached and
well-trained team may be expected to de-
Velop. The coaches will insist on the
strictest observance of training rules so
that Stanford will have a thoroughly
worthy and representative eleven in the
field.
While California is fortunate in having
practically an entire veteran team, STAN
ford is correspondingly unfortunate in
having but six of the fourteen men who
played in last Novembers game out on
the field this fall. The members of last
years team who are in the game again
this year are: L. p. Bansbach. O4 cap
tain and quarterback; c. d. Hauvermafi
'04, center; G. H. Clark. O4 end W. Dole.
'O5, halfback: W. K. Sprott, O6, tackle
and Paul Tarpey, O5, halfback. r. A.
Thompson, '04, who played guard on the
1901 varsity, has returned to college and
will try for a position on the big team.
A. b. c. McGilvray. 'O4. Stanford's cra0k
fullback, has not decided definitely whefh-
er he will return to college: he has been
engaged in business with the McGilvray