The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-15
Despite Injured Men
Berkeley Expects
to Beat Stanford
CLEVER WORK
OF THE TEAM
Freshmen Pleased at
Scoring Over the
Men of Varsity

BERKELEY. Oct. 14-Despite the
fact that Golcher. halfback on the
freshman team, and Booth, who is try
ing TO make quarterback on the var
sity, are suffering from injuries, conf
dence in the victory of the California
team tomorrow is supreme among its
members.
Not in the history Of the game at the
university has there been such belief
in the ability Of the freshmen eleven
70 defeat the cardinal There are rea-
sons for this. One is found in the I'M
usual amount Of work done on the
baby team. The men have been coach
ed and drilled and nursed by Lee Ker-
foot as never before were freshmen
drilled. Again, secret signal practice
has been given the freshmen for the
first time in the history of freshmen
teams. Individual playing and resist
ance TO opposition have been encourag-
ed and now team work and speed are
being developed. The result is ex-
pected TO be a victory for California
over Stanford.
Sperry, the halfback who has been
practicing with the varsity, has put in
some work with the freshmen. He
is tower Of strength and is in mag
nifcent condition.
Golcher. left half, is perhaps the most
brilliant performer behind the line He
is bit light and cannot be expected
10 buck the line for heavy gains, but
he is fast, quick to take an opening
and his runs are always for good gains.
Snowden, right half. is perhaps too
easily fooled by fake plays, but when
on the offensive he is telling at bucks
and is also feet Of foot
Captain Allen has the confidence of
the team to an unusual degree. He is
a light man, weighing but $50 pounds.
He is quick to think and old players
say a header performer never handled
a freshmen team.
one circumstance which has contrib
uted to the teams confidence is the
fact that the freshmen scored against
the varsity team in practice few days
ago, most unusual happening
HenriOtt is keeping out of the game
His ankle is too weak TO permit of his
working on the field in its present con-
dition
Zacharias is to play with a steel
brace on his arm.
Twitchen is hObbling about on
crutches and there is little possibility
that he will be sufficiently recovered to
play in the game on Saturday.
The men have been at some disad-
vantage in having to practice on the
old field, after the heavy rains had put
it in bad condition. Despite the in
Juries received on this account by some
Of the men the reserve list was big
enough to fill UP the ranks when any
man had to fall out and the line up
now looks good" to Coach Kerfoot.
He fully expects his team to win.
Spectators at the game will have a
double pleasure in that they will see
q great game of football played on a
field that is destined to become historic,
but which has never yet felt the rush
Of twenty-five collegians in big inter-
collegiate game. The field will receive
its dedication on Saturday. Though
not yet completed il is in condition for
play and viii present many features of
unusual interest to those who have not
witnessed the preliminary work Of its
construction The work has cost about
S13, 900, the excavation alone entailing
an expense Of $4,000. There are to be
no seats reserved