Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-13
.ELEVENS PLAYED
TRUE To FORM
STANFoRD'S VICTORY WAS NO
FLUKE
Championship Struggle Result Is In
Accordance With the Relative
Strength Of Teams Against
the Sherman Indians

The outcome Of the Stanford Ber-
kelley game Of Saturday in which the
cardinals downed the blue and gold.
was in exact keeping with the showing
Of the two northern elevens against
the Sherman Indians in Los Angeles.
The Stanford backs accomplished
what the Indians were unable to do.
When Berkeley played the Sherman
Indians Hempels line offered a strong
resistance to the California men, but
the Sherman secondary defense was
not able to prevent the Berkleyites
from gaining their greatest distance
when they succeeded in edging their
way through the Indian forwards.
1t was evident at the time that q
strong back-field behind the Sherman
line would have forced the Calfornians
to desperate play il scoring was to be
accomplished. Sperrys effective hurd-
ling came from the fact that the Sher-
NANTES in the line played a trifle too
low and the big full-back met with
little opposition when he jumped over
the crouching braves.
But the Stanford back men were
necessarily a different proposition. and
as result the style of play lost the
effectiveness that a weak back-field
allowed.
A line on the two teams was to be
drawn when the cardinals made their
appearance and the strength of the
Stanford forwards was to furnish the
cue Palo Alto backs were too well
known for any doubt as to their de-
fensive ability and it remained for the
line men to exhibit strength or
weakness.
The Shermans were able to pierce
the Stanford wings, but the fact that
Hempel had shifted his men and
placed a strong back-field on the grid
iron brought the two northern lines
almost on a par with Berkeley's for
wards perhaps trife to the good.
Chalmers, Grove, Scott and Wander
wort were whirlwinds at defense and
offense and on the relative showing
Berkeley did not possess an apparent
advantage. The difference in the
scores of the Sherman Berkeley-Stan-
ford games, however, caused many to
overlook the fact that Berkeley's show
ing against Hempels men came as a
result of a weak secondary defense.
that could hardly be reckoned with
when Stanford's backs were taken into
consideration.
Games Gave Cues
The appearance of the two northern
teams was also to be taken as q cue
as to what might be the outcome.
With the great game of the season
a. month OIL the berkeley IleIl dp-
peared to be in the pink of condition
and not far from the edge that runs
an athlete stale. According to the
Berkeley trainers the California men
were in top notch form and from the
drawn faces of the majority of the
team members the claim could not be
discounted.
Knbs and Griffin are eastern men,
accustomed to cold climate that de-
velops a vitality sufficient to warrant
the hardest kind of driving throughout
the season. The grilling tactics of
eastern coaches would, as a rule, send
California team out of its best play
ing form. Knibs realized this fact,
but may have underrated it, accus-
toned as he is to the continual stren-
uosty of the eastern gridiron. The
training of Christy could hardly have
overcome an excess of scrimmage
work.
The Stanford men, when they arrived
in Los Angeles, did not give evidence of
much hard work, and Dad" Moultor.
the Stanford trainer, said that the car
dnals would not round into their best
form until a few days before the big
gamo with Berkeley.
1t may be that condition played it's
part in Saturdays contest. Berkeley
claimed to have the strongest team in
years and Stanfordls victory was one
of the greatest triumphs that the car
dinalS have ever Won