The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-11-22
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Stanford VS.. California


Stanford's by an aggregate of fifty
pounds, evidently tried to keep the ball
under foot in the serum and by crowd
ing and pushing and revolving the
mass gain ground. 1t was considered |
safer to do this than to take big
chances with the reputed fleet STAN
ford set of seven backs, who, among |
Them had just as much extra weight |
as the California forwards. Steadily |
California crowded and shuffled the |
ball down toward Stanfofds goal and |
finally in the scrambling and confusion |
of thirty struggling figures it was car
ried over the line for try and three
points for California.
BLOCKED KICK AT GOAL.
The attempt to kick the goal was
beautifully block ed by onrushing and
jumping Stanford forwards.
A few minutes later Stanford was
given free kick for a California foul
and Fenton sent the ball high and
true from placement exactly over the
bar for three points. The first forty
minute half CLOSED with the score a
tie.
In the second period Stanford was
given two more place kicks for Cali
forna fouls, and Fenton kicked the
first one and barely missed the second.
Early in the contest California's SUI
| periority in the serum looked alarming
to Stanford. California not only
crowded the Cardinal forwards back
! ward every time but seldom permitted
! Stanford to get first scratch at the ball
| When within a few moments the ball
| had thus been crowded down to STAN
! fords two-yard line the spectators saw
! the extreme uncertainty of the game
right there as Fenton got the ball and
with a quick, long punt sent it clear
back to the middle Of the field.
Soon Stanford gained an advantage
in the serum and got the ball out
backward to the waiting runners. More
! than half the time the California backs
or forwards were through so quickly
that the attempt died in a smothering
tackle under a pile of men. When eth
er side did occasionally flash the ball
free of the tangle there were quick
long punts and return kicks on the run
with some brilliant lateral runs and
rapid passes to indicate what would
happen if the game were played prop
erly.
The crowd came early in long
streams winding up through the beau
tiful oak shaded Berkeley campus. Per-
feet weather as fine as that for the
game of last year and the year before
made the throngs brilliant in the light
hues of summer. A great lazily NOV
ing blue flag with a white varsity c
foated from the top of the lofty pole
on the campus, the same flag that some
Stanford freshmen tried to get away
with at the freshman game two years
ago. Near the football grounds an acre
E area was thick With waiting automo-
biles.
But within the stadium the sight was
inspiring. Both slopes Of the towering
10 grand stands were like gardens abloom
White shirt waists and the shirts o.
cOatless men students made a dazzling
background upon which was painted
riot of beautiful colors expressed il
millinery, ribbons and flags.
CALIFORNIA; roofing section, a full
fourth wider than Stanford's solid mas
of 600 men, was the most effective tn
University has ever produced. From
base line up to the thirtieth row Their,
We're alternating horizontal lines o
5 blue and gold, ten of each, produced b,
4 big cOlored megaphones in the hand
Y of the rooters. Down in front sat tn
= Berkeley band, all in white with bras
2 instruments. AS the band played tn
S megophones waved in rhythm, the blu
y rows to the right and the gold row
4 n 1Aft sol
. wonderfully effective.
Across in the Stanford section Their
i were the traditional red hats and biz
S red megaphones. Then, as the Cardi
nal team ran out upon the field tn
red rooters sprang up, flourished thei
i megaphOnes and scattered from then
- a veritable cloudburst of red confetti
g The air was ablaze with it, and tn
), light red bits of paper were waited on
d upon the field. And then as the yell
a ing undergraduates settled down unde
Il the cloud, the customary big white
appeared, picked out by scores of me
t doffing their coats and donning cook
o caps to produce a distinctly white out
y line through the field of brilliant soil
i red. Pigeons trailing ribbon streamer
|
t tion as in recent preceding years, an
the singing and relocated bands cor
= tribution of college music was a tire
IS mendous feature.
.e For years Stanford has had nth
e, stunts the novelties produced frol
IS the roofing section. But yesterday Ca
k ifornia excelled in originality and Ell
lie fectiveness. The beautiful barred blu
lie and gold section was supplements
is with two big mortars that doomed r.
lie peatedly and shot straight up into IL
W air. Then a distant crack would sour
RS from on high and the craning spect'
IL tors, every face upturned, would 81
rs something evolve from the little pu
te of smoke 500 feet up and take for
as it slowly descended. One was a BIZ
n paper football with a white c, and