Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-17
OCCIDENTAL AND
SAINTS TO MEET
FAST GAME is ANTICIPATED ON
HIGHLAND FIELD
st. Vineents After University sealps,
and the First Eleven Men May
BE Kept In the Back
ground

Although four important football
games are scheduled for Southern Cali
fornia today, local interest will center
in the Occidental-St.v Vincent contest as
bearing upon the intercollegiate cham
pionship.
Promptly at o'clock upon the High
land Park field the Vincentian eleven,
which displayed such speedy proclivi-
ties last Saturday, will line up with the
Occidental eleven.
Had Occidental not been defeated by
University several weeks ago, and had
not the st. Vincent team exhibited un-
looked-for strength in the 0 to game
with high school last Saturday, consen-
sus of opinion would award Occidental
the game beforehand. The Highlanders
won championship honors in undisputed
manner last year, and have practically
the same team which landed the PEN
nant. on the other hand, Coach Hag-
gerty was obliged to assemble new and
light material from the squad which ap-
peared for practice at the seasons open
ing.
To all appearances, however, the
Saints are so per cent faster this year
than the eleven which represented st.
Vincent last season. Coach Haggerty
sprung a complete surprise when his
team held the high school men to a
tie score Saturday, as it had been freely
predicted that the academies would
score heavily.
AS a rule college teams are supposed
to outclass a high school eleven, but the
Los Angeles high school team has ever
been a bugbear so far as Southern Cali
fornia college elevenS are concerned.
The fact that Coach Traeger's men held
the University team to a tie score pre-
ceding u. S. C.'s clean-cut victory over
Occidental, makes the high school boys
appear as dangerous factors for college
aggregations.
Occidental has suffered somewhat in
obliged to discontinue after the U. S. c.
game because Of parental and other OBJ
jections being entered.
So far as weight is concerned, Occi-
dental will possess an advantage, as the
Saints have the lightest team represent
ing the Grand avenue institution in
years. Speed, however, has been in
stilled as never before, and the manner
in which Haggerty'S men took ad-
vantage of numerous high school FUN
bles last Saturday was pleasing
feature of their play
1t will be interesting to note what
success may attend the use of the for
ward pass which both Occidental and
st. Vincent have tried during the sea-
son. The Highlanders were not overly
successful in the strategic play, while |
st. Vincents came within an ace of
securing victory by their fast passing
of the ball.
Occidental, as may easily be imag-
ined, will be on the lookout for the for
ward pass, and some difficulty may be
experienced by the Saints in using 1t
| with such effect as marked their play
in the high school game, where the for
ward pass came in the nature of sur
prise
Should Occidental cling to the forma-
ton which marked their exhibition
against U. S. C. the Saints may score
with ease, as the extremely open play
of MerrilPs forwards was not calcu-
lated to stop fast team under any cir
cumstances. In all probability there
will be different style apparent when
the Occidental eleven lines up for de-
fense. Using their style of preceding
seasons, the Highlanders are very
difficult proposition so far as scoring is
concerned
Coach Haggerty of st. Vincents claims
that he will not use his entire first team
today, whatever predicament he may
find himself in. Agreement has been
made with U. S. C. whereby a game is
to be played on the Bovard field a week
from today, and the st. Wincents are
looking forward to a struggle with the
university as the all important game.
I'VE would rather beat u. S. c. than
Occidental" said Coach Haggerty last
night, las we regard the university
team to be superior eleven. We have
no excess gridiron squad, and L will
not take any chance tomorrow by using
my best men,"
Stub "Raitt" will referee, while Rook
is to act as umpire.