The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-08-22
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spending much of his time i'm England
and Wales. witnessing games there.
He has come back full of enthusiasm,
and no doubt has his plans for the
seasons work pretty carefully mapped
out. DR.. Taylor has the advantage of
having himself played the game with
the San Francisco clubs. He is a
graduate of California and no doubt
is ambitious to retrieve the declining
football star of the blue and gold by
giving his alma mater the first Rugby
victory.
jim flanagan, whose work with stan
ford football men has given him rank
with the greatest football coaches of
the day, is a novice at Rugby. When
it was decided to play the games he
presented his resignation to the Stan
ford student body. But the Stanford
confidence in flanagan and his methods
was so great that the resignation was
refused without debate. II was felt
that what flanagan could not learn
about Rugby in the several months he
had ahead of him would not be worth
learning. Any small shortening would
be more than compensated for by the
splendid spirit that flanagan puts into
his men.
And so flanagan like his California
rival has spent a busy summer. His
practical Investigations have been made
mostly in British Columbia where he
witnessed games between the Canadian
teams. On his return two weeks ago
he was quoted as speaking in praise of
the new game, which he thought was
a good sport and one to which the
American college men would take kind
Ily If it is true that he has been con-
verted, his whole heart and soul will
be in his coaching, and there will
surely be something happening when
the two varsties meet for the first
battle.
The great handicap viii be the lack
of outside practice for the teams. None
of the other universities or colleges of
the coast are going to play rugby, and
consequently Stanford and California
must depend entirely, upon themselves
playing first and second team games
unless they import teams from British
| Columbia or can get together scratch
teams Of Canadians and Britons in san
Francisco Either of these methods is
mot likely to give the best results, for
IT is almost an axiom of sport that
practice with second-rate opponents is
worse than no practice at all. Still, it
will be necessary to make the best of
the bad situation, and the first inter-
collegiate game will probably show
that the two graduate coaches Taylor
and flanagan, have turned out teams
that are a credit to their colleges. The
physical care Of the men will again be
in the hands of the same trainers. wal
ter Christie of California and the vet
eran Dad" Moulton of Stanford.
The financial side Of the question will
be not unimportant. The first game
will be held on the California gridiron
at Berkeley, and it will be necessary
to widen the field considerably. This
will require the moving back of the
bleachers, involving an expense of
several thousand dollars and California
men are asking where this money is
coming from Another thing is that
the receipts from the usual preliminary
games will be cut off, for there will
be few preliminaries that will draw
cash from the undergraduates pocket.
Football has in the past been relied
upon to carry mostly all the college
sports, but this year the managers will
congratulate themselves if it carries It.
self.
Many undergraduates hold to the
opinion that there will be but little in
terest in the new game, and that the
crowds that have flocked to previous
intercollegiate contests will be UNI
known hereafter. But it must be re-
membered that there will be interest
in the game because it is new. So much
has happened since the last contest
that the next one will be like the open
ing of new series, and the same great
band of college enthusiasts is quite
likely to be present to cheer on it's
heroes
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