The San Francisco call., 1907-01-06
MAY ATTEMPT TO
GUST RUGBY
GAME

STAMFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan g.
With the return Of the undergraduates
to take up their academic work the
first part Of next week, the athletic
question uppermost will be, which
variety Of football will be played by
the vArsity teams of Stanford and Cali
fornia next season? There is much con-
lecture as TO the effect Of the success
fuI showing made by the team in the
north Some doubt is expressed as to
whether the hope of a post-season
trip and games with outside teams
viii not influence the players them
selves 10 back UP the faculty in its
stand for Rugby.
After the first few weeks of college
and after the general sentiment Of the
undergraduates shall have been de-
termined, the subject will be broached
by the editors OF the various college
publications. The faculty committee
has decreed that before making
change the initiative must be taken
by the students. The faculty is sat
isfed with the Rugby game and viii
stand by the resolution of last year.
To open the subject the student body
viii be obliged TO circulate a petit
tion among the undergraduates and
then vote on the proposition. The pc
tition viii then be presented to the
faculty committee of both universi-
ties.
Enthusiastic supporters of the old
game regard the situation obviously.
President David Starr Jordan and Dr.
Frank Angel, chairman of the fac
ulty athletic committee OF Stanford,
are the two Stanford members Of the
wards and President Benjamin Ide
Wheeler are the representatives of the
University Of California All Of the
members of this committee have been
placed on record as being strongly in
favor Of another season Of Rugby
The fifteen who went north have
not helped the cause of the under
graduates by their unprecedented sue
cess. IL is expected that many Of the
latter viii favor the Rugby game for
the opportunity it gives the univer-
sity TO become widely known. POST
season games with outside teams
would do much 10 spread the fame
of the California institutions
The team has not been victorious in
a single match with the Vancouver
players, but IL has surprised follow
ers of the British sport, who declare
that within another year the team
would be able to hold it's own with any
aggregation on the continent.
The interest evidenced by the under
graduates In aquatic sports is without
precedent The decision of the stu
QtuLS TO TOW IN ElSnA-OdE SutllS HAS
put the sport on level with that of
the Eastern universities. At the start
the rOwers will have a serious obsta-
Gle to overcome. The flume which sup
plies the artificial lake where the oars
men have put in the first part of the
season acquiring the strokes was de-
stroyed by a landslide and the uni
versity authorities have refused to re-
pair the damage. Armed with shovels,
the men who usually WELD the oar
have decided TO repair the conduit
themselves. The water is humed some
distance from a neighboring creek. The
lake is dry at present. Coach Murphy
has arrived on the scepe and, viii put
the men at work on the machines un-
til the lake is filled The call for
aspirants for places on the crews will
be made within two weeks and prac-
tice started at once. 1t is expected
more men viii turn out for boating
than for football, or at least as many
as annually appear on the baseball
diamond or the cinder track.
The new eight-oaF shell has not
been received from the East as yet,
but il probably will arrive in Febru-
airy.
As fer as can be learned, the crew
is intact, none of the members of last
years -four" having been eliminated
by the semi-annual funk.