Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-05
TO
MEETLOCALS
UNIVERSITY AND cAsTAWAYs
PLAY RUGBY TO-DAY
Cardinals Arrive from the North Pre-
pared for Lively contest-Home
Team includes Some
Star Men

With cardinal banners flying from ten
automobiles, the Rugby team from STAN
ford university was conducted from the
Arcade depot to the Lankershim hotel
yesterday afternoon at o'clock. The
university men came to Los Angeles to
play a game with the Los Angeles Cast
away team. This game, which will take
place In Fiesta park at 2:30 today, viii
open the football season on this coast.
Twenty men came south from the uni
versity in the party which arrived over
the coast line yesterday afternoon. Coach
Presley of the team, Manager Guy Knupp
of the student body and Dad" Moulton.
Stanford's veteran trainer came along
with the boys, The fonowing players are
registered at the Lankershim: H. Rhine,
liam Koerner, captain of the team;
u. Minturn ], l.. Pemberton, d. P. Craw-
ford, r. H. Reynolds, c. Pemberton,
NJ. M. Mitchell, X. L. Fenton, A. A.
Mathewson. G. c. Faulkner c. Owen,
Thorpe, Henley, Ganong, Vandervoort,
iSeed. Cook, Brown and Spaulding.
The Tourist Automobile company fur
nished six machines to take the men to
their hotel and later out to the football
grounds. A large number of gay Stan
ford pennants which adorned the ma
chines were provided by the sporting
goods house of Dyas & Cline.
Procession to Park
At 8 o'clock the men donned their foot
ball suits and cardinal sweaters with the
big block 49, on the bosom, and stepping
into the automobiles went in procession
out to the football grounds.
Unfortunately the first rain of the sea-
son put in its appearance just as the men
were starting their practice work under
the direction of Coach Presley. After a
little work at passing ball and running
down the field, the men again mounted
into tho autos. and were whirled down
the street to their hotel, where they ar
rived drenched from the heavy shower
that fell as they were en- route.
All interested in the coming game are
anxious about todays weather. If the
weather man can provide good day the
field will be all the better for the shower
of yesterday. The boys think they have
brought some hoodoo along and are spec
ulating as to which one Of them is guilty
of having brought the rain south with
him.
Last night the Stanford men went in a
body to the Los Angeles theater, where
they occupied several boxes. Immediate
ly after the performance Dad" Moul-
ton gathered his flock together and sent
them off to their rooms for training
rules require all the players to be in bed
by II 80 every evening during the season
of football
The boys are all devoted to Dad the
veteran trainer, who has been with the
university many years, and has sent
number of Stanford track teams to VIC
tory against the University of California.
He has trained every football team during
the last ten years. Dads" speciality is
track work. however, and since he has
been at Stanford he has turned out
number of world record breakers, to say
nothing of many coast champions in var
ious events. Dad has become part of
the university and the students would
not know how to get along without him.
The team will not do any practice work
this morning and will not put on their
suits until time to go out to the park IN
the afternoon for the game. A few OF
the boys are residents of Los Angeles
and are staying at their homes. Most OF
them are at the Lankershim.
Coaches Study Game
Coaches flanagan and Presley have
spent the summer studying the Rugby
game in Australia and have been giving
their team some splendid instruction in
the finer points of the game. Training
at the university has been going on about
a month, so the men who will represent
the Cardinal tomorrow will play with
systematic team work.
Members of the local team of the Cast
aways have not been playing togetner
very long and will probably not present
the team work that they expect to de-
velop later in the season. A number OF
the men are old Rugby players, however,
and others were brilliant performers IN
the old American game. They will un-
6oubtedly put up a strong fight against
the university men and are confident that
they will be able to run up score
against the Stanford team. They nave
been handicapped in their practice by the
inability of the players to get away from
their work during the day, and such
practice games as they have had have
been in the evenings. Last Saturday they
defeated the Polytechnic Rugby team by
a score of IA to s. In todays game the
Castaways will have in their lineup sew
eral of the most brilliant players on the
Polytechnic team.
The Stanford team expected to secure 9
regular Rugby football from some of the
local sporting goods houses, but these
were long ago disposed OF to teams II
Southern California, and the Rugby ball;
used by the Polytechnic team will have
to be borrowed for today's contest.
The Stanford men have strong team
this year and are working hard for thu
coming game with the University of Cal
| ifornia, which will be held November
on the Stanford campus. The northern
| teams are playing Rugby on grass f1elt
this year, and claim it is much bette
| than the sod and. sawdust fields used II
| the old game.
| The lineup of the two teams in today
| game will be as follows:
STANFORD CASTAWAYS
Rhyme forwards. ............-.. Hun
| KoerEer (capt.) forwards Hi
Minturn. forwards Gale
Pemberton, j. L.. forwards. .......... .DenshaI
| Crawford forwards. Lu
| Thorpe. ...... forwards. &C. Rickerhause
Reynolds. .......... forwards. ...F. Rickerhause
Pemberton, C..... forwards. ......,.... Mitche
Henley. half. .Tomkin
Vanderyoort half ................. .Walto
Mitchell ......... three quarters. Swet
Ganong .......... three quarters. .Holme
Reed ..............th three quarters. Edward
Cook three quarters...P. Higgins(c
Fenton ......... three quarters.......T. Higgir
Stanford will have Mathewson, Faulk
ner, C. owen, Brown and Spaulding a
| an will n n 1y hsar