The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
Gallant Showing by
Freshmen Team
BarbarianS Unable to Score in
First Half of Rugby Game
at Stanford
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL


STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 12-
Stanford is to have real freshman
team this year. Although in suits only
a week and handicapped by their lack
OF Rugby knowledge, a husky bunch of
cardinal youngsters, a husky bunch of
Francisco Barbarians down to a 90
score for 90 minutes on Stanford
field this afternoon. The final score
stood 24-0, representing six Barbarian
tries, three of which were converted in
10 goals. But this total was made in
the second half and eight points came
after the Stanford coaches had thrown
in a lineup of substitutes. In the first
the Laurels were all for the plucky
Freshmen. who forced the playing
were always trying and had the ball
In the Barbarian territory the greater
part of the time.
In the second half the Barbarians
shook themselves together. They played
brilliant Rugby; their long passing
rushes bewildered the green freshmen
and the procession began. Elliott. the
Barbarian captain, stood out head and
shoulders above his teammates and
showed that be had all the speed, clev-
ernesS and headwork which distin-
guished him last season. Most of the
passing rushes were started by him and
generally they We're taken along by
the right division the captain passing to
Earle, who in turn transferred to Pom
eroy at wipg-and Pomeroy was hard
TO stop.
HEAVY FIRST YEAR TEAM
The freshmen are a heaTy team for
first year men, and their serum is
strong-so strong that during the en-
tire first half it had the advantage over
its experienced opponents In the sec
ond the advantage was less noticeable
and the honors were more even The
freshmen also have find in Brown
at fullback, a youngster from Harvard
school, who has big kick in his right
Ioot and cool head on his shoulders.
lsf. whoN replaced Brown later in the
game, appears to be good one. 1t is
in the three quarters and wing diyi-
sions that the team appears weakest
With only a week OF practice however
there has been little opportunity to edu-
cate the backs in that most difficult
part of Rugby, the passing rush, and
criticism at this time is hardly oppor-
tune.
The story of the first half is that of
seesaw fight. with the ball in the
barbarian territory most of the time.
In this first period the freshmen were
the aggressors. Brown, the fullback,
got away with some beautiful kicks to
touch, which materially advanced his
team. The ball was geneEelly on the
ground, for the freshmen were igno-
rant as to how to handle 1t, and the
Barbarian backfeld was not working
smoothly. Several times the visitors
by over passing. The freshmen were
on top of the ball all the time. and
since they couldn pass it they kicked
1t and they did it well
= A few minutes after the opening of
the second half the Barbarian backs
carried the ball 20 yards for a try,
one of the prettiest features of the
game. Elliott started the play and
went straight through crowded field
for 80 yards before he transferred TO
Earle. Earle passed to Pomeroy and
Pomeroy carried it over. The goal was
a difficult one and Elliott missed 1t.
The same right division made an
other bewildering attack and scored
another try. This time Elliott had
difficult angle. but made beautiful
kick and converted the try into a goal
The freshmen fought gamely for the
rest of the half. but did not know how
to stop these passing rushes and four
more Of them were driven across tfa
line before the half ended. Elliott con-
verting two, making the final score "a
to 0.
INTER CLASS MATCHES
Before the Freshmen Barbarian game
the senior and Junior class teams lined
up and the sophomores met the second
freshman team. The seniors had a
team of veterans and although the
juniors made stubborn fight they
W ere defeated by three tries go Both
teams played very fair Rugby. but they
have not rubbed off the ragged edges
yet and their backfield work WAS weak.
The second freshman team made a
game fight against the sophomores and
succeeded in holding them to one try
During the first part OF the game the
second freshmen continually menaced
the sophomore line. but We're unable
to cross it. The final score stood:
Sophomore 8. second freshmen 0.
The 1ineups of the Barbarians and
the first freshman teams were as fol-
lows:
Barbarians-B Brown. Sands. Clarkson, Moyerly
Price.t Hamilton and Buckingham forwards |:
Walters. wing forward; Hy1and. half: Elliott
Earle and Goff. three-quarters; Pomeroy ana
SDauES
Freshmen-C -Crandap +. Smith Cilker. Halls
Schaupp, Partridge and Gilmore. forwards:
Whitney. wing forward; Donovan. half: Erb
and Coleman. wings: Brown, full
The substitutes put into the fresh
men lfneu" Were: Bennett Henderson.
Hederman. Everett. Hubbard, Corbett.
MacReady. Dickinson. Kennedy, Lem,
dell, Benernan.
MICH EO0TRAIJ MATEntAr