Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-14
RUGBY GAMES
MORE POPULAR
WILL BE GENERALLY PLAYED
THIS FALL
SOCCER LEAGUE ANNOUNCES ITS
SEASON SCHEDULE
Approach Of Fall School Term I'm.
covers Unusual Amount Of Prom
lsine Material for Coaches
70 Work Into Teams
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BY RED PERKINS
The Rugby season will start off In a
rush soon in Soothern California, and
from the number of students ready ia
try for the different clubs there Is an
excellent prospect for good teams in ali
of the out-of-town schools. In ali there
will be six clubs that will play the
Rugby game this season, two more
than last year.
Coach Thompson of Polytechnic high
school Is well pleased with the mate
rial he has in sight for the English
game this season. Nearly all the old
fifteen are back and 1t will not require
many weeks to whip the new material
into shape.
Rugby practice has started already
in this neck of the woods, and on the
San Bernardino high school gridiron
the students are out every afternoon,
while the Riverside and Redlands stu
dents are tossing the ball around and
doing q little good kicking. Within the
next two weeks Long Beach high and
u. s. c. will be playing match games
as just before departing for Colorado
Coach Harvey Holmes made arrange
ments for U. s. G. to play the seaside
school team two games and the Cast
aways.
Pomona high school must not be
overlooked this season in Rugby, for
they will make strong bid for cham
pionship honors with any light team,
and there is possibility of seeing the
foothill team playing on a Los AM
geles field before the season Is over.
Taken in all, there will be as much
interest in the Rugby game as there
will be in the American and soccer
games, for 1t was tried out in this city
last year and took" instantly with.
the students.
A Rugby football league has been or
ganized in Orange county and viii be
the game played in that county this
year, according to the rule adopted
by the various athletic bodies of that
part of Southern California. The mem
bers Of the league are Pomona, San
Bernardino, Redlands, Riverside, Col
ton and Ontario high schools. Red
lands and Pomona, at the last meet
ing Of the athletic committee, tried to
have the old game restored, but to no
avail, as the faculty of each school as
a rule stood all in favor OF the English
game.
Much surprise was occasioned in col
lege circles last Saturday when the an
nouncement was made at Whittier that
college, and Miss Gertrude Cox of Pas
adena were married. The bride and
groom were students Of the college
when Cupid ''got busy" and they will
continue at the college until gradual
ton, residing in the meantime at Whit
tier. Todd was a familiar figure last
season on the Whittier track team. and
is the son of ]. s. Todd. president of
the city council. The bride is the
daughter of the late william Cox, for
merly a leading attorney of Pasadena.
Miss Lucy Fullaway, graduate of the
Los Angeles high school. has been
elected president OF the Women's Row
Ing club of the University of Califor-
MIA, and writes from the northern city
to friend as follows: There ara over |
the University of California from Los |
Angeles high, SO you can see I am |
not homesick in the least. Women's |
rowing is a new branch of athletics |
that the faculty has adopted, and each |
afternoon about twenty of the girls |
go to an inclosed lake, where we can
not be seen by those 'horrid' men. and |
Indulge in regular practice, and from |
the information I have received a |
match race with the Stanford fresh |
man class will be held shortly to see |
which of the girls is the strongest in |
this water sport"
Miss Fullaway always has been very |
fond Of rowing, and when at home sell |
dom missed rowing each day during |
vacation. Her favorite rowing course |
was from Terminal island to Point Fir |
min. While attending the Los An
geles high school Miss Fullaway was |
we'll liked, and several times was Of |
fered the position OF president of the |
Women's Basketball league. but de- |
clined ON account OF her studies.
Forekt Stanton, formerly of Harvard, |
cousin of Miss Stanton, the expert Los |
Angeles high school tennis player, |
writes from the north that he again |
will captain the varsity football team |
of University of California and play |
the quarter position.
The semi-annual track and field meet |
Of the San Francisco Athletic league |
will be held Saturday, October 10, at
Berkeley oval. One week after the
academic league championships are de- |
rided the annual meet of the grammar |
schools will be held.
Whittier college will open for work
next week and the outlook is quite
DR.. J. J. Mills will make
the opening address and the new men,
The new arrangement of credits, with
both the state university and Stanford |
mas aroused new enthusiasm In the
college work.
Every Southern California college will |.
open the football season with a new
coach, with the exception of st. VIM
cent and Harvard military school.
These changes, no doubt, VIII instilI
some real fighting spirit into the vari-
ous teams. The way for adjustment of
strained athletic relations also is
cleared up considerably.
Joe Lane, the Harvard school sprinter,
who went north last week to enter
Stanford, returned home Saturday. Hell
ELL short of the required entrance cred
ts by narrow margin and expects to
return to Stanford about Christmas
lay.
Archie Kellogg of Occidental, one Of
he fastest sprinters in the south, left
with a number Of college
classmates on an auto hunting trip OF
several days in the San Fernando val
ey They are after doves and other
small game.
Yale school will open soon and Coach
ADAMS expects to have a first class
ootball eleven rounded into shape to
ry conclusions with the different high
chools and colleges about Southern
california.