The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
BarbS and Winged 0
Ready for Game
Puqby Teams viii Decide Club
Championship at Berkeley
Thanksgiving Day
By William Unmack

With the big varsity game now rele-
gated to the pages Of ancient history
tbe next important event in the Rugby
world is the big game Thanksgiving
dav between the Olympic and Barbar-
ian teams.
This game is creating a great deal
Of interest in football circles, as II VIII
decide the championship among the
club teams. The Wolf trophy is at
stake and both teams are training
hard in an endeavor TO secure 1t.
Both teams have good records tor
the season. and the Bar ,s lells isth -, = =
= win against California, whereas the
Olvn1Dics did not win game. Ane
Barbarians also defeated botn the AL
fornfa and Stanford freshmen, Whete
the Olympics again falleo- doweksl, !, =
the Olvnpic men have been showing
far suDerior form in their later games
than the Barbs, and neither CallIor hl-
nor Stanford varsity teams scored ds
heavily against the winged - men
as they did against the baros'
TEAMS WELL MATCHED
The Olvmpics were defeated by cali
fornia by 10 10 3. where the Baros
went down 10 defeat by u TO Q. AGAIN
Stanford defeated the Barbs by 2S to
Q. and they could only defeat the
Olvmpics by the small score OF y to D.
On the other hand, the Barbs nave
scored more points than the Olymplcs
and have had less scored against them.
II Is also strange lact Ihat Ilie par ,,n Da
had most Of their points plleo Up
against them in the hnal games
whereas the Olympics were harder to
score against in the final games
Taking all these things into consid-
Grafton. it VIII be. seen that the teams
appear TO be more evenly matched
than the scores would indicate. The
Barbs are q much lighter team than
01rrrr-rafrc frrr what rhpV lack
weight is made Up in experience, as
most OF the black and white men have
played the game IN Great Britain or
the colonies.
The majority Of the Olympic players
are ex-Stanford and ex-California men,
and include such well known athletes
as ollie Snedigar, ex-manager for the
blue and gold. Minturn and Thorpe,
both members Of the Stanford team in
1897, are also members Of the winged
Molano, another Stanford forward,
viii also be seen in the Olympic for
wards. Laumeister, the speedy stan
ford three quarters, is one OF the
Olympics mainstays. Harry Macken-
zie and Aguirre Of santa Clara col
leee are two more formidable Rugby
men, kerrtgan, the olympic captain.
is a former blue and gold man and is
one OF the best known athletes and in
terc0llegiate players on this coast
The Barbarians are the original club
team Of Rugby experts in this city.
and they have in their ranks some of
the finest Rugby material on this
coast. Harry hlliot is known through
ont the length Of the coast as a versa
tile athlete and the finest exponent Of
Rugby playing the game in America
He was assistant coach at California in
1906. and his playing in the Thanks
giving day game is being anxiously
awaited by Rugby fans.
Moverly, POmeroy, Hyland, Phillips,
Sands, Brown, Price. Earle. CIoff and
EnGrrnT Of rnnfnrG all fhp
are closely linked with Rugby on this
coast and their names are guarantee
ia themselves Of the excellent quality
Of Rugby that viii be seen next Thurs
day.
MUCH INTEREST AROUSED
Both Stanford and California are
"a king an exceptional interest in the
game The California field has been
placed at the disposal of the teams for
Inelr encounter The game is sched-
uled 10 start at 2 .. m. and full halves
Of 60 minutes viii be played.
The statement issued during the
week by Captain Butler Of the defeat
ed California varsity. in which he
shouldered the full responsibility of
the last six points scored by Stanford,
has appealed deeply TO all lovers of
true sport That Butler deeply feels
the mistake he made is evident. but
stil he seems to be taking too much
on his shoulders by his statement II
Is true that he threw the ball in from
touch and left the full position vacant
and allowed Holman to score. but it is
too much TO let him shoulder the full
blame, IT only goes to show, however
what really fine sportsman he is and
with a few more men, of Buffers cali
her, both as player and a man. the
same is oounes to go ahead
The stanford campus during the
week has heard nothing but talk OF
the 1908 II to 8 victory. The game
has been fought out over and over
again by the students. and TIE team
has gone out of training altogether
Next week. however. they start. Ife,i1s
pnacJlce IA preparation for their trim
10 Vancouver during the Cbrjs.r.s . Z
holidays. lo q
Their visit is being anxiously looked
forward to an Vancouver.