The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
Brilliant Rugby Season
Indicated by Schedule
Colleges, Schools and Clubs Actively Preparing
To Begin Years Practice
By WILLIAM UNMACK

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and Bacon, Sims, Mcmillan. Stewart
and Brown in the backs
The school has already scheduled
games with Stanford and California
freshies and the usual series of games
with Palo Alto and Santa Clara will be
arranged. All the Santa Clara valley
teams are anxious to try conclusions
with the city teams and as the latter
are equally anxious for games there
will be no trouble on that score.
Worswick, Dimon, McGilI, Rucker and
years San Jose team. will be missing
from this years team. P. Mcmillan
has been elected captain. He plays on
the three quarter line and has shown
great ability and good judgment in the
position.
Saddler. who so successfully coached
the school last year, will in all prob
ability again accept the position.
The Olympic club this year will put
an exceptionally strong team in the
field, most of them varsity veterans,
and last years club champion team Is
going to take every precaution to again
annex the valuable Wolff trophy, which
it won last year. Most of last years
team, with the exceptions of Clerk,
Minturn and Thorpe, will all be avail
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turned to Stanford and will be play
ing with their alma mater. To make
up for the loss of these men the winged
co. will find valuable substitutes in
]. o. Miller, Terrill and Pemberton
among the forwards. Erb will not be
eligible for Stanford this term and
will occupy the serum half position on
the Olympic team.
Freeman of California will be asso-
ciated with Webster on the five-eighth
line, and Goodell last years fullback
for the Barbarians, will be the Olym-
pics last line of defense. Pomeroy
will in all probability play with the
Reliance club of Oakland this year to
help the game along across the bay.
The Barbarian club will also have
several new men. Turner. a husky
forward hailing from New Zealand,
will be big acquisition in the serum.
Harriet, who played center three quar-
terS in a number of the practice games
that California varsity played in 1906.
will occupy the center position with
Elliott. Hale, another blue and gold
man from last years squad, will also
be on the Barbs' attacking line, and
Smith, the crack miller, will be an
other welcome member to the black
and white.
Bowring, former captain of Rugby
school, England, has thrown In his
lot with the Barbs, and as a three
quarter will prove himself an adjunct
not only to the Barbs but Rugby in
general in this state.
A man whose absence in the for
wards will be sorely felt, is Sands. He
was without doubt one of the best for
wards in the Barbs last year and his
place will be a hard one to fill. Van
Doozer of the Chicago athletic club
is another addition to the Barbs' ranks.
Hyland, the brilliant little halfback,
will not be seen on the local Rugby
field this year, having left the state.
With these exceptions all of last
years veterans will again be available
and, with the new recruits, Captain Ell
liott expects to have a very powerful
team. Practice for the Barbs starts
today at the stadium and gymnasium
work will be INDUCED in at the clubs
headquarters three times week
The California Rugby union will hold
a meeting. in about two weeks The
rules drawn up by the committee have
been circulated among every Rngby
body likely to join the union and these
rules will be thoroughly discussed at
the meeting. The Referees associa-
tion will also hold it's annual meet
ing this month and preparations made
to supply the games with competent
referees. A number of new referees
are needed and former players willing
to act are asked to send in their
names TO secretary Moverly at once.
Stanford Field Ready
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Aug r.
Student Body Manager Burbank ar
rived on the campus a few days ago
with a complete schedule of games for
the coming varsity Rugby season and
the dates for the freshman games prac-
fiNqllW all 6llad
mer vacation the campus football field
has been carefully watered and cut. and
there is at present perfect turf and
splendid all round field for the season
which opens in a few weeks
After the brilliant victories of last
season, when the players of this insti-
tuition swept the coast and established
an international reputation, there rs
much interest in the coming cam
paign. The cardinal players will be
quite as formidable during the coming
season, and as they will make practi-
cally a veteran aggregation, probably
more formidable. Four of the men
who played against California last fall
will be missing from the ranks of the
1909 team, but there are any number
of veterans to take their places. The
task of making a team out of the men
will fall upon the competent shoulders
of George ]. Presley. In the forward
division Pemberton. Crawford. Miller.
Thorpe, AIinturn, Cheda and Reynolds
are among those who will return The
backfield has wealth of material |
available. Holman, Reed, Cook, Scott
Roth, Mitchell, Ganong, Cadwalader
ard Faulkner intend to don suits. One
Of the biggest acquisitions will be
Vandervoort, who was star here two
years ago.