The San Francisco call., 1910-07-17

SCHOOL REOPENING
TO REVIVE SPORT
Question of Style of Football to
Be Played Looks to Be
Paramount Issue
BY WILLIAM UNMACK


With the beginning of the fall school
term at the different schools in the
next two weeks, interest will be re-
kindled in all branches of sports. Foot
ball and basket ball will for the present
mainly interest the students at the diff
ferent schools. In the matter of foot
ball no less than four different codes
will be played during the coming sea-
son. The grammar schools are in all
probability going to play the game
known as Australian rules, which is
going to be introduced this season by
the Columbia Park boys, who made such
a success of this particular game dur
ing their recent tour in Australia. When
the Columbia Park boys returned from
Australia a young Australian accom-
panied them, and in conjunction with
the Columbia Park boys this season
will do everything possible to teach the
game to the school boys. Permission
has been granted by the school COM
mission for this youth to address the
students a the different schools on this
game. The intercollegiate code of foot
ball still has a number of followers,
however, but the ranks of this style OF
football have been depleted consider
ably since last season. Lick. Cogswell,'
Polytechnic, Belmont, Wilmerding and
Hitchcock will be in line for the inter-
collegiate game.
The Alameda high school is some
what in the balance between rugby and
intercollegiate. Both Berkeley and Oak
land high schools have declared for
rugby.
For some few years past the Hum
boldt school has had a particular l1k-
ing for the soccer football. and this
school will again take the field at this
game this season in the California
league competition. With the excep-
tion of these schools every other school
will play the rugby game.
Mission has hopes this year of de-
feating the present San Francisco sub
league champions Lowell, though
number of the members of the team OF
last year will not return to the
Mission school. C. Stafford last years
captain, will be missed from the squad,
but the Stanford university will secure
man in Stafford that will make good
material for the freshman team. Others
of last years team who will be missed
are Barbera, Doman, Fuller, Fleming,
Lunt.
H. Renwick. who so successfully
coached the Mission team last year, will
again have charge of the squad. 5.
Millington has been elected manager.
OLD TIMERS AT LOWELL
Lowell will not be as unfortunate is
the Mission school and will have most
of last years team to draw on. Terru,
the Jap who played so well on the
e-eighth line, has graduated and will
not be in line this term. Leo Meyer
has been reelected captain and A.
Heacock is attending to the managerial
duties of the football team. The stu
dent body is endeayoring to get La1ne
of California university who made the
f-o l1ct 70 holr q
team.
The doings of both Berkeley and
Oakland schools will be closely followed
on the rugby field in this, their first
rugby season. Berkeley will have ad-
vantages that most of the other schools
will be unable to get in the way of
coaching and will be in a great meas
use assisted to learn the game by the
California university squad Oakland
will have a good heavy team, and up
to the present no coach has been de-
cided on, though there are rumors that
Faulkner of st. Mary's college will give
whatever assistance he can to help the
boys acquire the new game. Other
schools that will play rugby this year
Ignatius. Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa
Clara, Mountain View. The last four
are old hands at the game and they
now play a good class of Rugby.
BASKET BALL HAS FOLLOWING
Besides football, basket ball will have
large number of followers among
the schools. The Commercial high,
which made such a strong bid last year
for the championship honors of the
Academic league tournament, has al
ready got the basket ball team together
and will make every effort to bring
home the spoiIs of victory. Among
well known basket ball players who
will figure on the Commercial team this
season are r. Merrill. who played for
ward last year on the st. Peters team;
d. Maher and c. du Jardine; G. Weir,
forward of the Columbia Park, and
Bradford, the guard of the Swastikas,
will play in their usual position on
the Commercial team. Colonel Murphy
has been mainly instrumental in get
ting such a strong team together so
early.