Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-26
RIVAL GR|DIRON
STYLES ON TAP
Old and New Style American
Soccer and Rugby Football
to Be Played

This is the day for the football carni-
val. Ninety-six pigskin artists on the
eight teams will minSle in all the
known styles of the game on BoVard
field this afternoon at . o'clock. All
the details of the meet have been ar
ranged and the events will be pulled
off as per schedule. rain or shine.
Manager Wheelan says that all the
men on the various teams are in the
best possible condition and the games
should be good examples of the styles
they represent.
1t will be interesting to some of the
fans to know how the gr diron idea
originated. For the past three years,
ever since the Introduction of Rugby
into the southern schools. the argu-
ment over the comparison between the
American game and the English sport
has been one of the principal topics
of conversation wherever the football
fans Of the south cluster. To go fur
ther some of the old heads horned
their way into the controversy with the
noise that the old American was the
only real hlooded sport, one which took
head work and beef-in short all the
factors which go to make up an ideal
college athlete-and TO satisfy them
the sherman Indians and the old St.
Vincent team will clash in Il short
struggle on the bark in an endeayor
To show the gathering what real foot
ball is.
OLD SEARS Oh HAND
MANY Of the old time stars who in
the past have sent thrills running over
the spines of the southern roOters, will
he seen i'm action. Tories, rbo, Gait
and Ardilo will be on the Sherman
team. while Neighbours, Rheinschild,
Murray and stoney Will grace the line
for the old Saints.
Following the old time interconeg-
late game the Rugby fifteen from Poly
high aud a picked team from the Los
Angeles high squad win clash in a
Rugby game The Polytechnic aggre-
CATION has been out Of the running as
far as outside competition goes for over
a year. but have been practicing all
season in the hope that they would get
y chance before the New Year was
lune in The Los Angeles sound will
not represent the Hilltop institution,
AS their regular season closed Two
weeks ago but the blue and white
athletes have been looking for an on
portunity to play their old time rivals
from the Washington street school. SO
ii is Il case Of the old annual game in
theory if not i'm fact.
After the English exhibition, Throop
and the Southern California Athletic
club will meet in an exhibition of the
new intercollegiate game as played un-
a decided hi this season and all the
games played by the conference col
legcs were far better than any ever
seen in the south during the past sea
sons While these two teams are not
of collegiate rank, the have the rep
utations of being the fastest inter-
Scholastic teams i'm the south. The clan
team Will be made up Of L. :. c. preps
in the main. with the addition of few
outsiders.
SocCER oN PROGRAM
TIL final event viii be a soccer
game between the Draw hangers and
the bonny Thistles all : otsmen who
claim that their game is by far the
best and i'm fact is the only re Il foot
ball played by the Anglo Saxon race.
These two teams are bitter rivals IN
the Southern california Soccer league
and their fight for tho top place in that
association has been long and hard
fought all season. 50 the game this
afternoon looks to be little more than
Just an example of the good old Hl@h-
land sport Another fact that inter-
csts the fans is that the game Wh.ch
will he played by these two teams this
afternoon is nothing like the game
plavcd by the city schools. The Rang
crs and Thistles are composed of men
from some of the best teams that
ever played across the water and What
they don't know about the game Mould
be hardly worth printing.
The games will start 1T O'Clock.
Take University cars south on Sprng
street or the West jefferson soutu ON
broadway to the L. s @. campus. ana
once in the locality ii will not be hald
TO find the exact spot