The San Francisco call., 1910-11-13

outline of the ak and to make the in
terror c. Others wore blue capes and
caps to supply the blue ground of the
emblem. The best part of 1t was that
even the students who formed the pic
ture did not know until it was COM
pleted that they were to be part of the
most interesting and ingenious root
ing feature that ever added to the in
terest of a football game. The designer
of the AK should be accorded honors
equal to those bestowed on the heroes
of the game.
COLLEGE GIRLS ROOT
Another novel California feature
was the women students roofing sec
tion. Whether this is a sort OF suf-
fragette idea, manifestation and
consummation of college women s
rights, is left for the history depart
ment of the university to declare. Be
fore the game a college editor warned
the maidens not TO act unseemly in
their roofing section. They were the
most seemly feature of the game.
Beauty is for the football hero. The
brave Of the field yesterday deserved
the fair-and got their deserts Fran
co.'s Villon, had he been on California
field yesterday, would never have
written his)pathetic though beautiful
'Ballade of Dead Ladies" He would
not have been interested in the vague
whereabouts of Helen or Heloise or
Flora, the lovely Roman, or Joan, whom
the British burned at Rouen. The live
ladies on the bleachers were inspira-
tion for schools of poets, shoals of
poets. The steep bleachers blossomed
sayly-red, blue and gold were the
flowers of the day.
NO "PELTCANS, IN SIGHT
If there are "Pelicans" at colleges
still-maiden ladies of very certain age
and grim vlsage-they had all been
thrown down the we'll yesterday morn
ing or locked in the garret Only beauty
went to the game, and while neither
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler nor
President David Starr Jordan have ad
vertised courses in beauty culture at
their respective institutions. they light
as well have and thus secured all the
benefit of free advertising. The blue
eyed and golden haired girl of Berke-
ley, with the blueness of her eyes deep
ened by the bunch of violets and the
gold, of her hair heightened by the
proximity Of great golden crysanthe-
NUNS sat joyous and triumphant by
the dark haired Stanford girls, whose
burning cheeks otItmatched in warmth
Of color the crimson poinsettia or the
glistening red berries at her breast.
1t has been foolishly said that beauty
is only skin deep. On California field
yesterday beauty was "a tiers. deep,
and overf1owed into the press box.
With beauty were the usual compile
ment of escorts. Men prominent in the
civil. political, professional and fnan-
cial world were there. minor planets. to
be sure. beside the radiance of Venus
on the bleachers and Mars on the field.
President Wheeler of the University
of California was there with two dis
tinguished Englishmen, Doctor John
stone of Oxford and DR.. f. A. PaIkin,
president of the board OF trustees of
the Rhodes scholarship. President Jor-
dan of Stanford university is now in
the east and missed this game.
KERN WEEPs AT DEFEAT
There was one pathetic spectator at
the gane-Kern, three quarters of the
Stanford team. Kern was not in the
game He broke his leg last week in
the hard game with the Olympics. He
entered in an automobile. which ran
into the field near the Stanford rooters'
section. California graciously gave him
a cheer. When the game was over and
the joyous California undergraduates
were circling the field in their serpen-
tine of victory, Kern bowed his head
on his arm and wept over the defeat
of the team he could have aided so
strongly but for the accident. Had he
been in the game the score might well
have been different
The triumphant Californians had the
field. their own California field, for
their enthusiasm. They circled and sang
and danced behind their band. Then
they assembled in the center of the
field and, with barred heads. sang the
university chant, "All Hail. Blue and
Gold" Stanford ceased its cheering
and condolance. and the Stanford root
ers, with heads barred, too, stood silent
ly while the chant swelled over the
darkening field. The tall bleachers were
silent, too as the hymn of the college
was sung Football has it's religious
side. Once games ended with battles
royal between the rival undergraduates.
Now they end with a college religious
service, fine and olemn-pagan, per-
haps, but splendid.
The throngs held their places on the
bleachers while the song was sung; the
gay, futtering pennants were idle on
the high hills of beautiful women and
interested, bareheaded old grads" The
California hymn ended with rousing
-Oski WOW" that came from the very
shoes OF the rooters.
Then Stanford took I'm IFS h<nu