The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11
Winged US MEET
Centuries TODAY
American Football Champions
ship of State to Be Decided
in Oakland

One of the most important games of
the season in American football will
be played this afternoon in Oakland
on the Grove street grounds The
contesting teams are the old rivals the
Century club of Oakland and the
Winged VS. of Vallejo.
For several seasons these two teams
have been the best of the local organi-
cations that still adhere to the Ameri-
can game, as played in the east, and
each year the local championship has
/ been between these two.
The Vallejo team has the exceptional
record of holding the championship for
four years, and snever suffering a de-
feat in the past'siy years. Their closest
games have been with the Century
club, but the best they could do was
to play two tie games, and then lose a
6 to 5 struggle for the title last year.
In six years the lineup of the Vallejo
team has not been changed until the
last game they played against the
Brooklyns in this tcity. Charley Goshen,
the old Olympic club end, has coached
the team since its infancy, and he is
deserving of a great deal of credit for
the team work he has developed and
the variety of open plays he has
worked out for his team.
The Winged VS. rely mostly on open
play and forward passes for their
ground gaining. but they have also
demonstrated that they can gain
ground by the old straight tactics of
bucking.
Castinetto the big fullback. is a
great ground gamer, as he has a great
kick and is a very clever boy making
the forward pass. He can pass aecur-
ately for 35 or 40 yards. and uses good
headwork in selecting the man to
whom to make the pass.
The Century club has a team Of all
star high school players and they have
among them some clever boys. The
backfield is exceptionally good. as
Kiser and Incell are the halves and
Buns the fullback. The halfbacks are
two of the best ground gamers and de-
fensive backs that have been developed
in the last four years on any of the
high school teams.
Kiser is a big fellow. weighing 1a5
pounds, and a demon to stop when ne
starts around an end. He is very
clever at backing up the line on de-
fense. In fact, he does it all alone.
and gives his team the advantage of
another fullback In the midfield. 1t
is due to this that the Vallejo team
will probably find that their forward
passes will not work with any regular
| ity, and they may have to resort to a
bucking and kicking game
They will have no advantage in the
kicking line over the Centuries, how
ever as Incell can boot a ball about
as far as the next one and is very
clever at putting over drop kicks. 1t
was due to his ability in this line that
the Centuries did not suffer defeat in
their second game with the Winged
VS. last year. After the Vallejo team
had scored touchdown and kicked a
goal Incell make two dropkicks out
of three tries from the 45 yard lire
and at a very difficult angle with the
wind to contend with.
AS things look before the game. it
would not be surprising If the result
would be a no score tie. Both teams
play a good defensive game and it is
question if either can gain ground
consistently enough to cross the line
for a touchdown. OF course. field goals
have to be taken into consideration.
and there are many things that NAV
happen to give the ball to one side or
the other close enough to the goal to
permit of field goal.
The Vallejo team should be a slight
fayorite on account of its team work
but the Centuries have two men to be
feared and who are likely to get away
for a score at most any time.
The game should be a good one and
the interest is keen. Already it is re-
ported that over 1000 tickets have been
sold and the Vallejo supporters will he
down in force, as taey-have Chartered
special boat and will bring down a
band. Pete Smith will referee and
Iames Bishop will umpire.