The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02
HANCOCK VICTOR
At FIELD BALL
Grammar School Boys Utterly
ROuf Opponents From the
CrOCker Classes
BY WILLIAM UNMACK

Between 5000 and 1000 grammar
school pupils and their parents yester-
day saw Hancock grammar school field
ball team utterly rout the team from
the Crocker grammar school by 40 to
26 on the new South side play grounds.
The board of education had granted a
half holiday to the grammar pupils
and they turned out in numbers to wit
ness the game.
For a first attempt the game was a
good one and Hancock, the winners,
showed far greater knowledge of the
game than did their opponents. The
last quarter of the game was the best
and the Hancock boys seemed to get
into their proper stride in this period.
The kick passing" was particularly
well executed by the boys from Tele-
graph hill and they had the Crocker
team guessing all through the quarter.
Both teams. however, tried too much
dribbling and ground kicking instead
of kicking up and trying to make high
marks.
One of the features of the game is
the constant quick changing of the seat
of play. The ball travels quickly from
one end Of the field to the other and
the men are running in this game more
than in any other form of football.
Hancock scored five goals" go points)
and 10 behinds Il point each) to two
goals G2 points, and Ia behinds by the
Crocker school
In the first quarter Referee Ward
bounced the ball. off and Crocker i'm
mediately took IL into Hancock terri
tory. The Hancock defense was good
and the play was quickly transferred
to the other end of the field. Play had
not been in progress more than five
minutes before Hancock had scored the
first point of the game by netting a
behind. Right after this Hancock
came back TO the attack and scored a
goal. The play seesawed from one end
of the field to the other. the Hancock
team having slightly the better of the
all round play. At the end Of this Pc
riod of the game Hancock had regis
tered 21 points to only behinds scored
by Crocker.
For the next two quarters the play
was not of an interesting nature, both
teams doing poor work and both
adding few. points as the game pro-
gressed.
The final quarter was the best of the
whole game. Crocker had livened up
considerably. but the Hancock boys
were playing a wonderful game and all
the men showed great knowledge of
many of the finer points. For instance,
the kick passing" was greatly i'm
proved over the earlier attempts. This
style OF passing calIS Tor great accu-
racy in direction Of the kicks. and on
many occasions the Hancock boys sent
the ball the fun length of the field by
chain kicks beautifully directed from
one to the other of their own side. In
this way the bail was taken into good
positions right in front of the goal and
goals registered from them.
This mode of attack gradually wore
down the Crocker defense and the Han
cock boys scored often. The Crocker
boys, however, rallied shortly before
the finish and scored a goal from a
long pass kick by the center halfback.
1t was a good piece of work, but it was
the last that was in the Crocker team.
Goals were scored for Hancock by
Plimio 3. Ciscarra 1 and Garrigan 1.
Wilson and Golding each scored a goal
for the Crocker team.
The lineup of both teams was as fol-
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