The San Francisco call., 1910-07-20
NEVADA Will HAVE
GOOD RUGBY team
Only Four of Last Years Fif-
teen Left, but New Material
Is Promising
By WILLIAM UNMACK

w. Sears, the husky forward Of the
Nevada Rugby team last year, has been
in the city for a brief visit and left for
the Sagebrush state last night Sears
says that of the famous team of last
year there will only be about four at
college this year as a nucleus of the 10
for the coming season. Last year, 1t
will be remembered, the Nevada team
till it's eventful game with California
university. in Berkeley. Stanford did
not play the Nevadans last year.
According to Sears good team
probably will be mustered for the fray
One thing that will help Nevada con
stderably is the fact that while must
of last years team are no longer at
college, they are scattered about Reno
and will form themselves into club
team to play the university and 50
give the team proper practice games
This has not been done before in Reno
and the new club team will be an ex-
ceptionally strong aggregation.
The local universities have the ad-
vantage of plenty of practice games.
whereas the Nevada team has been
compelled to go to great expense to
bring teams up from San Francisco
every week to play. This same prac-
tice will be again carried outsthis year,
but the team of local players in Reno
will naturally be given a number of
games and the university probably will
play one of its first games against this
local combination.
Bennett and Dolan, two of the Ne
vada team of last year, are at present
in New Zealand with the All Star
American Rugby team, and it is
thought that both these men will be
eligible to play on the university team
in the coming season. There are sew
eral of last years substitutes who will
make the varsity this year. and as
there was considerable difficulty last
season in segresating the best players
from the substitutes it is pretty GER
tain that the Nevada team this year,
while perhaps not up to the standard
of last years team, will be able to
give very good account of itself.
Another thing that the students place
their faith in is the coaching that
the team will receive this year.
F. Mayors, who has handled the Ne
vada team for the last two years
with such phenomenal success. will
again have charge of the coaching of
the squad this year The Nevada stu
dent body swears by Mayors.
Coach Presley of Stanford is already
making preparations for the coming
FOOTBALL season. LIE .ldlcSI lnHOVdllOu
by the cardinal coach is a new set of
knickers for the practicing of the
teams The cardinal squads have in
past years used a khaki knicker, but
this year an altogether different one
will be used. The color will be some
what like the color of past years, but
will be on browner tinge. Besides
that the knickers will be considerably
longer than the regulation Rugby
knickers and will come below the
knees. At this point they will be
slightly padded, and this is expected to
considerably save the players knees
from scratches and gravel rash. A spe-
cial shoe also has been ordered and
will be somewhat on the same model as
the shoes taken by the All America
team to Australia during their tour
This outfit is for practice games only
and in the big game against California
in November the regulation Rugby uni
form will, be used. The jerseys will be
the same colors as in previous years.
Half of the squad will be in black and
the remainder will use the gray jersey