The San Francisco call., 1910-07-24
STRENUOUS RUGBY
SEASON in Store
Schools, Colleges and Clubs to
Start Training Soon for
Broader Schedule
By WILLIAM UNMACK

The prospects for the coming football
season are very encouraging, and it
will undoubtedly be the most strenuous
undertaken by any northern California
| universities colleges, clubs or schools
since the Rugby game was inaugurated.
Within the next three weeks the sea-
son will be well started as far as the
practicing of the different teams is con-
cerned. The schools will all be out by
that time and the clubs have already
begun to look to the organization of
their respective sides. Club practice
will start about the middle of August
and the Barbarians are planning to
start their indoor training next week.
The Olympic and Barbarian clubs
WILL as usual, bear the brunt of the
practice games for the universities to
get into form, and these two well
known Rugby teams will fight their
annual game out the week after the
annual struggle between the universi-
ties. The Reliance club in Oakland
has not up to the present made any
move toward organizing a team. Last
year, though the Reliance team was not
very successful. it gave most of its
opponents good games and, with a
years experience, ought to be able to
do very much better than previously
The Olympic club will have an ex-
ceptionally strong team, and most of
last years veterans will be in the field
again. Harry Mckenzie will be in his
usual place, and Laumeister, Brennan
Trowbridge, the Webster duet, -Skov,
Wallfsch and others have all signified
their intention of once more donning
the winged o jersey.
The Barbarians will once more have
"InternationaP' Brown leading the for.
wards, and Sands, Goff, Turner, Shee-
han and Bartlett will also be In line.
Among new blood that the Barbarians
have secured are Jack Densham. for
merly of the Los Angeles Castaways,
who is now in this city, and w. Suth-
erland, who a couple of seasons ago
was one of the greatest quarters
in New Zealand. Sutherland is a big
man and plays on the wing three-aua
ter.
The competition among the different
school leagues will be particularly In
teresting this year, owing to the great
number of schools that will take part
With the Oakland and Berkeley schools
in line for Rugby and all the other
schools that played the game previ-
ously the outlook, as far as the schools
are concerned, is very bright. There
are other schools not in the Academic
league that are also going to take up
the Rugby code, and it is even possible
that the Catholic Schools league may
have enough schools playing the game
to organize competition
Local football enthusiasts, who have
been closely following the doings of
the All America football team now in
New Zealand, have been surprised at
the lack of accidents to the members
of the team. No word has, up to the
present. been heard that any member
met with any accident of any sort
When it is taken into consideration
that the team has been playing two
matches every week since landing in
Australia, and most of them have teen
really hard games, this lack of acci-
dents only goes to prove one of the
points of the game that was claimed for
it when Rugby was started here
namely. that the game was less pro-
ductive of serious accidents than the
old style OF play.