The San Francisco call., 1910-11-13
BLEACHERS GAY
With COLORSOF
UNIVERSITIES
California ROOters Are Arranged
TO Form Giant AK of Blue
and Gold
Several Thousand Climb Fence
While Police Are Busy
Spanking Boy


that way, and made one try, adding
three points to the assets of victory.
total Of I 3 points, or more than half of
the full score Of his team.
CALIFORNIA 20, STANFORD
After Elliotts try and kick the score
was California 20, Stanford 6.
Stanford could never overcome that
lead. But the red jerseys in the field
fought as hard as they could, desper-
ately. cunningly. but outclassed. Brown,
Dole and Cheda shone above their TEL
lows in their efforts to add to their
Tneager score At one time Brown dar-
ingly essayed a drop kick from the
middle Of the field. but the ball fell
short. StSnford had been penalized in
the first half for of plays but now the
Stanford men played truer to their
mark. even IN defeat. and 1T was the
enthusiastic California men who in
CURED the discipline Of Referee Jack
Jenkinson.
AS the half was drawing to a close
snd the sun had deserted the field,
leaving the struggle to be witnessed
by a paIlid moon, lopsided rs a half
inflated football. California made its
last score. Harris grabbed the ball
IS yards from the line, dashed through
=
the old intercollegiate game-and car
ried the ball over, scoring 3 points on
try. California had % hung on the
score board. But the reliable Elliott
by a kick from a difficult angle, made
the score: California 25. Stanford 8.
Soon after there sounded iva cracks
Of the time keepers revolver, and the
game was over.
AMONG HIGHEST SCORES
California had won by the third
largest score IN the history Of
football between the two colleges.
The highest score ever made was
in 1893, when the famous old Cali
fOrnia team OF heroes ran up 80 to 0
against Stanford. Two years before
that, in the days when there were
giants and heroes at Stanford, the car
dinsl chalked up % TO o against Cali
fornia. Twenty-Five to G is the great
est Rugby score in the history Of the
two universities.
II was made before the greatest, the
finest crowd that ever saw football
played in the west. The two most i'm
portant changes in the history OF foot
ball IN California were vindicated by
that crowd. When IL was decided to
cease holding the big game" on neu-
tral grounds in San Francisco it was
predicted that the crowds Of outsiders
puses TO see the sport. When the
American game Of intercollegiate foot
ball was abandoned for the safer
cleaner English game OF Rugby, ii was
again predicted that the popular in
terest would not warm 10 the impOrta-
tion and the sport would die of finsn-
cial inanition. The tremendous throngs
Of yesterday gave the lie to both fal-
lacies.
CROWD CLIMBS FENCE
More than 10000 people were in the
grounds. Twenty thousand tickets were
sold and there were several thousand
who did not have tickets but went in
anyway. One Of the most delightful
moments Of the afternoon was when
several hundred eager spectators
rushed the south fence and dropped
into the grounds. After the several
hundred had climbed and more sxere
coming. two policemen ambled across
the field and tried to check the uprising
They were as CanGte before the oceans
flowing tide. one small boy was
stopped by a policeman in khaki, who
spanked him in the traditional manner
while other larger and more formidable
intrants calmly dropped into the field
all around the active patrolmanl To
their credit, il may be said that many
OF those who took the short route in
had tickets, but grew impatient of the
slowness with which the gate keepers
admitted them into the grounds. Others
saw the game free, if not safely, from
the tall eucalyptus that grow by Hearst
hall. Charter hill had its ants and
every telegraph pole in sight was a
grandstand-
The glory IN the roofing sections this
year was more & matter Of sight than
of sound. No novelties in yeIls were
introduced, the songs were not new nor
were they many, and the flashes of sec
tional repartee which once enlivened the
game 50 much were entirely lacking.
Some blame Rugby for the decay in
spirit. Then praise Rugby for its limo
vstions. Each side had novelties. It is
dificult 10 decide which was the more
ingenious.
BALLOONS SENT UP
Stanford started the novelties bv
sending up fire balloons-gorgeou RED.
whites and blue hot air bags. The
pioneer bore dangling beneath ii the
letter IS" 1t scared high in the air
toward the Berkeley hills A second
balloon bore the letter IT" Then in
order "A-N-F-O-R-D"-un Stanford
had been veritably imprinted in red on
the blue zenith. The young student
who suggested that idea should he
decorated with the big or a Phi Beta
Kappa charm, or given some such
unique symbol Of distinction. Another
Stanford idea was that when the team
came on the field the rooters deluged
themselves with red confetti until the
section looked like an animate poin-
setta arbor. The presiding geniuses of
the Stanford rooters were J. Ernest
Thompson, Harry Sepylveda and S.
Kennedy.
The California feature had the virtue
Of permanency during the game and of
absolute surprise.
The rooters filed into their seats on
the east side Of the field and took their
places. a mass Of white shirting. topped
with blue and gold rooter's hat.
At the proper moment, Just before
the team came on the field, the three
California yell leaders-John Hartigan.
Herbert Johnson and Elmer D. Wood
ward-gave the mystic sign. The root
ers rose with their bloodcurdling "Oski
Wow" yell. and as they rose they filed
the air with the bright streamers of
serpentine paper. AS they settled them
selves again it was seen that they had
evolved a design.
On the middle OF field of white
stood out the sacred ak, the emblem of
California victory. Outlined in gold
the blue form OF the ak blade and
handle shone on the white field In
the center of the blue blade was a
e~oTTav inoeuiorc devfna