Inter-Collegiate Football on the Pacific Coast [pp. 113-131]

THE
Overland
Monthly.
Vol. XXI. (Second Series). February, I893.-No. 122.
INTER-COLLEGIATE FOOT-BALL ON THF PACIFIC COAST.
NLY those who From the north comes word of a tea
— _.Z have sat for hours at Seattle play7ing the Multnom:
_____ on a hard bench
4 _-and watched Felton
Taylor or Leroy Hunt
"buck the center" for a fifteen-yard
gain, or a Hittell or a Clemans run
around the end, only those who have
seen Henry get down under a punt by
Oscar Taylor, or seen a long return by
Tobin, while cold chills chased each
other delightfully up an d do wn the
thousands of vertebral columns to the
accom paniment of a pandem onium band
of anythi ng that will blow, ring, or rattle, and the air is filled with red and
white, cardinal, or blue and gold,- only
tho se wh o h ave been there can understand the strong hold that football is
tak ing on the fancie s of the public on
this Coast. It is an imported infection,
whose germs have been carefully propagated by Camp and McClung, though
the disease has long lurked in the blood,
and broken out in more or less violent
attacks for the last ten years.
The present inoculation bids fair to
produce a mania. Since the last spasm
between the University of California
and the Stanford University, football
teams are forming all over the Coast. FELToN TrAYLOR,. B. OLMPIC CL,UB TEAM.
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