University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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A RETROSPECT

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The First Senior Record Book for the University of California we dedicate to Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who has been largely responsible for making our Alma Mater what she is.

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A RETROSPECT All that is left of the 1907 Blue and Gold is contained within the covers of one volume in the University library, presented to the University by J. R. Gabbert, editor of the book. This copy is made up of spoiled press proofs casually picked up in the printing rooms of the Sunset Press. San Francisco, on the evening of April 17, 1906, the night before the earth- quake and fire. Everything else that would have gone toward making the annual was de- stroyed in the big fire. This single copy hardly gives an idea of what the 1907 Blue and Gold would have been. The annual was printed on special rough paper, milled specially for it. The half tones were to have been run on paper milled at the same place, and although smooth, having the same tint and general appearance. The art work, only a small part of which is represented in the single library copy of the book, is admitted to have been the best amateur work ever presented in a Blue and Gold. This Senior Record book has not been designed to give the University any idea of what our true annual would have been. It is a mere record of what we have tried to accom- plish during our brief stay at the University. Owing to the one missing link in the chain of annuals, however, we will give a short resume of the important events it would have chronicled and which have no permanent place of record among the University publications. In athletics the 1907 Blue and Gold would have had a complete list of victories to tell about with the exception of the Varsity foot ball game of the fall of 1905, in which we were defeated by a score of n to 6 at Stanford. The base ball team of the spring of that year was an aggregation of evenly balanced players. Under the able coaching of Jack McCarthy, team work was developed to a high state of efficiency. The first game of the series with the Cardinal was won very easily, though the score of 3 to 2 points to a somewhat close contest. Just before the sec- ond game, came the deplorable incident of the ruling out of the Varsity battery on the grounds of professionalism. The story of how the second game was pulled out and a victory won by a score of 4 to i, despite this backset, is an old story now, however. California racquet wielders repeated the performance of the previous four years and won handily on the courts.