The Wasp — 1895 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# The Wasp, Page 3: Reliance Football Team & Social Commentary This page features the **Reliance Football Team of Oakland**, winners of a New Year's Day game against the University of Chicago (6-0 score). The main image shows the team in formation with a portrait of what appears to be the coach or manager. The lower half contains two satirical pieces: **"Wasp on the Wing"** offers humorous recipes and social commentary, while a separate section mocks a woman at an Olympic Club swimming tank who encountered a man and now claims marital status. The satire ridicules her exaggeration—she'd known him only four years ago with minimal interaction, yet now uses the encounter to claim marriage. The humor targets social pretension and women's gossip in Oakland's elite circles.