Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1903-09-28

college life. With the exception of
the differences between Annapolis
and West Point. all is harmony among
the prominent institutions. The
schedules for the most part are prac-
tically the same as in past years.
Where changes have been made they
have been in the way OF renewing old
ties which had been temporarily brok-
en-. The outlook is reported unusual
ly bright at Harvard, Yale, Cornell,
Pennsylvania. Princeton and Column
bia, while the smaller institutions.
such as Williams. Lehigh. Dartmouth,
Trinity and Rutgers, are likewise look
ing forward to successful season.
The principal games scheduled for
the East today are as follows: Har-
ward and Williams at Cambridge; Co
lumbia and Wesleyn at New York.
Cornell and Hobart at Ithica; Amherst
and Williston at Amherst; George
town and Maryland Agricultural Col
lege at Washington: United States
Military Academy and Colgate at West
Point; University of Pennsylvania
ana Dickinson at Philadelphia; Car
isle Indians and Gettysburg at Car
Isle; Layeiette and Gallaudet at Eas-
ton; Franklin and Marshall and Sus-
quehanna at Lancaster, Pa; Lehigh
and Fordham at South Bethlehem,
Pa: Holy Cross and Massachusetts
Agricultural College at Worcester
University OF Vermont and Montpel-
Ter Seminary at Burlington.
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CHICAGO. Sept. 26.-For the first
time this season there will be some
thing like a complete muster on the
college gridirons OF the West this af-
ternoon. Already there have been
some irregular skirmishes. but today
practically marks the opening OF the
season. Inc football warriors OF
Knox, Northwestern. Michigan. Ne
braska and other big institutions will
be seen in the fray
The showing made by the Western
football elevens of the past two years
augurs well for the season OF 1903.
That the Western teams will be as
strong, II not stronger. than last sea
son there can be little doubt. The
squads OF the big universities have
been practiciDg for several weeks and
all appear in splendid shape to begin
the race for gridiron honors. While
there was considerable talk regarding
organized opposition to the new play
ing rules some little time back, the
movement amounted to little more
than talk, and the rules as adopted by
the rules committee will govern the
game in the West as well as the East.
The season will afford at least two
opportunities for the past performance
experts to compare the relative
strength OF the leading eleyens of the
East and West One will come when
the West Point team plays the Uni
versity of Chicago in November. and
the other when the Carlisle Indians
meet the Northwestern University
team in this city ON Thanksgiving
day. For comparative purposes the
Chicago-West Point game will be the
most satisfactory. Yale and Harvard
will meet the soldiers on succeeding
dates, and as the cadet always make
great fights aginst these two teams
il is safe to predict that both the
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best Less than month after the
soldiers have played the two big uni
versities the University of Chicago
players will journey to West Point
after having met Indiana, Northwest
ern, Illinois, Wisconsin and. in fact,
all the leading Western teams with
the exception of the University OF
Michigan
The players OF the University of
Michigan, the undisputed champions
OF the West last season, line up
against the Albion College eleven al
Ann Arbor today. Other Western
games scheduled for decision this al
ternoon are those Of Ohio State Uni
versity and Otterbein at Columbus;
Oberlin and Ohio Normal at Oberlin;
Washburn College and Fort Riley at
Topeka; Nebraska and Grand Island
College at Lincoln; Northwestern and
Naperville Athletics at Evanston; Hi
nois and Monmouth College at Ur'
bana: Iowa State Normal and Des
Moines at Cedar Falls, and the Uni
yersity OF Iowa and Cornell College