The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-04
FOOTBALL
SCH..E::D
Noteworthy Fact That Many
Great Games Are Earlier
3.3s.. This Season.

a month before tho base ball players
in tho big Slcag CUES shall have ceascd their
struggles for tho pennant. the football
warriors will have donned their canvas
and their arn1or and begun practice for
tho long series Of games scheduled from
tho middle OF September to the oath 4 Of.
October. In fact, collegiate football will
have the call over all other sports for
more than two months Of the autumn
e 1t is noteworthy. however, hat tho
dates Of nearly all the big games, North
and South, have been advanced, and arc
now scheduled for earlier dates than
usual. Heretofore thanksgiving Day
which la this year November 24th, has
been the date for tho greatest number Of
the great crucial games OF the season
All the others are in the nature OF prac-i
ttice games for these great decisive sscrim-B
images, these battles Of the grIdiron
giants. 3 NE q 4. # II
This year Yale and Princeton play ast
carly as November 18TH. the game being
at Princeton. Yale and Harvard play At
New Haven just a week later. Tho only
big game scheduled for z hanksglyin
Day this year lis the annual Cornell
Pennsylvania game, which will be played
In philadelphia, sss
The same Is true 81 the great southern
games, though the weather is warmer
In tho South and tho season ma turally
later. THE University 81 Of Virginia Will
have It's ANNUAL gnmeSwith Carlisle at
Norfolk, October e9th, whereas last year
1T was just five days before their great
3ThanksgiyIng Day struggles with North
Carolina, r. a4s
WILL Take NO RISKS.
The defeat OF Virginia last year was
directly due to tho fact that It attempt
ed sthe folly Of playing two gigantic
games In less than a. week. us yea r
they have &profited by their exp erience.g
and have so arranged their schedule as to
appear before heir G pei I'LL rivals IN
the acme Of the season g oondt ton, ana
with the benefit OF the experience gained
in all their previous games. The Tharks-l
giving Day game with North Carolina
will be played here November 24th. and
promises 10 be o. fierce. hard fought one
Virginia, amarting under q tie and a de-
feat III succession, will spare no effort
to decisiveIy defeat the carolin!ans. The
University OF Virginia will play the Uni
yersityAof Pennsylvania at Franklin field
on October list. It goes without saying
that Virginia Will be beaten but tho
team hopes y to ma ke a q 8 oOu \. siloWtHB
against tile heavy men from the Key
stone State. Princeton and deorgetoWn
play az Washington the same day. Har-
ward and West Point play October 18th
at West Point. and Carlisle Octobar
ed at Cambridge. and will tackle Penn
sylyanIafa at Cambria go on the s2ath. Yale
md Columbia play In New York q tober
29th, and Pr!nceton and Cornell meet
at Ithaca the Same day. III the West Yes
Michigan and Wisconsin and ch1cag So.
and Chicago ana illinois Universities VIII
meet. These. with the Carl lslo.Y irginln
| game tn the South will ma ke8) q tober
Goth, tho zenith Of the season. and the
red ietter day In the football calendar
THE University OF Virginia Will play the
| Naval Academy at Anna pol lis n oyember
lsfh, and Annap polls will play the Virsinia
Polytechnic Institute at ANNAPOLIS on N O.
| Nember l9th The annual game bet Weell
4 the Universities of Chicago IND, WI coil7
sin Is scheduled for Thanksgiving Day
as Is the Virginia. Carolina same. Tho
Naval Academy and tile Military Acad-
envy will meet for their annual game q t
| Philadelphia on Saturday, NqYemb er 26t n,
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