The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-22
BIG GAMES
FOR TODAY
Several Of the Best Football
Battles Of the Season
Set for Saturday. 4.
PENNSYLVANIA VS.. COLUMBIA
Yale Tackles West Point, Har-
ward Meets the Indians and
Virginia v. M. I.

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The football season Is now nearing Its
zenith when the great teams meet in the
decisive games of the year. The large
Northern teams especially are now all
most rounded into their best form. and
the Southern teams are shaping up and
conditioning for Their supreme struggles.
which occur a fortnight later than those
of the large Northern universities. Many
games set for to-day. Will test the merits
and the offensive and defensive powers
of the teams as they have not heretofore
been tested. Princeton, Yale. Harvard
and Pennsylvania encountered formidable
opposition lost Saturday. as id Columbia
and Cornell. To-day Yale will tackle the
st!ffest football proposition they have
vet encountered in the west Point cadets
from whom Harvard won by q single
score In field goal. The great annual
game between Columbia and Ponnsyl-
,Rnia, the first OF the meetings OF the
six great elevens, Is scheduled for to-
day. at Philadelphia
Theiirst game Of any note in this city,
Is set for this afternoon at 3so'clock, the
r chmond College eleven meeting the,
ARTILLERY School team from Fort Monroe.
at Broad Street Park: The college men
have the best eleven they have had TOR
score. The Virginia Military Institute
recently defeated the sSArtillerymeniSde, de-
c;sively. but the cadets have much much
stronger team than Richmond
Virginia Has a Stiff Game.
Tsys S od e y assanE w Wrs aTs
| Military Institute and IL the VARSITY win
at all IT. will be tn few points to
spare. Council. Johnson. Pollard and
Wsak
other hand, Virginia Military institute
has played a strong game al season. and
six years. The Annapolis naval cadets
two weeks a go de ted Virginia Military
institute but = to @ and last Saturday
These figures show the strength Of the
| Lex ngtun team. On the other hand,
University Of Virginia Is expected . to
against TIE cadets. who are conceded to
be formidable. It ought to prove a very
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Other Big Games T day.
The games OF greatest interest among
the Northern teams to-day 8 are the fol-
Pennsylvania vs. Columbia, at Phila-
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Yale rs. West Point cadets. at West
1 Harvard w. Carlisle Indians, at Cam
Princeton vs;Lehigh. At Princeton.
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Lafayette vs.. swartmore. at Easton
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Annapolis VS.. George vashinton. at An
Chicago vs. Northwestern at Chicago.
Michigan. vs.. West Virginia, at Ann
Arbor. M AN q s5 5:ss5 81
Some Scores Of the Season.
Here are the figures for games thus
far played by, the six Lending elevens
| against their weaker opponents and the
| scores from which comparisons may be
Princeton. IL; Dickinson. o.
Princeton. 10; Georg etowa, Q.
Prn neeto 81 &; MylssEla
P rnest9n: ;; Naval 5asafssss aets. TO-
T Ysls,, 81 e; M TFisifyya ) 9:
Yale, %: Holy Cross. Q.
Yale, 6; SPRINGFIELD, T. S., O.
Yale, II; Syracuse, 2.
Harvard. Il Williams. O. 8
Harvard asryars' 81 4 M 6eMsol e
Harvard, II; Bates, %.
! Harvard, ~; West Point, a. XXI M
Pennsylvania. 8; Penn! State. Q.
Pennsylvan a, 81: Swarthmore, 4.
Il Pennsyl MIA, q; Virginia, Q.
Psnnsylyania 81 Trankl'n Marshall
Pennsylvania, Fl: Gettysburg. 0.
Pennsylvania, 3 6; Brown, O.
Columb a. Is; Franklin- Marshall, o.
S3 Columbia, s16; esleyan. " 0. 2ytStS
Columbia 81; Tufts, Q.
GGo oumsa. Il i; ss1 warthmio S
colum bia. O; Amherst, u.
Cornell, u; Colgate, O.
Cornell q ;$Hobart. 9.
e eSrnsll 81; BBa aesnsli,' 81 z
West Point, Isl: Dick nson. o.
West Point o.; Harvard, 4.
Annapolis. y; Virginia Military Inst-
S#sssss j +; N gs,ne SssR Onion
Amherst Amherst i 80; e eoi.mbls, 9 J.
Carl sic, Al; Gettysburg, 9.
Carlisle 10; Bucknell.
S Sps!isls l 49, Rasaaps Macon !
Virginia. Q; Pennsylvania, "a
Virginia. Il i; Washington.Lee. 3.
UGLY FIGHT RUMoRs.
Cries Of Fake and Job Regard
ing Gans-Britt Contest.
Especial to The Times, Dspateh)
fake In the coming M d, bout " va s, 9n
ia ' that That there i something aons II