Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17
DULL THUD OF PIGSKIN

one. makes II difficuit to see anything but
defeat for the blue and white aggrega-
tion.
Williams have good teams. They will both
have q good allotment OF veterans and ex-
pect q number OF stars from the prepa-
ratory schools. Many expect TO see Dart
mouth repeat her victories over the larger
colleges Her games with Harvard and
Princeton have always been close. hard
fought battles. and the New England men
have walked away with good share of
the glory.
Despite the many rumors of the change
In the foot ball rules they are practically
the same as in 1904. The essential feature
will be the more strict enforcement. 1t is
figured that this will remove from foot ball
the Questionable features which have
caused many people TO decry the game as
brutal. The play viii not be any more open
than last year. but the mass plays will be
stopped as soon as the forward progress
of the ball has come to an end. This will
do away with the piling up of the men
and the stealing of the ball. The penalties
will be severe for all offenses against the
rules. and thus rough tactics will have
to be eliminated II a team 10 70 have any
success whatsoever.
The gridiron campaign will be a longer
one than usual this year for the reason that
Thanksgiving day falls on the last day OF
November and Thanksgiving day is usually
the final day of the season for the college
elevens. There will be one more big en-
gagement after that, the Army-Navy game.
which, this year. comes on Saturday. De-
cember 2. The campaign will be ushered In
by a few games beginning today. Septem-
Der 16. and will continue for eleven weeks.
with games on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Last year Thanksgiving came earlier in No
vember than this year, which meant
shorter season and consequently less time
In which teams might build up and develop
for their important contests. The result
was that there had to be more or less hur-
rying to whip the teams into form. 1t is
N N a n nnN f4rA hat
with more time TO devote to the very
important procedure of picking men and
welding them into team the climax OF
the season will find teams of better grade
as teams than last season. This OF course,
provided the material is adequate.
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The schedules for the approaching season
show that there are to be 24S games in the
eastern college circle and IA In the west
Se2 In all. That is a good deal of foot ball.
1t shows how tremendously the game has
spread. and will give the devotees Of the
sport a rich and varied program OF pigskin
battling. or all Of the teams the Carlisle
Indians are the most extensive travellers.
The bigger teams such as Harvard, Yale,
princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia and
cornell make only two or three trips from
home, and these are short trips. Therein
fellows.
The larger colleges play nearly all OF
their games on their own home grounds
they being the bigger attractions and hence
being able to have most OF their opponents
come to them. West Point and Annapolis
travel less than other teams. playing every
game but one at home. The schedule for
the Indians this year shows that they play
at Harrisburg, Richmond, Philadelphia,
Cambridge, Cincinnati. Pittsburg and
Washington as well as at home. Doubt
less they plan out many play to the music
Of the rolling car wheels. In the west they
make longer journeys than hereabouts. For
instance, the Notre Dame dnd) eleven
makes a trip to Madison, Wis. and the
University of Nebraska eleven makes a
jump from Lincoln to Arbor, Mich, for q
Sing.e game
The schedule contains a number OF cases
In which two teams that are to meet later
on play against a mutual adversary on
dates close together. so that something of
a line may be had on the first two teams for
their game. or course teams do not al
ways develop equally, and various infiu-
ences may make comparisons as to scores
unreliable, but the comparisons are inter-
esting on their own account, and the games
serve to give an idea of the styles OF the
two teams that will come together later.
The Harvard-West Point and Yale-West
Point games always are interesting, not
only in themselves, but coming only a week
apart as showing how two big rivals are
progressing for their own encounter. Har-
ward plays the soldiers on October 81 and
week later the Ellis tackle the cadets. On
October this year Yale is to play Wes-
leyan. and three days later Columbia plays
Wesleyan.