Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-26
FOOT BALL SEASON
WILL SOON Be HERE
Colleges Have Their Dates
Made and Athletes Are
Getting in Shape.

BOSTON. Mass. August 25.-The foot ball
season is less than a month off. Before the
college gates open the aspraHts for pig
skin fame will be back in the old familiar
field. running, punting tackling the dummy
and sweating withal in an-effort to get mus
Giles that have been lazy all summer accus-
toned to o,d-time bumps and bruises.
BY the time the doors swing wide to ad-
init the hungry horde of seekers after
knowledge these self-rnade athletes will
have been groomed and brushed in readi-
ness to exhibit themselves in preliminary
contests upon the battlefield before the ad-
miring but less athletic students.
The preliminary season begins on Satur-
day. September 90, with a few contests by
minor colleges The big universities do not
fall into line until week or 50 later. On
September - Princeton will bump shoulders
with Villa Nova, while Harvard and Yale
do net enter the arena until October 3,when
they engage Bowdoin and Wesleyan, re-
spectively. That starts the great ma
chinery going which will grind on in BIZ
weekly contests until the chafr is separated
from the wheat and the final victor is pro-
claimed the intercollegiate champion In No
vember.
About the middle of October the foot ball
situation begins to get acute. and the big
ger colleges which have waited long enough
to digest their preliminary meals of the
smaller colleges. begin to meet each other.
On October IL Princeton clashes with the
Navy and West Point with Col
gate. On the same day Pennsylvania will
meet Swarthmore. On October % Yale will
tackle Pennsylvania State at New Haven.
A week later Harvard makes Its annual at
tack upon the citadel of West Point. Last
year Harvard. after much difficulty, broke
down the outer walls of the Hudson fort
with score of to o. leaving Yale to make
the rush into the breach with a score of %
to D. Harvard Is the vanguard this year, as
usual. but expects to Stay the enemy and
leave no pickings for her New Haven rival
a week later.
While the Cambridge eleven Is playing at
West Point, Princeton and Cornell will
meet, in all probability, in this city. If
they do, New Workers will see a good foot
ball battle, which will help drown their
sorrow over the loss of the Columbia games
Last year the Tigers defeated the Red and
White 10 to d.
There will be a number of interesting
contests on November 3. Princeton plays
Dartmouth, which proved her conQueror
last year; Harvard plays Brown. Pennsyl-
vania plays Lafayette. Minnesota plays Ne
braska and the Navy plays Pennsylvania
State. On the following Saturday. Novem-
Der 10. Princeton will try a hand at West
Point and Brown will face Yale, while the
Indians will attempt to scalp Harvard.
But all these games will be nothing to
the contest that is reserved for November
upon the foot ball field to do battle before
thousands of admiring followers. The de-
feat last year of to % still rankles in the
Tigers heart, and there will be fire in his
eye as he watches the big Blue athletes
rush upon the grid!ron amid thunderous
burst OF applause and throw off their blan-
kets ready for the fray. Dividing part in
terest with the Yale-Princeton game will be
tn. Harvard Dartmouth. the Pennsylvania
Michigan and the Chicago-Illinois contests
on the same day. A week later comes the
closing big battle of the season. when Yale
and Harvard try conclusions this year at
New Haven. Coach Reds fine showing
with his men last year. when the Crimson
held Yale down to points. mas aroused
much interest as to what the Harvard
eleven will be able TO do with two years of
Reds coaching.
other important games after the Harvard
Hale game viii be the Pennsylvania-Cornell
contest at Philadelphia on Thanksgiving
day. and the West Poiut-Annapols contest
at Franklin Field. Philadelphia, on Decem-
her l. With that the season closes again
and the student athletes will have to wait
another long period before they can don
their foot ball togs again.