The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-03
BIG GAMES WILL
Be Be INTERESTING I Re IN
Schedules Are So Arranged that
the Championship Will Be
~ 99sE: Decided. .a

Boston, Sept 3.-The football season is less
than month of. Before the college gates
opens the aspirants for pigskin fame, will be
back In the old familiar feld running, punt
/! Ing, tackling the dummy and sweating wlthal
IN an effort to get muscles that have been
lazy all summer accustomed to old-time bumps
and bruises. -. *.sr 49, s.... ..a.... + H.
The preliminary season begins on Saturday,
Sept. %. with a few contests by minor col
leges. The big universities do not fall, into
line until week or later. On Sept 20
Princeton will bump shoulders with Villa Nova.
while Harvard and Yale do not enter the arena
until Oct. 8, when they engage Bowdon and
Wesleyan respectively. That starts the great
machinery a-gOing which Will grind on In bi-
from the wheat and the final victor is pro-
claimed the intercollegiate champion in Novem-
Der.
!. o. Big Colleges Meet. i.
About the middle of October the football sit
uation begins to get acute and the bigger COZ
leges, which have waited long enough to digest
their preliminary meals of The smaller col
leges, begin to meet each other. On Oct. Is
Princeton clashes with the navy and West
Point with Colgate. On the same day Penn
sNlvania will meet Swarthmore. On Oct. %
Yale will tackle Pennsylvania State at New
Haven. -. .,.
A week later Harvard makes it's 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
u score of to 0, leaving Yale to make the
rush into the breach with score Of 20 to 0.
harvard Is the vanguard this year, usual.
pickings for their New Haven rival 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 good football battle,
which will help drown their sorrow over the
loss of the Columbia games. Last year the
tigers defeated the red and white 16 to 6.
There Will be number of Interesting con-
tests on Nov. 3. Princeton plays Dartmouth.
which proved her cOnqueror last year; Harvard
plays Brown, Pennsylvania plays Lafayette, Min
nesota plays Nebraska and the navy plays Penn
sylvania State. On the following Saturday. Nov
10. Minnesota meets Chicago in the big western
game Of the. year and Princeton will try a
hand ut West Point and Brown will face
Yale. while the Indians will attempt to scalp
Harvard.
But all these games will be as nothing to the
contest that is reserved for Nov. IT, when Yale
and Princeton aguin trot upon the football field
to do battle before thousands of admiring fol-
lowers. The defeat last year Of 4 to % still
rankles In the tigers heart, and there will be
fire IN his eyes as he watches the big blue ath-
letes rush upon the gridiron amid q thunderous
burst of applause and throw off their blankets
ready for the fray. Dividing part interest with
the Yale Princeton game will be the Harvard
Dartmouth, the Pennsylvania Michigan and the
Chicago-illinois contests on the same day.
week later comes the closing big battle of
the season, when Yale and Harvard try con-
illusions this year at New Haven. Coach Reds
fine showing with his men last year, when the
crimson held Yale down to points, has 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,
Yale game will be the Pennsylvania Cornell con-
test at Philadelphia Thanksgiving day and
the West Point Annapolis contest at Franklin
field, Philadelphia, on Dec. /. With that the
season closes again and the student athletes
VIII have to wait another long period before
they can don their football toys again. -