Evening journal., 1907-09-18
FOOTBALL
SOON BEGINS
First Important Games Will
be Played on Septem-
Der Il
FootbalI begIns thIs month.

Football begins this month.
The first games viii be played Sep
tember p, though most Of the elevens
win just be assembling for preliminary
practice at that time. Two weeks later.
however. the season will be fairly under
way The new rules made such big inn
/ provement in the popular college game
last year that now that they have sur
vived year of experimenting the pubic
looks forward TO the coming season with
renewed interest and the players with I'M
creased confidence.
The experience OF last season with the
revised game gives a feeling of security
on which to work this season, and the
various generals in chief and their staffs
at the different colleges win start out
with a more fixed policy Of development
than last ycar-wil have less feeling their
way to do
As usual. the Carlisle Indians viii be
among the nrst in the field The big coll
lege teams begin their schedules later
Cornell week later. Harvard. Yale and
Pennsylvania ten days later, and Prince
ton two weeks later than the Indians.
The Indians have not departed from their
custom OF arranging hard schedule, one
that not only Involves strong opponents
but means the wear and tear of great
deal OF travelling. There are twelve games
on the Carlisle list, includ ng Harvard.
Princeton. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and
Chicago and also including a trip from
Boston to Minneapolis.
Indians Have Test.
on the Indians will depend partly a
test Of the relative gridiron strength of
the East and the West The University
Of Pennsylvania by meeting Michigan
furnishes the ether test. The Army foot
bah managers have cut or Princeton and
Harvard from their schedule, but still re-
tain Yale, and have taken on new op-
ponont In Cornell The dose prescribed for
the soldiers last season was too stiff. Tho
army men do not want to tackle the
navy this season tired out by tie bumeting
resulting from playing too many strong
elevens.
Tho Harvard-Yale game takes place IN
Cambridge. This and the Yale-Princeton
battle are pre-eminentiy the biggest COLI
lege contests Of the season, and the Ellis
and the Tigers will make the fur fly in
New Haven week before the Crimson
and the Blue grapple.
Common opponents FOR Harvard and
Yale prior 10 their own conflict are the
Springfield Training School and Brown.
Yale plays Springfield on October o while
Harvard and Springfield do not get to-
gether until two weeks later. Consequent
ly comparative scores win be Of little
value in reckoning strength. this because
Of the development that may take place
in the interim.
Brown Common Foe.
Harvard and Yale meet Brown, how
ever. only a week apart, and that, too,
late in the season, when all three teams
.win be nearing their top form. Yale and
Princeton have a common opponent in
Wesleyan, though early in the season,
when both the bulldog and the tiger viii
} be devoting more time to rudimentary
lpractice than more intricate team work.
Both also play Washington and jefferson.
Harvard does not play Princeton or
Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania does not
play Yale; Yale does not play Cornell,
and Harvard does not play Cornell: so
the only way to compare non-meeting
elevens Of the first rank IS TO go by scores
against some common foe-an unsatisfac-
tory procedure at the best For this pur-
pose what the Indians do against Penn
sylvania. Princeton and Harvard win be
a matter Of much interest Pennsylvania
Harvard and Yale all play Brown. and
the scores made in the three games viii
be food for study for the respective adher-
ents OF the contenders. Yale and Cornell
have a common opponent I'm West Point
Coaches were first used in England in
1868.
The Franciscans arrived in England in
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