Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-18
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SOLE TOPIC
COLLEGE MEN FULL OF cRIDIRoN
TALK
FOUR GAMES SLATED FOR THE
OPENING DAY
Army and Navy VIII Meet Yale and
Harvard in October-Many
Interesting Contests
Scheduled

NEW YORK, Aug. H.-Although the
colleges have not yet begun to dust out
their halls Of learning in preparation for
the swarms of young men who will soon
be heading their way, the talk of foot
ball prospects for the coming season is
beginning to be heard at every summer
resort where two or more college men
are gathered together. The season for
the elevens, while comparatively short
this year. promises to be one of the best
in recent years, for the gridirons will be
occupied from September q until Novem-
Der 30 with games of minor and major
college caliber. A few of the games that
have been considered important In past
years have been Cancelled, but as a gen.
eral thing most of the old standbys will
be played.
The opening day Of the season, Septem-
Der 81, will be marked by four games, of
which the most important Is the clash
of the Carlisle Indians and Albright at
Carlisle. The games come thick and fast
after that, Wednesday and Saturday be-
ing the favorite football days. The early
| season games are always more or less in
the nature of practice sessions. for the
colleges like to work up heavyweight
opponents through the ranks of the little
| fellows and though these smaller college
| teams sometimes put up an excellent
argument the real interest in the game
uOeSnL DuTSL out unIll the nome STRETCH
opens before the major teams. Three
games which are to be played on October
Il, however, will prove to be of some little
| interest without doubt. These will be
| the Pennsylvania Swarthmore game at
| Philadelphia, the Indians-Syracuse meet
| ing at Buffalo and the Navy's game with
Vanderbilt at Annapolis This last, par
| ticularly, should be a fast, snappy game,
for the two teams are practically un-
changed from last years lineup, and their
work was far above the average.
Increase in Importance
| The games of Importance increase in
number as the season draws on, aid each
Saturdays schedule shows meetings of
| teams which will create stirs. On Octo-
| Der 10 the Quakers and Brown have an
engagement at Philadelphia, West Point
| and Annapolis have games with Yale and
| Harvard respectively, Cornell meets Penn
State at Ithaca, and in the west Chicago
will play Illinois on the latter's field. The
last Saturday in October will bring to-
gether Princeton and Cornell at Ithaca,
the Navy and Lafayette at Annapolis,
| Pennsylvania and the Indians at Phila-
delpha, Wisconsin and Illinois at Madi-
son and Michigan and Ohio State at Ann
Arbor. There will be a score of other
games besides on this date, but the ones
mentioned are the top-liners.
| November, the real football month,
opens auspiciously on its second day.
| The Professionalism game here will be
about the best of the day, but the other
colleges should be rounding into form
by that time with resultant good con-
tests Among the games for November
will be those between Harvard and
Brown at Cambridge; Yale and WASH
| ington and Jefferson at New Haven;
Army and Colgate at West Point; Penn
sylvania and Lafayette at Philadelphia.
and Chicago and Minnesota at Minneap-
oils. The card for November also In
cludes several good gridiron arguments.
Cornell tries conclusions with the West
Pointers, the Indians will go on the war
path against Harvard at Cambridge;
Princeton will meet Amherst at Prince
ton and Michigan ties up with Wabash
at Ann Arbor.
| The first of the so-called championship
games of the season is set for November
| 16. Then Princeton and Yale will clash
at New Haven, and the contests of the
| Big Six will be on with a vengeance.
Pennsylvania will be playing Michigan
at Ann Arbor on the same day, and at
Cambridge Harvard will play Dartmouth,
with good sport assured. The Indians
have the date set with Minnesota at
Minneapolis, the Navy and Pennsylvania
State are to meet. and the smaller New
England colleges have one of their top
notch games in the Amherst Williams
contest at Williamstown. In the south
the big game of the season will be the
Georgetown-V Virginia contest for the
southern title.
| Seven days after this classy set of
games Yale and Harvard will fight out
the annual question of superiority in the
stadium at Harvard, and this will mark
the beginning of the end of the college
season. Pennsylvania and Cornell will
furnish the windup for the. collegians in
game at Philadelphia on Thanksgiving
day, November %, and two days later
the game between the Army and Navy
at Philadelphia will be taps" for the
gridiron game until another ten months
have swung around.