Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
BY cHEsrEn LAWRENCE

Will pc assembling at their respective
camps, and they will continue to as
semble until college season has opened.
The playing of schedules will begin
from one to three weeks after candi-
dates begin to report for preliminary
practice. In playing regular games the
Carlisle Indians are, as usual, nrSt In
the field. They set the pigskin flying
yesterday in game with Albright col
lege.
BY no means the least interesting
feature of the football season Is scheo-
ules, the order of arrangements of the
games and how they differ in that re-
gard. In some the harder games are
scattered here and there among the
easier ones, while with others the hard
battles are closely punched, this APP
plying to rival teams whose CHIEF aim
is to beat each other and for both on
which the schedule is made principally
to afford the best gradual development
for the all-important game when the
two come together in the final crash.
Schedule making flls an important
niche in preparing for the campaign.
IT calls for time, thought and much
consulting of captains and coaches, and
with the stronger elevens at least the
idea is to SO arrange the dates and
opponents as to bring about the best
development of team strength. or
course, there is the matter of faculty
approval to be considered and pro-
vided for, expenses and other side is%
sues, as 1t were, not Immediately con-
nected with the progress OF the team.
Also, as desirable opponents cannot
be In more than one place at a time.
there has to be a certain amount of
give and take in apportioning dates.
However, schedule making has come
to be a we'll defined art of the whole
we'll established system, and at some
OF the big colleges attends to itself In
a measure. That is, the schedules at
the big colleges do not differ much
from year to year.
The geographical question is impor-
tant, yet there Is not team that does
not go rather far afield for at least one
opponent. 1t is interesting to note
where the big teams are in the habit
of going for their opponents and how
their ideas vary in the arrangement OF
their games with a view to working up
to top form for the biggest or so-called
championship game.
Yale Has Fewer Games
Yale. which university has turned
out more championship elevens than
any of the others and where football
has been played more expertly than
anywhere else. has fewer games scned-
uled this year than either Harvard or
Princeton, its two great rivals. the
Yale schedule for 1908 consists OF only
nine games, whereas both Harvard and
Princeton have ten. Yale opens on
September 80 with Wesleyan, which Is
what might be called fairly easy OPP
ponent. Half week later comes SYRIA
cuse, which may be ranked as fairly
stiff opponent. Next comes Holy Cross,
which is not team to cause any grave
apprehension in the blue camp.
But a week later West Point is to
be met, and the army gives the Ellis
the hardest kind of fight every year.
Washington and Jefferson and the
Massachusetts Aggies come next in or
der. and are not likely to give as much
trouble as West Point. Then comes
a real hard game with Brown, week
before the Princeton battle and at
time when the blue is beginning to hit
the speed up to it's real strength in
preparation for Princeton and Har-
ward.
The only common opponent which
Yale and Harvard have is Brown the
latter team playing the Crimson ana
Blue a week apart. Brown counts on
smashing good team this year, and
there NAV be g. defeat in store for the
New Haven or Cambridge men at the
hands of the Brunonians. Harvard
does not strike as hard teams as early
in the season as Yale. Bowdoin, Maine.
Bates. williams and the Springfield
.. training school play at Soldiers field In
the order named. There Is rather
sudden change from class of opponents
to another, for after the fve mentioneu
the schedule brings Annapolis, Brown
Carlisle, Dartmouth and then fale.
This means that the Crimson VIII ha AVE-
been through a trying siege py tne
time of the Yale game, and nave haa
much good experience with strong
elevens. on the whole, the schedule
does not look quite as hard as fales,
particularly when the fact that the
latter has to meet Princeton Is con-
sidered.
Princeton and Yale have opponents
Point. But the latter two play the
Tigers on dates which are so far apart
from the Yale dates that their games
with Yale and Princeton do not atoru
much Of a basis for comparison as De-
tween the Bulldog and the Tiger syria
cuse Is at Princeton nearly month
after having been at New Haven.
while Yale plays the army two weeks
before Princeton does. princeton IL
booked to meet the Springfield train
ing school first, after which come ste
vens, Lafayette, villanova, Virginia
Polytechnic and Fordham. The La
fayette game may make the Tigers
quicken their SIIluCt Jul eii~
men do not encounter stiff adversarieHs
early in the season, as Yale does. WIN
Syracuse, West Point Dartmouth anu
Yale coming in the final stretches, the
Nassau team has lively and formiuass
BILE lot of opponents for the latter hair
of its season. Princeton's Is consiu-
erably balanced schedule from Yale's,
the chief feature of the latter's sched-
ule being that 1t brings seasoning
against difficult opponents early IN the
season.
The University of Pennsylvania
schedule looks to be one well suited 70
steady development The teams, as
they come along, are, so far as can pc
foreseen, such as to provide a nicely
graded season. That does not mean
that the first team t. be played bneces-
sarily is the weakest, but the general
nature of the schedule is to work up.
The first four teams on the list are
West Virginia, Ursinus, Bucknell ana
Villanova. Pennsylvania state, not
soft spot by jugful. comes next, then
for a midweek opponent Gettysburg
to be followed by Brown. Pennsylva-
MIA state plays the Quakers week ar
ter playing the Indians, and the Indi-
ans play Pennsylvania a week after
playing the Browns. Lafayette inter-
venes on the Quaker schedule between
the Indians and Michigan. After Mich
igan, Pennsylvania has nearly two
weeks in which to prepare for Cornell:
A common opponent for Cornell ana
Pennsylvania Is Penneylvania State.