Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-13
EASTERN FOOT BALL BATTLES
Points Regarding the Schedules for
This Season.
SOME BASIS FOR COMPARISON
Common Opponents 60 Ne TackIed by
n Big Teams and How the
Lists IRe Il Arrange
msnt.

NEW YORK. Sept. 12.-For the next two
weeks the. foot ball forces at the various
colleges, big and little, will be assembling
at their respective camps, and they will con-
tinue to assemble until college mas opened.
The playing of schedules will begin from
one to three weeks after candidates begin
20 report for preliminary practice. In play
ing regular games the Carlisle Indians are,
as usual. first in the field. They will set
the pigskln flying next Saturday in a game
with Albright college.
BY no means the least interesting feature
OF the foot ball season is the schedules, the
order OF arrangement of the games and how
they differ in that regard. In some the
harder games are scattered here and there
among the easier ones, while with others
the hard battles are closely punched, this
as applying to rival teams whose chief aim
is to beat each other and for both of which
the schedule is made principally to afford
the best gradual development for the all
important game when the two come to-
gether in the final crash.
Schedule making fills an important niche
in preparing for the campaign. 1t calls for
time, thought and much consulting of cap
tains and coaches, and. with the stronger
elevens at least, the idea Is to 30 arrange
the oates and opponents as to bring about
the best development of the teams strength.
OF course, there is the matter OF faculty
approval to be considered and provided
for, expenses and other side issues, as 1t
were, not Immediately connected 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.
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be a well-definsd art of the whole we'll
established system, and at some of the
big colleges attends to itself in a meas
ure. That Is, the schedules at the big
colleges do not differ much from year
TO wear. There are not over one or two
changes from one season to the other.
The geographical question is importanti
vet there isn't a team which does not go
rather far afield for at least one oppo-
nent. 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 Tor
the biggest or so-called championship
games.
Yale, which university has turned out
more champion elevens than any of the
others and where foot ball has been
played more eAptINlS Nld ahg NhNAN VIZ
has fewer games scheduled this year than
either Harvard or Princeton, its two great
rivals. The Yale schedule for 1908 con-
eists Of only nine games. whereas both
Harvard and Princeton each have ten,
Yale opens on September 80 with Wes-
leyan, which is what might be called a
fairly easy opponent. Half a week later
comes Syracuse, which may be ranked
as a fairly stiff opponent. Next comes
Holy Cross, which is not a 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 a fight every year
Washington and Jefferson and the Massa'
chusetts Aggies come next in order anC
are not likely to give as much trouble
as West Point. Then comes a real hare
game with Brown, a week before th'
Princeton battle and at a time when the
blue is beginning to hit the speed up tC
its real strength in preparation for Prince.
ton and Harvard.
The only common opponent which Yale
and Harvard have is Brown, the lattel
team playing the Crimson and the Blue q
week apart. Brown counts on a smashing
good team this year, and there may be q
defeat in store for the New Haven Of
Cambridge men at the hands of the Bru
nonians. Harvard doesn't strike hard teams
as early In the season. as Yale. Bowdoin
Maine, Bates, Williams and the Springfield
Training school play at Soldiers field In TIT
order named. There is a rather suddeI
change from one class Of opponents t.
another. for after the five mentioned TIN
schedule brings Annapolis, Brown, Carlisle
Dartmouth and then Yale. This means tina
the Crimson win have been through
trying Siege by the time of the Yale gam
and have had much good experience will
strong elevens. On the whole the schedul
does not look quite as hard as Yale's
particularly when the fact that the latte
has to meet Princeton is considered
Princeton and Yale have opponents i
common in Syracuse and West Point. Blu
the latter two play the Tigers on date
which are so far apart from the Yale date
that their games with Yale and wit
Princeton do not afford much of a basi
for comparison as between the Bulldo
and the Tiger. Syracuse is at Princeto