Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
BRIGHT FOOT BALL OUTLOOK
Great College Game Promises Fine
Sport for Season.
SCHEDULES OF IMPORTANT GAMES
Early start VIII Lead Up 60 =
Feast During Late
October and Early MO-
vembsr Days.

ball teams Of the east west and south
shows that Saturdays OF October and No
venber fairly bristle with games that will
keep the interest OF foot ball fans on edge
from week TO week until the season closes
in Philadelphia on November 2s. with the
teams of the United states Naval and
Military academies ringing down the cur
tain for another twelve months.
Although the first contests of the fall are
to be played on September 10, there will be
little of moment in ~gridiron circles until
the month Of October. II will not be until
the closing Saturday of September arrives
tina the majority Of the big teams swing
into line and play their first games. Even
these are little more than practice affairs
arrange by the managers in order that
the coaches may be able to detect and rec
tify in actual play faults that would spell
the undoing of the teams a month later.
No better evidence of the caliber OF these
contests need be cited than the fact that
the big teams play two games a week in
many cases, Wednesdays and Saturdays
being the most popular days for the prsc-
tice struggles with the smaller college COM
binations.
start of the Big Games.
The second stage of the season may be
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Princeton university plays the Springfield
Training school at Princeton and the team
OF Syracuse university travels to New
Haven to test the early autumn metal Of
the Bulldog. A week later the games grow
a trifle more important and from the long
list OF contests scheduled the Princeton
Lafayette, Syracuse-Car Indian. Will
liams-Harvard, Yale-Holy Cross and the
Pennsylvania state against University of
Pennsylvania games stand out as features.
The middle of the month brings still other
struggles which will interest followers of
the sport in all parts of the country. On
october II the. Yale eleven will go to West.
Point to meet in annual gridiron battle the
army foot ball players. On the same day
Cornell and Colgate meet at Ithaca, ,the
Virginia Polytechnic institute team inYades
the lair of the Tiger at Princeton. Penn
sylvania and Brown are scheduled for
Franklin Field and in the middle west the
Representatives of the University of Chicago
and Illinois will mingle on Marshall field.
These are the topliners Of the day. but
some idea of the popularity of the game
may be gathered from the fact that on the
same afternoon there are no less than 104
other contests between college and univer-
sity teams, and were the games between
high schools and academies counted the
total number OF matches in all parts of the
country would pass the 800 mark.
The last two Saturdays of October begin
to give a taste of the foot ball feast to
come. On October "a Colgate will play at
West Point, Lafayette visits Brown at
Providence, Dartmouth will be the guest OF
Holy Cross at Worcester. Syracuse after
playing Princeton will be able to make
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Ellis and the Tiger. while the Quakers will
attempt to down their old and formidable
rivals, the Carlisle Indians. on Franklin
field. Philadelphia. just seven days later
It will be Princeton's turn to tackle the
army on the soldiers plateau overlooking
the Hudson. The same day Brown will in
wade Cambridge in an attempt to overthrow
the Harvardites. Dartmouth and Amherst
will meet at Andover, Cornell and Penn
s~ylvania State at Ithaca, Syracuse and
Williams at Syracuse. Chicago and Mime
sofa at Chicago. Michigan and Vanderbilt
at Ann Arbor, Pennsylvania and Swarth-
more at Philadelphia, with 100 other games
OF minor caliber being fought out all over
the country.
Real Season Comes.
With the dawn Of November the real
championship contests approach. Novem-
Der z sees the final tryouts. in some cases
previous to the big games Of the season.
Yale will face Brown at New Haven, as II
the custom a week previous to the Prince
ton contest, The Tigers, with Dartmouth
as the opposing team, will demonstrate To
the coaches their fitness to meet the Blue
eleven weeks later. Harvard will try to
retain its scalp with one hand and defeat
the Carlisle red men with the other, and
among the long list OF games for the day
the Syracuse-Colgate, Wisconsin Mime
sofa, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Iowa-Illin-
oils, Pennsylvania State-Bucknell games
stand out prominently. The followlns
Saturday, November IA, marks the height
of the foot bali season. On that day Yal,
and Princeton play their annual game a
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I'm tine imposing stadium on Soldiers fielC
at Cambridge. and the elevens of Cornell
and Pennsylvania will uphold the prestie,
of eastern foot ball in the two greatest in
tersection struggles of the year. meeting
Chicago and Michigan, respectively. o
secondhand interest on the same day will b.
the games between Brown and Vermont
Syracuse and Tufts and Virginia AM
Georgetown.
The struggle between Harvard and Yal
at New Haven on November p marks tn
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in the east and the west. The games be
gin to diminish in number even on thi
date, and few ave the Importance o
those Of the preceding week. Among thos
that stand out prominently. aside from tn
meeting OF the Crimson and the Blue. ar
the games between Chicago and Wisconsin
Michigan and Syracuse, Williams and An
herst, Washington and Vanderbilt, and m
Navy and Virginia Polytechnic, ThsnksgiV
ing day, which some years ago marked IN
climax OF each gridiron season. has br
few big games to boast OF this autumn
Pennsylvania and Cornell will meet
their annua struggle in Philadelphia, tn
Carlisle Indians tackle the eleven OF S
Louis university despite the fact that tw
days previous the red men will have face
the University OF Minnesota at Mime
Apolis. With a lapse OF but twenty-fot
hourse franklin field will again be n
scene OF a foot bail game, this one n
closing contest OF the season, when n
Army and the Navy team line up for the
yearly foot ball battle before the thou
ands Of spectators that gather annually
witness the stirring struggle between n
two academy elevens.
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