The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-11
FOOTBALL SEASON
IS SOON TO OPEN
East and West MarShaIing
Forces for GridirOn
Battles.
b EDWARD r. BUsHNELL.


Boston. Sept. 10.-With the coming of
September comes a new sport to claim
the attention of the college world. From
now on football viii divide with baseball
the centre of the stage until the arrival
of winter SHOWS While the schedules
of the big universities do not start for
some three or four weeks yet, every one
of these Institutions VIII begin the COM
ing week either to practice or plan for it.
The day Of secret practice has. gene,
though there is just as much preliminary
training now as ever. Yale has had most
of her promising players at work SinSiy
or in groups throughout the summer. In
fact when the college year ended some
thirty footballs were handed out to Varl-
Gus players. with suggestions as to the
kind of work they should do during tno
summer months. There was u time whom
such things were done secretly, but col
lege men have OutgrOwn such tOollsEness
now. What Yale has done nearly every
big university in the east has done IN
one way or another. The competition for
places on a big football team is so keen
now that a man who expects to make IL
in the fall knows that ne must Keep In
a condition of sem raining throughout
his vacation This is done in various
ways Some practice with footballs,
others do manual labor, and others act
as hfeguaTds.
csted in the fortunes Of six big universe
ties. The elimination CT Columbia from
the football map and TIE rise Of Dart
mouth has made the Fig Six once more
intact. The other members Of this sex
tette are still Harvard. Yale, P5nnsyl-
vania, Princeton and Cornell. There are
other colleges in the east which cut 4
wide swath in intercollegiate football. but
they are not of the same class as those
already mentioned
Although there is no intercollegiate as
ISOLATION with round robin schedule, the
Hf.T.
collegiate championship is much better
this year than last. Last year the honor
of being first lay between Harvard and
Pennsylvania, but as they did not play
each other and met but one common op-
ponent the Indians, in preliminary
Games the issue had to be fought out
verbally. Had Cornell played Harvard
last fall, as she will do this year there
would undoubtedly have been something
tangible with which to settle the CON
troversy. This wear Harvard plays Yale,
Dartmouth and Cornell Yale meets
Princeton and Harvard. Princeton PLAYS
Dartmouth and Pennsylvania meets Cor
nell This schedule is as good as round
robin and surely ought TO prove which
team is the champion.
The Western Situation.
In the middle west the old conference
combination The Bis Nine has not
been fully restored. and will not be I'M
til the University of Michigan returns TO
the rOlQ. MS AltulSaL SllDNo llD ulSpb-
sition to do, although the Wolverines have
stolen march on the rulers Of the con-
ference by arranging a game with the
University OF Minnesota. The rulers OF
the conference thought few years ago
that they had completely. Ostracized Mich
fgan from the west when the Michigan
delegates refused to swallow some of the
foolish legislation. But this year Michi-
gan has secured game with Minnesota,
which should go far towards determining
the standing of Michigan in western foot
bali.
Otherwise the conference colleges still
consist of Chicago. Wisconsin. Minnesota,
Illinois. Indiana. Purdue, Iowa and North
western. There have been several efforts
on the part of Nebraska to take the place
vacated by Minnesota. But Nebraska is
not vet ready to subscribe to all the eli
gibilitv requirements in the conference
code ard is still a free lance in west
ern football Nebraska has been urged
often TO enter the Missouri vafley COM