New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-18
CALL OF THE GRIDlRON
PLANNING FALL BATTLES
schedules of the Big Teams Gipe
Coaches Time to Prepare Cam paign.

With the fall young mans fancy lightly turns
70 thoughts OF the gridiron at least If he in coll
ese and although the football season of 1909 IA still
ABOUT month OFF. already coaches and captains
az scnemns and planning the plays they
inIeno using and outlining plans of campaign.
Inc schedules for the coming season are out and
IurniSh interesting reading matter for the thou
SANDS or football enthusiasts as well as for the
prospective players themselves On SATURDAY. No
'enioer d. princeton meets Yale the Bulldogs
own stamping ground at New Haven for the first
or the real championship games of the year On
the same afternoon Harvard will agbt IN ONT with
Dartmouth at Cambridge. This date is perhaps
the most important the football calendar this
year TOT besides the two games already named
there will be two intersectionaI matches which
VIII practically decide the supremacy OF the East
and West. The University Of Pennsylvania will
line up against Hurry Up" Yost's Michigan eleven
on Franklin Field. and Cornell will do battle with
the University Of Chicago at Ithaca.
otner games of interest that date Will
ianls VS. Amherst and Minnesota vs.. Wisconsin
In the South the University Of Virginia will line
UP against Georgetown In what will probably be
the deciding game for the championship of the
South
On November % Yale meets Harvard at Cam
bridge On the same day New York enthusiasts
Will have the opportunity OF seeing two first class
teams in action. for Brown and the Carlisle Ind
lans Will fight out the question of supremacy at the
POLO Grounds. Other important games on that date
are: Lafayette VS.. Lehigh Syracuse VS. Illinois, at
syracuse; New York University VS. Union at New
York; Buckner VS.. swarthmore and Holy Cross
VS. Fordham. New York
thanksgiving Day. November %. this year marks
practically the close OF the football year In the
East the most important game will be the annual
struggle Franklin Field between the University
OF Pennsylvania and Cornell In the South the Uni
verstes of Virginia and North Carolina will fight
1t out. Syracuse comes here on that date to meet
Fordham' and the Indians go out to St Louis to
play their only Western game. with ST. Louis Uni
versity. Other important Southern games are Van
derbit Sewanee and North Carolina A. and NJ
vs. the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Two days later. November o. the Army and
Navy meet Franklin Field for their annual
and that will end the football OF 1909
Besides her two championship games Yale has
several important matches her schedule. On
October 10 the Blue eleven will pay West Point it's
annual visit and IL former games any criterion
that game should be worth going miles to see.
Last year the two teams played each other TO a
standstii Yale barely winning. Two weeks later
the Bulldog will tackle Amherst New Haven.
and on November will play the last game OF its
preliminary schedule. against Brown at New Haven.
This game a tie last year II will be seen thar
the Blue eleven has strenuous three weeks in
the end OF the season
Princeton has one OF the most disastrous seasons
OF its football history redeem this and the
schedule has been prepared with great care The
team will be in action for the first time on
be played. villanova follows for a midweek game
and Fordham will furnish opponent for the
Tiger on the 9Th On the 18th Princeton will line up
against Virginia Polytechnic Institute. which team
last held the Tigers down to 10 to score
Three days later Sewanee. new team on the
Tigers schedule. will be played at Princeton
On October "a Princeton will have her first real
test for that date the Tigers travel down TO
Annapolis play the sturdy midsnipmen the
last time these two elevens met. the Navy came
off victorious In heartbreakng game by the score
OF 10 TO The following Saturday the Tigers have
Dartmouth their guests at Princeton Last year
the Green eleven defeated Princeton at the Polo
Grounds by the of 10 TO s. Then follows the
final game with Yale New Haven. Thus IL will
be seen that Prnceton's schedule for the final three
weeks seems TO be about as tough as Hales
Harvard opens the season with Bowdoln on Octo-
her and meets Williams on the following Satur- |
dav Another easy game. with Maine. is sched- |
MED for October Is but on the I'D the Crimson /
may have its hands full with Brown The follow
ing Saturday Harvard plays It's only game away |
from home, going 10 West Point On November |
s the Crimson will line up against Cornell at Cam
bridge This is the first time for years that these |
eievens have met. and the game promises TO be one
OF the most interesting OF the season week |
later is the annual Dartmouth game. and then |
comes the final game with Yale. IL will be seen /
that Harvard Yale and Princeton with have their
hands full during the closing weeks OF the season
and their trainers and coaches face a big problem
in keeping their In condition uninjured. and II
up 10 playing at top speed
The University OF Pennsylvania. too. has hard /
schedule perhaps as hard as any team In the coun-
try In addition the games with Michigan and /
Cornell the Red and Blue plays Swarthmore on \
October g. Brown a week later. Pennsylvania State :
the following week the Carlisle Indians on October
81 and Lafayette November s.
The Army has only three really hard games on
IT'S schedule. those with Harvard. Yale and the
NAVY The mdshipmen's hardest games will be
against the University OF Virginia. Princeton and
the ARMY The Indians meet Syracuse the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania and Brown among others.