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

Win the fall young mans fancy lightly turns
10 thoughts Of the grdiron at least IL he is in col
ana although the football season Of 1903 is still
ABOUT month off, already coaches and captains
are scheming and planning over the plays they
intend using and outlining plans of campaign.
Tue scnedules FOR the coming season are out and
1urnlsh interesting reading matter for the thou
SANDS OF football enthusiasts as well as for the
prospective players themselves. On Saturday No
vemoer II. Princeton meets Yale ON the Bulldogs
own stamping, ground at New Haven for the first
OF the real championship games of the year On
tne same afternoon Harvard will fight it out with
dartmouth at Cambridge This date is perhaps
the most important the football calendar this
year. for 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
other games Of interest that date are Will
Jams 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
VIII have the opportunity OF seeing first class
teams in action. for Brown and the Carlisle Ind
ians 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; Bucknell Swarthmore. and Holy Cross
VS.. F'ordham. at New York
Thanksgiving Day November o. this wear marks
practically the close OF the football year. In the
East the most important game will be the annual
struggle on Franklin Field between the University
Of Pennsylvania and Cornell. In the South the Uni
versities OF Virginia and North Carolina will fight
II out. Syracuse comes here that date 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 VAN
derbilt VS.. Sewanee and North Carolina A. and VI.
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Two days later. November q. the Army and
Navy meet Franklin Field for their annual
game. and that will the football OF 1909
Besides her two championship games Yale has
several important matches her schedule. On
october Is the Blue eleven will pay West Point its
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
standstill. Yale barely winning. Two weeks later
the Bulldog will tackle Amherst at New Haven.
and on November 6 will play the last game of its
preliminary schedule. against Brown at New Haven
This game a tie last year. II will be seen that
the Blue eleven has strenuous three weeks In
store at the end OF the season
Princeton has of the most disastrous seasons
OF It's football history redeem this year. and the
schedule has been prepared with great The
team will be IN action for the first time on
October ?. when game with Stevens Institute VIII
% played Villanova follows for 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 season held the Tigers down TO a 10 to score.
Three days later Sewanee. a new team on the
Tigers schedule will be played at Princeton
On October 30 Princeton will have her first real
test. for that date the Tigers travel down TO
Annapolis 10 play the sturdy midshpmen The
last time these two elevens met. the Navy came
of victorious heartbreaking game by the score
OF 10 TO The following Saturday the Tigers have
Dartmouth as their guests at Princeton Last year
the Green eleven defeated Princeton at the Polo
Grounds by the score Of 10 to s Then follows the
final game with Yale at New Haven Thus IL VIII
be seen that Prucetons schedule for the final three
weeks seems 10 be about as tough as Nales
Harvard opens the season with Bowdon on Octo-
her and meets Williams on the following Satur-
day Another easy game. one with Maine. is sched-
uIed for October Is. but on the sd the Crimson
NAV have it's hands full with Brown The follow
ing Saturday Harvard plays it's only game away
from home going West Point. On November
the Crimson will line up against Cornell at Cam
bridge This is the first time for years that these
elevens 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. II will be seen
that Harvard. Yale and Princeton will have their
hands full during the closing weeks of the season
and their trainers and coaches face big problem
in keeping their men In condition. unin)ured' ana
up 10 playing at top speed
The University OF Pennsylvania, too. has hard
schedule perhaps as hard any team in the coun-
try In addition TO the games with Michigan and
Cornell the Red and Blue plays Swarthmore on
October O. Brown a week later, Pennsylvania State
the following week the Carlisle Indians on October
81 and Lafayette November 6.
The Army has only three really hard games on
its schedule those with Harvard. Yale and the
Navv The midshipmen's hardest games will be
AGAINST the University of Virginia. Princeton and
the Army The Indians meet Syracuse. the Uni
versitv of Pennsylvania and Brown among others.