The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-16
CRIDIRON FIGHTS.
First Big Games Of Season
Today.
Yale and Harvard Meet Worthy
Foes.
WESTERN BATTLES.
Nashburn and Topeka Teams
Are Playing.
Scores of Eastern Games Como
in Early.

New York. Oct. 16.-The pre-
liminary football season in the east
came to an end today when the big
college elevens prepared to line up
for their first really important grid
iron battles this afternoon. New
York football enthusiasts divided their
attention between Yale-Army game at
West Point and the Syracuse Carlisle
contest at the Polo grounds.
Both the Syracuse team and the In
dians spent good night at the Hotel
Cumberland here and Coaches War
ner and Jones We're equally confident
that their respective elevens would be
victorious Ted Jones said that he
had no rash promises to make, before
the game, as to what the score would
be, but said that by the time the In
dians were through they would know
they were face to face with real
team.
Football experts regard the West
Point game as perhaps the most i'm
portant of the day. The Army is al
ways relied upon to give the men
from New Haven a hard tussle and
there was no over confidence in the
Blue camp. A year ago, Yale won by
a score of to 0, and had its hands
full in so doing. The cadets coaches
expressed confidence last night that
this years defense was as powerful
as that of a year ago, while the at
tackfng power of the team was be-
lieved to be much more closely knit
and varied.
other important games in the east
were:
Brown VS.. University of Pennsyl-
vania, at Philadelphia.
Carlisle VS.. Syracuse, at New York.
Case school VS.. Wooster, at Cleve-
Coe VS.. Drake. at Des Moines, Ia.
Cornell VS.. Fordham, at Ithaca,
Denver university VS.. Washburn, at
Denver, Colo.
Dartmouth VS.. williams. at Han
over.
Indiana VS.. Lake Forest. at Bloom
Ington, Ill.
Iowa State VS. Grinnell, at GrinneIl,
Iowa.
Iowa Wesleyan university VS.. Penn
sylvania, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
Navy VS.. Villanova, at Annapolis.
Maryland.
Northwestern university VS.. BelOlts
at Evanston, Ill.
Princeton VS.. Sewanee, at Princeton,
N ].
Purdue VS.. Monmouth, at Lafayette,
Indiana.
University of Kansas VS.. Kansas State
a gricuftural college. at Manhattan
Kan.
st. Mary's VS.. William Jewell. at Lib
,rty, Mo.
st. Louis university VS.. Cape Normal
chool, at st. Louis.
University of Chicago VS.. Illinois. at
Chicago.
University of Maine VS.. Harvard. at
Cambridge. Mass.
University of Michigan VS.. Ohio state
University. at Ann Arbor.
University of Minnesota VS. Nebraska,
t Omaha, Neb.
University of Missouri VS.. Missouri
school of Mines. at Columbia.
University of Texas VS.. Haskell in-
titute, at Dallas. Texas.
Warrensburg State Normal VS.. Wes-
cyan, at Cameron. Mo.
Yale VS.. Army, at West Point. N. Z.
VS.. University of the South
Princeton, N. J., Oct. 16.-Unusual
md widespread interest has been at
ached to the football game here to-
lay between Princeton and the Uni
Tenn, who have many times won the
,ridiron championship of the south.
Quakers Meet Brown.
Philadelphia, Oct. 16.-The Uni
-ersity of Pennsylvania football elev-
n meets Brown university on Frank
in field here today.
Carlisle Indians and Syracuse.
New York, Oct. ia large crowd
f football enthusiasts journeyed to
he Polo grounds today to witness the
ootball contest between the Carlisle
indians and Syracuse university.
Yale Meets the Army.
West Point, Oct. ia close con-
est is expected on military gridiron
meets Yale in what will be their ninth
onsecutive annual football game. In
he eight games played this far Yale
as been beaten once and held to q