Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-05
Foot Ball Players
Face Hard Schedules
for Fall Campaign
Michigan Has Eight Games-0ther
Teams May Out Strenuous
Lists Of Games.

The 1871 foot ball season gives indications
Of being remarkable Schedules are being
announced and planned for the principal
teams which are unusually hard and form
contests which before have been but idle
dreams Of the bIeacherite. Princeton and
Harvard particularly are 70 face a seasons
termination Of several big games which
will fin special trains with rooters and
pack the stands with spectators.
Instead OF being weakened by last years
revolution and attack the autumn game
seems to be stronger than before Few
alterations. II any. are expected to be
made in the playing rules. and coaches and
players viii not face a bewilderinE problem
when the first training starts
There should be, however some slight
furry on the part OF those who watch big
games the latter part Of November. The
great eastern teams which are watched
from the first calp for candidates walk
into a series OF events which approaches
the rOund-robin tournament proposed by
Trainer Mike Murphy OF the University Of
Pennsylvania last season. The usual grand
climax OF the fall-the Yale-Harvard game
to be played at Cambridge on November
Is this coming season will have a counter
attraction In a Princeton- Michigan game at
Princeton the same day. The foot ball
crowds should pour from all quarters OF
the country on that date.
Princeton and Michigan faced problems
in arranging foot bali schedules for 1911.
They seem to have settled their separate
difficulties by joining hands, or rather
by crossing swords
Cut Out Metre Dame.
Michigan has found that the maize and
blue teams are unable TO continue athletic
relations with Notre Dame. Rulings by
peculiarly purity league known as the con-
ference prohibited Minnesota game on
the 1911 Wolverine schedule. There seemed
to be a possibility that Pennsylvania would
drop Michigan from the foot ball schedule
and secure a game with Harvard. with
two big western games gone and the big
| intersectional contest in danger foot ball
affairs at Ann Arbor turned Prussian blue.
Director Of Athletics Bartelme began to
look for schedule-filling material.
1t is understood that Michigan Is assured
of Pennsylvania game for several years
to come and Princeton and Brown haYe
been added to the schedule for 1911.
| A two-year contract for foot ball games is
said to have been made with Cornell. Next
falls contest. to be played at Ithaca, prob
ably on November 49, and the second game
to be played at Ithaca. Cornell because
OF contract retains the usual Chicago
game next fall. The contract expires then
and Michigan will take Chicagcs place in
the future schedules. Thus the big Red
team also builds on it's schedule for 1911,
having Michigan. Chicago and Pennsyi-
wanna as big games.
1t is further stated that Michigan has ar
ranged games with Dartmouth. Ohio. VAN
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contest. An offer OF a game from West
Point Is said to have been received at Ann
Arbor. The war cradle probably wishes TO
substitute the Wolverines for the Harvard
date lost next season to Princeton.
Nebraska ON Michigan List.
The University OF Nebraska is also billed
for Michigan game and the eighth game
on the Michigan schedules
Princeton men awoke> one morning last
fall with a good foot ball eleven about to
CLOSE a successful season by eating Yale.
II was not done Reasons therefore were
sought almost directly after a forward
pass, Howe to Fitzpatrick. Alumni wrote
letters to Princeton publications either
stating that Princeton had dropped some
: fighting spirit by the wayside or suggesting
that q hard or longer schedule would help
|, her prepare for Yale without undue ner-
vousness SO they arranged a game with
/ Rutgers. Their activities did not cease
t there. Princeton will close the 1912 season
in splurge OF battle, according 70 pres
, ent indications. Harvard will be played
I Al Princeton on November 4. Yale will be
met at New Haven on November IS and
The season will close with the aforemen-
toned Michigan game on November Is.
Il was probably fortunate for the game
Pennsylvania on the usual Red and Blue
, Thanksgiving day. There was undoubtedly
! negotiations for Princeton-Corneil game.
and the only date which Princeton could
offer her former foot ball rivals was No
vember q. with the Pennsylvania game
five days later, Cornell could not come to
terms and Michigan Is to take the date.
Hard Schedule for Harvard.
Harvard must have been seized with
Frinceton's idea. namely, that several hard
and neighboring contests would relieve
Yale game tremors. The Crimson will play
one Of the hardest schedules seen In re-
. cent years. Brown viii probably be met
. early i'm the season. West Point has beer
dropped and Princeton will be played al
Princeton on November 4 A contest with
Cornell at Cambridge on November Il il
probable. Dartmouth plays at Cambridge
on November IS and the Crimson player,
viii slap each. others backs for the Yale
{ game on November %
] The importation OF a Brown Michigan
game should help the middle west with
the Minnesota Michigan prohibited. Their,
is but one contest OF big interest in thai
section this fall. Illinois and Minnesota are
TO play at Urbana on November IS. II vii
undoubtedly be first class game. The
. two teams were by far the best In the con
! ference last season and did not meet They
/ expect as strong squads this fall.
/. lflntnar Fiun PlauO