Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-16

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-With grid
iron practise on a majority of the o1g
college gridirons and scrub games
scheduled for this afternoon at q few
schools where the teams got off for an
early start last week., the football sea-
son of 1911 found itself well under way
today. For the first time in three
years an early fall frost q ushered
in the sort of climate conditions that
the ooachers seek for efficient practise.
and reports from many of The training
camps have 1t that work Is already ad-
vanced.
Another week will see the seasons
formal schedule of games launched and
the work of sitting and shifting the
promising candidates from unwieidy
squads providing anxious hours for
coaches and players.
Walter Camp is authority for the
promise that this year will provide the
most interesting and spectacular game
in the history of football. The new
rules. practically unchanged after a
year of study and trial, are now thor
oughly digested and approved, n the
open style of play which they were de-
signed to produce will be seen In a
finished form which was not possible
last year, when so much experiment
ing and study was necessary. with
the lesson learned a more consistent
and finished style of play will be seen,
with spectacular shifts in many varia-
lions probably predominating.
The coaches are q unit this year in
declaring that II there is any n de-
yelopment more than another which is
likely to OCCUPY the centre of the stage
this fall 1t is the one having to do
with the line shift. 1t Will be remem-
bered that training in these line shirts
brought to Yale late last season from
the University of Minnesota changed
an Indifferent Yale eleven into an ef-
ficient team of average championship
calibre. Incidentally, it is announced
that Shevlin was back in New Haven
this week. after a 2,000-mile Journey, to
touch the Els a play which he mas
evolved after six months study, ana
which he thinks will prove the find or
the season.
More stress will be put this year on
clean handling of the ball, because of
minor changes in the rules. There
should be more open field running and
more individual play.
An increased number OF intersec-
| tional contests is observed In the
schedules for the season. Cornell has
no less than four Western eievens IN
the list Of ten teams which she VIII
meet-Oberlin on October 7, Pittsburg
on October %, Michigan on NovembeC
II and Chicago on November Is. SYRIA
cuse will try conclusions with Michi-
gan on November 4 and with Ohio
State on November %. Pennsylvania
will have Michigan for an opponent or
November IS. Villa Nova and Mar
quette will play in Milwaukee on No
Vember A.
The most notable addition to the
program in the East will be the game
between Princeton and Harvard. II
will fill a gap long regretted by fol-
lowers of the game, cementing into
big three league the Yale-Harvard
Princeton triumviate. The dates fol
the three games between these leaders
ranking as the real championship con
tests of the East, are as follows:
Harvard VS.. Princeton, at Princeton
November a.; Princeton VS.. Yale a
New Haven. November IS; Yale VS.
Harvard. at Cambridge. November 25.
The date for the army-navy gam
has been advanced from December 2 u
November %. and this change vii
cause mann regrets to enthusiasts, whit
will have to choose between this his
toric contest and the Yale-Harvart
battle on the same date.