New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-18
ON COLLEGE GR|D|RONS
Biq Games to Crowd on Each
Others Heels This Season.
HARD STRING FOR HARVARD
Yale, Princeton and the Other
Teams Have Plenty to
Keep Them Busy.

Keep Them Busy.
The melancholy days, the saddest of the
year" are at hand, and with them football
TO belle the words of'tbc poet, in the minds
OF thousands who take such a lively inter-
est in the strong, virile American college
game. Most Of the teams began work last
week. but IL will be three or four weeks
before much can be said concerning the
relative strength of the leading elevens
which will fight It out FOR the so-called
But interest will grow and
grow as the baseball season wanes, so that
by the time the worlds championship Is
won by the liants-it Is hoped-somc time
next month another burning question VIII
serve TO make up for the goodby TO the
great national game Rarely. if ever, has
the outlook been so bright for so many
good games as will be the case this year
The meeting Of Harvard and. Princeton,
after a lapse of many years, adds interest
and insures a battle of brains and Drawn
that will be second only to the Yale-Prince-
ton and the Yale-Harvard games for the
reason that it comes rather early in the
season.
When the last game was played year
ago the leading elevens were ranked as
follows in this column: Harvard. Brown,
Yale, Pennsylvania Annapolis, Princeton,
Dartmouth, West Point and Cornell. Tho
same ccvens. no DOUBT will hold a forward
place this year, although at this time there
is no forecastng re arrangement 1t is
timely, however. 10 glance over The games
which must be played, and i'm doing 50 IT is
interesting 10 note that tho schedules Of
Harvard, Yale. Princeton, Dartmouth and
Brown are much tho same, so far hard
games are concerned. II seems unfortu-
pate that Cornell and Pennsylvania have
$" few games in common with the FIVE men
toned. and have been forced 10 look 10 the
West for their more important struggles
outside Of the meeting between themselves
on THANKSGIVING Day There arc not
enough games TO go around, however, SO
that a present the teams from Ithaca and
Philadelphia Inust lose tho chance for y
closer comparison
Haryards eleven will open the season
with Bates on September 30 and will then
meet in turn Holy Cross, Williams, Am
herst, Brown, Princeton, the Carlisle Indi-
ans, Dartmouth and Yale, The last named
game coming on November y, at Cam
bridge. It is one Of the most difficult schcd-
ues ever framed for any team and means
that the development must come faster
than usual in order to have the men in
good condition for the Princeton struggle
on November T. Five hard games i'm a row
means plenty Of work for the coaches and
players. Yale has ten games on the schad-
Ule, opening with Wesleyan on September
p. Then come Holy Cross Syracuse Vir-
sinia Polytechnic Institute, West Point,
Colgate, New York University, Brown.
Princeton and Harvard. This means that
Yale will have easier sailing than the team
from Cambridge, as there will he more time
TO work up To the three important meetings
with Brown Princeton and Harvard.
Princeton also has ten games TO play and
viii meet in order Stevens. Rutgers, Villa
nova, Lehigh, Colgate, Annapolis. Holy
Cross, Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale Like
Yale, the Tigers will have plenty of time
to build before the real test comes, and is
much better off than Harvard, as they can
work mp to the Crimson game more read
lily with only two instead of three impor-
tant battles to follow. The Blown eleven.
which defeated Yale last season. has four
easy games for starter, but must work
up quickly 10 top form, as mid-scaSon
brings games with Pennsylvania, Harvard
Tufts and Yale. These over things will be
easier, as the schedule winds up with Yer
mont Trinity and the Carlisle Indians.
Dartmouth, like Brown, begins with four
easy games. following which Holy Cross
Williams, Vermont. Amherst, Princeton
and Harvard must be met. In practically
every respect Dartmouth is better off than
those mentioned. AS the team can be round
ed mp slowly but surely TO the two big
games al the end.
As said before. PENNSYLVANIA and Cornell,
with one or two exceptions, face an entirely
different run Of clcyens The Quakers will
take the field against Gettysburg. Frank
lin and Marshall Ursnus. Dickinson. Villa
nova, Brown, PENNSYLVANIA state. the Car
Isle Indians, Lafayette, Michigan and Cor
nell From the Brown game on there will
be plenty TO keep the team on its toes. and
the schedule is not an easy one. Cornell
has only two games in common with
PENNSYLVANIA from which a comparison
can be made looking to their meeting on
THANKSGIVING day The lthacans will open
the season with Allegheny on Sept q. fol
vania State. Washington and jefferson,
Piusbwg. Williams, Michigan. Chicago.
and Pennsylvania viii keep them busy
Cornell men have set their heart on beat
ing Pennsylvania this season after many
lean years, and tho schedule is strong
enough TO bring them up' 20 that struggle
I'm excellent condition.
The games arranged hy the Army and
Navy do not promise much, with one cx-
ception, until they meet each other in what
has come to hc one of the best and most
spectacular struggles OF tho year Both
schedules have been arranged for building
purposes, with one hard test for each team.
The Navy Will face Princeton OIL October
r. while the Army Will try to repeat its
victory over Yale on the same date
Fifty candidates reported for the first
football practice. at Yale last Thursday,
record number for the opening day Jack
Field. the head coach, one of the greatest
defensive backs who ever donued a jersey
declared it was a good beginning,
Word comes from New Haven that Ken
Meth McClintock one of the most brilliant
backs on last years freshman eleven. will
be unable to play this year on account Of
faculty restrictions
4 Cornell man said to me yesterday, after
= short trim 70 Ithaca. Little can be