The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-06
More Than 5000 in Schedules
of Colleges, Academies
and High Schools
HARVARD-YALE CLIMAX
ON SATURDAY, NOV. %
Practice Starts First Week in Septem-
ber-Plenty of Quality and Quantity
Promised This Year-Cornen to Meet
Harvard

The first week of September will
witness initial practice at a number of
eastern and western colleges and be-
fore October is reached games will
have been won and lost on many
varsity football field
Judged from present Indications, the
coming season should produce football
in both quality and quantity such as
no previous fall has witnessed. Few
changes have been made in the PLAYING
rules and both coaches and players will
require but little time in which to
familiarize themselves with the code
alterations. More than 1000 games are
scheduled among the college elevcns
and if the high school and preparatory
academy games are included the 1913
games will total in excess of 5000.
The college play opens with a rev
scattering games ON Sept 20 and the
contests multiply rapidly on succeeding
Saturdays until the climax is reached
on Nov. %, Thanksgiving day games
are still popular in some sections Of
the country, but with the exception of
the Army-Navy game gridiron activity
viii cease with the holiday contests.
number of intersectional games
will add interest 10 the short football
season for Michigan, Syracuse, Cornell,
Notre Dame, Carlisle, Vanderbilt and
PENNSYLVANIA are All scheduled for long
trips and games in hostile varsity ter
ritory. One new game of Importance
the Harvard Cornell match at Cam
BRIDGES shown among the leading
contests of the fall. but the usual
clashes between the leading elevens
of the country have lost none Of their
charm and there is certain to he
capacity attendance at a number of
the games.
The first real test games Will come
early in October for on Saturday, Oct
| I. Pennsylvania meets Lafayette
which defeated the Quakers last fall.
\ week later the Carlisle Indians will
1 try the mettle Of DR.. SHARPE Cornell
/ team while Pennsylvania will try to
wipe out the memory of Swarthmoro :
victory in 1912 Harvard meets VIII
liams and Yale faces Lafayette on the
same day.
Saturday, Oct IS, will find the fol.
lowing elevens lined up: Amherst ".
Trinity, Colgate vs.. Army, Dartmouth
VS. Williams. Lafayette vs.. Swarth-
more, Syracuse vs.. Princeton, Penn
svivania VS.. Brown. On Oct. % Prince
ton plays Dartmouth, Michigan meets
/ Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania tackles Car
Isle and Minnesota has Iowa as oppo-
nent.
The month of November brings the
real clashes of the gridiron year. On
the first day of the month Notre Dame
will play at West Point, Cornell at
Harvard, Syracuse at Michigan, Penn
sylvania State at Pennsylvania, Nir-
ginia at Vanderbilt, Wisconsin at Min
nesota and Colgate at Yale.
Saturday, Nov. $, Will see the fol
lowing big games: Cornell vs.. Michl-
gan, Dartmouth Us. Pennsylvania. Har-
ward Us. Princeton, Pennsylvania State
VS. Notre Dame, Tennessee vs.. Wander
hilt, Yale vs.. Brown and Chicago VS.
northwestern. A week later Yaly
plays Princeton, Dartmouth faces Car
Isle, Cornell opposes Lafayette, Brown
is at Harvard, Pennsylvania at MIchI
gan, Chicago at Minnesota and Penn
sylvania viii try out the navy eleven
The big game of Saturday, Nov. %
is the Harvard Yale match at Cam
bridge Other contests of Importance
include Syracuse vs.. Carlisle, Iehigl
VS.. Lafayette, Minnesota vs.. Illinois
Wisconsin VS.. Chicago, Missouri VS.
Kansas, Wesleyan vs.. Trinity, Nebras
ka vs. Iowa ana Tulane vs.. Louisiana
, Thanksgiving day games include the
annual Pennsylvania-Corn clash
, with Carlisle VS. Brown, Vanderbilt vs.
Southern University, Texas vs. Notr'
, Dame, Washington State vs.. Washing
, ton and Oregon VS. Mutanomah afford
} ing football thrills in other parts o
: the country. On Saturday, Nov. -
; the United States Naval and Militar,
academy teams will meet and with thi
game taps will be sounded for TIL
, gridiron warriors of 1914.