Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-05
BIG GR|D|RON GAMES
Foot Ball Season Dates Have
at Last Been Announced.
OPENS UP SEPTEMBER II
Carlisle Indians Have Hardest
Schedule-Naval Academy Will
Be in the Running.

NEW YORK, August 5.-The Naval
Academy foot ball team promises to loom
up large on the gridiron during the season
Of the big colleges, which will open with
Yale tackling Wesleyan September "a at
New Haven The Middies will have their
first inning October with the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh. and from then on will
be kept on the go.
For the first time in several seasons two
of the best college elevens will clash at
the Polo Grounds, when Dartmouth and
the Carlisle Indians play Saturday. No
vember Is, the same date that Yale and
Princeton meet in their annual gridiron
battle at New Haven. Dartmouth has
risen steadily in the foot bali world, until
the Green mountain boys are just as for
mfdable as the elevens of the big four.
Harvard has dropped Dartmouth this
season, principally because the New
Hampshire team gave the Crimson too
tough a battle on the eve Of the Yale
Harvard game. Instead, Harvard has
taken on Cornell, a team which will not
give the Cambridge eleven so much
trouble
The season has many attractive fea-
lures and the games at Princeton, New
Raven and Cambridge are sure to attract
large crowds from this metropolis. The
hLSl uiS game Vi the season Will De play
ed November 1. when Cornell meets Har-
ward at Soldiers Field, in Cambridge.
November & Harvard will play Prince
ton IN Jungletown. and the following Sat
urday. November II, Yale and Prince
ton will play at New Haven. The Yale
Harvard game will be played at the sta
dunn in Cambridge November ~
thanksgiving day the annual Cornell
Penn game will be played at Philadelphia.
On the Saturday following this the Army
w ho r,lo I'D NJ II
lin Field, and this game will mark the
close OF the foot ball season.
The season will be in full blast Sat
urday. September u, when all the big
Holy Cross. Harvard playing Maine and
Princeton clashing with Rutgers.
The army team will also open the sea-
son on this date, playing Norwich at
West Point. The Army. after several
years of defeat by the Navy, is going
to follow new policy next season. and
there are few hard games on the Sol
diers' schedule. A new feature of the
Army's schedule will be q game Novem-
Der l with Notre Dame.
The Yale schedule this year is not espe-
cially hard although the Ellis will get a
hard preliminary tryout with such teams
as Lafayette. Lehigh, Washington and
Jefferson and Brown. Harvard will have
Cornell, Brown and Princeton as i'm
portant opponents before the final game
with Yale.
The Carlisle Indians, as usual, will have
the toughest schedule of any of the coll
lege teams. and Glen Warmers eleven
this season will be without the services
of the great Jim Thorpe. The indians
play Cornell at Ithaca October II, Penn
sylvania October %, Dartmouth at the
Polo Grounds November 10 and Brown
at Providence Thanksgiving day.
Pennsylvania has tried to schedule
games with some Of the large teams. but
has not ueen able to interest Yale, Har-
ward or Princeton. Penn will play Dart
mouth at Franklin Field November s.
the same day that Harvard plays Prince
ton.
Each Saturday during the fall season
will see all the teams in action, and with
the rules in the present satisfactory
shape, gridiron sages look for a very
successful season.
Last seasons revision made the game
as safe and sane as it Is possible to make
such a vigorous sport, and very few seri-
Gus injuries or fatalities resulted.