The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-02
The SPORTING review

New York, Aug. 2.-Although the
intercollegiate football season is still
two months away the shadow Of the
gridiron game is already edgine into
the realms Of sport. The schedule
makers nave completed their tasks and
the coaches are issuing calls for the
gathering of candidates. The first
week of September will witness Initial
practice at a number of eastern n
western colleges and before October is
reached games will have been won n
lost on many a varsity football field.
Judged from present indications, the
coming eason should produce football
in both quality n quantity such as
no previous autumn 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 h 1000
games are scheduled among the college
eIevens and if the high school and pre-
paratory academy contests are includ-
ed the 1913 games will total in excess
Of 5000.
The college play opens with a few
scattering games on Sept. 20 and the
contests multiply rapidly on succeed
ing Saturdays until the climax is
reached on Nov. %. Thanksgiving day
games are still popular in certain sec
ions of the country, but with the eX-
ception of the army-naVy game grid
iron activity will cease with the holi-
day contests. A number of intersec-
tional games will add interest to the
short football season for Michigan,
Syracuse, Cornell, Notre Dame, Car
Isle, Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania are
all scheduled for long trips and games
In hostile varsity territory. One new
game of importance-the Harvard
Cornell match at Cambridge-is 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 be capacity attendance at a
number of the games.
The first real test games will come
early in October for OF Saturday, Oct.
4, Pennsylvania meets Lafayette which
defeated he uakers last autumn. A
week later the Carlisle Indians will try
the mettle of DR.. Sharpe's Cornell
team. while Pennsylvania will try to
wipe out the memory of Swarthmore's
victory in 1912. Harvard meets Will
liams and Yale faces Lafayette or the
same day. Saturday, Oct. IS, will find
the following elevens lined up: Am
herst VS.. Trinity, Colgate VS.. Army,
Dartmouth VS.. Williams, Lafayette VS..
Swarthmore, Syracuse VS.. Princeton
and Pennsylvania VS.. Brown On Oct.
% Princeton plays Dartmouth, Michi-
a meets Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania
tackles Carlisle. and Minnesota has
Iowa as opponents.
real clashers of the gridiron year. On
the first day of the month Notre Dame
will play at West Point, Cornell at
Harvard, Syracuse at Michigan, Pen
nSylvania state at Pennsylvania,
Virginia at Vanderbilt, Wisconsin at
Minnesota n Colgate at Yale.
Saturday, Nov. 8, will see the follow
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Dartmouth VS.. Pennsylvania. Harvard
VS.. Princeton. Pennsylvania state VS..
Notre Dame. Tennessee VS.. Vanderbilt,
Yale VS.. Brown and Chicago VS..
Northwestern. A week later Yale plays
Princeton, Dartmouth faces Carlisle,
Cornell opposes Lafayette, Brown is at
Harvard, Pennsylvania at Michigan,
Chicago at Minnesota and Pennsyl-
vania state will try out the navy
eleven.
The big game of Saturday. Nov. %,
lis the HaTvard-Yale match at Cam
bridge. Other contests of Importance
include Syracuse VS.. Carlisle, Lehigh
VS.. Lafayette. Minnesota VS.. Illinois,
Wisconsin vs.. Chicago. Missouri VS..
Kansas, Wesleyan VS.. Trinity, Ne
bgaska VS.. Iowa, and Tulane VS..
Louisiana. Thanksgiving day games
include the annual Pennsylyania-Cor-
nell clash, with Carlisle VS.. Brown.
Vanderbilt VS.. Southern university.
Texas VS.. Notre Dame, Washington
state VS.. Washington and Oregon vs.
Mutanomah a%ffording football thrills
In other parts of the country. on
Saturday, Nov. 20. the u. S. Naval and
Military academy teams will meet and
with this game taps will sound for
the gridiron warriors OF 1914.
The agreement entered into by q
number of English sporting publica-
tions to a printing the ADVERTISE
ments OF racing tipsters recalls some
interesting memories OF the origin and
development OF this phase Of the
turf. Although racing was well estab-
ltshed In England late in the eigh-
teeIith century 1t was not until some
years later that the tipster made his
appearance. So far as turf history
can be relied on, Daniel Dawson was
the originator Of tipping. He first
eaasaa into prominence in and about
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