The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-02
1918 FOOTBALL SEASON
STARTS IN A MONTH
Coaches of College Teams Are Issuing
Calls for the Candidates to Appear
for First Practice.

New York, August Although the
intercollegiate football season is still
two months away the shadow of the
gridiron game is already edging into the
realms of sport. The schedule max
ers have completed their tasks and the
coaches are issuing calls for the gather
ing of candidates. The first week of
September win witness initial practice
at a number of eastern and western col
leges and before 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 pre-
yious 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 ia
miliarize themselves with the code al
teratons. More than one thousand
games are scheduled among the college
elevens and if the high school and prep
aratory academy contests are included
the 1918 games will total in excess of
three thousand.
The college play opens with a few
scattering games on September 20 and
the contests multiply rapidly on sue
ceedng Saturdays until the climax is
reached on November p. Thanksgiving
day games are still popular in certain
sections OF the country, but with the ex-
ception of the Army Navy game grid
iron activity will cease with the holiday
contests. A number of intersectional
cd int n hn
football season for Michigan, Syracuse,
Cornell Notre Dame, Carlisle, Wander
bilt and Pennsylvania are all scheduled
for long trips and games in hostile var
sity territory. One new game OF i'm
portance the Harvard Cornell match at
shown among the leading
contests of the fall, but the usual clash
es between the leading eleyens of the
have lost none of their charm
and there is certain to be capacity at
tendance at a number of the games.
The first real test games will come
early in October for on Saturday, Octo-
Der 4, Pennsylvania meets Lafayette
which defeated the Quakers last au-
tumn A week later the Carlisle Indians
will try the mettle of DIR. Shapes Cor
nell team, while Pennsylvania will try
to wipe out the memory of Swarth
more's victory in 1912. Harvard meets
Williams and Yale faces Lafayette on
the same day. Saturday, October Is,
will find the following eleyens lined ups
Amherst VS.. Trinity, Colgate VS.. Army,
VS.. Williams, Lafayette vs..
Syracuse VS.. Princeton and
VS.. Brown. On October 25
Princeton plays Dartmouth, Michigan
meets Vanderbilt. Pennsylvania tackles |
Carlisle, and Minnesota has Iowa as OPP |
Donents.
The month of November brings the
real clashers of the gridiron year. On |
he first day OF the month Notre Dame |
will play at West Point. Cornell at |
Syracuse at Michigan, Pennsyl |
rania state at Pennsylvania, Virginia at |
Wisconsin at Minnesota and |
Colgate at Yale. Saturday, November s,
will see the following big games Cor
,el VS.. Michigan. Dartmouth VS.. Penn
iylvania, Harvard VS. Princeton. Penn
iylvania state VS.. Notre Dame, Tennes
zee vs.. Vanderbilt, Yale VS.. Brown and
'hicago VS.. Northwestern. A week later
Tale plays Princeton, Dartmouth faces
1arlisle, Cornell opposes Lafayette,
Brown is at Harvard, Pennsylvania at
Michigan. Chicago at Minnesota and
and Pennsylvania state will
rv out the navy eleven.
The big game of Saturday, November
2, is the Harvard-Yale match at Cam
ridge. Other contests of Importance in
lude Syracuse VS.. Carlisle, Lehigh VS..
lafayette, Minnesota VS.. Illinois, Wis
onsin VS.. Chicago, Missouri vs.. Kan
as. Wesleyan VS.. Trinity, Nebraska VS..
owa, and Tulane VS.. Louisiana. Thanks
living day games include the annual
Cornell clash, with Carlisle
$. Brown, Vanderbilt VS. Southern uni
ersity, Texas VS.. Notre Dame, Wash
lgton state VS.. Washington and Oregon
$. Mutanomah affording football thrills
n other parts of the country. On Sat
rday. November 90, the U. S. Naval
nd Military academy teams viii meet
nd with this game taps will sound for
he oridirOn warriors of 1914