The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-20
FOOTBALL SOON
ON THE BOARDS
First Week Of September
Will Witness Initial Re
hearsals on III" Fields.

New York. Aug. 20.-Although the
intercollegiate football season is near
ly. two months away the shadow of
the gridiron game is already edging
INTO the realms of sport. The sched-
ule makers have 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 and western colleges. and
before October is reached games will
have been Won and lost on many q
present indications. the coming sea.
son should produce football in both
quality and quantity such as no prevt-
Gus autumn has witnessed. Few
changes have been made in the play
ing rules and both coaches and play
ers will require little time in which
to familiarize themselves with the
1000 Games. d.
More than m thousand games are
scheduled among the college .~elevens,
and If the high school and prepara-
tory academy contests are included
the 1913 games will total in excess of
5000. The college play opens with
q few scattering games on September
20. and the contests multiply rapidly
on succeeding Saturdays until the
climax is reached on November 20.
Thanksgiving day games are still
popular in certain sections Of the
country. but with the exception Of
the army-navy game gridiron activity
will cease with the holiday contests.
A number of intersectional games
will add interest to the short football
season. for Michigan. Syracuse. Cor
nell, Notre Dame, Carlisle, Wander
bilt and Pennsylvania are all sched-
u!ed for long trips and games in hos
tile varsity territory. One new game
OF importance-the Harvard-cornell
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 attend
ance at a number of the games.
h first real test games will como
early in october. for on Saturday,
October 4. Pennsylvania meets Lafay-
cite. which defeated the Quakers last
autumn. A week later the Carlisle
Indians will try the mettle Of Dr..
Sharpe's Cornell team, while Penn
sylvanta will try to wipe out the mem-
DRY OF swarthmore's victory in 1919.
faces Lafayette on the same d.y.
Saturday. October 10 will find the
following elevens lined up: Amhurst
vs.. Trinity, Colgate VS.. Army, Dart
mouth VS.. Williams. Lafayette Ns.
swarthmore. Syracuse VS.. Browns. On
October IS Princeton plays Dart
mouth, Michigan meets Vanderbilt,
Minnesota has Iowa as opponents.
November Tells Tale.
The month Of November brings the
real clashes Of the gridiron year. On
the first day Of the month Notre
Dame will play West Point, Cornell
Ct Harvard, Syracuse at Michigan.
Virginia at Vanderbilt, Wisconsin at
Minnesota and Colgate at Yale. Sat
urday, November 8 will see the fol-
lowing big games: Cornell VS.. Michi-
gan. Dartmouth VS.. Pennsylvania,
Harvard vs. Princeton, Pennsylvania
State vs; Notre Dame. Tennessee VS..
cago 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 Pennsylvania State will try out
the navy eleven.
|, The. big game Of Saturday. Novem-
Der % is the Harvard Yale match at
Cambridge. Other contestants of i'm
portance include Syracuse VS.. Carlisle.
Lehigh VS.. Lafayette, Minnesota VS..
Illinois. Wisconsin VS.. Chicago, Mis-
souri, vs.. Kansas, Wesleyan VS.. Trim
ity. Nebraska vs. Iowa and Tulane VS..
Louisiana. Thanksgiving day games
include the annual Pennsylvania-Cor-
nell clash, with Carlisle vs.. Brown.
Vanderbilt vs.. Notre Dame, Wash.
ington state VS.. Washington and ore.
gon VS.. Multanomah, affording foot.
ball thrills in other parts of the coun-
try. On Saturday, November 20. the
United States laval and military
academy teams will meet, and with
this game taps will sound for the
gridiron warriors Of 1913.