The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
A Few Smaller Teams Started
Season Earlier i'm Week.
KANSAS AGGIES ADD STRENGTH
Missouri Crippled When Play
ers Declared Ineligible.
Real Football Opening Today
in the East and West.

| New York Sept. 27-Football begins
to crowd baseball. With the teams
of Harvard, Princeton and Pennsylva-
MIA on the field for their initial con-
tests of the season today the gridiron
game will be a factor of increasing
Importance on the calendar of sport
from now until the closing days of NO
vember. Yale and Cornell opened their
playing schedule last Wednesday and
returned to the gridiron for the sec
ond game of the autumn today. Cor
nell and Princeton appear to have
drawn the hardest opponents of the
day, the Ithaca eleven facing Colgate
which won from Cornell in 1912 by a
13 to score, and Princeton meeting
Rutgers which was the only minor
team to score on the orange and
black last year. This fall the Rutgers
squad under the coaching of Foster
Sanford has developed rapidly. Yale,
Pennsylvania and Harvard had easier
propositions the Ellis meeting Holy
Cross; the Quakers facing Gettysburg
and Harvard lining up against the Uni
verSity of Maine. Last season Holy
Cross held the Ellis to a I to score.
The same score resulted in the Har-
vard-Maine game of 1912, Gettysburg
was easy for Pennsylvania year ago
and there was no reason to expect d
different ending to today's game. Ow-
ing to L, death of Half Back Belyea
of the Norwich university team as
result of injuries received in the game
against Holy Cross on Wednesday the
army team was without a game to-
day. Norwich had agreed to play at
West Point but cancelled the date
when the injured player died yesterday.
The Armys great rival the Naval
academy team also was content 20
practice today, the Middies schedule
Il e., nTF1f1 rlaX
Saturday. Other games of interest to-
day in the east were:
Dartmouth Massachusetts Aggies at
Hanover.
Brown-Colby at Providence.
Lafayette Muhlenberg at Easton
Syracuse obart at Syracuse.
Lehigh Albright at South Bethle-
hem.
Williams Rensselaer, Poly at VIII
Jamestown.
University of Pittsburg-O North
ern at Pittsburg.
Yale vs. Holy Cross at New Haven.
Harvard VS.. University of Maine t
Cam bridge.
Princeton VS.. Rutgers at Princeton.
University of Pennsylvania VS..
Gettysburg at Philadelphia.
Dartmouth VS.. Massachusetts Aggies
at Hanover.
Cornell VS.. Colgate al Ithaca.
Carlisle VS.. West Virginia Wesleyan
at Carlisle.
Syracuse VS.. Hobart at Syracuse
Lehigh VS.. Western Maryland at
South Bethlehem.
Brown VS. Colby at Providence.
Amherst VS.. Rhode Island at Am
herst.
Quakers Meet Ohio.
Pittsburg, Sept. 27.-University tof
Pittsburg opens it's football season to- !
day with their men lined up against
the Ohio Northern university. The |
of the Pittsburg eleven this |
season has been a matter of Specula |
ton on the part of the supporters. |
The latter have had no opportunity to |
observe the working out of the local
team, which has been hidden away at /
training quarters in the mountains OF
Cambria county, but returned to the /
city from the training camp last night. |
Harvard and Maine.
Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 2T.-Bright |
skies and cool winds for the opening |
Of the football season between Har-
yard and the University of Maine
several thousand people out
oday. The visitors presented a some
what heavier team than that which
vas defeated by Harvard last year,
% 0, but the Crimson undergraduates
we're confident.
Ouakers a New Team.
Philadelphia, Sept. 27.-More than
lalf of the players which the Univer-
,ity of PENNSYLVANIA sent into the
opening football game of the season
lere today with Gettysburg are new
o the varsity squad. Followers of the
Quakers were happy at the announce
nent that Simpson, last years star at
,enter was in a position to play today.
Pete Mauthe, the former state college /.
tar fullback who is coaching Gettys-
,urg, has whipped together a good
cam and he expects a close score.
Watching the Bear Dope.
Princeton, Sept. 27.-No big score
vas looked for today in Princeton'5 !
opening football game with Rutgers
V good condition physically and well
-dvanced in it's football work but re-
,orts from New Brunswick that fill
cred in here had that the Rutgers
leven expected to give the Princeton
cam a surprise
Holycross a Match for Yale.
New Haven, Sept. 27.-Ideal foot
all weather was provided today for
he contest between Yale and Holy
ross at Yale field. The visitors
a game which would tax the
esources of the home team more than
ny early season game in years.
Western Opening.
Chicago, Sept. 27.-Wfth the Uni
ersity of Minnesota and the Univer-
rst games the football season was
,rmally opened here today. Although
everal minor colleges also began their
chedules, interest in this section is
entered in the showing of the two
difference teams. Their opponents |
to give the larger teams stiff
ames. Minnesota, with practically a
eteran team, is expected to win han
lily from the University of South Da-