The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-08-02
FOR
GRID|R0N GAME
College Teams In East and West
Getting Ready for Fall

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
crs have completed their tasks and the
coaches are issuing calls for the gath
cring of candidates. The first week in
September will witness initial prac-
tice at number of eastern and west
ern colleges 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 previous autumn has Witnessed.
Few changes have been made in the
playing rules and both coaches and
players will require but little zine in
which to familiarize themselves with
the code alterations. More than one
thousand games are scheduled among
the COLLEGE elevens and if the high
schools and preparatory academy con-
tests are included the 1913 games will
total in excess of three thousand.
Opening Games Sept. 20.
The college play opens with a few
scattering games on September 20 and
the contests multiply rapidly on sue
ceeding Saturdays until the climax is
reached on November -. Thanksgiv-
ing day games are still popular i'm
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 in
tcrsectional 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
i'm 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 clcvens of the country have
lost none of their charm and there is
certain To be capacity attendance at
a number of the games.
Big Tests Come Later.
The first real test games will come
carly IN October for on Saturday, oct.
4, Pennsylvania meets Lafayette which
defeated the Quakers last autumn. a
week later the Carlisle Indians will
try the mettle of DR. Sharpes Cornell
team, while Pennsylvania will try to
wipe out the memory of Swarthmorc's
Al
liams and Yale faces Lafayette on the
same day. Saturday, oct. Is, will find
the following clevens 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-
gan meets Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania
tackles Carlisle. and Minnesota has
Iowa as opponents.
international Clashes.
The month of November brings the
real clashes Of the gridron year. ON
the first day of the month Notre Dame
will play at West Point, Cornell at
Harvard, Syracuse at Michigan. Penn
sylvania state at PENNSYLVANIA. Nir-
ginia at Vanderbilt Wisconsin at Min
nesota and Colgate at Yale. Satur-
day, Nov. :, will see the following big
games: Cornell VS.. Michigan, Dart
mouth ~. Pennsylvania. Harvard VS..
Princeton, Pennsylvania State vs..
Notre Dame, Tennessee W.. Wander
pilt, Yale vs. Brown and Chicago VS..
northwestern. \ week later Yale
plays Princeton Dartmouth faces Car
lisle, Cornell opposes Lafayette, Brown
Is at Harvard. PENNSYLVANIA at Mich
igan, Chicago at Minnesota and Penn
sylvania state will try out the Navy
eleven.
Some Spirited Games.
The bis game of Saturday, Nov. %,
is the Harvard Yale match at Cam
bridge. other contests of Importance
include Syracuse VS.. Carlisle. behigh
vs. Lafayette, Minnesota w. Illinois.
Wesleyan VS.. Trinity, Nebraska vs.
Iowa, and Tulane VS.. Louisiana,
THANKSGIVING day games include the
annual Pennsylvania Cornell clash,
with Carlisle VS.. Brown, Vanderbilt VS..