El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-02
Football Men are Getting
Ready For a Record Season
More than 1000 Games Are Scheduled Among the Col
lege Elevens- Early Season Contests Start in Sep
TENDER, While Real Skirmishes Come in Novem-
Harvard and Yale Meet Nov. %.

TEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Althougl
N the intercollegiate football sea
son is still two months away
the shadow of the gridiron game is
already edging into the realms Of
sport. The schedule makers have
completed their tasks and the coaches
are issuing calls for the gathering
Of candidates. The first week of Sep
TENDER will witness initial practice al
number of eastern and western col
leges and before october is reached
games will have been won and lost OF
many varsity football field.
Thousand Games Scheduled
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 time in
which to familiarize themselves with
the code alterations More than one
thousand games are scheduled among
the college elevens and if the high
school and preparatory academy con-
tests are included the 1913 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
ceeding Saturdays until the climax is
reached on November p. ThanksgiV-
lu5 Jay games are SUN popular GER
tain sections of the country, but with
the exception of the Army-Navy game
gridiron activity will cease with the
holiday contests. A number of inter
sectional games will add interest to
the short football season for Michigan,
Syracuse, Cornell, NOtre Dame, Carlisle,
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.
Test Games In October.
The first real test games will come
early in October for on Saturday, Oc-
tober 4, Pennsylvania meets Lafayette
which defeated the Quakers last au-
tumn- A week later the Carlisle In
dams will try the mettle of DR.. SharD-S
Cornell team, while Pennsylvania viii
try to wipe out the memory of
SWarthmOre'S victory in 1912 Har-
ward meets Williams and Yale faces
Lafayette on the same day.
Saturday, October Is, will find the
following elevens lined. up: Amherst
vs. Trinity, Colgate VS.. Army. Dart
mouth VS.. Williams, Lafayette VS..
SwarthmOre, Syracuse VS.. Princeton
and Pennsylvania VS.. Brown. On OctO-
Der p Princeton plays Dartmouth,
meets Vanderbilt. Pennsyl-
vania tackles Carlisle, and Minnesota
has Iowa as opponents
The month of November brings the
real clashers of the gridiron year. On
the first day of the month NOtre Dame
will play at West Point, Cornell at
Syracuse at Michigan, Penn
sylvania state at Pennsylvania. Vir-
ginia at Vanderbilt, Wisconsin at Min
nesota and Colgate at Yale. Saturday,
November s, will see the following bfg
games: Cornell VS.. Michigan, Dart
mouth VS.. Pennsylvania, Harvard vs.
Princeton, Pennsylvania State VS.. Notre
Dame, Tennessee VS.. Vanderbilt. Yale
VS.. Brown and Chicago vs. North
western. A week later Yale plays