Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-05

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 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
succeeding Saturdays until the climax
is reached on November %. Thanks
giving 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 in
| tersectional games will add interest
| to the sort football season for Mich
| igan, Syracuse, Cornell, Notre Dame,
] Carlisle, Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania
are all scheduled for long trips and
|
new game of importance-the Har-
vard-Cornell match at Cambridge-is
shown among the leading contests of
the fail, but the usual clashes between
the leading elevens of the country
| have lost none of their charm and
their charm and there is certain to be
capacity attendance at number OF
the games.
The first real test game will come
early in October for on Saturday, Oct.
4, Pennsylvania meets Lafayette
which defeated the Quakers last au'
tumn. A week later the Carlisle In
dams will try the mettle of DR.
Shapes Cornell team, while Peensyl-
vania will try to wipe out the memory
of Swar,hmore's victory in 1912. Har
ward meets Williams and Yale faces
Lafayette on the same day. Satur
day, October Is, will find the follow
ing elevens lined up: Amherst VS.
Trinity, Colgate VS.. Army, Dartmouth
VS.. Williams; Lafayette VS.. Swarth
more, Syracuse VS.. Princeton and
Pennsylvania VS. Brown. On October
rs Princeton plays Dartmouth, Mich
igan meets Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania
tackles Carlisle, and Minnesota has
Iowa as opponents.
The month of November brings the
real clashers of the gridiron year. o.
| the first day of the month Metre Dame
will play at West Point, Cornell a
Harvard, Syracuse at Michigan, Penn
sylvania State at Pennsylvania, Vir
ginia at Vanderbilt, Wisconsin at Min
nesota and Colgate at Yale. Satur
day, November 8, will see the follow
ing big games: Cornell VS.. Michigan
Dartmouth VS.. Pennsylvania, Harvar
q vs. Princeton, Pennsylvania State VI
Notre Dame, Tennessee VS.. Wander
a bilt, Yale VS.. Brown and Chicago vs.
p Northwestern. A week later Yal
$ plays Princeton, Dartmouth faces Cal
: Isle, Cornell opposes Lafayette
Brown is at Harvard, Pennsylvania a
: Michigan, Chicago at Minnesota an
r Pennsylvania State will try out tn
q Navy eleven.
e The big game of Saturday, Noven
:, Der q, is the Harvard-Yale match q
e Cambridge. Other contests of in
}, portance include Syracuse VS.. Carlisl
Lenigh VS.. Lafayette, Minnesota "
y Illinois, Wisconsin VS.. Chicago, Mi
h souri, vs.. Kansas, Wesleyan vs.. Tril
d ity, Nebraska vs. Iowa, and Tulane v
} Louisiana. Thanksgiving Day gam,
include the annual Pennsylvania
e ell clash with Carlisle We. Brow
o Vanderbilt VS.. Southern Universi-
/ Texas vs.. Eotre Dame, Washingtc
{ State vs. Washington and Oregon V
Mutanomah affording football thrill
in ether parts CT the country. On Sa
:. urday, November 2, the L. s. Nav
- and Military Academy teams will me
= and with this game laps vii. sour
y for the grldiron warriors of 1914.
. The agreement entered into by
=. number Of English sporting public
tons to cease printing the adver;is
IN ments OF racing tipsters recalls son
a interesting memories Of the origin al
a development CT his phase of the tn
Although racing was well establish
lie in England late in the eighteenth ce
fury is was not until some years lat
K that the tipster made his appearance
ID So far as turf history can be reli
on, Daniel Dawson was the original
w O. tipping. He first came into pro
~ inence IN and about the course at Ne
In market during 1907. Although abb
lutely Eliterate he was a shrewd jud