The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-10

5Although the prospective pennant Win ners and worlds championships con tenders are yet in the making, the l gridiron game is barely a monthsaWay. l Coaches and andidates for the eleven are studying the rules anew and soon the tackHng dummy will tremble and sway under the. clutch of the eager 1 player, for on Saturday, September 19, | the initial call to mimic conflict will sound, and from that day until the l first Saturday of December football Twill rise and wane in it's short but Aactive reign.
 l Viewed from every angle the ap- preaching season promises to be Q most remarkable and record-breakinG 1 period in the gridiron sport. More than 2,OOO colleges and high schools I are scheduled in the east, south and l middle west, and contests are to. Ssbe played on every day except Sunday ! during the two and one-half months :! of the football cycle. I Not in number of games alone is 1 the coming season depending for its fame, however, for the 1914 campaign will witness features that cause foot l ball to stand out with Unusual prom Iinence. Many spectacular intersec- tfona1 contests are scheduled includ- ling the Harvard-Michigan game. Both Yale and Princeton universities will dedicate new and mammoth stadiums.s A host of former famous players will appear as coaches and cities to which big football games are unfamiliar, will entertain e1evens. notably Wash Iington, where the Army Navy game | will be played.
 As has been the case for several l years the Carlisle Indians and the All bright College eleven have the honor of opening, the season with the. game ,l set for sSatur day, September 19. Cor nell follows close on their heels with the game against Ursinus on the fol- lowing Wednesday, and on the suc- lceeding Saturday Harvard, Yales T Princeton, Pennsylvania, DaTtn outh, and a. host of other elevensS in various
 parts of the country swing into action. Il Early in October the middle western | and southern university teams don I moleskin and from all points of the compass will come the sound of thud- ding pigslzin and the clash of tackler sj and runner. L
 Before the month closes the premier. elevens of the country will begin to
 meet foes worthy of their best efforts and the season will be at it's height.
 The schedule for the middle Saturday of October is typical of the increasing activity. Carlisle plays Pittsburg; Am herst meets Trinity; Princeton faces Lafayette; Chicago lines up against the State University of Iowa; Oregon will oppose Washington State; Wisconsin and Purdue clash, and @the United States Naval Academy will establish
 9 precedent by journeying to PhiIadel-
 phia. to play the University of Penn
 sylvania eleven.
 From this date on the big games , follow rapidly. Saturday, October I 24, finds among other prominent con :, tests: Harvardcvs. Pennsylvania, State; J Cornell vs Brown; Princeton vs. Dart i. mouth; Chicago vs. Purdue; Michigan vs. Syracuse; Pennsylvania vs. Car ) Hsle; Williams vs. Trinity, and Yale vs.
 Washington and Jefferson. The final
 Saturday of the smonth will witness the biggest intersecti ona1 game of the
 season,4when Michigan plays Harvard
 at Cambridge. Other sections, how el ever, will not sbe lacking in feature
 contests, for Cornell and Holy Cross
 play at Ithaca; Chicago and Wisconsin n l at Madison; Carlisle and Syracuse at -I BuffaIo;s Dartmouth and Amherst at sI Hanover; Princeton and Williams at < Indians. in North Dakota; Vanderbilt
 and Virginia at Nashville; Yale and
 Colgate at New Haven, and Pennsyl-
 vanfa and Swarthmore at PhiladeI- 8 phia.
 . The opening Saturday of November
 will find the college elevens of all sec
 tions on edge for the champi onship
 games of the season. Close to 150
 games between rival and well matched teams scheduled, the principal
 feature contests being: Minnesota vs
 Wisconsin; Yale ys. Brown: Pennsly-
 vania vs. Michigan; Mississippi vs - Tulane; Tennessee svs. Vanderbilt
 Pennsylvania State vs Lehigh; Wes-
 leyan vs. Williams, and Carlisle vs
 Holy Cross. In the East at least the
 attention of the majority~of football followers will be centered upon the
 Harvard-Princton game at Cambridge The second Saturday of <Novem be1
 will be a red letter day in football n Princeton opens the new Palmer Me
 moria1 Stadium with the Yale game;
 Cornell goes to Ann Arbor to play Michigan, and Carlisle to Chicago to
 face the strong and spectacular Notre
 Dame eleven Harvard has Brown as an opponent; Syracuse and Colgate
 clash; Illinois and Chicago meet ir
 their annual conf1ictv Pennsylvania g and Dartmouth do likewise, while Vir. ginia and Swarthmore, Wesley ana '. Trinity, Washington and Oregon anc
 a score of other big games round ou
 the day.
 The football classic of the year vii be played the following Saturday, No
 venber 21, when the teams of YaL
 and Harvard meet Unusual feature
 mark this game, for. it will serve a
 the dedfcating attraction of Ya1e's neV
 stadium, generally termed 9Th i. Bowl" depressed circular structur, built to accommodate 6o,0oo specta St tors. Dartmouth and Syracuse play a
 Boston; 5Lehigh faces Lafayette; Chi se cago and Minnesota clash; Wisconsin
 and Illinois are opponents and man. .s other games feature the day. Tn
 Cornell-Pennsylvania match is tn
 premier attraction in the east ol
 Thanksgiving Day, but other section
 have equally interesting games Notr
 Dame plays Syracuse in the latter college stadium; Virginia and NortI @I Carolina meet at Richmond; Wander
 bi1t and the University of the soutI at Nashville, and Louisiana and Tu
 lane at New Orleans.
 The season closes with the Army Ss Navy game at Washington on the fol
 lowing Saturday, and the game be