Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-08-29
FOOT BALL SEASON
WILL SOON BEGIN
College and Professional Teams Soon
At Work For Their Short
Campaigns.

| NEW YORK, Aug 81 ---Spectrp-,ike
| football is beginning to stalk has G.
| ball. Although the prospective pen.
nant winners and worlds champion.
ship contenders are yet In the max
ing, the gridirOn game is less than a
| month away. On Saturday, Sept Is,
the initial call to mimic conflict will
sound and from that day until the
first Saturday in December football
will rise and wane in It's short but
active reign.
| Viewed from every angle the an
proaching season promises to be mots
| remarkable and record breaking per-
| lod in the gridiron sport. In the
number Of games alone the season
will stand Out with unusual promi-
nence. Many notable intersectional
contests are scheduled, including Il
game between Harvard and Michigan
early in the season both Yale AMI
Princeton universities will. dedicat,,
AS has been the case for several
years, the Carlisle Indians and the
Albright College eleven have the
honor Of opening the season with
the game set for Sept. 10. Cornell
follows close on their heels with a
game against Ursinus on Sept. %.
and on the succeeding Saturday Yale.
Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania,
| Dartmouth and a host of other elevens
in various parts of the countr' will
get into action.
| Before the month of October closes
the premier elevens Of the country
| will begin to meet foes worthy CT
their best efforts and the season will
be at its height. The schedule for
the middle Saturday of October is
typical Of the increasing activity. Car.
Isle plays Pittsburg, Amherst meets
Trinity, Princeton faces Lafayette,
Chicago lines up against the State
university of Iowa, Oregon Will up
pose Washington State, Wisconsin
land Purdue clash, and the Annapolis
eleven will establish a precedent by
Ijourneying to Philadelphia to play
1.-THE University Of Pennsylvania.
From this date on the big games
follow rapidly. The final Saturday
in October will witness the biggest in
ltersecetional game Of the season
when Michigan plays Harvard at
Cambridge. Other SECTIONS, how.
ever, will not be lacking in feature
contests for Cornell and Holy Cross
rlay at Ithaca. Chicago and Wiscon
sin at Madison, Carlisle and Syracuse
lat Buffalo, Dartmouth and Amherst
at Hanover, Princeton and Williams
at Princeton, Vanderbilt and Virginia
at Nashville, Yale and Colgate at
New Haven and Pennsylvania AMI
lSwarthmore at Philadelphia
The opening Saturday Of November
will find the colleges elevens Of al
sections on edge for the champion
ship game Of the season. Close tc
$50 games between rival and We
matched teams are scheduled the
principal feature contests being: Har
ward VS.. Princeton, Yale VS.. Brown
Wisconsin vs.. Minnesota. Pennsylvan
ia VS.. Michigan, Vanderbilt VS.. Ten
nessee, Mississippi VS.. Tulane, Wcs
leyan VS.. Williams, Pennsylvania
State VS.. Lehigh and Carlisle vs.
Holy Cross.
The second Saturday Of November
will be red letter day in football
Princeton opens the new Palmer
Memorial Stadium with the Yale
game, Cornell goes to Ann Arbor tc
play Michigan and Carlisle to Chi
cago to face the strong and spectac
ular Notrc Dame eleven. Harvard
has Brown as an opponent, Syracuse
and Colgate clash, Illinois and Chi
cago meet in their annual conflict
Pennsylvania and Dartmouth do like
wise, while Virginia and Swarthmorc