Evening star., 1914-02-04
NEW SCHEDULES
FOR BIG COLLEGES
1914 Foot Ball Plans Will
Give Many EIevens Chances
for Better Ratings.
GORDON SIGNS TO PLAY
WITH SPRINGFIELD CLUB
Goes to That Team on Recommends.
tion of Hugh Bradley, Manager
of Post Office Nine.
BY II. C. BYRD.

Changes are being made in the big COL
| lege foot ball schedules for next fall.
Some of the new agreements entered into
may reverse entirely the intercollegiate
| standing and the former methods of rat
| ing the several elevens at the end of
the season There is hardly a big eastern
school which has not dropped one or two
institutions and added Others
BY far the most important new game
| to he looked forward to is that in which
| Michigan is scheduled to meet Harvard
| at Cambridge. 1t is well known that the
| followers OF foot ball in the middle west
and in the east have been clamoring for
| d game between one of the big institu-
tons in the former section and Yale or
| Harvard. 1t was thought for a time
| last fall that Chicago might come east
| to play Yale, which, with the Harvard
Michigan and Notre Dame-Army games,
| would have given good a basis as
| might be desired on which to form com
| parison of the class of play in each
. gion. Even though the ChicagoYale
! game was not arranged, there is little
| doubt about good comparison for rating
the western teams on the showing of
Michigan against Harvard. both being
among the best in their respective see
/ tionS every year.
| Washington and jefferson, an eleven
| little known previous to last fall
| that is, as far definite ranking
among eastern elevens is concerned
Will have "a chance to como into prom
| inence by reason of a game 1t is to
| play at Yale and one or two others in
which 1t will take part. Princeton has
dropped Syracuse and Holy Cross and
added Lafayette. while Harvard will
not meet one or two of the weaker
clubs it has previously played In
stead. Michigan and Penn State are
taken on permanently. Yale has
dol. a IL
latter being the only southern an
stitution which will get a chance to
play in the north
The Navy team will make departure
leave Annapolis to play another eleven
besides the Army. 1t is scheduled to
go to the University of Pennsylvania
for contest, October L. The arrange
ment Of this game is rather fine stroke
for the Pennsylvania authorities, in that
the Navy will be mighty good drawing
card. The contest will also place the
Navy in position in which it will have
a better chance for the intercollegiate
championship. This movement probably
marks a in athletic at Annap-
oils and West Point. These two institu-
tions have never allowed their athletic
teams to leave the reservations to play
other schools, but it is likely that it will
be done in the future, in order that
they may secure better ranking among
the big elevens.
Elmer Gordon. who played base ball
last summer with the Steel Plant in the
Potomac League. has been signed for
the coming season by the Springfield.
Ohio, club in the Central League. Joe
Stanley is manager of the Springfield
team. and he accepted Gordon on the
recommendation of Hugh Bradley. who
has charge of the Post Office nine in
the Departmental League. Gordon is
a good hitter, is nineteen years of age
and is five feet eleven inches in height.
| According to Bradley, he is a mighty
good ball player and stands a splendid
| chance to make good.
The Maryland Aggies dropped bas
ket ball game to Washington and Lee
i University in Lexington last night by a
| decisive score. The Farmers, accord
ing to report. were not able to make
| any headway against the much more
| experienced university five.
! 1t is almost certain that the Farmers
will play only two more games. They
| are Scheduled to meet the Virginia
| Military Institute tonight, and Satur-
! day they will play ST. Johns at Col
| lege Park. The Farmers hardly ex-
| pect to do anything more than make
| a fair showing in either game. After
| these two contests 1T is probable the
remainder of the schedule will be call
ed off. though that has not been def
nitely decided as yet.
| 1t was stated in these columns shortly
after the close of the last foot ball sea-
son that Georgetown would make a
change in it's coaching policy next fall.
and that Exendine. the former Carlisle
Indian end and now assistant coach,
would be secured to take charge Ac-
Icording to an announcement made this
morning it seems that the arrangements
have been about completed, and that
Exendine will direct the destinies of the
IHilitoppers.
The report that Gallaudet may play
Fordham next fall, November 81, is
erroneous. that being the date prac-
Etically agreed upon by the Kendall
Greeners for their contest with the
Maryland Agricultural College.
| While it was reported last week that
the reason Georgetown might not enter
a relay four in the Boston A A games