Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-10

New Haven and Pennsylvania and
Swarthmore at Philadelphia.
The opening Saturday of November
will find the college elevens of all sec
tons on edge for the championship
games of the season. Close to $50
games between rival and we'll matched
teams are scheduled, the principal fea-
ture contests being: Minnesota VS.
Wisconsin; Yale VS. Brown; Pennsyl-
vania VS. Michigan; Mississippi VS. Tu-
lane; Tennessee VS. Vanderbilt: Penn
sylvania State VS. Lehigh; Wesleyan
VS. Williams and Carlisle VS. Holy
Cross. In the east at least the atten-
ton Of the majority of football fol-
lowers will be centered up the Har-
ward Princeton game at Cambridge.
The second Saturday of November
will be a red letter day in football.
Princeton opens the new Palmer Me-
mortal 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 in
their annual conflict; Pennsylvania
and Dartmouth do likewise, while
Virginia and Swarthmore; Wesleyan
and Trinity, Washington and Oregon
and a score of other big games round
out the day.
The football classic Of the year will
be played the following Saturday, No
vember 81, when the teams of Yale
and Harvard meet. Unusual features
mark this game, for 1t will serve as
the dedicating attraction of Yale's new
steadium, generally termed 1.-THE
Bowl" a depressed circular structure
built to accommodate $4,000 spectators.
Dartmouth and Syracuse play at Bos-
ton, Lehigh faces Lafayette; Chicago
and Minnesota clash; Wisconsin and
Illinois are opponents and many other
games feature the day. The Cornell
Pennsylvania match is the premier at
traction in the east on Thanksgiving
Day, but other sections have equally
interesting games. Notre Dame plays
Syracuse in the latter colleges stadi-
UNI; Virginia and North Carolina meet
at Richmond; Vanderbilt and the Uni
versity of the South at Nashville, and
Louisiana and Tulane at New Orleans.
The season closes with the Army
Navy game at Washington on the fol-
lowing Saturday, and the game be-
tween the two United States training
academies is expected to take an add
ed picturesqueness in it's capital set
ting. For years those who are most
interested in giving this contest a
real governmental sanction and at
no. 81
game between the soldiers and sailors
played at Washington. Philadelphia,
Princeton and New York have all en-
tertained the Army and Navy corps
and it Is fitting climax to a most un-
usual and spectacular season that this
game be played at the nations capital.
Followers of track athletics are look
ing forward to an international con-
test during the national championships
Of the Amateur Athletic Union, which
will be decided at Baltimore, Nd, next
month. Except something unlocked
FOR should intervene, Englands pre-
mier sprinter. w. R. Applegarth, is ex-
pected to come over and measure
strides with Americas fastest men, Of
whom Howard Drew is easily the
swiftest. A meeting between Apple
garth and Drew at 100 and 220 yards
would prove wonderful attraction.
Many Of the experts think that Apple
garth's recent showing, around two
turns in q 1-5 seconds for the furlong.
stamps him as a likely winner at that
distance, but few are of the opinion
that he would be able to take Drew's
measure over the shorter trip, The
American officials are very anxious to
bring these men together and 1t is