Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-28
COLLEGES BEGIN
Fighting SOON
Football Season Opens Next
Month-Carlisle Indians
Get Real Money.
(By Frank G.. Menke.)

New York, Aug. 27.-Just about
three weeks more and the bulk of our
refined young college athletes will
proceed about the business of fractur-
ing each others bones SO as to add
more honor and glory to their Alma
Matters.
They ply the lid off the football sea
son on September 10 with number
of high school games and two real
games-Carlisle VS.. Albright at Car
Isle, Pa, and the university of Maine
VS.. Fort Mcinley at Orono, Me.
On the Saturday following, about a
score more of the big colleges will
stage their first games, and the sched-
ule for the 3rd of October shows that
every institution in the country will
have it's gridiron army in action.
The biggest game Of the year will
be the Harvard-Michigan combat at
Cambridge on October 81. The Har-
ward outfit with Brickley Mahan and
a half dozen other Of the 1913 cham
pions, will have a team that should
rank as wonderful as any that ever
battled for the Crimson.
Michigan lost Craig, it's wonderful
half-back of 1913, through graduation
and several others of the 1913 team
will be missing, but Hurry Up"
Yost feels confident that he can weld
together a team thaht can give the
Fasteners a real battle-and no ali
bis if they lose.
will determine Michisans standing
for the past fifteen years and the next
ten years." Yost told his pupils. "In
meeting Harvard we will meet the best
there is in the East We will e.
counter style of play that is different
than ours, and different than we have
met before.
"Michigan's reputation in the foot
ball world is at stake in this game
A decisive victory for Michigan will
bear us out in contention for twelve
or thirteen years that the western
teams on the average are superior to
the best in the East. A defeat, even
if our team is not up to the old Michi-
gan standard, skaters our contention
So we must not lose. We must Win
Quite a number of college coaches
whose proteges have been beaten up
in other years by the Carlisle Indians
now seem to have ''discovered' good
excuse to duck out of scheduling a
game with the Indians in 1915.
The Injuns are tainted!.! They get
real money for playing. Honest, they
do. And the strange part of it is they
aren't shamed to admit now, and never
have made any secret of it in the past
Probably the rival coaches wouldn't
get so exercised about it if those In
dams had given their teams half a
chance in past football arguments
But they havne't. They just met the
white enemy and walloped them until
they were tired. Then they rested
and renewed the walloping.
The fact that the Indian players
get divvy of the of the gate receipts
never has been disguised by Coach
Glen Warner. The school, being a
government proposition, does not feel
that it caan conscientiously accept
the big sums realized from football for
the general maintenance of the col
lege. The football expenses each
year do not total over 30,000-some-
times less.
Warner took a contract to coach the
school. He did it on something like
a commission basis. He agreed to take
all the receipts and pay all the eX-
penses. The rest was to be his for
services. But Warner never has kept
all the residue. He has deducted for
himself each year portion that
would be equivalent to what he would
get in the way Of salary, were he on
a straight salary. The balance he has
proportioned equally among the
team members. These facts are pub
lie property, as the books at the Indi-
an school will show just what the foot
bali receipts have been each year and
Just what disposition has been made
of the funds.