The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-10
CR|D|RON GANG
NOW LOOMS UP
Season to Be One of Most Nota-
BILE In History of Sport

New York. August 10.-Spectre-l like
football il beginning to stalk baseball.
Although the prospective pennant
winners and worlds championship
contenders are yet in the making the
grdiron game IL barely a month away.
Coaches and candidates for the eleven
are studying the rules anew and soon
the tackllng dummy will tremble and
sway under the clutch of the eager
player for on Saturday, September 10,
the initial call to mimic conflict will
sound and from that day until the
first Saturday OF December football
will rise and wane in it's short but ac-
tive reign.
Viewed from every angle the APP
PACKING season promises to be most
remarkable and record breaking period
IN the gridron sport More than p
600 college and high schools are SEIZED
ucd in the east, south and middle
west, and contests are to be played on
every day except Sunday during the
two and one-half months of the foot
ball cycle.
Michigan Harvard Game.
Not in number of games alone is the
coming season depending for it's fame
however for the 1914 campaign will
witness features that cause football
TO stand out with unusual prominence.
Many spectacular intersectional con-
tests are scheduled, including the Har-
ward Michigan game. Both Yale and
Princeton universities will dedicate
new and mammoth stadiums. A host OF
former famous players will appear as
coaches and cities To which big football
games are unfamiliar will entertain
eevens notably Washington, where
the Army Navy game will he played
AS has been the case for several
years the Carlisle Indians and the Al
bright College eleven have the honor of
opening the season with the game set
Tor Saturday, September 10. Cornell
loNows close on their heels with the
game against Urslnus on the following
Wednesday and on the succeeding
saturday Harvard. Yale, Princeton
pennsylvania, Dartmouth and host
OF other elevens i'm various parts of the
country swing into action. Early in
october the middle western and
southern university teams don mole
skin ana from all points of the COM
pass will come the sound of thudding
plsShln and the clash OF tackler and
runner.
Big Games in October.
before the month closes the premier
eIeVens Of the country will begin to
meet foes worthy OF their best efforts
ana the season will be at it's height
me schedule for the middle Saturday
VI october is typical OF the increasing
"1uVlty' Carlisle plays Pittsburgh
amherst meets Trinity; Princeton fac
W Lafayette; Chicago lines up against
VIC state University OF Iowa; oregon
VIII Oppose Washington state; Wis
,onsih and Purdue clash, and the
united States Naval Academy will &C.
, "Vnsh precedent by jourReyins to
'ueiphla to play the University |
Vt pennsylvania eleven.
'oh This date on the big games |
sonoW rapidly. Saturday. October -, |
,, ''S aihong other prominent contests: |
award VS.. Pennsylvania state Cor
"Vn VS.. Brown; Princeton vs. Dart
''Ou'h' Chicago VS.. Purdue: Michigan
u' syracuse; Pennsylvania vs.. Car
williams vs.. Trinity. and Yale
a. washington and Jefferson. The |
~ "' saturday of the month will witness
"' biggest intersectlonal game of the
Jason :. when Michigan plays Harvard
~ Cambridge.
other Important Games.
liner o,her sections however. will not he
eng IN feature contests for Cornell
nv noiy Cross play at Ithaca. Chicago
uu Wisconsin at Madison: Carlisle
o., syracuse at Buffalo: Dartmouth
a., amherst at Hanover: Princeton
M. williams at Princeton, Notre
M, 'e and Haskell Indians in North
voVh' Vanderbilt and Virginia at
u"V'ile; Yale and Colgate at New
M NJ" and Pennsylvania and Swarth-
~, al Philadelphia.
MIN, opening Saturday OF November
,loa una the college elevens OF all sec
Y" edge for the championship