Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-23
FOOTBALL SEASON IS
DRAWING To A CLOSE
Will Draw Curtain--iias Been
Most Sensational in Years.
PUBLIC INTEREST is INTENSE
Records for Attendance Broken.
Over 100000 Spectators Witness
ing Each Saturdays Gamcs-Intcr-
sectional Contests to Continue.

NEW YORK. November 22.--The most
sensational football season in recent
years will close this week with the
playing OF the pcnnsylvan!n-C Cornell
game at philadelphia on THANKSGIVING
Day. and the Army Navy game on the
same field two days later. Compared
with the princeton, Princeton
Harvard and Yale Harvard series these
annual games Gre Of comparatively
modern origin. The interest, however,
is keen, and each season the clevens
play before crowds that tax the ca
Dacity of the stands
The Cornell Pennsylvania series be-
gan In the autumn of 1893, and has
continued without interruption for
twcnty-onc years. During this period
Pennsylvania has won eighteen games;
Cornell. two. and one resulted In no.
score tic. In total points PENNSYLVANIA
leads. with 392 to Cornelrs liS, and the
victories have been accumulated in
strings, From 1923 To 1900 pennsyl-
vania won continuously After being
defeated In 1901. the Quarkers were
triumphant until 1906. when the no
score tie occurred From 1897 To 1912
Pennsylvania won regularly, Corncll's
second victory coming last season,
when the Ithica team won. 2l to o.
The Army Navy gnmes began three
years earlier than the CorncllSP, mn
sylvania series. but owing TO breaks
In the service matches but eighteen
contests have been held. or these con-
tests the Navy has won nine; the Army,
eight and one resulted in tic Al
though tho Navy has II one game lead
the Cadets have scored tho greater
number OF points, their eight Victories
totaling lS2 points TO the M.ddies' 1879.
IL Is peculiar feature OF the series
that in = large majority OF the con-
tests both eievens have scored The
Army has succeeded but once In shut
Ia 10, Ann ls.
teams have six times defeated their
West Point opponents without being
scored upon
/ Owing to the smaller seating ca
pncity OF T'ranklin Field, there will
not be tho enormous attendance that
marked the Army Navy game played in
New York last November. In round
figures, probably 10000 less spectators
VIII be present than was tho case in
1919 but this does not indicate any loss
OF interest In the service game or foot
ball In general. In fact. college foot
bali continues to grow in popuicrity
each season. The present autumn has
Witnessed greater gatherings III the
hlg games than ever before, notwith-
standing the constantly Increasing
number OF these feature contests
While accurate figures are not avail
ahie for the attendance OF all games
throughout the country on any give n
day, II has been estimated that the
aggregate Saturday attendance ut foot
ball games during late October and
November has been well in. excess OF
100000
That this estimate is not exagger-
ated Is shown by the fact that, OF the
lilo gaines scheduled for Saturday, No
Vember T. hvc drew over 100000 spec
tators. The liaryard-P princeton con
test was witnessed by $4,000 persons:
Yale and Brown drew 10000: Nichi-
gan and Pennsylvania, $4,000: Penn
sylvania Statel.ehieh, 5000; Pitts
burgh- Washington and jefferson I2-
600; Syracuse Rutgers. 5000. and scores
of other games attracted from 1000 to
1000 attendance
The Harvard Yale game played in
the new Yale bowl" at New Haven
last Saturday. set q nav record for
football attendance, when over 10000
persons watched the annual gridiron
Strugg!e between the teams OF the two
New England universities. This gath
ering Is the largest that ever paid adj
mission TO sporting event in the
United States with the exception OF
the annual international automobile
race held at the inotordrome in In
dlanapoiis, Ind Attendance at these
Memorial Day 50o-miic races has APP
preached close TO. 100, 900. which sim
falls below the record figures at big
football games In England. There is,
however, no comparison between the
gate receipts, since the lowest ;,dmls-
sion charge IN these American events
is double and triple the price abroad.
Although the four intersectional
football games played in the Fast this
year have resulted in victories for the
home teams, Il appeati almost certain
that these contests VIII be repeated or
even added TO I'm 1915 Mich pnp nj
Harvard and Notrc Dame at Yale both
made splendid Impressions, and somu-