Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-10
Season of 1914 Will Begin
With Carlisle Indians vs.. Al
bright on September 10.
BIG CONTESTS SCHEDULED
Both Yale and Princeton Universities
Will Dedicate New Mammoth
Stadiums This Fall.

nerS and worlds championship con-
tenders are yet in the making the grid
iron game is barely a month away.
Coaches and candidates for the eleven
are studying the rules anew and soon
tackling dummy will tremble and
sway under the clutch of the eager
player, for on Saturday, Sept. 10, the
| initial call to mimic conflict will
sound and from that day until the
| first Saturday of December football
will rise in its short but active reign.
Viewed from every angle the ap-
preaching season promises to be
| most remarkable and record breaking
period in the gridiron sport. More
than 1000 colleges and high schools
are scheduled 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 football cycle.
Not in number of games alone is the
| coming season depending for its 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 en-
! te-tain elevens, notably Washington,
where the Army-Navy game will be
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 for Saturday, Sept. 10. Cornell
follows close on their heels with the
game against Ursinus on the following
| Wednesday, and On the succeeding
Saturday Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and host
of other eIevens in various parts OF
the country swing into action. Early
in October the middle western and
| southern university team don mole
skin and from all points OF the com
pass will come the sound of thuddins
pigslkin and the clash of tackler and
| runner.
Dates of Big Games.
Before the month closes the pre-
mier elevens of the country will begin
/ to meet foes worthy OF their best eff
forts and the season will be at its
height. The schedule for the middle
Saturday of October is typical of the
| increasing activity. Carlisle PLAYS
| Pittsburgh; Amherst meets Trinity;
| Princeton faces Lafayette: Chicago
lines ND against the State University
| Sb
ton State; Wisconsin and Purdue
| clash, and the United States Naval
| Academy will establish precedent
by journeying to Philadelphia to play
| the University OF Pennsylvania.
From this date on the big games
follow rapidly. Saturday, Oct. "a
! finds among other prominent contests:
! Harvard VS.. Pennsylvania State; Cor
nell VS. Brown; Princeton VS.. Dart
mouth; Chicago s. Purdue; Michigan
VS.. Syracuse; Pennsylvania VS.. Car
| isle: Williams VS.. Trinity, and Yale
S. Washington and Jefferson. The
final Saturday of the month will wit
ness the biggest intersectional game
| of the season when Michigan plays
| Howard at Cambridge. Other sections,
however, will not be lacking in feature
| contests. for Cornell and Holy Cross
play at Ithaca, Chicago and Wiscon-
! sin at Madison; Carlisle and Syracuse
at Buffalo; Dartmouth and Amherst at
Hanover; Princeton and Williams at
Princeton; NOtre Dame and Haskell
! Indians in North Dakota; Vanderbilt
and Virginia at Nashville; Yale and
| Colgate at New Haven, and Pennsyl-
vania and Swarthmore OF Phiiadel-
| phia.
The opening Saturday of November
| will find the college elevens of all
sections on edge for the championship
J games of the season. Close TO $50
! games between rival and well matched
teams are scheduled, the principal fea-
| ture contests being: Minnesota vs..
| Wisconsin; Yale VS.. Brown; Pennsyi-
vania VS.. Michigan; Mississippi VS..
! Tulane: Tennessee vs.. Vanderbilt;
| Pennsylvania State VS.. Lehigh; Wes-
leyan VS.. Williams, and Carlisle vs..
Holy Cross. In the east, at least, tae
attention of the majority OF football
! followers viii be centered upon the
| Harvard Princeton game at Cam
bridge.
The Red Letter Day.
| 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 rs
an opponent: Syracuse and Colgate
clash; Illinois and Chicago meet in
their annual conflict; Pennsylvania
and Dartmouth do likewise. while Vir
ginia and Swarthmore; Wesleyan and