Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-10
FOOTBALL ALREADY PLANNING TO
SURPLANT THE SUMMER BASE BALL
Before European War Broke ill., the Fall Schedule
Greatest Athletic Activity Known-Unusual Interest Big
Games Gridron-Track Athletes Expect Next
Month at Bamore-Promse Fistic Encounters May Not
Materialize-Other Pointers in the Field of Sports

New York. Aug. 9-Spectre- like foot
ball is beginning to stalk baseball. AL
though the prospective pennant win
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
the tackling 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 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
college 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
Harvard Michigan game. Both Yale
and Princeton universities will dedi-
cate new and mammoth stadiums. A
host Of former famous players will ap-
pear as coaches and cities to which big
football games are unfamiliar will en-
terrain 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, September 49, Cor
nell follows close on their heels with
the game against Ursinus on the fol-
lowing Wednesday, and on the sue
ceeding Saturday Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth
and host of other elevens in various
parts Of the country swing into action.
Early in October the middle western
and southern university teams don
moleskin and from all points of the
compass will come the sound Of thud-
ding pigskin and the clash of tackler
and runner.
Before the month closes the premier
elevens of the country will begin to
meet foes worthy of their best efforts
and the season will be at it's 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 up
against the State University of Iowa;
Oregon will oppose Washington State,
Wisconsin and Purdue clash, and the
United States Naval Academy will
establish precedent by journeying to
Philadelphia to play the University of
Pennsylvania eleven.
From this date on the big games fol-
low rapidly. Saturday. Otober "a, finds
among other prominent contests: Har-
ard VS. Pennsylvania State; Cornell vs..
Brown; Princeton VS. Dartmouth; Chi
cago VS. Purdue; Michigan VS. SYRIA
cuse; Pennsylvania VS. Carlisle; VIII
liams VS. Trinity, and Yale VS. Wash
ington and Jefferson. The final Sat-
urday Of the month win witness the
biggest intersectional game of the sea-
son when Michigan plays Harvard at
Cambride. Other sections, however, will
not be lacking in feature contests for
Cornell and Holy Cross play at Ithaca,
Chicago and Wisconsin at Madison;
Carlisle and Syracuse at Buffalo; Dart
mouth and Amherst at Hanover;
Princeton and williams at Princeton:
Notre Dame and Haskell Indians in
North Dakota; Vanderbilt and Virgin
la at Nashville; Yale and Colgate at