The Detroit times., 1914-09-22
lghter Early Schedule, How
ovors IsIkslv to Handicap Notre
Dame h Yale Game
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. BE THE DECISIVE ONE
srest in East-West Clash l.
Already Oyershadowing
Former Favorites
BY HAROLD v. WILCOX.

BY HAROLD v. WILCOX.
An early training start and weathel
Xhlch as yet has called no halt tc
1otdcor work Is auguring well for the
oality OF play during what promises
- be the most interesting season OF
1ootball In decade.
With the starting OF actual scrim
y mage, interest IL increasingly, center
ing on the two decisive tests OF
81 Ufvength between the east and west
and the game between Yale and
otre Dame two weeks earlier. Al
1ough Il was conceded when the tn
ossectional. games were hrst seized
Nd that they would be considered
long the great contests of the year.
Ut they woulo overshadow even the
11ual struggles Of the football trium-
4ote. Yale. Harvard and Princeton,
~ not expected. However, that
~ thing has already happened.
The importance which the Cam
I1dte university is placing on the
{0ggle for supremacy Is indicated
the fact that arrangements are
ing made to handle the crowd ex-
U<ly as at the time OF the annual
me with Yale Every Harvard
1lumpus will be mailed application
ards and plans will be made to care
~ throng that will pack the stad-
nm, which has a seating capacity of
1000
Despite divided interests In the two
0terSectional games, the Michigan
Harvard struggle promises on paper
- be the really decisive factor in de-
1prmining the relative quality OF the
xf1diron sport as played In the east
4 md west. Barring accidents. the
Yale football machine should be much
3 more seasoned and further along to
xurd mid-season from than the pig
4. skin warriors Of Notre Dame when
X he two teams clash on the third OF
<)ctof er.
Eli's schedule gives the wearers OF
IA8 blue three stir games before Har-
D0r's proteges 60 to New Haven. one
nore game than Notre Dame will
10y. and all three will be with teams
- greater strength than the early ad.
y<esaries of the Hoosier university.
X0le will open her season Saturday
Nth the University of Maine, OF late
yuors team Of much more than
tflfnary strength. and next week will
6et the University OF Virginia, al
1uays q contender for the champion
rhlp Of the south. On the third Sat-
1f1ay she plays Lehigh, and then
1o<re Dame.
Notre Dame opens its schedule Oct.
with 4 Michigan school, Alma col
r0e, where Coach Harper first guild
the fortunes of gridiron heroes
lille Alma Is always state cham
nnship contender. 1t cannot hope to
~ Harper's Irishmen more than a
M ecrimmage. The next week Rose
01ytechnical school, OF Terre Haute,
<1oys At Notre Dame, and then comes
Ne trip to New Haven Rose Poly Is
q minor college class and the result
It'll be largely q question OF the size
u the score However, despite the
>nn6icap Imposed by e. lighter and
Writer schedule, Notre Dame Is sure
eive Old ELI a wonderful battle,
1kH the possibility of victory for the
wtot on the third cannot be denied.
& Ia the case of the Michigan Harvard
||ne, however. the early season prep
&tion for the supreme test will be
E6ore nearly equal, Both teams Will
further advanced and should be at
- form. Harvard starts next Sat.
10y, as does Yale. meeting Bates.
len comes Springfield Tech, Wash
tom and Jefferson, Tufts. and
I'm State. Penn State. which plays
M Cambridge the Saturday before
Michigan game, has In recent
1z1 made very strong showing and
been as prone to upset the dope
|11 cart home victories over the big
lools as has been M. A. c. In the
IlSchigan's early schedule is very
Glnilar to that OF Harvard. On the
IIIrtieth OF this month, Depauw
ulnrts the fireworks at Ann Arbor.
/. ozid on Saturday OF the same week
C6se IL taken on. Then comes Mt.
Union, followed by two stiff games
+; With Vanderbilt and the Michigan Ag-
8 res. pair OF contests which will be
e gr1diron battles OF class.
Thus with schedules so similar,
4 both in calibre OF opponents and
s length, both Michigan and Harvard
\. should be at their best. and victory
& should rest with genuine strength and
ability.
The splendid start which the veter.
s on n. A. c. team is getting this fall
gives rise to an interesting possibil-
. 3ty. The East Lansing farmers are
always contenders, and II they should
E 6efeat Michigan on the seventeenth,
and the Ann Arbor stalwarts win
from Harvard, the national champion
(. ship might easily prove TO be az mud.
n Gled as was. the championship OF the
"a west when M. A. c. whipped both
+ Michigan and wisconsin