New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-20
ELEVENS AWAIT
CALL OF GRDRON
Football Season of 1914
Gives Promise of Be
ing Banner One.
CLASHES BETWEEN
THE EAST AND WEST
Yale and Princeton to Dedicate
New StadiumS Late in
November.


The opening gun in what promises
10 be the greatest football campaign in
the history OF tho spor; was hred yes
terday when the Carlisle Indians de-
feated Albrigh; College at Carlisle
Field. That gua was really only the
call TO arms, a mere promise Of greater
things TO come. In ;he zen weeks Of
tho football cycle more than two thou
Sand games will be played in all Sec
lions of the country.
This year more than in any other
greater crowds will be accommodated
az the various stadums aoou, the coun-
try. The Bowl" AZ New Haven. with
It's seating capacity for $4,000 VIII he
finished in time for the Harvard game
on November p. while the Palmer
Memorial Stadium al Princeton viii he
dedicated to the sport on November u,
when the Tigers take the field against
Yale Harvard and Princeton will meet
AZ Princeton on November Z.
Not alone in the number Of games 20
he played does the coming season prom
isc TO be a record breaker. Many I'M
portant intersectiNnal games in which
interest runs high will be played.
Four OF these battles will be watched
with the keenest interest. Harvard,
which swept all before IL last fell
thsEks largely TO the uncanny skill OF
Brickley's toe, will play Michigan al
Cambridge.
Notre Dame. conquerors OF the ArH.1
team last year and to which game
some critics trace the victory OF ne
cadets over Annapolis will play Yale,
Carlisle and the Army, as well as Sv"a-
cuse. while Cornell will struggle
against Michigan. The Wolverines VIII
also play their annual game with Pel"-
sylvania
Intersections! Struggles.
The intersectional struggles will com
,aencc in tho middle Of October. The
lonor of playing the first OF the really
important games in which the Eastern
and Western styles will be compared
!alls to Yale The sturdy sons of Old
Hi will take the field against the Notre
Dame eleven on October II at New
Haven. Two weeks later Harvard will
entertain Michigan at Cambridge. On
November Pennsylvania and Michigan
take the field at Ann Arbor, while
Notre Dame will again endeavor to
sweep the plains at West Point.
But the struggle for supremacy be-
tween the teams on and near the sea-
beard and those inland are not the only
ones TO attract the attention of the
enthusiasts. There are those games
pillars Of American intercollegiate
football they are-which viii draw
greater patronage this year than eIe@
hefore.
On wednesday, September %, Cornell
will open its season with Urslnus Tor an
opponent, playing at Ithaca. The lndlahs
also will work out on that afternoon,
facing the Lebanon Valley team. On
September 20 no fewer than siXty-hTe
games will be played, with practlcaliy
every college of Importance IN the iooI-
ball world engaged. -
The first Saturday in October WI.
find 252 teams fighting 1t out III ~
e.ames, and from that time o. nh'h
Inc season wanes, in late November
each Saturday will find the number IN
creasing. And IS the season advances
the games will be OF more interest toT
the wheat will have been separated
from the chat and the championship
possibilities will have made their o'us'
Navy Away from Home.
football precedent will be eStao-,
bsbed ON October T.. The United
states Naval Academy vii! trave 20
FRANKLIN Field to play the nlvcfsity
az pennsylvania. Heretofore ali IN" .
Tavv's games have been played - An
napolis. with the exception O. me an
n,,sl Ar-ny-Navy game. which has heel!
rlaved at Princeton, Philadelphia ano
Vow York. The Carlisle Indians WI!
face the University of Pittsburgh IN .
tho Smoky City, eager to wipe oOt as
vea.Is defeat. Princeton will FACE La
fsvette Wisconsin will face Purdue !
Id Yale will meet Notre Dame III tAc /,
important games. -, =,
terest for those who love to follow the
fortnnes of the knights of the gridiron'
Michigan will engage Syracuse, Penn !
syIvapia and the Carlisle Indians VAL
battle for supremacy on Franklin FleIo'
harvard and Penn State, Princeton
rs Dartmouth and Cornell vs.. Brown
r,ake nm the roster of the more lmpor-
emf Games The week following Har-
ward and Michigan will fight 1t out at
Cambridqe Yale and Colgate will en-
tcrtsin al New Haven, and the Bulldog
viii 90 into that battle determined TO
rayerse the decision which the Maroon
won last year.
The bigh-water mark will be reached
on November Ia. Yale will take the
fe1d against Princeton at Princeton;
Harvard will face Brown at Cambridge,
Cornell will travel 10 Ann Arbor 10
crsnnlc with the Michigan eleven; the
SarI;sle Indians will face the versatile
and spectacular NOtre Dame team at
CHICAGO. while Dartmouth will match
lie skill with Pennsylvania on Franklin
Field