Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-19
SEASON
IS OPNNED
TODAY
CARLISLE AN DALBRlGHT. AS
USUAL ARE THE FIRST
TEAMS TO CLASH

New York. Sept: 19.-Football ap-
pears on the athletic stage today to
formally open the fall season of sport
at the American colleges. Teams that
have been engaged in preliminary
practice are about to come together
for the first battles of 1914 and from
now on until Thanksgiving a great
army of young college athletes will
proceed about the business of bat
Ting on the gridiron so as to add
more honor to their alma mater
The Carlysle Indians-always one
of the more important teams to get
into action-prys off the lid today in
a game with Albright at Carlisle. Pa.
Another college team to open it's sea-
son today is that of the university of
Maine, which plays Fort Mckinley at
Orono, Me, Cornell will be the next
big team to get into action, meeting
Ursinus at Ithaca next Wednesday. On
inc SdihO udy Odl iolG Will pay llo
second game, lining up against Leb-
anon Valley on the Indians gridiron
Next Saturday will see practically
all of the more important elevens in
the east in their opening contests of
the season. Harvard will take on
Bates on Soldiers Field with only two
weeks of practice and sitting of can
didates Yale meets the University of
Maine at New Haven while Princeton
will play its initial contest with Rut-
gers. Pennsylvania will open with Get
tysburgh at Franklin Field, Cornell
will meet the dangerous Pittsburgh
team, Dartmouth will have it's first
contest at Hanover with the Massa-
chusetts Aggies, while Browne will
meet Norwich at Providence. OF the
New England teams Amhurst and
Bowdoin play at Amherst, Holy Cross
and Colby open at Worcester, Tufts
starts at Medford wrth New Hamp-
, shire State and Williams takes on
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute at
Williamstown.
Three of the big eastern univer-
stiles are erecting new stadiums for
football and other purposes and two
Of these will be ready for the final
championship contests of the season.
These are the great bowl" at New
Haven, unique among structures erect
ed in this country for college ath-
letics and which will accommodate
about 10000 and will be ready for the
Harvard-Yale game on November "a;
and the Palmer Memorial stadium at
Princeton, which will be used for the
first time when Yale meets the Tigers
on November II, Cornell has started
work on a new football and track
field on the campus, but this will not
be ready for the eleven this year, al
though it is now expected that all of
the gridiron contests of 1915 will be
played there and that the seating ca
pacity will be 10000, which will be
ample for many years to come.
For the first time. In number of
years the coaches have been able to
get down to the work of developing
their candidates and planning out
their formations for the season at the
lvery start. There have been very few
changes in the rules this year to re-
lquire lot of experimenting through
out the season. These changes have
been mostly in Interpretation of the
rules and such direct alterations as
have been made will in no way af-
feet the general scheme of football as
it has been gradually evolved. Brief
ly the changes are as follows:
No one will be allowed to walk up
and down the side lines
A free kick hitting the goal post
and bounding back into the field of
play becomes automatically touch
back.
The field judge is restored, at the
option of the opposing teams.
The words running into the full
back after the kick" have been chang
!