Las Vegas optic., 1914-08-22
FOOTBALL SEASON
soon TO BEGIN
CARLISLE AND ALBRIGHT WILL
OPEN THE FUN ON SEP
TENDER 10

New York, Aug, 22.-Spectre-like
football is beginning to stalk baseball.
Although the prospective pennant win
ners and worlds championship con-
tenders are yet in the making. the
gridiron game is less than month
away. On Saturday, September 10,
the initial call to mimic conflict will
sound and from that day until the
first Saturday in December football
will rise and wane in it's short but
active reign.
Viewed from every angle the ap-
preaching season promises to be a
most remarkable and record breaking
period in the gridiron sport In the
number of games alone the season
will stand out with unusual promi-
nence. Many notable interscholastic
contests are scheduled, including a
game between Harvard and Michi-
gan. Early in the season both Yale
and Princeton universities will dedi-
cate new and mammoth stadiums.
AS has been the case for several
years, the Carlisle Indians and the
Albright college eleven have the
honor of opening the season with the
game set for September 10. Cornell
follows close on their heels with a
game against Ursinus on September
%, and on the succeeding Saturday
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsyl-
vania, Dartmouth and host of other
elevens in various parts of the coun-
try will get into action.
Before the month of October closes
the premier eIevens OF the country
will begin to meet foes worthy of
their best efforts and the season will
be at its height. The schedule for
the middle Saturday Of October is typ
ical of the increasing activity. Car
Isle plays Pittsburgh, Amherst meets
Trinity, Princeton faces Lafayette,
Chicago lines up against the, State
University of Iowa, Oregon will op-
pose Washington State. Wisconsin and
Purdue clash, and the Annapolis
eleven will establish precedent by
journeying to Philadelphia to play the
University of Pennsylvania,
From this date on the big games
follow rapidly. The first Saturday IN
October will witness the biggest IN
tersectional game of the season when
Michigan plays Harvard at Cambridge.
Other sections, however, will not be
lacking in feature contests for Cor
nell 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,
Vanderbilt and Virginia at Nashville,
Yale and Colgate at New Haven, and
Pennsylvania and Swarthmore at Phil
adelphia.
The opening Saturday of November
will find the college elevens of all Sec
tions on edge for the championship
games of the season. Close to $50
games between rival and well matched
teams are scheduled, the principal
feature contests being Harvard VS..
Princeton, Yale VS.. Brown, Wisconsin
VS.. Minnesota, Pennsylvania VS.. Mich
igan, Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi VS.. Tulane. Wesleyan VS.. VIII
liams, Pennsylvania state VS.. Lehigh
and Carlisle VS.. Holy Cross.
The second Saturday of November
will be 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 as
an opponent, Syracuse and Colgat'
clash. Illinois and Chicago meet Il