New Britain herald., 1915-08-21
TEAMS
 GETTING READY
In a Few Weeks Time Gridiron
 Warriors Will Have Mobilized

thousand colleges and schools throughout the country, football lead- CTS are preparing for the greatest grid iron campaign in the history of the sport. Within the next few weeks the initial games of the season will be played and each succeeding Saturday witness steadily increasing schedule or contests until the crest of the sport is reached late in November and the play declines to the final matches of early December. Not since the days of the seventies, when American intercollegiate football was born, has there been an autumn which held forth as much in the way of gridiron activity as that of 1915. According to the official schedule pre-
 pared by the rules committee close to
 5000 games will be played by the lead-
 ing college and school teams of the
 United States between September IS
 Ind December A.
 During this period of a trifle less
 than eighty days there will be more than one thousand games between the
 elevens of the principal universities and colleges and twice that many con- tests among the leading high school and preparatory academies. Games are scheduled for every day in the week except Sunday and if evenly di-
 vided between Monday and Saturday
 would average close to forty per day.
 The honor of opening the season
 falls to four Pennsylvania institutions,
 for the Carlisle Indians play Albright
 and Bucknel meets Bloomsburg Nor
 mal school in the initial games of the
 autumn on Saturday, September IS.
 One week later the activity will spread
 to scores of lime-marked fields, for
 more than one hundred teams play the
 opening games of their schedules, in-
 cluding Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
 Virginia Vanderbilt, Oberlin, Colo, rado, Oregon and many other eastern; western and southern elevens.
 Cornell will not begin play until the final days of the month, but Saturday, October ?, will see the leading uni versity and college teams of all sec tions lining up in contests, some of which can hardly be classed as pre- Hmlnary games. Princeton will meet Rutgers, whose team has been looking forward to this match for almost a year. The day will also mark the debut of the United States Military and Naval academy elevens against Holy Cross and Georgetown respec- lively. Still other teams to take the field for the initial games include IT. linois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, 1 Nebraska Mississippi and Missouri. >
 Michigan, like Cornell, has selected i ami d-Week- day for her opening game but will join the Saturday brigade on October when a number of promising contests are scheduled: While the baseball fans are anxiously awaiting i the outcome of the worlds series foot ball followers will watch with interest l the results of such games as Cornell l vs. Williams; Harvard vs. Carlisle; | Princeton vs. Syracuse; Navy, vs. Pitts !! burgh; Penn. State vs. Pennsylvania; | Minnesota vs. Iowa; Notre Dame Vs. 1 Haskell and Yale vs. Lehigh.
 A week later the leading games of | Saturday will bring together Colgate and West Point; Pennsylvania and i Navy; Chicago and Indians; Pitts ! bursh and Carlisle; Georgetown and North Carolina; Howard and Virginia; Princeton and Lafayette; Minnesota and South Dakota; Alabama and Mis- sissippi and Wisconsin and Purdue. The leading games of October 23 in clude: Harvard vs. Cornell; Prince ton vs DartmOuth; Army vs. George town; Navy vs. Virginia Poly: Chicago vs Purdue; Michigan vs. Michigan Az gies; Pennsylvania vs. Pittsburgh; Texas vs. Oklahoma; Yale vs. Wash
 ington and Jefferson; Wisconsin vs.
 Ohio State; Georgia vs. Virginia and
 Minnesota vS. Iowa.
 The final Saturday of October is
 marked by several intersectional
 games. Michigan meets Syracuse;
 Cornell faces Virginia Poly, and the
 Michigan Aggies play the eleven of the Oregon Agricultural college Other contests in the various sections Of the country bring together Harvard and Penn. State; Chicago and Wisconsin,; Vanderbilt and Tennessee; Yale and Colgate; Illinois and Minnesota. Princeton and Williams and Dart mouth VS. Amherst.
 The opening of November finds the leading elevens gyrating together with i the result that on Saturday, NOvem l Der 6, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth
 play at Boston: Princeton and Harvard clash at Princeton; Notre Dame
 travels to West Point to meet the i Army; Cornell goes west to play l Michigan: Chicago meets the Haskell 1 Indians; Virginia and Vanderbilt line 1 up; Yale has Brown as an opponent; ] Oregon will face Washington and Ten
 nessee will play South Carolina.
 Yale and Princeton will be the head 1 liners in tho east on November 13, l while Minnesota and Chicago will play l the leading roles in the middle west. l Other important contests on the same l day include: Washington and Lee and l Cornell; Brown at Harvard; Michigan
 at Pennsylvania Colgate at Syracuse; ! Penn. State at Lafayette; South Da- l l<ota at North Dakota; Amherst at l Williams and Illinois at Wisconsin. The final games of many college l elevens will be played on Saturday, November 20. The annual contest be-
 tween Harvard and Yale at Cambridge