Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-23

New York. August 22.-With the is
suing Of mobilization orders for the
moleskin brigades Of more than
thousand colleges and schools through
out the country. football leaders are
preparing Tor the greatest gridirop
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 Of con-
tests 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 lead
ing college and school teams of the
United States between September 10
and December 4.
The honor of opening the season
falls to four Pennsylvania institutions
| for the Carlisle Indians play Albright
and Bucknell meets Bloomsbury Nor
NAL School 10 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
GLIDING Harvard. Princeton, Yale
Dartmouth, Pennsylvania. Tennessee.
Virginia. Vanderbilt, Oberlin, Colora-
do, Oregon and many other eastern
western and southern elevens.
Cornell will not begin play until the
final days Of the month but Saturday,
Oct 2, will see the leading university
and college teams Of all sections lining
up in contests, some OF which can
hardly be classed as preliminary 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 respectively. Still other
teams to take the field for the initial
games include Illinois. Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Texas. Nebraska, Missis-
sippi and Missouri.
| Michigan. like Cornell. has selected
a midweek day for her opening game
but will join the Saturday brigade on
October 9 when a number OF promis-
ing contests are scheduled. While
the baseball fans are anxiously await
ing the outcome Of the Worlds Sc
ries, football followers will watch with
interest the result of such games as
Cornell VS.. Williams: Harvard VS..
Carlisle; Princeton VS.. Syracuse; Navy
VS.. Pittsburgh: Penn. State VS.. Penn
sylvania; Minnesota VS.. Iowa; Notre
Dame vs. Haskell and Yale VS.. Lehigh.
A week later the leading games Of
Saturday will bring together Colgate
and West Point; Pennsylvania and
Navy; Chicago and Indiana; Pitts
burgh 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 Oct. % include:
Dartmouth: Army We. Georgetown;
Navy VS.. Virginia Poly: Chicago VS.
Purdue: Michigan We. Michigan Ag-
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Texas VS.. Oklahoma: Yale vs.. Wash
ington and Jefferson; Wisconsin vs.
Ohio State; Georgia We. Virginia, and
Minnesota VS.. Iowa.
| The final Saturday of October II
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