Evening star., 1915-12-26
COLLEGES FORMING
GR|D|RON ALLIANCES
New Institutions to Be Met by
Many of the Big Univer-
sity EIevens.
LOCAL SCHOOLS SEEKING
TO PLAY LARGER TEAMS
Georgetown Has Booked Contests
With Dartmouth and Holy Cross.
Other Schedules.
BY n. C. BYRD.

MdHy SoliSSC io'ol DdH lSdihS
are seeking new alliances for the
season of 1916. Institutions in
the north and middle west are
reaching out for intersectional
games and attempting to create
new rivalries, while those in the
south Atlantic and southern sec
tions are searching for wider
fields in which to display their
prowess.
The big contests in which Penn
and Cornell, Harvard and Yale,
Harvard and Princeton, Prince
ton and Yale, Pittsburgh and
Washington and Jefferson, Le-
high and Lafayette, Pittsburgh
and Penn State meet are fixtures
and will again take place. These
contests have been played for so
many years that they are looked
upon as absolutely certain, no
matter what other changes may
occur in the schedules. This year,
though, there is hardly one of
these schools that is not making,
or has not made, great efforts to
create new rivals and place on its
list of dates new teams. George
town, University of Florida,
Georgia, Virginia, Washington
and Lee, Catholic University,
Hopkins and Maryland Agri-
cultural College are laying plans
to play harder and more ambitious
games in 1916. The University
of Indiana is casting far and wide
for intersectional battles.
Harvard Drops Penn State.
Announcement already has been sent
out from Cambridge that Pennsylvania
State College will not be played by
Harvard next fall. An attempt is be-
ing made to obtain some team to dll
the date left vacant by the dropping of
State. and a report came from Harvard
that an offer for a game had been sent
to the University of Indiana. The
Crimson also has offered date to an
other western eleven. Penn State has
been on Harvard's schedule for some
time and the discontinuanca of the con-
test by the latter probably is due to
the same reason that Dartmouth was
dropped-it became SO difficult that the
Crimson was surfeited with too many
hard conflicts outside those with Yale
and Princeton.
Little has been given out at Prince
ton about the schedule for next year
and it really is difficult to foretell what
will be its arrangement with regard to
its contests before meeting Yale and
Harvard. The dropping of George
town. and one or two other probable
not anxious to meet SO many strong
teams at the beginning of their
schedule. Especially is this true when
it is considered thatrd dates have been
known that Johns Hopkins apd the
Maryland Agricultural College both re-
ceived kilograms asking them to play
at Princeton.
Cornell is anxious for the same kind
Of a schedule as that played last fall
one which will allow its team to go
right up to the first big game-that
with Harvard-without having been
defea ted. The Ithacans main contests
will be the same as last fall-Michi-
gan, Harvard and Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh Makes Shifts.
University of Pittsburgh. has made
two important changes in its list of
contests, although it will again play
what have been its big games in for
mer years, those with Penn State and
and Jefferson. One of the
main shifts has been the successful at
Tempt to get the University of Penn
sylvania to play at Pittsburgh and the
1ther has been two-year agreement
plays at Syracuse in 1916 and Syracuse
goes to Pittsburgh in 1917. a state
nent comes from Pittsburgh that it is
he desire to make the game with Syra-
,use permanent feature each year.
Besides its games with the three other
Dig teams in Pennsylvania, the one
with Syracuse will give another con-
.est with big gate receipts.
Rumor has it that Yale will take on
me or two teams in place of a couple
# those which appeared in the bowl"
asst October. One of the .elevens which
nay not be met Is Lehigh. the senti-
nent at New Haven being strong
lgainst playing the South Bethlehem
Another big contest which will pass
8 that in which Brown University has
'een facing the Carlisle Indians every
day at Providence. The
indians place on the Brunonians'
chedule has been taken by Colgate,
much more powerful combination OF
he last two seasons.
Passing of the Indians.
The absence of the Carlisle Indians
rom. several schedules they have
raced for many years will mark 1916.
he passing of the Indians from the
ridiron will not only be regretted by
he general public, but by many OF
hose elevens whose financial Golfers
hey have helped to fill by drawing
ig crowds.
Virginia cannot hope to make much
( change in its schedule. although
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