Arizona republican., 1915-08-21
Not Since College Game Was Invented in Present Form Has Pre- Season Prospect Been So Bright for Huge Enthusiasm
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcEl

NEW YORK, August 2O.-With the issuing of mobilization orders for the moleskin brigades Of more than q thousand colleges and schools throughout the country football lead CTS are preparing for the greatest SriGlron campaign in the history of the sport. Within the next Tew weeks the initial games of the season will be played and each succeeding Sat urday witness a steadily increasing schedule of contests until the crest of the sport is reached late in Nov cmber and the play declines to the final matches of early December.
 Not since the days of the seventies when American intercollegiate foot ball was born, has there been ar autumn which held forth as much in the way of gridiron activity as that of 1915. According to the official schedule prepared by the rules com mittee close to 5000 games will be played by the leading college and school teams of the United States between September IS and December
 During this period of a trifIe less than eighty days there will be more than one thousand games between the elevcns of the principal universities and colleges and twice that many contests among the leading high school and preparatory academies.
 Games are scheduled for every day in the week except Sunday and if evenly divided 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 AL
 bright and Bucknell meets Blooms
 burg Normal 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 their opening
 games of their schedules including Harvard, Princeton, Yale. Dartmouth Pennsylvania, Tennessee. Virginia Vanderbilt, Oberlin, Colorado. Ore gon and many other eastern, western and southern selevens.
 Cornell. will not begin play unti
 the final days of the month but Sat | Urday. October 2, will see the leading university and college teams of all sections lining up in contests some of which can hardly be cIassed as preliminary games. Princeton will meet Rutgers, whose team has beer l looking forward to this match for all most year. The day will also mark the debut of the United States Milf tary and Naval Academy elevens
 against Holy Cross and Georgetown | respectively. Still other teams t. ; take the field for the initial games | include Illinois. Minnesota. Wiscon- sin. Texas, Nebraska, Mississippi and l Missouri.
 | Michigan, like Cornell has selec- ted a midweek day for her opening game but will join the Saturday 1 brigade on October when a number
 of promising contests are scheduled While the baseball fans are anxious | ly awaiting the outcome of the worlds series. football followers will watch with interest the result oi 1 Such games as Cornell vs. Williams | Harvard vs. Carlisle; Princeton vs | Syracuse; Navy vs. Pittsburg; Penn 1 State vs. Pennsylvania; Minnesota
 vs. Ioa: Notre Dame vs. Haskell and 1 Yale vs. Lehigh.
 | A week later the leading games of Saturday will bring together Col