The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-21
FOOTBALL LEADERS
PREPARE FOR GREAT
GR|D|RON CAMPAIGN
Greatest Season i'm History
Is Predicted-Over 5000
Games to Be Played by
1000 Institutions

| New York. August 20-with the is
suing of mobilization orders for the
| inoleskin brigades of more than thou
sand colleges and schools throughout
, tile country football leaders are pre-
| pairing for the greatest gridiron cam
paign 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 foot
Gall was born, has there been an au-
tumn which held forth as much in the
way of gridiron activity as that of
1918. According to the official sched-
ule prepared by the rules COMMITTEES
close to 5000 games will be played by
Leading college and school teams of
the United States between September
10 and December 4.
During this period of a trifle less
Than so days there will be more than
loo0 games between the elevens of
the principal universities and colleges
and twice that many contests among
the leading high school and prepara-
tory academies Games are scheduled
Tor every day in the week except Sun
Jay and If evenly divided between
Monday and Saturday would average
close to 40 per day.
Penn to Open Season
The honor of opening the season
falls to four Pennsylvania institutions
Tor the Carlisle Indians play Albright
and Bucknell meets Bloomsbury Nor
NAL 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 100 teams play the opening
games of their schedules including
Harvard, Princeton, Yale Dartmouth
pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia,
Vanderbilt, Oberlin. Colorado, Oregon
and many other western, eastern and
southern elevens.
Cornell will not begin play until the
final days of the month, but Saturday.
October ?. 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. Prince
ton Will meet Rutgers, whose ,eam 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, Mississippi
and Missouri
Michigan. like Cornell, has selected
n1idweek day for her opening game, but
Will join the Saturday brigade on Oc-
tober when number of promising con-
tests are scheduled. While the baseball
fans are anxiously awaiting the outcome
of the worlds SERIES football followers
will watch with interest the result of
such games as Cornell VS.. Williams;
Harvard. vs. Carlisle. Princefonsvs. SYRIA
cuse; Navy vs. Pittsburg; Penn. State VS.
Pennsylvania; Minnesota VS.. Iowa; Notre
Dame vs.. Haskell, and Yale VS.. Lehigh.
Other Battles
A week later the leading games of
Saturday will bring together Colgate and
West Point; Pennsylvania and Navy;
Chicago and Indiana; Pittsburg and Carl
isle; Georgetown and North Carolina;
Howard and Virginia; Princeton and La
fayette; Minnesota and South Dakota
Alabama and Mississippi and wisconsin
and Purdue. The leading games of Oc-
tober % include: Harvard VS.. Cornell;
Princeton VS.. Dartmouth; Army vs.
Georgetown; Navy vs. Virginia Poly;
Chicago VS.. Purdue; Michigan VS.. Michi-
gan Aggies; Pennsylvania VS.. Pittspurg;
Texas VS.. Oklahoma; Yale VS.. Washington
and Jefferson; Wisconsin VS.. Ohio State;
Georgia VS.. Virginia and Minnesota VS..
Iowa
The final Saturday of October is marked
by several intersectional games. Mchi-
gan meets Syracuse; Cornell faces vir-
GINA Poly, and the Michigan Aggies play
the eleven of the Oregon Agricultural col
lege. Other contests in the various Sec
lions of the country bring together Har-
ward and Penn State; Chicago and Wis
consin; Vanderbilt and Tennessee; Yale
and Colgate Illinois and Minnesota,
Princeton and Williams and Dartmouth
VS.. Amherst.
The opening of November finds the
leading elevens gyrating together with
the result that on Saturday, November
9. Pennsylvania and Dartmouth play at
Boston. Princeton and Harvard clash at
Princeton; Notre Dame travels to West
Point to meet the Army; Cornell goes
west to play Michigan; Chicago meets the
Haskell Indians; Virginia and Vanderbilt
lineup; Yale has Brown as an opponent:
Oregon will face Washington, and Ten
nessee will play South Carolina.