The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-16
First 1915 Contest To
Be Played On
Saturday

With the issuing of mobilization or
ders for the moleskin br1gades 0
more than a thousand colleges anf
schools throughout the country, foot
ball leaders are preparing for thf
greatest gridiron campaign In the his
tory of the sport. Within the mex
few DAYS the initial games of the sea
SON will be played and each succeed
ing Saturday witness steadily in
creasing schedule of contests until the
crest of the sports is reached late IL
November and the play declines TIC
the final matches of early December.
Not since the days of the seventies
when American intercollegiate foot
bali was born, has there been an au
tunn which held forth as much in the
way of gridiron activity as that OF
1917. According TO the official sched-
ule prepared by the rules committee
close to 5000 games will be played by
the leading colleges and school teams
Of the United States between Septem-
Der is and December 4.
One Thousand Games.
During this period of 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
contests among the leading high
schools and preparatory academies.
Games are scheduled for every day in
the week except Sunday and If evenly
divided between Monday and Satnr-
day, 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 Buckneil 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 one hundred teams
play the opening games of their sched-
Illes including Harvard. Princeton.
Yole. Dartmouth. Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee, Virginia, Vanderbilt, Oberlin,
Colorado, Oregon and many other
eastern, western and southern elevens.
Cornell will not begin play until
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 classed as pre-
liminary games. Princeton will meet
Rutgers. whose team has been look
ing 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 II
linois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas,
Nebraska, Mississippi and Missouri.
Iowa Meets Gophers.
Michigan, like Cornell. has selected
a mid-week 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 awaiting
the outcome of the worlds series, foot
ball followers will watch with inter
est the result of such games as Cor
nell vs. Williams; Harvard VS.. Car
Isle; Princeton VS.. Syracuse; Navy
vs.. Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania State VS..
Pennsylvania; 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