The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-22
During the Next Three Months
When More Than / 900
Games Will Be Played,

NEW 4Oa1Aef aug. g. $3.50 "
Issuing OF mobilization orders tor
the noleskin brigades Of more than
a thousand colleges and schools
throughout the country, football lead
ers are preparing for the greatest
gridiron 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 incseas-
ing schedule of contests until the
crest OF the sport is reached late IN
November and the play declines TO
the Anal matches of early Decem-
Der.
Not since the days of the seventies
when American Intercollegiate foot
ball 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 Of
fetal schedule prepared by the rules
committee close to 5000 games Will
be played by leading colleges ana
schools teams of the United States
between September Is and Deem
Der A..
More Than 1000 Games
During this period OF a trifie less
than eighty days there will be more
than 1000 games between the elev-
ems of the principal universities and
colleges and twice that many con-
tests 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 Satur-
day. would average close to forty per
day.
/! The honor of opening the season
falls to four Pennsylvania institu-
itions for the Carlisle Indians play
Albright 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: Tor more than one
hundred teams play the opening
games of their schedules including
Harvard, Princeton. Yale. Pennsyl-
vania, Dartmouth, Tennessee, Vir-
ginia, Vanderbilt, Oberlin. Colorado.
Oregon and many; other eastern,
western and southern elevens.
Cornell Begins Late
| Cornell will not begin play until
1.-THE final days of the month, but Sat
urday, Ocotber Q. will see the lead
ing university and college teams OF
all sections lining up in contests,
some of which can hardly be classed
as preliminary games. Princeton
IW1ll meet. Rutgers WnUSc ASShLA Ae7
been looking forward to this match
for almost 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. MINI esota, Wiscon.
sin, Texas, Nebraska, Mississippi and
missouri.
Michigan, like Cornell. has select
ed a mfd-week day for her opening
game, but will join the Saturday
brigade on 0ctober<9 when a nuns
Der of promising contests are sched-
|uled. While the baseball fans are
anxiously awaiting the outcome OF
the worlds series, football followers
Twill watch with interest the result OF
such games as Cornell vs.. Williams;
Harvard VS.. Carlisle; Princeton VS.
Syracuse; Navy vs.. Pittsburg; Penn
State vs.. Pennsylvania; Minnesota
VS.. Iowa; Notre Dame vs.. Haskell
and Yale VS.. Lehigh.
Yale Meets w. and J.
A week later the leading games
] TO Saturday will bring together Col
gate and West Point; Pennsylvania
and Navy; rChicago and Indiana;