Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-29
ALL SET FOR GRIDIRON PLAY
Not Since the Seventies Have Pros
poets for Brilliant Foot Ball
Year Been So Bright.
TO BE THREE THOUSAND GAMES

NEW YORK. Aug. 2s.--with the issu-
ing OF mobilization orders for the mole
skin brigades OF moro than 1000 colleges
and schools throughout the country, foot
ball leaders are preparing for the great
est gridiron campaign in the history of
the sport "Ithln the next few weeks
the initial games OF the season will be
played and each succeeding Saturday wit
ness a steadily increasing schedule OF
contests until the crest OF the sport is
reached late in November and the play
declines TO the final matches OF early
December.
Not since tho 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 Accord
ing TO the official schedule prepared by
the rules committee close to 5000 games
will be played by the leading college and
school teams OF tho United States be-
tween September Is and December l.
During this period OF a trifle less than
eighty days there will DO more than LOCO
games between the elevens of the prin-
cipal universities and colleges and twice
that many contests among the leading
Cameo are scheduled for every day In
the week except Sunday and II evenly
divided between Monday and Saturday
would average close TO forty por day.
Tho honor of opening the season falls
to four Pennsylvania institutions for the
Carlisle Indians play Albright and Buck
nell meets Bloomsbury Normal school in
the initial games OF the autumn on Sat
80 IL I.NA h..
activity will spread TO scores of lime
marked fields. for moro than 100 teams
play the opening games of their sched-
uleS. including Harvard, Princeton. Yale.
Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Tennessee
Virginia, Vanderbilt, oberiin. Colorado,
oregon and many other eastern, western
and southern elevenA
start in October.
Cornell will not begin play until the
final days OF the month, but Saturday.
October 2 will see the leading university
and college teams of all sections lining
up for contests. some Of which can hardly
be classed as preliminary games. Prince
ton win meet Rutgers, whose team has
been looking forward TO this match for
almost a year. The day will also mark
tho debut OF the United States Military
and Naval Academy evens against Holy
Cross and Georgetown, respectively. sim
other teams TO take the field for the
initial games include Illlnois. Minnesota,
Wisconsin. Texas, Nebraska, Mississippi
and Missouri
Michigan. like Cornell, has selected
midweek day for its opening game. but
will join the Saturday brigade on october
when a number OF promising contests
are scheduled. While the base ball fans
are anxiously awaiting the outcome OF
the worlds series, foot ball followers viii
watch with interest the result OF such
games as Cornell against Williams, Har-
ward against Carlisle. Princeton against
Syracuse. Navy against Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania State against Pennsylvania,
Minnesota against Iowa, Notre Dame
against Haskell and Yale against Lehigh.
n week later the leading games OF Sat
urday will bring together Colgate AMI
West Point, Pennsylvania and Navy. Chi
cago and Indiana. Pittsburgh and Carl sic.
Georgetown and North Carolina. Howard
and Virginia, Princeton and Lafayette,