The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-21
CLOSE TO 5000 GAMES WILL. he
PLAYED ny LEADING IN
STIrUTIoEs.
This Autumn Holds Forth More Than
Any Other Since intercollegiate
Football Was Born

NEW YORK, August 2O.-With the
issuing or mobilization orders for the
tmoleskin brigades OF more than a thous-
and colleges and schools throughout the
'country. football leaders are preparing
for the greatest gridiron campaien in
the history OF the sport. Within the
next few weeks the initial games OF the
season will be played and each succeed
Ing Saturday witness steadily in
creasing schedule OF contests until the
crest OF the sport Is reached late In No
Nember and the play declines to the final
matches OF early December.
Not since the days Of the seventies
when American INTERCOLLEGIATE. football
was born. has there been an autumn
which held forth as much In the way Of
gridiron activity as that Of 1913. Ac-
cording TO the official schedule = repaired
by the Rules committee. close to 5000
games will be played by leading calIere
and school teams Of the United states
between September rs and December T.
During this period Of trifle less thaa
eighty days, there will be more than on.
thousand games between the eleyens OF
the principal unlversities and colleges
and twice that many contests among the
leading high school and pre- paratory
academies. Games are scheduled for
every day IN the week except Sunday
and n evenly divided between Monday
and Saturday would average close to
forty per day.
Psnnsylvanians opsn Season.
The honor Of opening the season falls
60 four Pennsylvania Institutions for
the Carlisle Indians play Alhrlgh. and
Bucknell meets bloomsbury Normal
school In the initial games or the aut-
urnn on SATURDAY, September Is one
week later the activity will spread TO
scores Of lime-markcd fields Tor more
than one hundred teams play the rpon-
Of
Harvard. Princeton. Yale. Dartmouth.
Pennsy lvanian Tennessee. virginia Van
derbilt. Obcrlin Colorado oregon ana
many other eastern. western and south
ern elevens.
Cornell Will not hegin play until the
mai days n the month. but Saturday.
Dctober 2 viii see the leading univera-
ity and college teams or an sections.
lined up On contests. some 81 which can
hardly be ciaasrd as preliminary gtmes.
Princeton will meet Rutgers whose team
has been looking forward Co this match
Tor almost year The day viii also
mark the debut ~ the United states
Military and naval Academy eIavens
against Holy Gross and Gc0rrctotu. ra-
HpcCtlvely. SUU other teams fn take flr
FIELD for the initial games include Ii-
nois. Minnesota. Wisconsin. Ts.aa. Sc
braska. Mississippi and Missouri
Michigan. Iikr Cornell hHa selected o.
midwcrk dnv Tor her opening Game but
will Join the Saturday brIrfd. 100 Drf1.
Der ? WHOM number OFF promising con.
teFt1 are scheduled MH.I. fHH hIH. hHiI
fans are anNiouaIy awaiting the result
uf such games ae Cornell ta williams.
Harvard vs Carlisle. Princeton Sol ssrH.
cuer. Navy FH Pittsburgh. Penn Efrfe
w PeuueFlFani1. NInr.aufH ta lows.
Ngtrr. Dame va Ua.E.u aHI yale .e
othcr Mig Games.
M''h Iti'r i'' I.HuI games .I
Saturday VIII bring together COLGATE
and West Point. rrruerIsrrIa and Navy
Chicago HrH Indiana. TIff.hurrH ana
carlisle. t.HrErf.uu Uud N.rtN Carroll.
nH. iing ord Hnd virginia. rrirtHu and
IHfnF etc. NInUUrnfu and South fI. E.Hf.
AInhnUH AVID Mi.HIaHiruI and Wisconsin
ana Purdue The lUHHInr gaines uI tI..
tnrfr % Include. Harvard Ea Cornell.
Princeton Fs Dartmouth. Army VI
geDrENf."n Navy EH NIrUIrfH Poly.
ChlcaaH Purdue. NIrH.rar vi Mich.
lran N.HIfe. Penn rIrrrIr tr fTffa-
WafrirEIun end Ieff.I.un. wisconsin
W. phI. State. GHUrr .l.a virginia and
MlnuDanfH sH iowa
Tho final Saturday ~ October Ia mark.
"a b. HeF raI iuf0ra0rfIrnHI rrura. Mich.
lgan meets Syracuse. Cornell faces
NirEinla Poly and the Michigan AFrIas
play The Eleven nf The NrnrHn nrrIrfIIa
tural College Other contests Ir fhf var.
iuuF sections OF the country bring Co..
Gefhcr Harvard and Penn. State. Cfi-
cago and Wisconsin,. Vanderbilt and
Tcnucsaee. yale and COLGATE. Illinois
and Minnesota. Princeton md Williams
III opening Of November finds the