Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25
FOUR STATE ELEvENS
GAIN DISTINCTION OF
USHERING IN SEASON
Carlisle VS.. Albright and Buck
nell VS.. Bloomsbury Are Con-
tests Booked for Saturday,
September 18
5000 GAMES SCHEDULED

with the Issuing Of mobilization orders
for the moleskin brigades OF more than a
thousand colleges and schools throughout
the country. football leaders 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
will witness a steadily increasing sched-
ule 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 the 7Os, when American in
tercollegiate football was born, has there
been an autumn which held forth as much
in the way of gridlron activity as that
Of 1915 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 September IS and
December 4.
During this period of trhe 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 Tor
every day in the week except Sunday,
and IL evenly divided between Monday
and Saturday would average close to
40 per day.
The honor of opening the season falls
to four Pennsylvania institutions, for the
Carlisle Indians play Albright and Buck
nell meets bloomsbury Normal School in
a.. al Of T.
urday, September is. One week later the
| activity will spread to scores of lime
| marked fields, for more than 100 teams
| will play the opening games OF their
schedules, including Harvard, Princeton,
| Yale, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Tennes-
see, Virginia, Vanderbilt. Oberlin. Colo
RADIO, Oregon and many other Eastern,
Western and Southern elevens.
Cornell will not begin play until the final
| days of the month, but Saturday, Octo-
! ber 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. Princeton
| will meet Rutgers, whose team has 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 lllnOlS, Minnesota, WIS.,
| consin, Texas, Nebraska, Mississippi and
| Missouri.
Michigan. like Cornell, has selected g
midweek day for her opening game, bu
will join the Saturday brigade on Oc.
tober .. when a 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 sucl
games as Cornell VS.. Williams, Harvard
VS.. Carlisle, Princeton VS.. Syracuse, Nav!
VS.. Pittsburgh, Penn State VS.. Pennsyl
vania, Minnesota VS.. Iowa, Notre DAM
VS.. Haskell and Yale VS.. Lehigh.
A week later the leading games of Sat
urday will bring together Colgate an,
West Point, Pennsylvania and Navy, Chi
cago and Indiana, Pittsburgh and Carlisle
Georgetown and North Carolina, HOwar,
and Virginia, Princeton and Lafayette
Minnesota and South Dakota, Alabami
and Mississippi and Wisconsin and Pur
due. The leading games of October 20 in
clude Harvard VS.. Cornell, Princeton VS.
Dartmouth, Army VS.. Georgetown, Nav,
VS.. Virginia Poly, Chicago VS.. Purdue
Michigan VS.. Michigan Aggies, Pennsyl
vania VS.. Pittsburgh. Texas VS.. Oklaho
ma, Yale VS.. Washington and Jefferson
Wisconsin VS.. Ohio State, Georgia VS.. Vir
ginia and Minnesota VS.. Iowa.