New-York tribune., 1915-09-19
Forty-eight Games on the
Card Next Saturday
Mark Real Opening.
YALE AND PRINCETON
TO GET FIRST TEST
Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and
Other Elevens viii Tune Up
for Harder Struggles.

the tube and threatens 20 burst JUS
bonds. lashed on by the last drive O;
summer. the opening guns have been
fred and A few skrmlshes have taken
place. Several high school teams have
been in action, while the Carlisle lnd-
ians, whose prcroCat.ve 1t has been to
open the season, met 'he Albright
eleven Yesterday. 1ney shared the day
with Buckneu. which piayed Blooms
burch state Normal Schoo.
These engagements, urlmportant as
they were, presage the coming o..
sterner work in this short season OF
gripping sport that thrills the crowds
on next Saturday no fewer than forty
eieh, games will be played between
rinetv-s.x teams. Harvard, lA4c'
Princeton. Pennsylvania, Dartmouth
Rutgers and Syracuse. among many
others. will tune up. on october
practically every big team in the coun-
try will Doe seen IN action, and on inat
date both West Point and AHrapo. s
will begin their schedule. which Will pc
brought 10 q close az the Polo Grounos
on November 27.
Additional impetus Will be lent 20 the
snort this season. for Columbia LNi-
versity Will return 20 the grdlron ~ GER
an absence Of ten years. Only half q
dozen games viii be played by the b.ue
and White. and none OF the so-ca.ed
major teams will be met. But those
half dozen games are hailed by the
student body after all these lean years
as the wedge which viii open the way
10 better. bigger things in coming years.
In Netcaf Columbia has secured man
who VIII DOUBTLESS build up good
team II conditions be favorable. lie
established himself az OOcrln both as
player and coach.
Yale. which has not beaten Harvard
since 1903. builds high its hopes Tor
this season. Captain Alex wilson, VINO
directed the play OF the b4Ic from
quarterback last season. has "a large
SQUAD working hard, and reports from
the training camp paint bright plcI-
ure. Wilson may possio.y play nan
back this year He tips the beam az
1875 pounds OF thereabouts, and ls far
above the average weight for quarter
backs. should the coaches decide 70
install Wilson al ha.fback the attack
of the eleven doubtless Viii be built
around him and Harry lie Gore.
The latter is one Of the most versa
-Ue men playing college football. lie
is indeed q wizard Of the forward pass.
and can throw a football with the
accuracy and speed Of a baseball. lie
has few superiors also IN running with
the ball.
With other men Of the stamp Of Otis
Guernsey, Waite, Conroy Pie Way,
Walden. Hostility, who was on the
third team last year, and the graduate
Of that wonderful freshmen eleven
which moved down Harvard and
Princeton in most convincing style, the
Blue may well look forward 20 pros
porous year
Task ConfrOnts Harvard.
Harvard will have 20 reconstruct is
team. and from all indications HouGh-
ton will have 10 -Houghtou himself
If success is 90 be achieved against
the Blue on November 20 at CamrO dye.
That wonderful Harvard backneld has
been torn 70 bits through graduation.
To be sure there Is the marvellous
Eddie Mahan. and he constitutes for
midable backheld ln himself, nut
Charley Brickley. Bradlee, Fraucke and
Logan are missing. SO, too, are the
mighty Tack Hardwick and JeN Cool
idge, the. ends; Irumbuu, the right
tackle who led Harvard against Yale
last year. and Pennock, an All-Amerca
guard Of three years standing.
great strength 10 does not follow that
i is crippled beyond hope Working
with Mahan IN the backheld VIII be Nc
Kinlock, who played IN the Yale game;
King. also veteran. and Watson, who
broke into the game in the Yale bowl
after Logan was forced 10 retire.
Tommy Enright, the star Of the fresh
ral eleven last year. may be counted
20 90 win h.s place. And there are
.thcr promising men, many OF them, IN
fact.
Harvard men rejoice in the return
OF Gilman, who played tackle two years
ago. and who is regarded as one Of the
greatest linemen who ever wore the
Crimson. Cowen and Lyman also are
back. Cowen would have played last
wear had il not been for scholarship
difficulties, and Lyman, an end OF the
1918 freshman team, IS man OF the
type most sought by Haughton Their
presence will tighten the burden OF the
coaches considerably
Weatherhead. Souoy and Charley
Coolidge are the leading candidates for
ends. and all are good Indeed, Il one
extended the list and included all me
candidates Harvard men might be par
doned for unbounded optimism, despite
the heavy losses.
ilAhH AAbpNHs
Princeton naturally takes its place
next in line. The Tigers are rallying TO
the support Of Speedy" Rush with a
unAnimity Of spirit that can make only
for success With a fair supply Of vet
eran material 10 work with, Rush bids
fair 20 turn out a team capable Of
meeting and beating the best.
The reports from the training camp
carry = note OF optimism, and the sup
portsrs Of the Orange and Black look
forward 20 victory over Yale some
thing which has not been accomplished
since 1911, when Sam White flashed like
meteor across the college skies. Cap
tain Click can be counted on 10 do his
part.
Candidates for the University Of
Pennsylvania team are now working in
two places. What is known as the var
sity squad is still az Port Deposit, Md
training on the grounds Of the Tome
School. The second squad, consisting
Of last years substitutes and members
Of the incoming freshman class, 20 the
number Of about twenty, reported on
Franklin Field last Monday, and have
been working daily under the direction
OF Harold CASTOR, who VIII have charge
Of the scrub and Dick Marshall, the
coach OF the freshmen.
Tho two squads will be united on
Tuesday, when the varsity men come
up from Fort Deposit IL is expected
that good many more men Will report
on Franklin Field next week. and that
when the freshmen come out on
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