The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
BIG SEASON FOR
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Rules Committee Schedules
5000 Games For 1915.
CARLISLE TO OPEN SEASON.
Indians Clash With Albright Sept. Is.
lntersectional Games Start First
Saturday In Demonstrating EleV-
ems Begin Campaign In November.

More than Il thousand colleges and .
schools throughout the country are pre- !
pairing for the greatest gridiron cam !
paign in the history of the sport. With /
in the next few weeks the first games .
of the season viii be played, and each .
succeeding Saturday will witness a /
steadily increasing schedule of contests |
until the top OF the sport is reached /
late in November and the play declines /
to the final matches of early December !
Not since the early seventies, when |
American intercollegiate football was
born, has there been an autumn which |
held forth rs much in the way of foot |
bah activity as that of 1915. Accord !
ing to the official schedule prepared
by the rules committee, close to 5000
games viii be played by the leading
colleges and school teams of the Unit
ed States between Sept. IS and Dec. 4.
The honor of opening the season falls
to four Pennsylvania institutions, for
the Carlisle Indians play Albright and
BuckneI opposes bloomsbury Normal
school in the first games of the au-
tumn ON Saturday, Sept. Is. One week
later the activity win be spread to
scores of line marked fields, for more
than 100 play the opening games of
their schedules.
Cornell will not begin play until the
final days OF the month, but Saturday,
Oct ., 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 win play Rutgers, whose
team has been looking forward to this
match for almost q year. The day will
also mark the debut of United States
Military and Naval academy elevens
against Holy Cross and Georgetown re-
spectiyely.
Michigan, like Cornell, has selected a
midweeE day for her opening game,
but will join the Saturday brigade on
Oct. 8, when a number of promising
contests are scheduled. While the
baseball fans are anXously awaiting
the outcome OF the worlds series, foot
bah followers will watch with inter
est the results of such games as Cornell
Isle, Princeton versus Syracuse, Navy
versus Pittsburgh, Penn State versus
Pennsylvania, Minnesota versus Iowa,
Notre Dame versus Haskell and Yale
versus Lehigh.
4 week later the leading games of
Saturday viii bring together Colgate
and West Point, Pennsylvania and
Navy. Chicago and Indiana, Pittsburgh
and Carlisle Georgetown and North
Carolina and Princeton and Lafayette.
The leading games OF Oct. % include
Harvard versus Cornell, Princeton
versus Dartmouth, Army versus
Georgetown, Navy versus Virginia
Poly, Michigan versus Michigan Ag-
gies, Pennsylvania versus Pittsburgh
and Yale versus Washington and JEFF
ferson.
The final Saturday of October is
marked by several interscctional
games. Michigan plays Syracuse, Cor
nell faces Virginia Poly, and the Michi-
gan Aggies oppose the eleven of the
Oregon Agricultural college. Other
contests In the various sections of the
country bring together Harvard and
Penn State, Chicago and Wisconsin,
Yale and Colgate, Princeton and Will
liamS and Dartmouth versus Amherst.
The opening OF November finds the
leading elevcns gyrating together, with
the result that ON Saturday, Nov. 6,
Pennsylvania and Dartmouth play az
Boston, Princeton and Harvard clash
mt Princeton, Notre Dame travels to
West Point to play the Army, Cornell
goes west to play Michigan, and Yale
has Brown as an opponent.
Yale and Princeton will be the head
liners in the east on Nov. 10, whilC
Minnesota and Chicago viii play the
leading roles In the middle west. 9th
or important contests on the same day
include Brown at Harvard and Mich
gan at Pennsylvania.
The final games of many college
eleyens will be played on Saturday
Nov. 20. The annual contest between
Harvard and Yale at Cambridge stands
pre-eminent on the days card, bu
there are other games of importance
scheduled, including Colgate at George
town, Dartmouth at Syracuse and Hi
nois at Chicago.
Thanksgiving day will see Pennsyl
vania and Cornell playing at Philadel
phia, Carlisle Indians at Brown, syria
cuse tackling the University of Mon
tana at Missoula, Notre Dame playing
Texas at Austin and Penn State a
Pittsburgh.
The season will close in the east o.
Saturday, Nov. 81, with the annua
Army-Navy game, played in New Yor
This year, but will continue for anothe
week in the south and west On De-
l Syracuse will also wind up n seaso
Of many trips with a game against tn
Oregon Aggies at Portland, Ore o
Saturday, Dec. 4, the University c
Southern California will meet Viii
tier at Los Angeles, and with this COZ
test ended football taps will be sount