The Cordova daily times., 1916-08-22
FOOTBALL GAMES SCHEDULEDFOR
 SEASON

will be under way before another three
 weeks have been checked from tn, calendar. Almost every section of the country will be represented in these gridiron clashes and indications poin to unusual interest and enthusiasm fl the great American college game this fall. Close to three months play vii
 be witnessed this season, as the open ing game is scheduled for September lB, and the closing contests will no be staged until December g.
 Each year the number of games in creases and the coming season finds 1 more games scheduled than was the case twelve months ago. According tc the list prepared in connection with the revised rules of play, the teams of the leading colleges and universities of the country will figure In more than thirteen hundred contests, while the preparatory and high school elev ems will compete in more than twice that number, bringing the total close to the five thousand mark.
 A comparison of the schedules for the coming season and those of the past few years shows a number of ! changes. The Carlisle Indian school eleven, which has made football his tory in the past does not appear among the leading competitors for gridiron honors, and Columbia uni versity is again found listed for games with colleges which are close to the first flight of eastern football insti- tutions.
 There Is an unusual number of con tests scheduled for Fridays, although the Saturday games are still over whelmingly in the majority Although the so-called championship games are not scheduled until the closing weeks of November, the height of the sea- son. so far as the number of games is concerned, will be reached late in October, and the following two Satur- days when the principal college con tests each day alone pass the hundred mark. The climax comes with the playing of the Harvard Yale game at New Haven, and the Army-Navv game at New York on the same day, Novem- Der 25. On the basis of past attend ance and receipts these two games should attract close to 150,000 spec tators while the gate receipts will pro- bably exceed $2OO,O0O.
 Among the more important inter- sectional games are those between Syracuse and Ohio, Army vs. Wash ington and Lee, Yale and Virginia, Harvard vs. North Carolina, Illinois and Colgate, Minnesota and North Da- kota, Virginia Poly vs Yale. George town and Dartmouth, Michigan meet ing with Syracuse, Pennsylvania and Cornell. during the season; Harvard and Virginia, NOtre Dame vs. Army, Missouri vs. Texas, Dartmouth vs. West Virginia, Bucknell and Washing ton and Lee. Efforts are still being made to bring d Pacific Coast univer- sity eleven east for one or two big games and there will be the usual in tersectional contests between the lead ing school teams of the middle west and the east immediately following the close of the regular interscholastic schedules.
 The University of California will be the first on the gridiron this fall, the Berkeley team getting into action on Saturday, September 16. Seven days later Dartmouth, Harvard and George  town will be among the larger colleges to start active football competition. On the last Saturday of September Cornell, Princeton, Syracuse, Army, Navy, Pennsylvania Yale. Tennessee, Texas. Virginia and few of the mid dle western colleges will play their opening games. Michigan starts her gridiron campaign on the following Wednesday, and on Saturday, october ', Chicago, Illinois, Minnesota, Mis- souri, Wisconsin and other members of the conference follow suit.
 Yale will depart from the conven tional on Friday, October 20. by play ing Virginia Poly at New Haven, but this Is an exceptional move, made ne cessary by the fact that the Ynle bowl will be used on Saturday for the stag ing of a special pageant. The last Saturday of October will witness the | initial meetings of the elevens Of the larger universities of both the east and west, and the results of these