Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-08
PENN WILL NOT PLAY YALE,
BUT ARMY AND CARLISLE ARE
ON SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR
Games Are Said to Have Been Arranged With
Cadets and Indians but List Will Not Be
Ratified Until Next Tuesday
BY ROBERT W. Maxwell

VALE will not be on Penn's football
L schedule next year. but the chances are
favorable for a game in 1918. The New
Haven college seems anxious to arrange a
gridlron battle with the Red and Blue, and
now that the missionary work has been
done the way Is clear 20 open negotiations,
Yale Is playing an easier schedule next
fall. according to the gossip around Frank
lin Field, and, II successful. win not hesl-
tate In signing up with Pennsylvania. Any
way, II is believed that the Blue wants an
other year under Jones before taclSllng such
hard proposition.
However. some new faces will be seen
on the schedule next year. for II is report
ed that Penn win play the Army early In
october and win make the trip to West
Point. The Army has been seeking a game
for several years and Folwell Is In favor
OF granting II. The scheduling OF this
game virtually means that Michigan win
be played on Franklin Field. II the game
Is played at all, and State will be dropped
The season is expected to open one week
earlier next year, with Susquehanna rs the
initial attraction Then will come Frank
lin and Marshall, and Pennsylvania Military
College probably will be played on the fol-
lowing Wednesday Swarthmore the Army.
Pittsburgh. Lafayette. Dartmouth, Michl-
gan, Carlisle and Cornell also are assured
places on the schedule.
To Be Ratified December IL
This work is said to have been done by
the football committee In It's final meeting
last night, According to a report, the re-
firing members completed most OF the work
and left It for the new committee to Tatify
when II holds it's first session on Decem-
ber ~. A new contract also will be ten
dered Coach Bob Folwell, and II Is be-
lieyed that Il will be for two or more
years
There was some talk OF taking on SYRIA
cuse next fall. but there Is no chance of
Is hard one and Penn would gain nothing
by defeating Holenback's eleven. wash
ington and Lee, Washington and Jefferson
and West Virginia also applied for games,
but were turned down. In dropping Penn
State the members of the committee were
said TO be OF the belief that II was too
hard n game to play early in the season.
especially with Pitt on the schedule.
Carlisle May Be Played
II It possibly can be arranged. Carlisle
will be played on the Saturday before
Thanksgiving In place OF West Virginia
Wesleyan. The Indians resumed football
last season, and while the team was not
up to the usual standard, II marked the
resumption OF gridiron athletics at tho
Government school. and a fairly decent team
is likely TO be turned out In 1917. At any
fates the game VIII prove Hlufe "a - uiaH-
ing card that the SOuthernsrs. as the
Carlisle game once was the feature event
on Penn's schedule,
Dartmouth viii be played In Boston, but |
Michigan will be asked to come to Frank |
lin Field. II is said that the Wolverines |
ara anxious 10 stage the game In Ann Ar
Dor. but the Penn authorities win not stand |
for H. Lafayette also Is said 10 have asked
for a game In Easton, but there is little
likelihood OF the request being granted
Play Pitt on October n
The real big game OF the year will be
played with Pitt on October a. This win
attract unusual interest, as It will be the
irst big league battle TO be fought on
Franklin Field Pitt Is anxious to be a
fixture on Penn's schedule. and