Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
INTEESECTlONAL
FOOTBALL GAMES
TO FEATURE 1916
Almost Every Section of the Country
win Be Represented in Grid
Contests During Season.
FRIDAY GAMES GROW IN FAVOR
First Big Tits Take Place on Sept Is
and Important Schedules VIII
Run Late as Dec. 8.


Almost every section of the country
will be represented in these gridiron
clashes and indications point TO I'M
usual interest and enthusiasm in the
great American college game this fall.
Close to three months play will be
witnessed this season, as the opening
game is scheduled for Sept 16, and the
closing contests will not be staged I'M
til Dec. 3.
Each year the number of games in
cTeases and the coming season finds
more games scheduled than was the
case IL months ago. According to 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
1,S00 contests, while the preparatory
and high school elevens will compete
in more than twice that number,
bringing the total close to the 5000
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 university is
again found listed for games with col
Ieges which are close to the first flight
Of eastern football institutions.
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-caIled championship games are
not scheduled until the closing weeks
of November, the height OF the season,
so.far as the number OF games is con-
cerned. will be reached late in October
and the-following two Saturdays when
the~principaI college contests each day
alone pass the hundred mark The
climax comes with the playing of the
Harvard Yale game at New Haven and
the Army-Navy game at New York on
the same day-NOy. %. On the basis of
past attendance and receipts these two
games should attract close TO 10000
spectators while the gate receipts will
probably exceed 100000.
IntersectionaI Games.
Among the more important inter
sectional games are those between
Syracuse and Ohio, Army VS. Washing
ton and Lee, Yale and Virginia, Har-
ward VS. North Carolina Illinois and
Colgate Minnesota and North Dakota,
Virginia Poly vs.. Yale, Georgetown and
Dartmouth, Michigan meeting with
Syracuse, Pennsylvania and Cornell,
during the season: Harvard and Vir-
ginia, Notre Dame VS.. Army, Missouri
VS.. Texas, Dartmouth VS.. West Vir-
GINA, Bucknedl and Washington and
Lee. Efforts are still being made to
bring a Pacific coast university eleven
east for one or two big games and
there will be the usual International
contests between the leading school
teams of the middle west and the east
Immediately following the close of the
regular nterscholastic schedules.
The University of California will be
the first on the gridirOn4 this fall, the
Berkeley team getting into action on
Saturday, Sept 16. Seven days later
Dartmouth, Harvard and Georgetown
Will be among the larger colleges to
start active football competition. On
the last Saturday Of September Cor
nell, Princeton, Syracuse, Army, Navy,
Pennsylvania, Yale, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia and a few Of the middle west
ern colleges viii play their opening
games. Michigan starts her gridiron
campaign on the following Wednes-
day and on Saturday, Oct. z, Chicago,
Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Wiscon-
sin and other members of the Confer
ence, follow suit,
Yale 10 Play on Friday.
Yale will depart from the conven-
tfonal on Friday, Oct 20, by playing
Virginia Poly at New Haven. but this
is an exceptional move. made neces-
sary by the fact that the Yale 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 eIevens of the
larger universities OF both the east
and west and the results of these games
viii have a direct bearing on the final
outcome Of the championship claims
OF the contending teams. Cornell will
line up against Harvard. Dartmouth
will tackle Princeton, Michigan will
have Syracuse as an opponent, Penn
sylyania and Pittsburgh clash, North
and South Dakota meet in their annual
game. Tennessee plays the University
Of Florida, Vanderbilt and Virginia
come together and Yale viii seek to
defeat Washington and Jefferson.
The opening Saturday Of November
Will witness the following important
games: Harvard VS.. Virginia, Dart
mouth VS. Syracuse, Army VS.. NOtre
Dame Minnesota VS.. Illinois, Missouri
VS.. Texas, California VS.. Southern Cali |
foTnia, Yale Us. Colgate. Pennsylvania
- Lafayette, Washington VS.. Oregon,
Chicago VS.. Purdue, and Georgetown
VS.. Louisville
4 week later Harvard and Princeton, |
Cornell and Michigan and Pennsylva-
MIA and Dartmouth will furnish the
feature games Of the east while Ten
nessee and Vanderbilt Virginia and
South Carolina, Washington and Lee
VS. BuckneI are dividing Eonors in
the south Few. ii any, of the Confer I
ence college teams will play but the
following Saturday will find them all /
battling for football glory
On that day Wisconsin and Mime /
sofa, Chicago and Illinois, will be the .
big contests in the middle west. Yale /
vs.. Princeton, Harvard vs. Brown and /
Syracuse and Colgate the eastern fea- |
ture games. Pennsylvania will jour
ney TO Ann Arbor for her annual meet /