Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-16
SHAKE Up IN
SCHEDULES OF BIG ELEvENs
Yale and Harvard Clash at Stadium
Nov. "a, Next Year.

In their preliminary football sched-
ules for 1917 the larger eastern univer-
stiles have made many and important
former years. Brown will particularly
profits, due to the respect its team won
this year
Next fall Brown will meet Harvard
on October 81. Yale two weeks later,
on November 10, and Dartmouth two
weeks later still. This marks a re-
newal of relations between Brown and
Dartmouth, and games have already
been arranged between them for 1917
at Springfield, 1918 at Boston, and 1919
at Providence, where Brown expects to
have new stadium ready.
Indeed November "a will mark the
high point of next years season. Har-
ward and Yale will play in the Stadium
while West Point and Annapolis VIII
fight it out again on the Polo grounds.
This is also the date set for the
Brown Dartmouth game.
Harvard is setting the Brown date
earlier has put an end to the use of
substitutes against the Providenc
team However. to Dartmouth
team However. to accomplish this
Cornell was dropbed from the Harvard
schedule Tufts, which beat Harvard
+ this year, will be met a week later In
1917. Finally, Harvard is trying TO
schedule the Virginia eleven for the
week before the Yale game in order
that she may use her substitutes and
save the regular men f6r Yale.
| Yale, however, will play Princeton
| that week, as was the case this year
| Brown also will be met the Saturday
before Princeton. In order to insure
| q more even development of the team
however, such hard opponents as Le-
high and Washington & Jefferson vii
In all probability be dropped. Amherst
! is the most likely substitute The re-
| port of a game with Pennsylvania Is
| little more than rumor.
| Pennsylvania will play Syracuse, one
of this years strongest teams. on the
date that had been reserved for Yale
And once more the Cornell-Pennsylva-
mia clash will be the Thanksgiving
classic, as Brown and Colgate will no
meet next year.
| In fact Colgate is facing extreme diff
| fculties in finding anyone to play
Brown and Yale are teams that VII
| no doubt drop the Hamilton men from
their schedules. Colgate is by M
means large college and hence II i
rather dangerous than advantageou
i for a large university to- meet 1t
good football teams either early or lat
] in the season.
| Another team that meets hardship
1 in preparing a suitable schedule in tn
| Army At West Point players are use
who have already been on 1mportan
teams; an example of this is ol1phan'
i a. Purdue star of several years stand
ing, who, a tower of strength on tn
Army this year still have two NOR
| years to play there. Few teams wan
to play a rival which employs such a
/ exceptional rule. This year the Arm
tried and failed to secure games wit
Yale. Harvard. Princeton, Pennsylva
MIA, Brown, Colgate. Dartmouth an
Syracuse. :,
| AS for the Western Conference, Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Chica
60 still arrange the schedules to sui
themselves. The victories of Ohio Stat
and Northwestern universities hav
brought them none of the expected ad
vantages Together with Indiana an
Purdue, they will still be contente
, with what games they can get.