The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-16
Almost Every Section Of the
Country Will Be Represent
ed in the Great Game.


NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Intersec-
tional games stand out as the feature
of the football season Of 1916 which
will be under way before another
three weeks have been checked from
the calendar. Almost every section
of the country will be represented III
these grdiron clashes and indica-
tions point to unusual 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 September 16, and the
closing contests will not be staged
until December 8.
Each year the number of games
increases and the coming season
finds more games scheduled than
was the case twelve months ago Ac-
Cording 10 the list prepared in con-
nection with the revised rules of
play, the teams of the leading col
leges and universities Of the coun-
try will figure in more than thirteen
hundred contests, while the pre-
paratory and high school elevens
will compete in more than twice that
number, bringing the total close to
the five thousand mark,
Schedules Changed.
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 foot
ball institutions.
There is an unusual number OF
contests scheduled efor Fridays al
though the Saturday games are still
overwhelmingly in the majority. Al
though the so-called championship
games are not scheduled until the
closing weeks Of November, the
height OF the season, so far as the
Dakota; Virginia Poly VS.. Yale;
number Of games is concerned, Will
be reached late in October and the
following two Saturdays when the
principal 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-November
rs. On the basis Of past attend
ance and receipts these two games
should attract close to $50, 900 spec
tators while the gate receipts will
probably exceed 100000.
More Important Games.
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
Dakota; Yirgy Poly vs.. Yale;
Georgetown and Dartmouth; Michi-
gan meeting with Syracuse; Penn
sylvania and Cornell; during the
season; Harvard and Virginia. Notre
Dame VS.. Army; Missouri VS.. Texas;
Dartmouth VS.. West Virginia; Buck
nell and Washington and Lee. Eff
forts are still being made to bring
Pacific Coast university eleven East
for one or two big games and there
will be the usual interseCtional CON
tests between the leading school
teams of the middle West and the
East Immediately following the close
of the regular interscholastic sched-
ules.
The University of California will
be the first on the gridirOn this fall
the Berkeley getting into action on
Saturday, September 16. Seven days
later Dartmouth, Harvard and
Georgetown will be among the
larger colleges to start active foot,
ball competition. On the last Sat
urday of September Cornell, Prince
ton. Syracuse, Army, Navy, Pennsyl,
vania, Yale, Tennessee, Texas, Vir-
ginia and a few of the middle west
ern colleges will play their opening
games. Michigan starts Its gridiron