The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-16
EAST VS.. WEST WILL
MEET ON GRIDIRON
THE COMING FALL
Interseetional Games Stand Out as the
Feature OF Season of 1916 Which Will
Be Under Way Before Another
Three Weeks Are Ended.

games will stand out as the feature o
the football season of 1916, which will b
under way before another three week
have been checked from the calendar
Almost every section of the country vii
be represented in these gridiron clashe
and indications point TO unusual interes
and enthusiasm in the great American
college game this fall. Close TO thre'
months play will be witnessed this sea
son, as the opening game is scheduled fol-
Sept. 10, and the closing contests will not
be staged until Dec o.
Each year the number of games in
creases and the coming season finds more
games scheduled than was the case Il
months ago, According to the list pre-
pared in connection with the revised rules
of play, the teams of the leading colleges
and universities of the country will figure
in more than 1900 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 number of changes. The Car
Isle Indian school eleven, which has made
football history in the past, does not APP
pear among the leading competitors for
! gridiron honors and Columbia university
is again found listed for games with col
! leges which are close to the first fight of
eastern football institutions.
There is an unusual number Of con-
tests scheduled for Fridays, although the
Saturday games are still overwhelmingly
in the majority. Although the so-called
championship games are not scheduled
until the closing weeks of November, the
height OF the season, so far as the mum
Der OF games is concerned, will be reached
late in October and the following two
Saturdays when the principal college con
tests each day alone pass the hundred
mark, The climax comes with the play
ing of the Harvard Yale game at New
Haven and the Army Navy game at New
York on the same day-Nov. Is. 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.
Among the more important intersec-
tional games are those between Syracuse
and Ohio; Army VS.. Washington and Lee
Yale and Virginia; Harvard VS.. North
Carolina Illinois and Colgate; Minnesota
and North Dakota Virginia Poly VS..
Yale; Georgetown and Dartmouth Mich
igan meeting with Syracuse; Pennsylva
MIA and Cornell during the season; Har
ward and Nirginia Notre Dame VS..
Army; Missouri VS.. Texas; Dartmouth !
VS.. West Virginia: Bucknell and Wash |
ington and Lee. Efforts are still being
made to bring a Pacific coast university |
eleven east for one or two big games and 7
there viii be the usual intersectional con-
tests between the leading school teams of
the Middle West and the East immediate
~ following the close of the regular in
terscholastic schedules
The University of California will be
the first on the gridron this fall the
Berkeley team getting into action on
Saturday, Sept, Ia. Seven days later
Harvard and Georgetown will
De among the larger colleges to start ac
tive football competition. On the last
Saturday OF September Cornell, Prince
on, Syracuse, Army, Navy, Pennsylya
lia. Yale. Tennessee, Texas. Virginia and
few of the middle western colleges will
play their opening games. Michigan
starts her gridiron campaign on the fol-
owing Wednesday and on Saturday, Oct. {
:, Chicago. Illinois. Minnesota, Missouri
Wisconsin and other members of the con
erence follow suit.
Yale will depart from the conventional ;
IN Friday, Oct. 20, by playing Virginia
POLY at New Haven but this is an ex- {
optional move. made necessary by the !
act that the Yale bowl win be used on :
ageant The last Saturday Of October ;.
sII witness the initial meetings of the
leyens of the larger universities of both .
he East and West and the results of
hese games will have direct bearing on .
he final outcome of the championship },
laims of the contending teams. Cornell
ill line up against Harvard; Dartmouth
ill tackle Princeton; Michigan will have I
yracuse as an opponent; Pennsylvania
nd Pittsburg clash: North and South
akota meet in their annual game; Ten
essee plays the University of Florida "
anderbilt and Virginia come together, n
nd Yale will seek to defeat Washington Ct
nd jefferson. II
The opening Saturday of November 81
ill witness the following important
,mes: Harvard VS. Virginia, Dartmouth h
5. Syracuse. Army VS.. Notre Dame, Min 5,
asota VS.. Illinois Missouri VS. Texas. Il
alifornia vs.. Southern California, Yale p'
; Colgate, Pennsylvania VS.. Lafayette, b
Tsshington VS.. Oregon, Chicago VS.. Pur- s.
Ie, and Georgetown vs.. Louisville. A h
eek later Harvard and Princeton. Cor Gu
III and Michigan and Pennsylvania and ri
win furnish the feature games as
the East. while Tennessee and Wander I'll
1t. Virginia and South Carolina. Wash if
gton and Lee vs. Bucknell are dividing fie
,nors in the South. Few. if any, of the
college teams will play, but w
e following Saturday will find them all he
ttling for football glory. M
On that day Wisconsin and Minnesota, be
licago and Illinois, viii be the big CON tr
SITS in the Middle West: Yale vs.. Prince tn
n, Harvard VS. Brown. and Syracuse go
d Colgate the eastern feature games.
will journey to Ann Arbor lie
r her annual meeting with Michigan, br
tire Dame will face the Michigan Ag- W.
IS, California and Washington hold ms
nth on the Pacific coast while the big
game of the East will be
lged when Andover and Exeter meet. en-
An exceptional situation viii confront ha
" hall fans of the East on Saturday Ia.