Evening star., 1916-09-17
BY II. G. BYRD.

The foot ball season Is scheduled to
stitutions will play their nrst games,
and two or three contests are to take
place in tho south. None Of the listed
oombats is Important. each serving -
practice affairs for the bigger Of the
teams engaged. In this section George
town goes to Richmond for . meeting
with Randolph Macon Collage Ran
dolph-Macon Academy takes . trip to
Hampden-sidney to play tho college Of
that name, and tho Maryland State Col
lege plays the Baltimore Polytechnic
Institute at College Park.
Bucknell. Dartmouth. Harvard, Holy
Cross, University Of Maine, Penn State,
Washington and Jefferson and Rutgers
are the most prominent Of the institu-
that arc to play games. Not ono Of the
eight colleges will be against . team
strong enough to do anything more
than give 1t good workout and fur
nish the coaches with q chance to got Q
good limo on their men. Harvard has
would seem to make It only Q question
Of how much tho Crimson will win by,
New Hampshire State ought not to fur
nish very stin opposition for Dart
mouth mo a1.sad and Judging By the stren1th o,
out in recent years It should not nnd
a great deal Of dificulty in disposine
Of Albright. Washington and Jefferson
is very likely to take the long end OF
1hs mss il ses Bethany h By smsss
Agricultural colles. probably viii
prove easy for Holy Cross. and cor
tainly the fine teams Penn State has
been turning out in recent years are
far superior to anything that has rep
resented the Susquehanna University.
There is much in the coming foo,
ball season OF interest. Many games
have been scheduled between teams
that have not met in recent years. ant
interest in the established battles
looked forward to as the classics o1
each season. The main feature of the
season. as far as conjecture as to the
probable showings Of many big teams
is concerned. are the changes made ir
have instituted new arrangements fol
handling their elevens, and some have
attempted to sweep away every yes.
tige of their old systems and have
one man their whole fortunes on the
gridiron.
OF particular interest in this section
are the games in which southern
teams are to meet northern. There
are more of these contests this yea,
than ever and many Of them. may be
of much greater importance In the
final ranking of the elevens than now
is generally expected. Georgetown
goes to Haverhill, Mass, for game
few battles of the year harder fought
or better played: These institutions
nave prospects of developing brilliant
combination play and spectacular in
divtdual performers. 1t should be one
of the best contests Of the year from
strictly foot ball standpoint. Wash
ington and Lee goes to West Point fol
battle with the Army. Virginia Is tc
meet Harvard and Yale at Cambridge
and New Haven, North Carolina Uni
versity will play Princeton and Har-
ward on two northern trips. George
town goes against Fordham election
day, and OF great local concern will
be the resumption of relationship be-
tween Georgetown and George Wash.
ington, contracts having been signed
for renewal of the annual Thanks.
giving game. which for years was one
of the biggest gridiOrn scraps in the
south.
will be the most watched of the big
northern universities. Both, after sew
eral disastrous seasons, have changed
their coaching systems and installed ir
supreme charge men in whom they
place every reliance. At Pennsylvania
Bob Folwell has been given absolute
command and at Yale Tad Jones is tc
be the leader. Folwell has developed in
recent years at Washington and JET
ferson teams of exceptional caliber,
teams that have held their own or
many occasions with the best elevens
turned out in the big universities. II
defeated Yale in 1914 and 1915. played
Harvard to a standstill in 1914 and
has attained renown in gridiron PROV
ess, that is the envy of many larger
seats of learning. Jones has been de-
veloping some wonderful schola site
elevens at Exeter for the last three or
four years, and while he has not proved
his worth in collegiate ranks, as has
charge OF the Bulldogs destinies that
he has done well enough to warrant
giving him the direction of affairs
Folwell and Jones are both coachin g
at the schools from which they grad
uated-the greatest desire of any man
who takes UP that kind of work. If a
coach can do anything anywhere he
ought to accomplish 1t at his own col
lege. Washington and Jefferson is tc
he directed by Sol Metzger, another
Pennsylvania man. According to re-
port, Harvard will have to do without
Haughton most of the time until late
in the season. Bill Hollenbach sue
ceeds Larry Bankhart at Syracuse Uni
verSity. Dutch Sommers leaves Villa
nova to take charge at the Michigan Ag-
ricultural College, team which has
been doing remarkably well of late
Practically all the big western insti-
tutions have well established systems
which have been under the direction OF
the same man at each for several years
If present plans do not miscarry
George Washington University viii
have some men out for it's foot bal
| team within the next few days who
have attained big regulations on thu
gridiron and will enhance the prospects
for the development of a strong clever
to represent the Buff and Blue Univer.
sity on its first appearance in foot bal
since 1910, 1t is possible that some OF
the men looked for will not come. but
the chances are that they will be or
hand some time this week.
Best known of those who are to re.
| port are Miller. formerly of Yale, anc
Kerr. who played tackle at Catholic
University last season. Miller was the
regular pivot man at the Dark Blue
university last fall and his play was
much better than the average of the
other members Of the squad. Kerr was
one of the mainstays of the Catholic
University line a year ago, and before