Evening star., 1916-09-24
b|GELEVENSPLAY
GAMES THIS WEEK
Yale, Pennsylvania and Prince
ton Open Gridiron Season
Saturday.
WHELAN AND McQUADE
STAR PLAYERS AT G. U.
Both Said to Have Been Among Best
Scholastic Backs in New
England.
BY n. C. BYRD.

Big foot ball teams. in every section
get under way this week. With next
Saturdays games the season really
starts, practically every eleven of i'm
portance having contests scheduled.
excepting those which have been COM
PEELED to cancel for various reasons.
Princeton. Yale and Pennsylvania are
to meet teams for the first time this
season, and other university and col
lege elevens in the different sections
also begin their battles for gridiron
supremacy then. u
Pennsylvania played a practice con-
test yesterday and one week ago,
both with small organizations, but its
first real test comes this week, when
the West Virginia University makes its
appearance at Franklin Field. West
Virginia was beaten last season by
Penn by only one touchdown, and this
year 1t is extremely well fortified with
good material. PENIS new system may
get a thorough trying out before the
end of this combat.
Princeton opens with a game against
Holy CrosA The Tigers have been
showing good enough form in practice.
according to report. to warrant the
belief that the New Eng1anders will
give no more than q good, hard skir-
mish. in which the weaknesses may be
detected. Holy Cross victory over the
Connecticut Agricultural College yes
terday was not won by a big margin.
Z to 0. certainly not showing that
would entitle 1t to enter the lists
against Princeton on anything like
even terms.
hn 6rG CT hA OF
Yale is to get will be at the hands Of
Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Coached by Walter Steffens. former
University Of Chicago star, the Car
In the last two years. Yale is said to
have splendid material, and the Dark
Blue men, undergraduates and alumni
alike. are locking for a remarkable re-
versal Of the form of the last three
years. Much Of what Yale is expected
to be. and to develop, is expected to
show against Carnegie. In that battle
1t will be seen whether the seed of
real progress has been sown.
Brown University is to play it's first
game with Rhode Island State, and the
latter hardly will prove strong enough
to do more than give this 6runonians a
good. stin practice.
Cornell University was booked to
open at ithaca, with Oberlin as its op-
ponent, but the game was Cancelled
some time ago because of infantile
paralysis. The Ithacans' opening viii
fs to appear for the first game Oc-
tooer z. Syracuse plays Grove City in
the other game between a university
In New York state and a college team.
lafayette is to open at Easton with
. team which is likely to give 1t a
real battle, Fordham being scheduled
70 appear at Easton. Another clash
which probably will develop some real
H<n<S% Hall fe5 s~k
Rutgers meet.
The Navy and the Army begin, the
FORMER meeting Dickinson and the lat
ponent. Neither Of the two service in
stituttons should have much trouble In
landing the long end Of the score.
washinston and Lee and the Virginia
Polytechnic begin their seasons, each
Dhyfng small institutions The Vir-
g1nta Military Institute. North Carolina
Aggies, University of Georgia, Univer-
sty o. virginia: University Of North
gre other institutions in the south
booked to open their schedules. None
OF these IL to meet a team in its class,
Virginia probably being due to go
against the strongest in Davidson.
Notre Dame and Michigan Aggies arc
the most notable of the middle western
colleges having their 1916 inaugural
D0oked Tor this week.
The first local contest Is to take
place, Catholic University being sched-
dled for meeting with the Eastern
College eleven. The Brooklanders are
not anticipating much difficulty in dis
posing Of the Manassas Institution.
Maryland State was scheduled to play
the Pennsylvania Military College at
Chester. but the latter cancelled be-
cause Of the forced postponement of
thtir college opening. due to order of
the Pennsylvnia state board Of health.
with the beginning Of the 1915 sea-
son yesterday practically nothing of
importance developed. All the games
went Just the way they were expected
to go. not one of the big teams falling
to put over victory on its weaker
opponent. Harvard. in which most in
terest ceptered, won by 10 to 0. Prob
ably the Crimson. had 1t cared to de-
velop its team to greater extent
could have scored many more points
The game indicates that Harvard is
doing just what 1t has in previous
years. developing along slow and sound
lines with the idea Of reaching its climax