El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-22
1900 FOOTBALL
CANES ARRANGED.
Disappearance of Carlisle
and Rise'of Columbia Uni
versity to Be Features.

New York. Aug. 1.-Two prominent
features in the football season of 1916
Will be the disappearance OF the Carl
isle Indians as contenders for premier
honors. and the arising of a new figure.
or rather the resuscitation Of an old
one, in Columbia university, which
will meet first rank eastern elevens-
The leading colleges and universities
will play more than 1900 games. while
schools of preparatory grade will hold
twice that number of contests
Although the so-called championship
games are not scheduled until the
closing weeks of November. the height
of the season. so far as the NUMBER
of games is concerned. will be reached
late in October. and there are two
Saturdays when the college contests
each day pass the hundred mark The
climax comes with the playing Of the
Harvard Yale game at New Haven ana
the Army Navy game at New York on
the same day-NOvember %. On the
basis of past attendance. and receipts
these two games should attract close
10 10O. 900 spectators. while the gate
receipts may exceed 100000
Among the more important inter-
sectional games are those between
Syracuse and Ohio. Army and Wash
ington and Lee. Yale and Virginia,
Harvard and North Carolina. Illinois
and Colgate, Minnesota and North Da-
kotata, Virginia Poly and Yale, George
town and Dartmouth, Michigan and
Syracuse. Harvard and Virginia. Notre
Dame and Army, Missouri and Texas
Dartmouth ana West Virginia. Buck
nell and Washington and Lee Efforts
are still being made 70 bring a Pacific
coast university eleven east for one
or two big games
Berkeley First on Field.
The University of California will be
the first on the gridiron this fall. the
Berkeley team getting into action on
SATURDAY.. Sept. Is Seven DAYS later
Dartmouth Harvard and Georgetown
will be among the larger colleges to
start active football competition On
the last aSturday OF September Cor
nell Princeton. Syracuse. Army. Navy.
Virginia, and a few of the Middle
Western colleges viii play their open
ing games Michigan starts her grid
iron campaign on the following We'd
nesday. and on Saturday, Oct :. Chi
cago Illinois: Minnesota. Missouri.
Wisconsin. and other members of the
conference follow suit
An exceptional situation Will con-
front football fans of the east on Sat
urday. November %. for the Harvard
Haven. while the annual Army-Navy
game y i'll be staged at New York In
the middle west Chicago meets Mime
sofa. and Wisconsin plays Illinois.
Pennsylvania viii depart from her
usual custom of resting previous TO
the Thanksgiving day game with Cor
nell and Will meet West Virginia
Wesleyan
The Corneu-Pennsylvan contest
viii be the feature OF Thanksgiving
day with the Brown-Colgate and the
Pittsburg- Penn State games a close
second in the east In the south
Vanderbilt VS. University OF the South,
Kentucky vs. Tennessee. Ala bama vs.
Georgia. and Virginia vs. North Coro-
lima viii all 5e star contests In the
west. Nebraska vs.. Notre Dame. Cali
fornis VS.. Washington. : California vs.
Oregon Aggies, and several other con-
tests between state universities and
agricultural schools Will be among the
more prominent games The season
will end on Saturday. December 9,
with TWO International games in
which Georgetown will play Tulane at
New Orleans and Southern California
viii face Arizona al Tucson