The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20


 Each year the number of games in- creases and the coming season finds more games scheduled than was the case 12 months ago. According to the list prepared 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, bring ing the total close to the 5000 mark.
 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 history in the past, does not appear among the leading competi- tors for gridiron honors and Columbia university is again found listed for games with colleges which are close to the first flight of eastern football institutions.
 There is an unusual number of contests scheduled for Fridays, although the Sat urday 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, 70 far as the num- 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 inc of o,.6- vo1o Haven and the Army Navy game at New York on the same day-November 25 On the basis of past attendance and receipts these two games should attract close to 10000 spectators, while the gate receipts will probably exceed S200,0O0.
 MANY IMPORTANT GAMES
 Among the more important intersec- and Ohio; Army vs. Washington and Lee; Yale and Virginia; Harvard vs North Carolina; Illinois and Colgate; Minne- sota and North Dakota; Virginia Poly vs. Yale; Georgetown and Dartmouth; Michigan meeting with Syracuse; Penn sylvania and Cornell; during the season. Harvard and Virginia; Notre Dame vs. Army; Missouri vs. Texas; Dartmouth vs. West Virginia; Bucknell and Washington and Lee. Efforts are still being made to bring a Pacific Coast university eleven east for one or two big games and there will be the usual intersectional contests between the leading school teams of the middle west and the east immediately fol- lowing the close of the regular nterscho- lastic schedules.
 The University of California will be the first on the gridiron this, fall, the Berke- ley team getting into action on Satur- day, September 16. Seven days later Dartmouth, Harvard and Georgetown will be among the larger colleges to start active football competitor. On the last Saturday of September Cornell, Prince ton, Syracuse, Army, Navy, Pennsylvania, Yale, Tennessee. Texas, Virginia and few of the middle western colleges will play their opening games. Michigan starts her gridron campaign on the fol- lowing Wednesday and on Saturday, Oc- tober ', Chicago, Illinois, Minnesota, Mis- souri and other members of the confer ence follow suit.
 Yale will depart from the conventional on Friday, October 20, by playing Vir- ginia Poly at New Haven, but this is an exceptional move made necessary by the fact that the Yale bowl will be used on Saturday for the stalking of a special pageant. The last Saturday of October will witness the initial meetings of the elevens of the larger universities of both the east and west and the results of these games will have direct bearing on the final outcome of the champion ship claims of the contending teams Cornell will line up against Harvard; ; Dartmouth will tackle Princeton; Michi- gan will have Syracuse as an opponent; Pennsylvania and Pittsburg clash; North and South Dakota meet in their annual games; Tennessee plays the University of Florida; Vanderbilt and Virginia come together, and Yale will seek to defeat Washington and Jefferson.
 MANDY VS. TENNESSEE The opening Saturday of November will witness the following important games: Harvard vs. Virginia; Dartmouth vs. Syracuse; Army vs Notre Dame; Minnesota vs. Illinois; Missouri vs. i Texas; California vs. Southern Califor- mia; Yale vs Colgate; Pennsylvania vs. lafayette; Washington vs. Oregon; L>.- | cago vs. Purdue, and Georgetown vs. | Louisville. A week later Harvard and l Princeton; Cornell and Michigan and
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