Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-17
MOLESKIN HEROES
BEFORE SPOTLIGHT
Intersection Combats Expected
to Arouse Keen Interest
in Gridiron Sport.
EAST, WEST, SOUTH MIX

New York, Sept. 9.-Foot ball Will
do more this fall for the cause OF
Americanism than ever before. Stu
dents OF American life realize the
Matchmaking value OF east VS.. west
matches in tennis, base ball, golf and
other sports. The gridiron game will
bring persons in touch with their
compatriots in distant parts more ef-
fectively this year than ever before,
for the number OF intersectional
matches will surpass those held in
any previous season.
Among the more important inter-
sectional games will be those be-
tween Syracuse and Ohio, Army and
Washington and Lee. Yale and Nir-
ginia, Harvard and North Carolina,
illinois and Colgate, Minnesota and
North Dakota, Virginia Poly and
Yale, Georgetown and Dartsmouth,
Michigan and Syracuse, Pennsylvania
and Cornell, Harvard and Virginia,
Notre Dame and Army, Missouri and
Texas, Dartsmouth and West Vir-
ginia. Bucknell and Washington and
Lee, Nebraska and Oregon Aggies
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 intcrsectional
contests between the leading school
teams OF the middle west the cast inn
mediately following the close Of the
regular interscholastic schedules
The climax OF the season will come
with the playing Of the Harvard
Yale game at New Haven and the
Army-Navy game at New York on
the same day--November rs. On the
basis OF past attendance and receipts
these two games should attract close
to 10000 spectators, and the gate
receipts will probably exceed $780,
600.
The University Of California will
be the first on the gridiron this fall,
the Berkeley team getting into act
ton on September l6.
The last Saturday OF October will
witness the initial meetings OF the
elevens OF the larger universities OF
pOth ttlS Snst auu WSot, dhu tiiS iS-
suits OF these games will have di-
rect bearing on the final outcome Of
the championship claims OF the con-
tending teams.
Cornell Plays Harvard.
Cornell will line up against Har-
ward; Dartmouth will tackle Prince
ton. Michigan will have Syracuse as
an opponent; Pennsylvania and Pitts
burg clash: North and South Dakota
meet in their annual games; Ten
nessee plays the University Of Flor
ida; Vanderbilt and Virginia come
together and Yale will seek to de-
feat Washington and Jefferson.
The opening Saturday of Novem-
Der will witness the following import
ant games: Harvard VS.. Virginia,
Dartmouth VS.. Syracuse, Army VS..
Notre Dame, Minnesota VS.. Illinois.
Missouri, VS.. Texas, California VS..
Southern California, Yale vs., Colgate.
Pennsylvania VS.. Louisville.
A week later Harvard and Prince
ton, Cornell and Michigan and Penn
sylvania and Dartmouth will furnish
the feature games OF the east. and
Tennessee and Vanderbilt, Virginia
and South Carolina. Washington and
Lee vs.. Bucknell will divide honors
in the south.
Michigan Faces Penn.
On that day Wisconsin and Min
iiesota, Chicago and Illinois will be
the big contestants in the middle
west, Yale vs.. Princeton, Harvard VS..
Brown and Syracuse VS.. Colgate. the
eastern feature games. Pennsylvania
will journey to Ann Arbor for its
annual meeting with Michigan. No,re
Dame will face the Michigan Aggies,
California and Washington will hold
forth on the Pacific coast and the
big scholastic game OF the east will
be staged when Andover and Exeter
meet.
The Cornell Pennsylvania contest
will be the feature OF Thanksgiy-
ing day with the Brown-C Colgate and
the Pittsburgh Penn. State games a
close second in the east. In the
South Vanderbilt VS.. University OF
the South, Kentucky VS.. Tennessee.
Alabama VS.. Georgia and Virginia
VS.. North Carolina will all be star
contests In the west, Nebraska VS..
Notre Dame, California VS.. Washing
ton, South California VS.. Oregon Az.
gies and several other contests be-
tween state universities and agricul-
tural schools will be among the more
prominent games.
The season will end on Saturday,
December 9. with two intersectional
games in which Georgetown will play
Tulane at New Orleans and South.
ern California will face Arizona a,
Iuscon.