The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-09
FOOT BALL SEASON
 IS NOW UNDER WAY.

NEW YORK. Aug 22. Intersection al games stand out as the feature ol the football season of 1916. which will be under way before another three weeks have been checked from the calendar Almost every section of the country will be represented in these gridiron clashes and indica- tians point to unusual interest and enthusiasm in the great American college game this fall. Close to three months play will be witnessed this season, as the opening game is scheduled for September l6, and the closing contests will not be staged until December 9.
 Each year the number of games increases and the coming season finds more games scheduled than was the case twelve months ago According to the list prepared in connection with the revised rules ui play. the teams of the leading col leges and universities of the country will figure in more than thirteen hundred contests, while the prepara- tory and high school elevens will compete in more than twice that number, bringing the total close to the five thousand mark.
 A comparison of the schedules for the coming season and those ol the past few years shows a number ot changes. The Carlisle Indian school eleven. which has made football his tory in the past, does not appear among the leading competitors for gridiron honors, and Columbia uni yersitv 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 con tests scheduled for Fridays, although the Saturday games are still over whelmingly in the majority. Al though 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 the following two Saturdays, when the principal college contests each day alone pass the hundred mark. The climax comes with the playing of the Harvard Yale game al New Ha- ven, and the Army-Nayy game al New York on the same day Noyem. Der 9. on the basis of past at tendance and receipts these two games should attract close to 15O 900 spectators, while the gate re ceipts will probably exceed $2o0,o0o
 Among the more important inter sectional games are those between Syracuse and Ohio; Army Vs Wash ington and Lee, Yale and Virginia, Harvard vs North Carolina, Illinois and Colgate, Minnesota and North Dakota, Virginia Poly vs Yale, Georgetown and Dartmouth, Michigan meeting with Syracuse, Pennsylvania and Cornell during the season; liar ward and Virginia, Noue Dame Vs Army, Missouri vs Texas, Dartmouth ys West Virginia, Bucknell and Wash ingtou 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 ntersectiOnal contests between the leading school teams of the mid de west and the east immediately following the close of the regular interscholastic schedules.
 The University of California will be the first on the gridiron this fall, the Berkeley team getting into ac- ton on Saturday, September l6 Seven days later Dartmouth, liar ward and Georgetown will be among the larger colleges to start active football competition. On the last Sat urday of September Cornell, Prince ton, Syracuse, Army, Navy, Pennsyl- vania, Yale, Tennessee, Texas, Nir- ginia and a few of the middle west ern colleges will play their opening games Michigan starts her gridiron campaign on the following Wednes- day, and on Saturday. October ', Chicago, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and other members of the conference follow suit.
 Yale will depart from the con ventional on Friday, Ovtober 20, by playing Virginia 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 staging of 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 re suits of these games will have a di- rect bearing on the final outcome of the championship claims of the contending teams. Cornell will line up against Harvard; Dartmouth will tackle Princeton, Michigan will have Syracuse as an opponent; Pennsyl- yania and Pittsburg will clash; North