Arizona republican., 1916-08-20
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 FEATURE FOOTBALL SEASONS

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.-With the approach of the first of September generally regarded throughout the country as the official opening date of the football season, attention is being turned to the great fall sport. By the tenth of the month virtually every col lege, school and university in the United States wih be hard at prelim mary practice. Coaches and trainers already are at work getting things in readiness for the reception of their charges.
 Unusual interest attaches to the game on the Pacific coast this year. With the return last year of the great majority of the universities in California to the American game after several years trial of the Rugby code. intersectional matches have be- come popular and with a years exper- fence behind them, California teams are expected to give a better account of themselves against the elevens of the northwest. The prospect of east versus west games adds to the in terest.
 Just what effect the Mexican trou- ble will have on the game remains to be seen. Prominent players have been called to join the colors at the border The University of Washington appears | to be the heaviest loser of material on this account None of the other teams seem to have suffered to any great | extent
 The big games of the season locally and the ones which will attract the greatest amount of attention on the | Pacific coast will be the two contests | between the universities of California | and Washington, each team playing | one game on it's home field Last year | Washington won both contests The northerners slaughtered the Califor- nians in the first clash but in the re- | turn match the Berkeleyans sprang the | football surprise of the year by mak- | ing the Washingtonians fight every 1 inch of the way to win out by the | scantiest of margins. With the mem | ory of this battle still in mind the contests this year are expected to pro- ! vide close scores The Californians
 have obtained the most expert coach l ing talent available in the east to teach
 them the game.
 The match between the University | of California and the University oi
 Southern California furnished the "bie
 game for Los Angeles. Two games
 were played last season and resulted
 in honors being evenly divided. The 1 southerpers are expected to have ont
 of the fastest back fields in the coun-
 try as it includes such sprinters a:
 Fred Kelly, Howard Drew, Phil Mur.
 ray and Jerry Craig, every one o
 them being able to negotiate 100 yardi
 within 10 2-5~eeonds, which is con.
 sifered d remarkable combination O
 speed.
 Washington State College and tn,
 Oregon Agricultural College turned ou
 formidable teams last year and are ex
 pected to be quite as strong this sea
 son. Whether the former will be abl'
 to get match with its rival the Uni
 versity of Washington. remains to b
 seen. The fact that these two insti
 tutions did not meet last year was on'
 of the disappointments of 1915. Ad
 herents of both teams were equall,
 confident of the superiority of thei
 favorites.
 | Several other Pacific Coast team
 are likely at any time to spring sur
 prise by upsetting the calculations Q
 their bigger rivals Among ihos