Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28
THREE GAMES ON
OPENING DAY
College Football Lid Off To.
morrow; Important Con-
tests in East

College football is destined to bios
som forth with all its interest to
the gridiron enthusiast tomorrow.
when a number of the Eastern teams
will line up for the first scheduled
games of the 1917 season. At least
three contests are of sufficient inter-
est to attract attention of the foot
ball world, since their outcome will
indicate the quality which may be
expected of the elevens this year.
Foremost in Importance will be the
Pittsburgh-West Virginia game, to be
played at West Virginia.; the Wash
ington and Jefferson contest with the
Kiski School team-the latter per-
haps the best scholastic eleven in the
State-and the Ursinus Rutgers strug-
gle at New Brunswick. Penn State
meets the soldiers at Allentown.
Pittsburgh, with Glenn Warner at
the helm, may have a hard battle
with West Virginia, for the noun
taineers are said to have veteran
team, with the kind of mature de-
velopment which only the smaller col
lege aggregations can acquire so
early in the season. Pittsburgh, is,
which Warner had gathered last year
is widely scattered, and few of the
varsity men are gain eligible for the
eleven. But from. the scrubs and
| the Pitt second string squad of a
year ago Warner is said to have de-
veloped a remarkable combination.
Forty Players Out
Forty of the Pitt players have been
practicing at the preliminary train
ing camp for a number of weeks
| certainly for a longer period than
| any other Eastern team-so that a
smo working, powerful combina-
ton can be expected. Pitt will have
Hastings, DeHart. Morrow or Peck
| the big men of the eleven last sea-
sen, but the uncanny ability of Coach
| Warner is bound to show itself in the
| new product. Penn's coaches will
watch the result of the game between
Pitts and West Virginia very closely
| and thereafter the Red and Blue may
be vastly more concerned with the
Pitt game on Franklin Field than is
at present the case.
Washington and Jefferson, the most
successful of the small college teams
in the past five years, with victories
over the biggest and best teams in
in the country, looms up once more
as a formidable opponent of her
scheduled rivals. w. and ]. is as
sured a forward line which averages
from tackle to tackle more than 200
pounds-a fact that gives her school
boy opponents little hope in the first
game scheduled for next Saturday.
Rutgers and Urslnus
Rutgers and Ursinus will meet in
their annual contest. and though Rut-
gers is the likely winner, the little
Collegeville aggregation may spring
just such a surprise as 1t did against
Penn on Franklin Field in the first
game of the season some years ago
| Both teams have little veteran ma
terial, and the outcome of the contest
like most of the early games of the
season, will be largely a matter of
speculation.
Penn, Michigan. Dartmouth and the
bigger university elevens will not
open the season until next week, in
fact official practice at most of the
big colleges has not yet begun. Penn
takes on Albright for the first local
game on Franklin Field Wednesday,
October 3, and Penn State, Lehigh,
Lafayette and the rest of the Penn
sylvania state teams will follow on
the heels of the Red and Blue in the
inauguration of the coming gridiron
season.