The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-29
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
VERY UNSETTLED
Princeton Yale and Harvard Are Ex-
pected to Meet in Sort of Round
Robin Sohedule-Annapoli
and West Point Will
Have Elevens.

Reports from various college sport CEN
tiers indicate an unsettled state of affairs
so far as football dates are concerned
when compared with similar period Of
the season in normal years, In past au-
tumns the opening week of August has
found the coaches and managers with the
majority Of their preliminary work fin
ished and the candidates awaiting the
call for practice In sharp contrast, the
present month finds some Of the colleges
without football trainers or coaches and
schedules with from two to five open
dates, while many have yet to decide
wehther football will be played or not
during the next three months
This is particularly true of several of
the more important eastern institutions,
including Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
While there are indications that foot
ball will be resumed and these miver-
stiles represented on the gridiron by
elevens, nothing definite has been an
nounced by the athletic authorities. If
the game is played by these three it is
likely that it viii be upon restricted
scale. Those colleges which still support
football and are annual opponents Of
Harvard, Princeton and Yale have pre-
pared their schedules and unless there
should be cancellations along the line it
is doubtful if many dates could be given
the big teams so late in the season.
1t is presumed that should Princeton,
Yale and Harvard decide to place teams
upon the field this autumn they will
meet in a sort of round-robin schedule
as was in baseball and track athletics
last spring. 1t has also heen suggested
that the elevens play only every other
Saturday and If this innovation were
adopted few games with cantonment
and service teams could easily fill out
the curtailed schedule. The revival of
the game by the big three may also have
the effect of restoring the annual army
navy contest Both Annapolis and West
Point, viii support elevens this season
and each has reserved an open date for
such match, providing the government
authorities will sanction the game.
Reports from the Pacific northwest
state that Carl johnson, the youthful
hurdler Of Spokane, will compete at the
national A. A. u. track and field cham
pionship, scheduled for the Great Lakes
n. T. S.. Sept. 2t, Fl and %. johnson
running as a member of the University
of Michigan track team last spring, was
one of the sensations of the season At
the western conference college champion
ship johnson won three hrsts and was
the largest individual scorer for Michi-
gan, which Won the meet He won both
the 100 and 220-yard hurdles and then
leaped to first place in the running broad
Jump, clearing % feet, llh inches. John
son will in all probability compete I'M
der the colors Of the Spokane A. A. c.
and if in condition may create new
record, for he viii have plenty of keen
competition in his specialties
Another story Of a golfer who played
his way out of a peculiar "lie" has ar
rived from the middle west. During a
recent tournament one of the contestants
drove his ball into a tree and after con-
siderable searching it was discovered in a
crotch of one Of the branches, some 10
feet above the ground In order to avoid
penalty for lifting, the golfer climbed
to the shoulders OF t%o companions and
from this uncertain stance managed ia
drive the ball back to the fairway, using
putter for the aerial stroke.
frankie Fleming, leading Canadian
featherwei6ht, is at present cadet in
the royal air force At recent athletic
carnival Fleming surprised his admirers
by his all.round athletic ability in the
track contests, winning a place in tbs
mile run and then gaining premier hon
ors of his class in the ring battles.