The sun., 1919-09-14
FOOTBALL CLASSICS
AGAIN ON SCHEDULE
Big Three Cycle and Army
Navy Tilt Will Be Revived
With Renewed Vigor.
NUMEROUS GAMES HERE
Dartmouth, Cornell, Syracuse,
Rutgers, Brown and George
town to Play in This City.
BY DANIEL.

Even only casual scanning OF ina
Intercollegiate football schedules for the
season which soon will be upon us VIII
impress one with the fact that we are
TO enjoy the biggest campaign the game
vet has seen. After two years OF war
time football, during which the classic
meetings were eliminated, we are about
to enter on a season which Will see the
old rivalries renewed with reinforced
viRor and new rivalries blossom forth
with a promise of splendid fruits to
come.
The Harvard-Yale. Tale-Princeton and
Haryard-Princeton games once more VIII
be contested. So will the Army-Navy
battle, which has an additional interest
for New York because of the fact that
Il will be staged at the Polo GROUNDS
on the last Saturday in November. New
York has only the most pleasant recoi-
iections Of past service games. and II
feels that It cannot get them too often.
The Harvard-Yale tilt will be held In
the stadium at Cambridge on November
22. While the stadium gives the game
a more honey atmosphere. more
classic and more collegiate setting. the
fact remains that the Grecian amphi-
theatre hard by the banks of the Charles
has been dwarfed by the rapid increase
OF the popular appeal OF the big games
It is therefore to be deplored that the
revival of the series between the Grim
son and the Blue will not be staged In
instead
the $4,000 which can be accommodated
in the stadium would be able to enjoy
the game and the spectacle.
Harvard at Princeton.
The Princeton Harvard game will be
played on November in the Palmer
Memorial Stadium at Princeton. with
Dartmouth wiped off the Tiger schedule
the coming of Harvard to Old Nassau
will be most welcome. particularly TO
the followers of football in this city.
Princeton and Yale will have 1t out on
November Is in the Yale Bowl. which
win assure the biggest turnout a Tiger
Ell combat yet has attracted.
The New York lover of the great game
IA going to be catered to more this year
than ever before. Big games, which
used to be so scarce here since the Big
Three stopped coming to the metropolis.
will follow each other In quick success
sion on New York fields. In addition to
the contests to be played by Columbia
and Fordham, not to mention those in
which New York University and Stevens
Tech will figure, there will be series
OF major attractions at the Polo Grounds
and elsewhere which will vie with the
Big Three contests for popular support.
Cornell, which has not been here since
II played Brown at the Polo Grounds
some years ago, will return on October
% for a game with Dartmouth in the
CITY College Stadium. Cornell has a
rule which forbids its eleven to play on
any field other than that of a college.
Otherwise the game would have gone to
the Polo Grounds. On November at
the Polo Grounds Dartmouth once more
will be seen this time against Pennsyl-
vania.
Rutgers Here often.
Rutgers will play three big games in
the metropolitan district. On October
It will be entertained at Fordham.
November will see Rutgers play SYRIA
cuse at the Polo Grounds. while on No
vember 20 the Scarlet will tackle North
western University at Harrison, N. j.,
in the ball park. The Northwestern
eleven always is well up In the Western
Conference company, and Its visit to
the East is bound to attract great at
tention, for 1t is many years since a
big eleven from the West has come to
this neck OF the woods.
Columbia's biggest game will be that
with Brown at South Field on the morn
ing of Thanksgiving Day. Fordham will
play the annual game with Georgetown
on Election Day at Fordham. Among
the local games we might include the
battles at West Point. the most impor-
tant of which will be the annual tussle
with Notre Dame on November 8. The
for the Army.
While on the subject OF Notre Dame
It is interesting to note that Rockne and
Dorais, who showed the Army how to
use the forward pass some years ago,
and, incidentally, helped give the Army
one of the worst defeats 1t ever got, are
coaching Notre Dame. Jess Harper, for
many years coach of the Hoosiers. has
retired to a ranch.
Examination of the schedule shows
that while some Of the big colleges,
notably Harvard. have given themselves
some easy assignments, the general
trend is toward heavier programmes.
Take Princeton as an example. The
Tigers have dropped Dartmouth. but
they have not lightened their task by
doing so. for the last Saturday In Octo-
Der. the usual Dartmouth date. has been
given to Colgate, which may make
things hotter for the Orange and Black
than Dartmouth could.
MOuntaineers Come North.
Another hard proposition to be
tackled for the first time by Princeton
is West Virginia, which comes to
Princeton on November 1. the satur-
day before the Harvard game. We are
not inclined to believe that Bill Roper
will send his full strength against the
Mountaineers Just before the big game
with the Crimson. Trinity. Lafayette
and Fordham will play the first three
games at Princeton.
Yale has few games outside of the
battles with Princeton and Harvard and
Brown that are likely to make 1t hustle. 4,
Tufts may spring another surprise, and
Boston College, under Frank Cavanaugh,
may be stronger than usual, but
Springfield, North Carolina and Mary
land State should not present any prob
lens TO the Eli coaches and players
Harvard will start with Bates, then
ulav Boston and follow that with
Colby Brown will be the first hard
test. and then will come Virginia and
Springfield. Browns usual date, be-
tween the Princeton and Yale games,
has been given TO Tufts.
Among the small colleges Colgate and
Rutgers have the strongest schedules.
Colgate's programme is the most pre-
tentious yet arranged by the Maroon,