The sun., 1919-10-04
ALL Big ELEYENS
WILL PLAY TO-DAY
Largest Opening Day Crowds
In History Of Football Are
Expected.

Although the Reds and the White sox
will be locked in mortal combat again
this afternoon in Chicago. the football
season will be ushered In everywhere. A
large number of teams opened last Sat-
,spurday but this afternoon will see prac-
: tically all OF them on the field---big and
( little North, South. East and West.
7 n Taking their cue from the unprece-
dented interest that is being manifested
IN the sport everywhere this fall. ell coll
leges are preparing to accommodate the
largest opening day crowds in the his
3 tory Of the game.
, -. In the East the games will be nothing
beyond ordinary, early season practice
bouts Harvard, which trampled Bates
: Is TO o last Saturday. will get a crack
Al Boston College. The Crimson will
hav, several Of its stars on the side
lines but no trouble 10 expected from the
--9ostonians.
Yale and Princeton will play their FIRST
varsity contests since 1915. The Blue
Twill entertain Springfield. which fell be-
store Dartmouth. 40 to o. last Saturday.
while the Tigers will take a whack at
TRINITY. This will be the first game of
the season for Trinity.
Yale without Neville.
Yale and Princeton alumni all over
the East are hungry to see their teams
in action again. and many persons will
.-nock to New Haven and Princeton for
the games this afternoon. DIR. Sharpe
announces that his Blue eleven Is in ex-
..scellent shape. Yale lost the services of
Neville through an injury this week, but
, La Roche. Wells and Braden can be de-
pended on to make life miserable for
the Springfield line.
- Roper's lineup against Trinity this af-
5 ternoon is more or less uncertain, and
the chances are that he will give almost
: oil OF his candidates a chance unless the
Purple eleven should prove unexpectedly
2 hard for the Tiger team. Expecting
larger crowds than usual this fall. the
Princeton management decided to play
al games In Palmer Stadium, which ac-
commodities 10000.
Cornell opens its season against Ober-
lin in Ithaca this afternoon. Speedy
Rush has been trying out many men for
the Big Red team, and 1t is likely that
the lineup will look like a directory of
The student body.
Rush states freely that he Is proud of
his speedy collection of backs, but he is
rather worried about developing n ca
pable line. He has many candidates,
but most of them are untried men. COL
gate opens against Susquehanna in
Hamilton
War Time "Champs" Play.
Glen Warmers Pittsburg team. which
made speciality of winning wartime
"champicr ships" will be seen in action
against Geneva on the latters grounds
In the suburbs of Pittsburg. Syracuse.
which slammed Syracuse alumni team
hard last week, will start its regular
season with Vermont as the opposition.
ma fy uf
Hanover and Brown will try its hand
. against Bowdoin in Providence. Penn
sylvania, held to 10 points by Bucknell
last week, will have the Pennsylvania
Military College eleven on Franklin
a.. Field this afternoon. Columbia is not
scheduled to open until next Saturday.
when Vermont comes to South Field.
-. New York University will go to Am
herst 10 open its season, and Rutgers.
winner over Ursinus last Saturday. will
have North Carolina in New Brunswick
to-day.
The Army will play Holy Cross. while
the Navy will meet North Carolina A.
4 NJ Tho Army opened its season last
week, but this will be the first game
for the Middies.
Western Opening.
This afternoon will see practically the
nrbt games IN Inc west, cHly bWo VI
three teams having opened last week
Nevertheless at least two games will be
played to-day, which ordinarily would
come at least as far along as midseason.
These two will be the meeting between
Centre College and Indiana in Blooming
ton Ind, and the clash between Iowa
and Nebraska. in Iowa City.
Both Iowa and Indiana will more than
have their hands full Centre Is joint
holder with Vanderbilt ana Georgia Tech
az the Southern title, while Nebraska is
known throughout the land as the touch
est proposition In the Mississippi Valley.
All other Western Conference teams,
Illinois, Northwestern and Chicago ex-
cepted. will open to-day. but no other
contests OF note are on the card. Michi-
gan makes It's debut against the time
honored Case. Wisconsin plays Ripon,
Minnesota meets North Dakota. while
Purdue and Ohio play weak teams OF
their own States.
Outside the conference Notre Dame
and the Michigan Aggies open against
infarior teams