Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-10
MANY BIG GAMES
FOR GRID SEASON
Almost Every Saturday to Be
Marked by Contests of Gen.
eraI Importance.
ARMY PLAYS NAVY NOV. %
By H. c. BYRD.

With the return Of college foot ball
to a pre-war status, hardly a Saturday
will pass this fall without several
games of general interest, the first
two Of the season excepted. Some few
contests are scheduled September 81.
but October may well be considered
the real opening of the season. Sched-
ules of most of the big institutions are
well balanced. games with secondrate
teams being sandwiched between con-
tests of more or less national import
ance. One or two of the colleges.
though. have failed to arrange as hard
schedules as they wanted and desire,
owing to widely variant factors.
No games are listed September q
in the middle west. but in the east
Bates appears at Harvard, Spring.
field "Y" at Dartmouth. Rhode Island
State at Brown. Middlebury at West
Point and Ursinus at Rutgers. Prob
ably one of the hardest games sched-
uled October will be that between
Naval Academy and North Carolina
State. While practically all the COL
leges open on the first Saturday in
October. nearly all the games show
great disparity in the contendins
teams Strong elevens have sched-
uled much weaker opponents in order
to get good workouts before going
into the more difficult parts OF their
seasons.
Real Games Listed October IL.
October II the first real contests of
more than local interest are to be
Virginia VS.. Pittsburgh. should be
among the best of the year. West
Virginia had rather win from Pitt
than any other team on its schedule
not excepting Princeton, and the
Mountaineers plan to go to their
training. Pitt also is to begin work
outs early in September. and the clash
October II should find the elevens al
most in midseason form. On this
date the first game between southern
and northern elevens is to take pace.
lima goes to Yale. The first note
worthy contest in the middle west
will be between Nebraska and Mime
sofa at Minnesota. Other contests
which should develop plenty OF good
foot ball are: Fordham at Princeton,
Brown at Colgate. Rutgers at Lehigh.
Carnegie Tech at Washington and
Jefferson and Syracuse at West Point
October Is will see some clashes of
first magnitude. Penn State appears
at Dartmouth, Pittsburgh at Syracuse.
Notre Dame at Nebraska, Colgate at
Cornell, and what these teams lack
Of representing about the best In
foot ball is not much. The Penn State
Dartmouth and Pittsburgh Syracuse
contests ought to stand out. Harvard
plays Brown and Princeton meets
Fordham on the same date, and both
members of the big three may have
hard nuts to crack. Yale plays Boston
Michigan Aggies. Chicago opens it's
season with Purdue at Chicago.
Minnesota plays at Indiana and Van
derbilt and Georgia Tech engage in
the first big southern game at Georgia 9
Tech.
virginia goes to Harvard October
rs for the second game between
southern and northern institutions.
Dartmouth and Cornell seem to have
formed an alliance for big game In
New York city. which should be sue.
cessful from every view. Several
games of worth are listed in the mid
die west. chief among them being the
appearance of Ohio State at Michigan.
Iowa plays at Minnesota and Indiana
at Nebraska
Penn Resumes With Penn State.
On November another southern
team goes north to play a member OF
the big three. Maryland State being list
ed for it's first opportunity to show
its wares in the Yale bowl. This dsie
in foot ball between Penn Statel and
University of Pennsylvania, following
the break resulting from the game in
1916. fiIa Isl
Princeton has been looking about 4
for a hard game just before itss an7u-
nual struggle with Yale to varytlite.b
former programs OF preceding SHe.f
Yale contest with an easy opponent
It succeeded in getting one when 1T al
scheduled West Virginia. beceusev
there appears no doubt that the Nor q,
gantown college will have one ofhthe Y
most powerful combinations on the
sridiron. Besides these games, Syra-
cuse plays at Brown. Pittsburgh at
Lehigh, Colgate at Dartmouth. Notre
and Minnesota at Wisconsin Tine
Minnesota Wisconsin struggle ID one
of the VESTS biggest games.
First Of the contests between the
big three since 1916 Is to be at Prince
ton. Harvard being due to appear
before Yale and Princeton meet. and
yale will go against it's usual OPP
moment. Brown. Georgetown plays
what probably it should consider the
best contest on its schedule. that Win
the Navy at Annapolis: -. p.,
sylvania lock horns at New YORK
CITY. the second contest of the year
for Dartmouth in the metropolis. Inc
New Englanders. incidentally, are
about as EOOQ uTd Us, -
York as any other INSTITUTION inat
has played there. Other contests 70.
November s. in which the fur should
f1y. are between Notre Dame ana
Army. Washington and Jenerson ana
Pittsburgh. Lehigh and Penn State:
Mjchiean and Chicago, Minnesota ana
illinois and Nebraska and Missouri.
Princeton at Yale November Is.
Princeton plays at Yale November
Is. its first game In the Yale bowl
since 1915. Penn State has a game at
ithaca with its logical rival-Cornell.
Pittsburgh will go to Philadelphia to
give the Quakers an opportunity to
avenge themselves for past defeats
at the hands of Glen Warmers prote-
ges, and Brown and Dartmouth meet
in what is the big New England game.
excepting the one between Yale and
Harvard. Colgate goes to Syracuse
for its final contest of the year, West
Virginia will go to Rutgers in an at
tempt to get a decision, as these two
teams have played to ties in their
last two meetings. Two big games in
the middle west are to be between
and Illinois, Kansas and Ne
braska.
Dwarfng all other games of the
year, on November % will come the
"classic'' between Yale and Harvard.
more interest should at
tach to the meeting than in q long
while Harvard undertakes new