Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-27
MANY E[EvENS co
To DISTANT FIELDS
FOR GRID CONTESTS
Intersectional Clashes Expected
to Be Followed With
Great Interest.
BY WALTER CAMP
ssseial Correspondent OF Great Falls Tribune
Copyright. 1922, BY The Great Falls Tribune.

New York, Aug. 26.-Football en-
thusiasts will be treated to intersec-
tional football this year on broader
lines than ever before, in spite of the
fact that some of the larger univer-
sites insisting against the ACCESSIBILITY
of long intersectional trips. When the
University of Chicago came east and
defeated Princeton last year, it was
with the understanding that the
Tigers would go to Stage field this
fall, and the capacity of the Chicago
stands will be taxed for this contest.
Chicago was one of the first of the
western teams to i~naugurate intersec-
tional visits, for the midway team came
east for the first time back as far as
1898, meeting Pennsylvania at Frank
lin field that year, and suffered defeat.
% to IL, but had q chance to see
Hirshberger, one of the great kickers
of his day. in action. Pennsylvania
made a return trip to Chicago the next
year. The contest resulted In & tie,
5 to 5. That vas the beginning of real
intersectional football and was followed
by the Pennsylvania Michigan contests
Since those days, intersectional games
have grown in number and have done
much to stimulate the sport and bring
football up to a higher plane of per
formance.
Many Games This Year
This year, in addition to the Prince
ton contest, Chicago will meet Georgia
at Chicago on October Z. On the same
day the University of the South will
come up to Philadelphia to show its
wares against Pennsylvania, while Vir-
ginia will engage Princeton. On Oc-
tober IA Cincinnati will come out of
the middle west and take on George
town at Washington. Alabama will in
wade the north for a game with the
Army on that date, while Yost's Mich
lgan team will go to Nashville to meet
McGuigin's Vanderbilt eleven. In the
latter contest, it will be a case of a
pupil taking on the master, for the
southern coach learned his football I'M
der Yost's methods. Iowa. under How
ard Jones, will travel to New Haven
to try out Brother Tad Jones Yale
warriors.
A week later Boston will 90 to De-
trolt, Center will come to Cambridge
and Georgia Tech to Annapolis. all
good games of high intersectional in
terest. On the SANE date MARYLAND
Will play Princeton, while Syracuse will
take on Pittsburgh, a game for blood.
q startlng exposition OF the develop
ment Of shift plays may be expected
on October %, when Notre Dame will
visit at Atlanta for a great contest with
Alexander's Georgia Tech aggregation.
That is the date Princeton will play
Chicago and Rutgers will face West
Virginia at Morgantown.
November Contests
November 4 will find Holy Cross at
Washington for a contest with George
town and Florida up in Cambridge
against the Crimson eleven, with Ala
banda against Pennsylvania in Phila-
deiphia and Nebraska at Syracuse
Louisiana is scheduled for a game
against Rutgers at the Polo grounds
here on November. 2 and that historic
field will be occupied four days later
by the battling warriors of Cornell
and Dartmouth. A thrilling contest
may be expected at West Point on that