The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-09-23
FOOTBALL SEASON IS STUFFED WITH
BATTLES FROM NOW UNTIL new YEAR
Grdon Fans Looking Forward to Greatest History
Game With Many IntersectionaI and cBig Three"
Games Scheduled to Be Played.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.--This will be a
holocaust year on the gridiron.
After the great strides that football
the most popular OF college sports and
rival of baseball in the public's highest
regard. has made in the last few years
it sounds bromide to say that the COM
ing season will be the greatest in the
games history. Yet that's the fact.
The season won't start any earlier, nor
is there likelihood of 1t extending past
New Year's-the day OF the usual car
nival game at Los Angeles-but it will
be stuffed and chokeG from the frs:
Kickoff September 20 with the ingre-
dents that bring hundreds Of thousands
away from warm firesides to freeze In
cold blasts.
Opponents of the inter sectional idea
who have commended that the game was
growing beyond bounds and becoming
the god before which education was be-
ing sacrificed get small comfort from q
peruEal of the schedules. At least 40
games will be held that it win take at
least night on the sleeper for one OF the
opposing teams to reach.
On the five Saturdays beginning with
October there win be at ieast six OF
seven International contests, scattered
all over the country. Kansas is coming
to West Point. Georgia Tech and Prince
ton are going to Chicago the Praying
Colonels'' from Center College, Danv.lle
Ky. are scheduled at Harvard, Nebras-
ka has date with Syracuse. Notre
Point. Alabama will scrimmage with
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia-just tc
pick few at random.
loosening of the monopoly that the East
once had on the big contests. There not
only are more games scheduled thar
ever before but there are more inter
sectional contests. and Intersections
matches Of genuine importance than the
pigskin dreamed of when it was more OF
a pig than skin and could dream.
Yale and Harvard both said last Fal
that they would not tread in tho path oi
Princeton and invade the Western Con.
ference. Just the same the schedules
shows that two weeks before tho Iige1
Is olawing around at the University o.
Chicago the Bull Dog will be snarling a
Iowa, champion of the Big Ten in thu
bowl at New Haven. Harvard apparent.
" is satisfied with entertaining thu
team from the Blue Grass State.
New York city loses its gridiron pic.
ture play. The Army and Navy game
previously held at the Polo Grounds viii
be staged in the reconstructed FRANKLIN
Field OF the University of Pennsylvania
at philadelphia Instead of being playet
on the traditional Saturday following
Thanksgiving 1t will be played on thu
preceding Saturday. the same day as thu
Yale Harvard game
There will be several revivals Of foot
ball relations between institutions tina
permitted their historic gridiron enmit1
to lapse Notably among these are Har
yard and Dartmouth.
One radical change in the rules vii
make the game bit different. Instead
at being confined to trying for goal aftel
= touchdown by kick from placement
the scoring eleven win be given the op
ton of placing the ball anywhere beyond
the ftve-yard line with the privilege O
nuttin9 1t into play In scrimnage-a linz
plunge or end run, by passing. or b.
kicking q field goal. The ball must b
nut over with one try to get pot1
score Of one The new play win b.
known as the try for point"
foul by the defending team when thu
.try for point Is being made auto
radically gives the attackers the advan
ta~e. and II the attacking team fouls it
attempt is vitiated.
A player taken out in the first half cal
mt return until the second half and
nlayer taken out in the second half Is GU
for the remainder of the contest.