Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-07
PIT. State, Navy. S,carth-
: J more, Cornell and F. and
! M. Said to Haze Been
Selected
CENTRE POSSIBILITY
r., .,oSEPH T. LABRUM

N.,,un fayorite indoor sport In the
Y Irniv.rsity Of Pennsylvania athletic
.,,.,.s these days is in selecting op-
snesnts for the Red and Blue loot.
Eli team for 1928.
=. ..a,dinr to an inside source the
AS,,. ASc, makers have been besieged
ecneuu, s Messages from colleges In all Sec
wmn ~ tbe country asking for dates
tions toil til In this State alone fifteen
nen. n...S have asked that they be given
, ,i.Sss on the schedule.
M, of the large number of applicants
toirly certain that siS OF the nine
is " ,hat met the Red and Blue dur
teams ."' ms, season will b. on the
Ing tn. the np"oin p~nii next fall. The scnson
fcncuum .m .ner with franklin and Marshall
VIII opem enmunosing eleven. Swarthmore,
T. s.h,rubi .Ir Ub Penn State, Navy and Cor
fi5'suu,s, ,he other certainties. with the
neiI a,e little i changed from this fall.
' cu,rtbmore will probably play the
.,..s came of the season with ritts-
barsh s,H,h' .n6 Cornell @ on Thanksgiving
.ssn'l ln,nth As during the last season
, ~ game will be played IN tne new
svay The Middies nre said TO De
Stadium. have The Red and Blue play
eh.,vS .,.Ser baltimore or Washington, put
ih snno Money can be made If the game is
i moIe IN The Stadium here. Usually I'D
pp.,s another field It is necessary ZOE ZOE
usmt toms 70 pny at least tnird OF
~. M rcceipts to the party owning the
| 6eld.
,,owErEP. it is unlikely that am
III hitch in the negotiations befween
"d nrd inc Nary rii occur be-
.'s ." NJ difference Of opinion con-
o esas. !" ,Ie ninrc of playing the con-
cun"g TLe Ujddies feel that fheU hare
W, ;;nycJ in their three dppedr'
s. ~" on Franklin Field during mc
Nv. % t,,o uears and arc anxious TO pay
~ Is U oaws on a neutral gridiron for
that reason atone.
TENN men scoff at the jlnx story
+ and feel that the Middies will re-
.n.n More 70 show that they can shake
w. ~ ths evil one. Both the Middics and
4 penn should be strong next year anu
another great game WIN s"p"'
crowd should result. :, ., -
Sworthmore is an old-time riva! OF
Pam md Is certain to occupy n place
~ Tho schedule. The Garnet every
r"sr y" ID Irows a great throng to Frank
I'm Field because of the spectacular
Gsbt Il nuts up against the Red ami
t,ins Third place on the schedule Is
: iorirol one for the Out-Of- town
eleven.
The Other Regulars .- --.--.
Pittsburgh. undefcated by Penn teams
aver a spnce of nine years. Will III az
probability be played on November q,
icllowed BY the Middies and Penn
Etate. Saturday before Thanksgiving
will in all probability be- an open date.
\ Is was the case this year, TO give the
team a chance to rest up before the
all.important game with Cornell.
|, Speculation is rife concerning the
other three teams. 1t is said that
two elevens from the South ana one
from, the vicinity OF New York will he
on the list. Maryland. which nut up !!
fattlng game during the last fall
,rainst the Red and Blue, is expected
to get second place OH the schedule, al.
though there is a strong possibility that
Alabama will return again next faii
10 live battle to the Penn cohorts. 1t
| will be remembered that Virginia Mill.
\ury Institute came here and defeated
Npenn and returned the following year
no be reversed.
4 For the fourth and fifth games the
doubt Is great. Considerable talk has
been going the rounds that Centre Col
lege will be on the schedule next fol! !.
1t 10 known that the Praying Colonies
wrote and asked for a game next fan,
! but the officials at Penn refuse to sny
P*hether negotiations arc going on with
Dthe Southerners.
Morans team would prove n good
drawing card in this city despite their
defeat BY Harvard during the last sea i.
lon. Charlie Moran, the National
League umpire who coaches the Ken
tuckians. expects to have much better
team next year. With CovMgtOn and
q half dozen veterans as a nucleus his
prospects should be better.
| H0LUMBIA, nhich Uds played by
y Penn in 1920; Brorn, on the
schedule for number of years a
decade ago: Dartmouth. Lafayette,
Viginia Military Institute and a
Sumber ot Others are mentioned as
gossibilitiCs. It is unlikely that tho
Big Green team or Lafayette pill be
eloyed during 1923, although the lat
f~ team has an ercellent chance to
Set listed.
five games with strong teams
! ~ mentioned as having been selected
mere Is little likelihood that the Red
md Blue will schedule any more strong
stevens. but will meet elcvens that will
sot too greatly test the Red and Blue
eeiore the so-called big games.
Nothing definite In regard to the
schedule will be known until after the
Atnletic Council meets a week from to
|0morrow, and there is a possibility that
,he solons will not take action until the
sanuSry meeting. Sydney Hutchisor
sno Robert Hills, members Of the foot
Sal committee, are in the South on a
hunting trip, and until their return the
lation. '@e' '' ''"
! addition to the schedule the coach
81. problem for next year will be In
speyanee until the two members of the
srlalron committee return. More ru-
MMofs nre going the rounds concerning
I Ie coaching staff than about the sched
vie, but tha nthlat;, oaa.;,I. ,xS.,.. !,