Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-23

New 10rE, sept ZZ.-1nlS VIII De d
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 high
est regard, has made in the last few
years, it sounds bromide to say that
the coming 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 it extending
past New Year's-the day of the usual
carnival game at Los Angeles-but it
will be stuffed and chOked from the
first kickoff September % with the
ingredients that bring hundreds of
thousands away from warm firesides
to freeze in cold blasts.
Opponents of the nter-sectional-
idea who have contended that the
game was growing beyond bounds and
becoming the god before which educa-
ton was being sacrificed get small
comfort from a perusal of the sched-
ules. At least 40 games will be held
that it will take at least a night on the
sleeper for one of the opposing teams
to reach.
On the five Saturdays beginning
with October Z there will be at least
six or seven intersectional contests
scattered all over the country. Kan
sas is coming to West Point, Georgia
Tech and Princeton are going to Chi
cago, the praying Colonies from
Center college, Danville, NY are
scheduled at Harvard, Nebraska has a
date with Syracuse Notre Dame will
tussIe with the Army at West Point,
Alabama will scrimmage with Pennsyl-
vania at Philadelphia-just to pick a
few at random.
The season of 1922 marks further
loosening Of the monopoly that the east
once had on the big contests. There
not only are more games scheduled
than ever before, but there are more
inter-sectional contest, and iDtra-sec-
tionaI matches of genuine Importance
than the pigskin dreamed of when it
was more of a pig than a skin and
could dream.
Yale and Harvard both said last fall
that they would not tread in the path
of Princeton and invade the western
conference. Just the same the sched-
ules show that two weeks before the
Tiger is clawing around at the Uni
versity of Chicago, the Bull Dog Will
be snarling at Iowa, champion of the
Big Ten, in the bbwl at New Haven,
Harvard apparently is satisfied with
entertaining the team from the Blue
Grass state.
New York City loses its gridiron
picture play. The Army and Navy
game, previously held at the polo
grounds, will be staged in the recon
structed Franklin field of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
Instead of being played on the tradl-
tional Saturday following Thanksgiv-
ing, it will be played on the preceding
Saturday, the same day as the Yale
Harvard game.
There will be several REVEALS OF
football relations between the Insutu-
lions that permitted their historic grid
iron enmity to lapse. Notably among
these are Harvard and Dartmouth.
One radical change in the rules viii
make the game a bit different. In
! stead of being confined to trying for a
goal after a touch down by a kick from
placement, the scoring eleven VIII De
give the option of placing the ball any
| where beyond the five-yard line with
the privilege of putting it into play III
scrimmage-a line plunge or end run
by passing, or by kicking q field goal
The ball must be put over with one try
to get a point score Of one. The new
play will be known as the try for
point"
A foul by the defending team when
the "try for pint is being made auto
maticaliy gives the attackers the ad-
vantage, and if the attacking team
fouls its attempt is vitiated.
A player taken out in the first half
cannot return until the second half
and a player taken out in the second
half is out for the remainder of the
contest.
The more important, but not all, of
the inter sectional games scheduled for
the season which opens today are as
follows:
September 80, Cincinnati VS.. Pitts
burgh at Cincinnati.
October Z, Pennsylvania VS.. Univer-
sity Of Georgia VS.. Chicago at Chicago
VS.. Kansas at West Point, Washing
ton VS.. Montana at Seattle, Yale vs
North Carolina at New Haven, Prince
ton VS.. Virginia at Princeton, Univer-
sity of Georgia VS.. Chicago at Chicag
October IL, Cincinnati VS.. George
town at Washington, Penns tfvania VS.
Maryland at Philadelphia, Army VS..
Alabama Polytechnic at West Point.