New Britain herald., 1928-09-22
 
FOOTBALL STARTS
 WEEK FROM TODAY
Season Officially Opens With t75 Games Scheduled

football season officially opens d
 week from today. One hundred and seventy-five games. including two
 double-headers, are scheduled next
 Saturday.
 Princeton. Harvard and Vale once the mighty triumvirate of the east. but now just three other foot elevens that do not swing into ac- tion next week.
 A. A. Stagg. one of the nations oldest coaches, will send the Chi cago Maroons against two foes,
 Ripon and South Carolina. a week hence. Occidental on the Pacific coast also has two games for Satur- day a week, with Pasadena, Junior. and San Bernardino, Junior No eastern team as yet has summoned the courage to take on two teams in one afternoon. One opponent at a time seems to be quite enough for the eastern group this season, and some of them are already worrying over how to dispose of that one.
 Picking the outstanding teams be- fore the football season is even harder than picking the pennant winners in baseball. It's usually a good guess to ride last years win- ners in baseball. Most of the time it doesn't work in football.
 Graduation. injuries and scholas- tic ineligibility can wreck cham pionship football team. Year in and year out knute Rockne, the wizard of Notre Dame, will turn out a win- ner, but even the shining dome of the old master loses it's sparkle oc- casionally.
 The five best football teams in the east last year were Yale, Army. Princeton, Dartmouth and Pitts burgh. Yale had perhaps the best record of the quintet, losing only to Georgia in an early season game. Pittsburgh was a close second and Army, Princeton and Dartmouth were just a step behind Yale and 
 All five ought to have good teams again this year. but the casts best team may not come from that group. Pennsylvania. Navy, Harvard. New York University and others have prospects equally as bright
 After these many years, Harvard may bound back with another win ming team. The ever-patient Arnold Horween has laid a firm foundation at Harvard the last two years and the Crimson may reap the benefit this season.
 The dynamic Biil Roper, presi- dent of the football coaches of has one of his best squads in recent years. at Princeton, ln- cluding a rugged. veteran line. an all-round backfield in Phil Strubing. Jack Norman, Ed Wittmer and Mike Miles. rated by Roper as the best defensive back in the country last year. Roper cut the Princeton squad to 40 yesterday.
 Yale will hold its first scrimmage of the year at New Haven today un- der its new coach, Nal Stevens, who came out of the west from Kansas several years ago to star at half back for the Eli. Yale has lost both Tad Jones and Myron Fuller, head coach and line coach, respectively. To say not hing of the redoubtable Bruce Caldwell.
 Biff Jones. Army coach. has vet pran teahn back but already has started to worry about his second game of the season against the $. M. |. eleven from Dallas, Tex. at west Point October 6. The Army has los' both it's two wingmen. Born anu Harbold, and Lighthouse Harry VII son. but they have Cagle. Murreli. Nave, sprague and Perry.
 Dartmouth may blossom into the ,ast's best team this season. with Al Marters, who last year gained l'9"e yards against the opposition III HIS irst season. No team has c'er s'op- ned Marsters. He gained l7912 yards eainst Harvard last year.