Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-23
TEAMS
ARE PLAYING
SHORT YEARS
Formerly Engaged in
IL Games AS to Z
And s Now, Fielding
Yost Says
Nv FIELDING III. YOST
Director or Athletics. University
81 Michiranl

- tf%hA0hF
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Dee. 32.-ll
Close followers OF any game fail
to observe changed conditions that
creep into II year after year, not
producing great changes at any time,
but effecting IN the course OF a few
years great differences. One q
these changes, noted only IN the
middle West. was brought rather abb
ruptly to mind here recently in n
comparison Of football schedules
which developed that many teams Of
the east were playing but seven
games, that most OF the larger uni
vcrsities we're scheduling but eight
and that the longer schedules were
observed only in parts o. the coun-
try where weather conditions allow
cd later play.
What a change this l. from the
schedules or the beginning Of this
century and just beforei The
average schedule then was ten or
eleven games and many a school
played a twelve game list. ! re-
member coaching one team-the
coach did at make out the sched-
ulcs in those ~days-that in the
course ~ what was looked upon as
a regular" schedule played thirteen
games. At that time. one or two
games were sometimes played before
the students returned t. the cam
ms and play always extended 70
Thanksgiving day.
Formation Of a large number q
-ll'ege conferences led to the re-
durtion or games throughout the
middle west hut the reduction 70
seven games IN the east Is an I'M
noted trend. TX EXISTS among col
lr-cs where travel conditions arc
easy a-,1 ~ ma inrr meeting o.
teams because of expense.
m the list of schedules reviewed.
go in MI. ninnty-six were from the
cast. Twcnt- were seven game
schedules while the country NJ
inrrc presented but eleven 1thcrs.
Thirty-four eastern teams had eight
and fortv-two of eight games. Again
IN was the smaller schools that pre-
srn.ed the seven Famn schedules.
sixteen schools. but two members
W. any conference. played nine games
and two played ten.
The South presented schedules
slightly nearer the extent m the
cards ~ former yen-- with mise
teen sch iols r%invinv ten rancs end
three playing eleven. Four south
crr %elevrrv had the seven limit. five
PLACED eight. while seventeen took
rari III nine contests.
rt wa= rn-sihIn ~ find hut twelve
~corrictc schedules FL both the
southwest arf thr Rocky mountain
|. arAinrv. Thr southwest PLAYED five
I eight -arr schedules. three ar -inn
End fnnr m ten. IN the moun'ai~=.
whcre ne weather ~ rot hest s-
football. one seven game schedule.
| ci-ht N eight cameg and three mi
nine completed the list. this hpirr
the only v~~-tion without r schedule
i~ The hi-her numbers.
The western coast. with \ treat
r~arictv or vrnthr-v IN ~ '0n0
catches. presented four ci-ht rnmn
\ 1'-f-. rire ~ which .h- tears rlav-
cF nine rarfrs md three a-f fr0 of
ir~ Zen and eleven zane SCHEDULES
Jumping tho schedules N nl r~--
| tiors. A. mn ~ The nc schedules
rrrrrsert The whole s,unfrv. trirtv.
~rn teams r'aved seven -ar'- s~hel.
l ri-z: riretv-ei-h+ -irvad ei~h'
ZANE schedules. cirht--ore ar-ea-rf
in nine rnwes. thir'v-five hnf ter
-ames. while the <-ant number ~
-ovc- teams PLAYED eleven -a~cs.
Evcent IN the middle west. whore
the reduction has hcer ro'cI II the
formation ~ c%nlic-a conferences
this lersenirr ~ MAY hae hccr
-rnfral. a-f without the notice ~
tn general nrhlir. esrcriali- The
r~HucAior ~ schedules n sever
games.