Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
FANS ARE CERTAIN
TO SEE THR|LLERS
Five Big Teams Have lame
That lust About Cover
Entire Country.

YUST a few days more and foot ball
will be in camp. Some of the
teams are packing up now for a
session at Seashore or mountains.
The others are ready to move
upon the concentration camps. In an
other month the first games will be
played-the first chapter in the 1929
battle royal for a national champion
ship.
The rule makers may cut and slash
at the gridiron sport in the od-season,
maybe to its detriment, but don't let 1t
be said the schedule makers of 1929 did
anything to hurt the sport. They've ar
ranged the greatest array OF big games
foot ball has ever seen.
Notre Dame, Pitt, Penn, Illinois n
the Army, rated big" teams, k on
all corners East. West, North and South.
Each Of these schools has a tough and
ambitious schedule. And each right
now appears to have a team good enough
for the game it seeks.
Has No Set-Ups.
There isn't a set-up in Notre Danes
list. starting october 5 with Indiana n
moving through Navy, Wisconsin, Car
negie Tech. Georgia Tech. Drake. South
ern California, Northwestern n Army.
Both service schools are in the list. a
team from California, n from the
South and three of the Big Ten men,
bers-to say nothing OF Carnegie and
Drake.
Knute Rockne sees strong reserves
this Fall. He'll need them. II he gets
through that schedule he may have the
championship-providing teams he beats
down other worthy opponents.
Illinois, out for its third straight
championship in the Big Ten, will meet
Army. Only n intersectional game,
but a mighty important one. If Illinois
can beat its own Big Ten field and win
from West Point it may have a claim.
for no doubt West Point is going to whip
. lot of teams from far and near.
Illinois has 20 letter men, II from
last year and 3 from former years.
Eight of the II letter men of last year
were f1rst-string players. Hopes are
high and rightly so.
Only three men were lost at Pitt, and
last years team wasn't bad. Jock Suth-
erland is expecting a winner and that
means victories over West Virginia,
Ohio State. Washington and Jefferson,
Carnegie, Penn State, Duke and Ne
braska. A team that can wade through
that list will deserve some recognition
the 1st of December.
Penn, for the first time in many
seasons, Is not bemoaning the scarcity
of linemen, and that means the coaches
are feeling pretty good about their
prospects. And they'll need that, for
Penn plays California in the middle of
october and then Navy, Penn State,
Columbia and Cornell.
Army's big games are with Harvard
n Yale in October, then Illinois and
Notre Dame n Pop Warmers STAN
ford team. Not a lazy mans diet!
They might have picked a tougher quin-
tet, but the last three couldn't be re-
placed with harder games.
Penn plays California, Notre Dame
plays Southern California and Army
plays Stanford. The East VS.. West, and
what matchmaking!
Other Lists Difficult.
A lot of other schedules look very in
teresting, too. In fact, it is reasonable
1929 will be the greatest of all.
Several new stadia will be dedicated,
adding perhaps 100, 900 extra seats for
the foot ball world. The principal
stadia to be opened are at Iowa, with
42,184 seats; Duke, with $4,000; Geor-
$1,000 S''A '''OOO' anu AiA0a"a' WIN
There are new rules to get used to,
and the officials in some parts of the
country are going to use signals to let
the fans know what happened on the
field. Night foot ball will be tried out
In several new sectors. And so forth.
John L. Griffith, athletic commits
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another great season ahead. He says:
While it is doubtless true that the
boys of this generation do not have to
work as hard as their fathers did, and
because of that some nave expressed
fears that a softening process will set
in, it is interesting to know that the
foot ball men throughout the country
are this Summer engaging in hard
manual labor for the purpose Of tough
ening themselves for the games this
Fall. The fact that our college boys
are willing to work so diligently to make
good in foot ball perhaps accounts in
part for the interest that the games
engender."
And the day Of the intersectional
game seems to have only started.
Knute Rockne sees East and West meet
ing often, because the airplanes can
get them back and forth without time
lost in the classrooms.